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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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It is interesting to see what ads play during certain content… (lemm.ee)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I know there is usually a “target demographic” that is profiled for what kind of products that they may buy. I was listening to an electro swing mix online and I kept hearing ads for different kinds of soaps, and all I could think of is “damn, a lot of people must clean while listening to this.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You guys get ads ?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What are ads?

Sent from my Firefox + uBlock + PiHole

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Like this >!Raid Shadow Legends!< and you can't block this

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I recall noticing back when "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was on the air, that there were one hell of a lot of ads for contact lenses during that show.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm watching a reaction channel going through Buffy/Angel episodes now, and keep getting hard-right propaganda ads. I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

If it's anti-LGBT stuff, that may be because major ad systems e.g. Google/YouTube don't treat LGBT as a demographic but rather a topic of interest ... and the far right are interested.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Im an atheist pansexual, for a while youtube was bombarding me with Christian and Muslim ads no matter what I was watching. Un-installed the app and now I only use it on Firefox + ublock origin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you have an Android TV, check out SmartTubeNext

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Nah my TV is an Sony crt with an hdmi adapter that I connect to my Linux laptop

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

All it takes is watching a few home improvement videos on YT to start the idiot ads rolling: bots reading screen text a la TikTok that boil down to "Doctors HATE this one trick!" nonsense. I'm never sure if the knowledge gained from the video is worth the brain cells lost to the ad.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Block your ads, people!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Were you also cleaning? 🚿

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Homework actually 😅. After a couple of hours, they all start to sound like the cantina song on Star Wars

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That explains it. AI can't tell the difference between homework and housework.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Dropped cable and OTA TV a long time ago. Only subscribe to streaming services that have a no-ads option. So nice to not have to sit through that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I only see ads when watching YT on my TV; and even when I go outside my normal viewing, the ads remain the same.

The only thing my viewing content has changed in terms of ads is that once I actually found some good furry stuff on YT, I started also getting ads for FurryMate.com. And those are pretty weird. Other than that it's like the same 4 products and whatever the latest movie trailers are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Or maybe you said "soap" one day and your device heard you.