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Post by arewelost on Oct 8, 2024 12:59:51 GMT 10
I use the Adblocker Ultimate addon to Firefox and most ads get blocked. The best result is with Youtube where I never get an advertisement, except those that are built into the video itself.
On the GN forum where I believe most members here migrated from, I just realised there are a few ads in a banner at the top of the page that don't get blocked. Two of them even flash/blink as they display alternate images in an attempt to attract attention. I just don't notice them. How many hundreds of times have I gone to that forum but not really seen them?
I believe that the more pervasice that ads become, the more practiced we get at shutting them out of our consciousness. I know their goal is to get into our subconscious but the only one I can recall being there is ARB. I just looked at the others. None of them would pop into my mind if I was wanting to buy something that they sold.
If you look at those ads now, would those business names pop into your mind if looking for something?
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Post by peter57 on Oct 8, 2024 18:15:06 GMT 10
I agree mate. The one I hate most is chemist warehouse and you'd have to have a gun at my head before I ever went in there. That false cheerful bloke and the two sheila's drive me friggin nuts.
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Post by nobodyhere on Oct 9, 2024 5:52:03 GMT 10
I use uBlock Origin to block all GN ads. I am an aggressive ad blocker, so I may miss some useful stuff. These are the filters that I use:
www.thegreynomads.com.au/*.gif
www.thegreynomads.com.au/*.jpg
www.thegreynomads.com.au/*.png
These filters will break the main www.thegreynomads.com.au web site, but I don't read it, so it doesn't matter to me. The alternative is to block each individual ad, but you'll need to keep adding new filters for new ads. You can use browser extensions to block animated GIFs (they're f***ing annoying). Some browsers have internal settings that achieve the same end.
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Post by Mike Harding on Oct 11, 2024 14:57:16 GMT 10
I think I'm immune to it. Indeed I think I'm mostly immune to most advertising (he said hopefully).
I don't watch TV so I suppose that helps but, frankly, there is little I need or want these days unless it's something highly specific and one doesn't see that many ads. for improved MPPT controllers or the like :)
I use the Brave web browser which seems to filter most things so I rarely see any advertisements.
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Post by nobodyhere on Oct 12, 2024 13:53:51 GMT 10
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Post by nobodyhere on Oct 12, 2024 18:10:44 GMT 10
Hmm, I see that someone prefers not to watch videos if the written word will suffice. OK, let me try to explain.
Derren Brown is a British magician and illusionist. In this video he implants suggestions and images into the minds of two advertising execs who make a living out of doing the very same thing. He does this by using sublimal cues, and he does it extremely easily. If these masters of manipulation can themselves be so readily manipulated, then all of us are susceptible. No-one is immune.
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Post by peter57 on Oct 12, 2024 18:33:10 GMT 10
That was a clever guy.
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Post by arewelost on Oct 12, 2024 18:37:18 GMT 10
The point that I was making in my opening post is that with the exception of ARB those advertiser names have not entered my subconscious. Optitec for example is one of them. Without looking specifically at that ad, I had no idea what it was for. I now see it is for caravan movers. If I had been looking for such a device there is no way Optitec would have popped into my mind to check out.
Similarly, Rearview170 leaves little doubt what it is for. But if I had been looking for a camera system, I would not have thought to check them out. I literally had not seen the name. Maybe it's been there a week. Maybe for years. Whatever the case, the name did not register in my mind. NOW that I have looked at it, if it came up in searches I would recognise it.
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Post by nobodyhere on Oct 13, 2024 6:07:59 GMT 10
Some years ago there was a GN thread, which I can no longer find, where someone alerted us to a malware warning that was generated by their AV software when accessing the GN forum. I investigated this complaint and found that there were several references to disabled ads in the page source. When the AV scanner attempted to follow up these expired ads, the GN web site served up the thegreynomads.com home page instead. It turned out that the page source for this home page contained encrypted code. When I decrypted this code, I found a reference to a URL with a Slavic name that translated to "enormous backside". I don't know the purpose of this code, but I wonder whether it was some surreptitious attempt to defeat ad blockers.
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Here it is:
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Post by nobodyhere on Oct 13, 2024 10:56:38 GMT 10
Yes, he's brilliant. He has a masterful understanding of human psychology. If you have a spare hour, I heartily recommend "The Great Art Robbery". www.youtube.com/embed/Cb1I7Ld7Cc0In this stunt Derren Brown teaches a team of age pensioners to become thieves. They will steal a valuable painting from the wall of an art gallery, in broad daylight, while he and the owner are watching remotely. The owner and his security guard both know that the theft will occur at 3:00 PM, and they have a photo of the would-be thief. There is a wager of 1 UKP at stake. The stunt fools everyone, including the viewing audience. I first saw it on SBS many years ago. |
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