I swear off so many products and services for no other reason than their obnoxious, repetitive commercials.
Off top of my head, I will never buy Old Spice anything because their ads are so repetitive and obnoxious. I feel disgust when I see it in the store and actively avoid it for no other reason than their spam campaigns.
Same for USAA, Native body wash, AmEx, Liberty insurance (that forced catchy theme), and more.
Anyone else feel the same way? Or have you caught yourself getting suckered in because of ads’ subconscious shenanigans?
Temu. No idea what scam they’re running but I will never buy anything from them.
The “scam” is slaves and sweat shops.
Yup. Any of the YouTube culprits… NordVPN, Raycon, that sort of thing. Nope.
I often wonder who is buying these?? I can somewhat understand NordVPN, but Raycons?? They’re almost as expensive as name brand earbuds but come off as a cheap dollar store brand. But I guess people really like their fav YouTube channels to actually buy these?
I have a rule that if I see a commercial or an unskipable ad (even if it’s unskipable for the first five seconds) on YouTube or wherever. That I never buy that product.
I share this rule ! Annoy me and damned if I’ll ever try your product.
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nord vpn is getting there too
Not completely related but there are a number of landscaping companies that use a small plastic bag to hold their business card and a small rock and then throw them into everyone’s driveways once a month.
never gonna contact them
I’ve seen that as well. Good way to smash someone’s car/house window one day.
You reminded me of this guy who used to put a 3x5 note card with his handwriting on it and would put it on select cars in the neighborhood saying “I buy junk cars”. Basically only on cars that didn’t look to be in the best shape.
Way to go disrespecting people you want to do business with!
I’ve seen posts recently that someone is going around doing this to every cyber truck they see.
I’m not mad at it.
That’s more obnoxious then leaving a flier in my mailbox. I’m not calling any contractor who does either. If they were any good they wouldn’t need to do that, word of mouth would keep them busy.
Anything advertised by a YouTuber. Some mattress company, some VPN, etc
My wife signed up for a live TV service over the holidays to watch Christmas movies and it was the first time I had seen a TV ad since ~2020. Holy crap were they awful. Not only did they put me off all the products but TV as a medium.
Though I’m realizing it wasn’t negative enough for me to remember any of the products advertised, so I guess they won in a way.
I used to go back and forth between watching TV for a few months and stating away from it for several months. It was interesting how when coming back to it how incredibly stupid and obnoxious the ads were, but how quickly you get numbed to that again.
It is not an online case but in Spain we have a telephone company called Jazztel. Their phone spam was so intense that it became a national meme. I once told one of the operators that they could give away gold bars with every bill and still wouldn’t hire them for being annoying
YouTube itself.
I was there before YouTube had ads. And Ive avoided it since they implemented them.
No, but I have noticed that services with more advertising are typically of less quality, which often deters me because of that.
I remember when I was little thinking due to the commercials that Geico was the shit, but then my friend’s family got into a (fortunately harmless) car accident, and Geico did actual shit. Not that it’s not still fun to randomly insert Geico jokes everywhere.
Southwest airlines. I flew on them once, now it’s impossible to unsubscribe from their marketing emails.
Thankfully I can just filter their email address straight into the garbage bin but it’s still ridiculous.
