This is a much bigger problem than people realize. Instead of working on improving user experience, we've got people explicitly working against user experience by injecting ads into it, for the simple reason that they have your attention and can then sell it. It's the attention economy, and it sucks. Fuck ads.
I think people are really only interested in commercial messages when they come at a much lower frequency than they do these days. Other than that, it’s just noise that we suffer through in order to get the information or content that we want.
>Other than that, it’s just noise that we suffer through in order to get the information or content that we want.
The trailing part that's left off is "for free". If you want all the content we receive for free today, someone has to pay for it. So either people pay with their attention or their wallet, and consumers have by and large made their choice of ad supported services over paid alternatives.
This is a much bigger problem than people realize. Instead of working on improving user experience, we've got people explicitly working against user experience by injecting ads into it, for the simple reason that they have your attention and can then sell it. It's the attention economy, and it sucks. Fuck ads.