r/FuckAds

To this day if someone says 'Auto glass repair' I reply 'autoglass replace' as if I've been awakened like some sort of soviet sleeper agent. Greeeeat from frosties is another one that comes to mind. (english references for you yanks on here)

It got me thinking - what are some ads that have become so baked into culture that people pull them out of some deep dark corner of their mind to this day. Would love to know what the people in this community would say are the most culturally influential.

Side note - this got me thinking on the economics of advertising - how do you measure the ROI/ impact of owning this cultural capital. Does anyone have any thoughts

Auto content recognition, or ACR, found on all major brands, analyzes what is appearing on the TV screen, including what comes through HDMI, so it can determine what you're watching and use that information for advertising, audience measurement, and profiling. 

The good news is you can turn it off. 

Look in your TV’s privacy settings for terms like:

Live Plus (LG)

Viewing Information Services (Samsung)

Viewing Data (Vizio) Smart TV Experience / “Use Info from TV Inputs” (Roku TVs, including many TCL/Hisense models running Roku OS)

Automatic Content Recognition (Amazon Fire TV / Fire TV televisions)

Enhanced Viewing Service (Hisense)

Samba Interactive TV (certain Sony Bravia models)

Automatic Content Recognition / ACR (TCL models using TCL’s own services; exact menu varies by operating system)

Find yours. And turn it off.

I recently connected my tv to the wifi for the first time to connect it to my self-hosted media server, having previously used it from my games console. I really wasn't expecting the shitshow that followed. After a large software update I could not reject, almost the entire home screen was taken over by giant ads and a bunch of unsolicited streaming apps. What the absolute fuck but after some googling I guess this is normal now? People just accept this? I was and still am so enraged at the audacity that I spent the next couple hours learning how to create a firewall rule on my router to block internet access to my tv whilst maintaining my local streaming connection. Now I am back to a zen home screen, but the audacity of this event has further radicalized me to continue the ad purge across my other devices.