#adbusting

[radicalgraff]

Activists in Tasmania have stuck up more honest promo stickers inside Coles & Woolworths stores, the two dominant supermarket chains in Australia.

[gwleidyddiaeth]

one small ad screen consumes more energy than 3 average british homes annualy, (and there are rougly 30.000 in Britain alone) and online advertising uses up to 50x more of the CPU power than an actual website. also for an ad campaign to get just one purchase it has to show the ad 1 MILLION times. just imagine how much energy is needed for a company to get normal amounts of sales..

DESTROY. ADS. (before they destroy us)

they use soo much energy, like uncomprehensible amounts of energy, yet the amount of ads continually rises, and soon we need more energy to power vehicles and shit? ADS ARE UNSUSTAINABLE. fuck ads.

[gamat3000]

[grusik]

Thom_Thom_2000 Shoreditch ad busting: Graffoto by nolionsinengland

[phanny-pack]

zamn this is good fr

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

[bauerntanz]

und jetzt?

#Freiheit "und jetzt?" Anmerkungen zur Europawahl am 9. Juni

[via @moaxislaven auf twitter (zzt. X)]

[diana-andraste]

Miroslav Tichý, c. 1970s

"Tichý saw his only recourse in surveillance, in the forbidden look — in an undetectable glance..."

The link below is to an interesting article on Tichý's talent, while also speaking both to the covert and the surreptitious nature of his picture-taking.

Article by Trevor Clarke, Adbusters magazine.

[tyger-land]

ᴏᴄᴄᴜᴘʏ ᴡᴀʟʟ sᴛʀᴇᴇᴛ poster created by Will Brown for 𝘼𝙙𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨, 2011.

[remembertheplunge]

I bought Adbusters and American Spectator from Barnes and Nobles today 4/20/2025.

American spectator included article “Trump takes a wrecking ball to DEI”

Adjuster included a swastika above a Henery Kissinger quote and promoted Manifesto for World Revolution.

The contents of the two magazines rip and tear at each other. A civil war on the magazine rack may pour out onto the streets!

[radicalgraff]

Corrected McDonald's bus stop ad in London

[chicago-geniza]

Thinking about Daniel Molloy's Occupy Wall Street bylines and smiling to myself on my post-shower POTS fainting couch. You know that man has history with Naomi Klein. You know that man also has history with Naomi Wolf

[americanangele]

adbusted american apparel ad in hamburg, germany (2012)

photo by - tanja djordjevic

[wrapped-up-in-a-dream]

[mandy-malady]

[liones-s]

these quotidian moments of joy are not meaningless

[burgessshaledeposit]

ADBUSTERS, Spring 1996.