fuckin looking at YOU, OPERA GX.
NordVPN and ExpressVPN are trying to hide behind Opera
Express is, okay for what it is.
Nord though is hiding behind the word “Nord”. It’s not even a Nordic company. It’s based in British virgin islands just like Surfshark
Huh, this company is spending a lot of money on marketing. Guess I’ll buy from a company doing less marketing so I’ll get it cheaper.
Or that is so good, they don’t need anything more than word of mouth. And I mean real word of mouth, not the fake influencer shilling that relies on parasocial relationships “word of mouth”
I exclusively buy from brands that are engrained in folk lore. Unless it’s literally the stuff of legends, you won’t see a penny from me
hmm enough profits to sponser all youtube. sus
Especially if it’s a free to play game
That just tells me “you will definitely spend money to get what you’re looking for in this game”
No fucking thanks
a free thing with suspicious amount of advertising requires a lot questioning at the least
I have noticed every YouTube sponsor, with no exception so far, is 1. A scam. 2. Overpriced.
The 3rd option, “product of the creator,” can actually be ok sometimes. It just depends on if the creator is the type to scam people.
I have a rule if they sponsor on multiple youtubers they are probably a scam and avoid. If i find the service interesting i search up alternatives that spend their money better
yeah, the only good sponsorships are the sponsors of small niche channels, like a lens sponsorship on a photography channel.
This is partly why I don’t trust Ground News. They’re putting way too much money into advertising for me to believe they’re genuinely interested in providing an unbiased factual categorization of news sources.
I also simply don’t believe it’s possible to be unbiased, so anyone claiming to be is immediately suspect to me.
They also reinforce seeing liberal and conservative as opposites. The only good service they have is showing who sponsors which sources. However, the whole “blindspot” system seems designed as a both-sidesism
Exactly! It’s really disheartening to me to see so many youtubers who are otherwise insightful be so uncritically supportive of Ground News because they “like what they’re trying to do.”
Usually they’re science channels who just don’t know any better. They’re still too trusting of the system
Is it perfect? no but it is the best way to be able to read the news from multiple POVs. They also include every single news outlet I’ve ever heard of and then some
I get that it offers a bunch of features that you can’t get anywhere else, but I just can’t shake the uneasy feeling that it’s all a trojan horse for something more sinister. I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop and see it suddenly explode in controversy after someone exposes something not quite kosher going on under the surface.
It’s just too good to be true.
Well most of the features aren’t free so I’m not too worried
I mean I get my news here on Lemmy and from other individuals on lotteries social media. I think awareness of local and world events no longer needs to be meditated through a news organization. As long as you don’t sit in an echo chamber and have some level of literacy it’s not too hard to stay up to date.
This was exactly how I felt about the Honey scam. xD
Very first thought was “how the fuck are they making money enough to advertise??”Me with Sponsorblock: gremlin noises
Only advertised product I’ve ever spent money on is NordVPN which is fine for my use case - avoiding geoblocking a couple of times a week. Probably switching to Mullvad soon though, because American companies can eat dirt.
But yeah, honey was always super sus. If something seems “too good to be true”, maybe it is.
If they have the budget to mass advertise then that means they’re earning probably 100x that, most likely directly from users.
I was blindsided by the monitor getting thought bubbles.
Smart thinking.
To this day, I will never ever ever touch any Mazda products. All thanks to their dumb fucking zoom zoom advertising campaign about 20 years ago that involved their adverts playing twice during every ad break. Plus they were sponsoring shit, so it was everywhere. I feel like I still have PTSD from it. Fuck Mazda.
I’d say it was TV that gave you the PTSD. I bailed on TV at about 8 years old (28 years ago…) and every time I’ve been with people watching it since I was always amazed just how awful it all really was. But I guess it’s just what becomes normal if you grow up with it
Oh yeah it’s definitely TV. But this was before the days of Netflix and shit and before I had uncapped wifi. I don’t watch standard TV anymore either and when I do see it, same reaction as you. It’s probably a bit different from country to country but I think standard TV is mostly geared towards older people now too because most under 40 have unplugged by now.
This was me watching the Hims ad during the Superbowl lol.
I assume if companies have a positive ROI for ads/sponsorships, they have very high profits (i.e. they’re ripping people off).
can’t afford ads if you have an honest product
