| I grew up with ads and learned to not pay attention to them. I still use an ad-blocker on all of my own systems, and on my current company laptop. But a few years back at a different company I didn’t have any ad blocker installed. This was an office job with a desk and coworkers walking past me all the time. So at that job I’m having the browser open reading something and one of the older guys is walking past me. He stops dead in his tracks and says jokingly “are you looking at women on company time” and he laughs. I look at him, confused. Then I look at my screen. Whoops! Next to the content I am reading is a huge ad that is pretty much a soft core porn ad. Embarrassed I say I didn’t even notice the lady. My coworker chuckles and says “sure”. But really, I had developed built in blinds in my mind that prevented me from consciously paying attention to ads. That experience reminded me to always make sure to have adblockers installed. And of course video ads are annoying no matter what, so having an ad blocker is nice for that as well. Plus who knows, even if I don’t consiously notice ads my subconscious is probably registering it. So having an ad blocker is nice for this reason as well! |
thinking oneself impervious to ads, let alone blind, is in my view a bit presomptuous. I am convinced you are influenced by ads, you just don't notice it (and that's the point of ads, you shouldn't notice)