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@craignicol@octodon.social @thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social yes. i do object. i consider this sort of advertising to be actively hostile, and to be a disability concern.

my wife and i do not watch TV. both of us agree that the only reason we don't is because of TV ads. my wife and i are both autistic, and we find these ads not just obtrusive, but very literally, painful. we are not the only ones.

when we visit my parents' house, they have televisions playing constantly. we absolutely cannot stand it, solely because of the ads. even when their televisions are "off", their smart TVs scroll ads along. this is the worst part, by a very wide margin, of visiting my family.

back when i used to use twitter, and used it on a phone where i couldn't block ads, i actually trained myself to instictively defocus my eyes whenever i saw the "promoted" icon, and block the ad without thinking about it or seeing what it was, because that was the only way i could use the app at all. i use an independent search engine that i pay for, so that i do not have to worry about it showing me ads. my answer to youtube breaking ad blockers has simply been to no longer watch youtube (i will not give money to an ad company, which is what google/youtube/et al are)