Push based advertising needs to be outlawed. Period. It's one thing if I'm actually looking for something to get your sales funnel, it's completely another to normalize behavior that incents shoehorning advertising into activities completely divorced from the act of searching for businesses to transact with.
I'll call you. Stop trying to force yourself on me.
RugnirViking•47m ago
Absolutely. Its also an arms race - if one company advertised like this, maybe they'd get an advantage. But given that everyone does it, they're back to where they started, relative to each other (and also relative to the wider economy!)
onion2k•53m ago
Sony should buy a lot of those ads to advertise the fact that Playstation doesn't do that. They'll get a lot of new customers.
xacky•47m ago
And Microsoft should counter by advertising physical media.
silverFork•8m ago
Next stop, subscription to stop the ad injection. The stuff is no longer a game or operating system you purchase; it is a marriage certificate that needs permanent financial commitment. Every hardware and software platforms wants to extract monthly fees or inject ads. Growth doesn't mean inventing something new. It is the same old stuff with more fees to pay.
salawat•57m ago
I'll call you. Stop trying to force yourself on me.
RugnirViking•47m ago