5th September 2020, 7:59 PM
It's interesting just what happens when you remove preference tracking on youtube ads. I'm seeing the ads the "every man" sees now, and it's a terrifying world.
First, there's the ads that consist of a synthetic voice describing products that I'm pretty sure should be illegal. I just got done watching an add for an amazing "tracker", which opened with a robotic voice saying "This tracker is amazing" while showing someone insert this "tracker" into someone's back pocket. What in the ever living hell is going on?! I'm pretty sure that's part of some rapist's tool kit. What kind of person sees an ad like that and says "yes, I want to be a spy even though I live in the suburbs and have NO legitimate use for this thing in any form"?
There's an ad where a woman screams into my ears then tries to sell me a... rubber tire? It's supposed to make her back feel better, but the tone in her voice is all weird. I don't get it.
There are a spat of ads lately that consist of a camera focused on someone's hands fiddling around with some stupid thing with Trump's name on it. Lighters, wallets, a "trump hat" bottle opener. What's so unsettling about them is the ad runs entirely silently. It's definitely produced by serial killers.
First, there's the ads that consist of a synthetic voice describing products that I'm pretty sure should be illegal. I just got done watching an add for an amazing "tracker", which opened with a robotic voice saying "This tracker is amazing" while showing someone insert this "tracker" into someone's back pocket. What in the ever living hell is going on?! I'm pretty sure that's part of some rapist's tool kit. What kind of person sees an ad like that and says "yes, I want to be a spy even though I live in the suburbs and have NO legitimate use for this thing in any form"?
There's an ad where a woman screams into my ears then tries to sell me a... rubber tire? It's supposed to make her back feel better, but the tone in her voice is all weird. I don't get it.
There are a spat of ads lately that consist of a camera focused on someone's hands fiddling around with some stupid thing with Trump's name on it. Lighters, wallets, a "trump hat" bottle opener. What's so unsettling about them is the ad runs entirely silently. It's definitely produced by serial killers.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)