That reminds me of what might be my least favorite ad ever. i've googled 'i hate cars''i hate trucks' 'i hate jeeps 'i hate toyota', I've clicked on those little controls and told them i don't like that ad, I've changed my entire google account to tell them I'm an 86 year old woman named Ruth, I've opened my settings and gone to ad preferences and un-selected everything even remotely related to Momentum Multipliers, heck I've even taken to scream 'this is disgusting! this is vile! i hate this!' into my microphone every time one of those ads plays, and i STILL get bombarded with car ads left and right. I'm not asking for LESS ads, I'm just asking to be allowed to watch ads that do not actually make me want to vomit. I'm STILL seeing the same number of ads and earning them the same amount of revenue, the only difference is that I'm not absolutely miserable and hating my existence for one of them. And of course they won't engage you in any discussion about it (because you're not their customer, the advertiser is), and they won't talk to the advertisers about it because that would be undermining their own market.There is no difference on Google's end between me seeing five car ads in a row, Vs me seeing five video game ads in a row. And they're the ones who are controlling the platform, so good luck getting past them. They're the ones who get paid for every ad they show you, never mind what you think about it. No, the objections would come from the publishers (by which I mean - in, e.g., YouTube's case, Google). Although there are some whose whole strategy is to keep their brand in the front of everyone's minds all the time - Coca-Cola is the example that springs to mind. They'd probably be fine with fewer people seeing their ads. I would guess that was put in at the insistence of some advertisers, and kept small and hard to use so that Google could say to them 'see, we gave them the option, but less than 2% of viewers use it, is it really worth it?' It's not easy, and I don't suppose many people go through the trouble to do it, but if you're reading an article in an online newspaper (say), and come across a Google ad, there are miniscule controls to make the ad go away and register a preference not to see it again. Google does, in fact, give you the chance to opt out of certain ads in other formats. And of course they won't engage you in any discussion about it (because you're not their customer, the advertiser is), and they won't talk to the advertisers about it because that would be undermining their own market.

Well maybe the advertisers need to suck it up.It's not the advertisers who'd object. It's a petty feeling, frustrating and doomed from the get-go, but still powerful. What drives me to it, most often, is - insecurity, yes, but mostly a suspicion that I'm not being taken seriously, and maybe if people knew this one more thing about me they'd take that much more notice. Whether it's their skills, grades, income, education, breadth or depth of knowledge, it's never a pretty sight. Personally I haven't seen that pattern in a while, but what I do see all the time (and find myself doing, more often than I'd like) is people bragging about their prowess in some way or another. Bringing this back, a pattern I've noticed is that whether it's a gun nut, a self-defence enthusiast, a 'retired soldier*' an edge lord, an 'alpha male,' or a 'real man' then most of the time in boil down to insecurity.It takes a special kind of insecurity to think that physical intimidation will get you anywhere on an online forum where you don't know anyone's real name and very likely don't even live in the same country, let alone the same city.

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