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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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Everything that makes advertisers happy is to the detriment of humanity as a whole. Everything that makes advertisers' jobs easier also makes it easier for authoritarian governments. "Innovation" is no longer about creating new things, it's about taking what already works, breaking it, shoving ads on it and charging a ransom in the form of a premium subscription.

On the other hand, there are endless ad-skipping tools, pages and sites where the main attraction is the lack of ads without a subscription. More and more people are talking about how intrusive and annoying ads are, even those who make their living from them. As the efforts of big tech to please advertisers grow, so do the efforts of ordinary people to screw them.

Very Cyberpunk.

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[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

One day ads will be unskippable, unless you get a 12 hr AdPass by watching 60 minutes of uninterrupted ads while eyeball tracking software monitors your attention. You will get mini games where you need to sing along or high five a friend. You can get an instant AdPass by purchasing the featured product.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thanks to enshittification I've gone back to reading books, so, thank you advertisers?

[–] vala@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Amazon Kindle has entered the chat

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

NON ADVERTISER FRIENDLY MEDIA DETECTED WITHIN YOUR HOUSE

PLEASE GIVE IT UP WILLINGLY TO THE DANGEROUS MEDIA DISPOSAL SPECIALISTS DISPATCHED TO YOUR HOME

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fine, I will stop consuming whatever it is they are putting the ads in front of then.

Books in the library don't come with ads. But let's be real I will just emulate old video games on my PC until I perish.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 20 hours ago

Left unchallenged, they'll start inserting ads at your work, where you don't control the devices. Mark my words. B2B ad and surveillance tech. The profiles will get dumped into the same data lakes, for thirsty ad ghouls to lap at. Just one big web of corporate iniquity, where they sell each other shit no one needs or wants.

Left unchallenged, anyway.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago

They're working on defunding the library already.

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Some time ago I thought of something: one day they will invent some bullshit that maybe they will call "Proactive Advertising", which is basically that instead of advertising a product, they will force you to buy it in order to continue enjoying a service. "Buy a Coke for 20 minutes without ads. Buy a Six pack for one hour" and so on.