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No, not me.  Advertising.  I suspect this vid has some truth to it.  I've cut ads drastically.  I use various browsers, cut cable, am still considering getting away from the "smart" phone altogether (but don't use it for anything by calls at this point anyway), use ad blocker on all of my various browsers, and... do everything else I can to shut down, turn off, erase, remove, and destroy access to advertisers.  And, no, he isn't really selling anything.  Just crying in his beer.  If he pretends to be advertising all sorts of things.  Though one does wonder how much, or if, he was paid by various companies.  The gig might have been a trial balloon for an extra revenue stream.  Or just humor.  Or fact.


Yeah, people have to make a living.  Sure, companies like to let their products be known.  But, really, I'm going back to what works.  What my parents, and grandparents, lived with and on.  If I have a unmet need, I will ask friends and family.  If I have a want, I will seek it out myself.  Advertising has never done me any favors.  If they were honest, or even could be, perhaps.  But they aren't.  They want to sell you what you don't need.  Often, what is well advertised is junk.  They spend so much money on advertising that they can't build a quality product.

I'm not too worried about it.  As I said, I've found a niche that excludes most advertising.  I have learned to cut, paste, and play at my own pace.  Actually I take advertisers, and if anything, turning them into byproducts for my own purposes.  I suppose some of the feeble-minded will bite that hook.  Most of my consumers are so far beyond, below, above, or out of sync with such that... it just isn't going to work on them any more than it works on me.  Plus, this site is unworldly, or meant to be, in it's design and implementation.  If you don't see that, you aren't reading well.  You will notice that I do not opt for advertising, I don't monetize, I don't even beg for this or that.  Entertainment or education, but in purer forms.

Good night.