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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't have a choice back then. Now that I do, fuck ads!

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

Also, no one had a happy face watching same ads for 150th time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it was more like "wait until the boring commercials are done" because there was no other option.

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

Especially the very low quality local ads that ran 3x as often as any others.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I curse the day when they realized negative marketing works as equally or better. At that point we started getting dumb ads which you remembered because they were so dumb.