Vibes from Truman show when his wife starts her mococa product placement during his distress. God the pervasiveness of listening to humans chat about a product really has proven to sell.. AI podcast tailored to your preferences that puts their product placement in the best spot after leading you towards a huge need for it... Ye it's best to start pruning your media right away
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
1029 points (98.4% liked)
Comic Strips
14232 readers
3598 users here now
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
- The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
- The comic must be a complete story.
- If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
- You may post comics from others or your own.
- If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
- The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
- Politeness.
- Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.
Web of links
- [email protected]: "I use Arch btw"
- [email protected]: memes (you don't say!)
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Fiction audiobooks only, forever. Except for when reading fiction books.
The only product I've ever first heard of via an Internet ad that I tried and was exactly as advertised is my Groove Life belt. This thing is fuckin' nice and has a lifetime guarantee. I can send it back for a different color if I wanted to, and I've had it for a few years now.
Everything else I've tried after finding it from ads online has sucked major balls or been basically no better than a cheaper brand.
$65 and not even leather? But it's actually a good belt?
Yes! My wife was going to leave me and run off with my conventionally attractive neighbour, but then I discovered Groove Life™! I immediately called their toll-free number and ordered a pair of Groove Life™ socks. My life has never been the same since! Once he saw me walking down the street with new-found confidence thanks to my Groove Life™ socks, my neighbour dumped my wife and moved in with me.
Audible is ok, but you have to have restraint. Get you 12 or 24 credits, Make sure none of the books you're buying are available through overdrive with your library, spend your points, cancel, go through all those books, Read a few on dead trees, or even a few from LibGen, then when it's all done wait until you can't wait anymore and sign up for another 12 or 24 credits.
Save your audio books for when you're driving or cooking or cleaning, Don't just sit on the couch and listen to them.
And use the tools to rip them immediately. Until you extract mp3 data out of your books they're not you are books.
they're not you are books
...
Sorry I was driving at the time and Google AI is slowly ruining voice dictation. They're not your books.
LaVar Burton would like a word.
dead trees?
Paper ;)
ah :)
ah
ah
ah
stayin' alive
Trees certainly didn't
F
"Hey, you should install this app, Honey, it literally gives you free money! ignore all the requests to porn sites its making, and the weird and convuloted blockchain features!.
While you're at it, get nordvpn, so we can use the internet while encrypted and stop facebook tracking us!
"
NordVPN (and every other vpn, honestly) is good for torrents, they even have dedicated torrent nodes. I got a multi-year thing, for under 3 euros a month.
NordVPN is not good for torrents, they don't support port forwarding
Can you explain how port forwarding is used for torrenting and how it works with other VPNs?
Since you mention nord vpn… it’s also annoying that content creators seem to think a vpn I’d something that keeps your passwords safe.
They’re almost definitely shilling something they don’t even know what it does.
I think nord offers a password manager alongside the vpn now, which is where that comes from. But yea, I hate the way vpns are always presented in those ads. I think most people now know the word "vpn" but most still don't know what it actually means, but think they do.
Many students in my IT class think that a VPN is just "that thing that encrypts your Internet".
As someone who works in tech, I feel like the sales pitch for VPNs is snakeoil for the average person. All you're doing is trading out your own ISP spying on you for another ISP who can spy on you. I know I have rights if my ISP spies on me in my own country, but if my traffic is all egressing via a foreign country, I may have zero privacy rights in that country.
If you need to hide your torrenting activity, just use a seedbox. If you need to hide from the NSA, none of this is going to help you. And TLS basically does the rest.
Same with DNS-over-HTTPS - the DNS server is where they're going to be spying on you!
load more comments
(9 replies)
I can always tell when my wife is on some ad cuz it's just the idea out of no where with no context. The more distant from social media you get the more you see it influencing others.
It's also so weird how different people react to it. I roll my eyes the whole time and skip past it, I figured that is what everyone did (except for mbmbam sometimes if they have good jokes during it. I have never even considered trying out one of the products. I always figure those who have to rely on advertising extremely heavily are shit, like Raycons and BetterHelp.
Yeah same. My gf just out of nowhere comes and is like look at this cool thing I saw on Instagram.
Sorry darling that ia clearly a sponsored post aka an ad.
My wife actually buys a bunch of this shit. We've got packages arriving from China almost weekly and I hate it.
There's only been one of her influenced buys that has been any good, but I'd trade it for not having a Chinese garbage dump for a house.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Bruh literally lmfaoooo
Sooo, are people not mashing that forward button until they hit podcast again?
load more comments
(11 replies)
view more: next ›