Seen in a SF Muni station

Edit to add: Jeez, relax. I was on my way home from a doctor’s appointment and saw that ad. It made me chuckle so I posted it here.

If seeing this post really upsets you, take some deep breaths and keep scrolling. With any luck, you’ll have fully healed in a couple of days.

  • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl
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    1 day ago

    Are you saying creators should not disclose their sponsors? If so…

    I disagree, we need more transparency about finances of companies in the world. If a sponsor can pay somebody like LinusTechTips 40k a video to promote their video, than that means we as a consumer are overpaying for the product.

    In a lot of European countries you can just see an annual report of a company which you can use to say filter out dropshippers since they generally spend a lot on ads and marketing.

    We aren’t going to be able to stop ads on the web unless we start paying subscriptions for everything and that is a good way to get a lot of people into financial trouble. I also wish we could more easily go back to simple websites with no tracking and barely any ads.

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      24 hours ago

      Nah I meant the opposite. Journalistic integrity was learned through long, hard history.

      Now that traditional journalism is dying, its like the streamer generation has to learn it from scratch, heh.