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hperrin , to aboringdystopia in Can't even buy chicken in peace

Why the fuck do they care? They can’t possibly make much money on the ads on their chicken website.

M0oP0o OP ,
@M0oP0o@mander.xyz avatar

Its more about the normalization of having your info then making money off of it.

verity_kindle , to noncredibledefense in Ship Happens
@verity_kindle@lemmy.world avatar

Welcome back, @Wilshire. Where you been, waxing your hull on the beach? This is the memery that lives on. What a gorgeous, non credible image.

awwwyissss , to aboringdystopia in Can't even buy chicken in peace

Can I just eat my heart attack diabetes food in peace

sagrotan , to aboringdystopia in Can't even buy chicken in peace
@sagrotan@lemmy.world avatar

Your own fault, don’t eat that crap. Seriously, don’t.

Battle_Masker , to lemmyshitpost in Magic
@Battle_Masker@lemmy.world avatar

I know what’s wrong. You didn’t screw it on properly

QuinceDaPence , to noncredibledefense in Noncredible Periscope Gunner

Very credible

sharkfucker420 , to aboringdystopia in Can't even buy chicken in peace
@sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml avatar

I honestly never encounter this? It’s so rare for any website to flag me as using and ad blocker. I use Firefox and ublock origin which I assume to be pretty standard

manny_stillwagon ,

Hello there, sounds like you’re experiencing survivorship bias.

Its rare for you to see this, sure. Same for everyone else. But people aren’t here to post screenshots of “look at this website where I didn’t get flagged for having an ad blocker.” So we just see a lot of screenshots where it is a problem, because that’s what is noteworthy. There isn’t someone out there getting flagged on every single website they open, we’re just sampling a large population of user for only the websites where people do get flagged.

Why are we talking about this at all? Because it is becoming more common and more intrusive. This example is particularly egregious because you’re already on the website to give them money. They’re complaining to the user they they don’t get to make money off of them while taking their money, which is ridiculous.

lolcatnip ,

How can it be survivorship bias? Seeing messages about ad blockers doesn’t kill you or otherwise make you unable to post about it.

franklin ,
@franklin@lemmy.world avatar

I think it’d be more correct to call this example selection bias but survivorship bias does not have to involve morality.

It simply refers to data which misrepresents the likelihood or severity of a failure state due to some failure conditions being excluded from the data. This leads to overly optimistic projections.

kamen , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace

Make sure to update your Ad Blocker settings to include the whole site.

Grass , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace

I don’t eat there anyways, but I wish I could even more not eat there now.

viralJ ,

Maybe you should cook some food and deliver it to your local KFC - would that count?

LifeOfChance ,

Nah, delivering better food is a loss

maniel , to aboringdystopia in Can't even buy chicken in peace
@maniel@lemmy.ml avatar

well, if you eat that shit the ads and tracking on their site should be the least of your worries

JustUseMint ,

Lol let people enjoy things

Lemminary , to aboringdystopia in Can't even buy chicken in peace

Of course not. How will a multi-million dollar corporation be able to host a simple website on their own without ad revenue? Think of corporations!

mozz ,
@mozz@mbin.grits.dev avatar

It's not ad revenue. If you're on a site to buy something, and you see an ad and click away from the site where you can buy the thing, someone's fucked up terribly; there's no way the ad revenue was worth the lost potential lost chicken sandwich.

They're irritated because your ad blocker is preventing third-party tracking devices from linking your chicken purchase back to a wider consumer profile of you from other ad activity on the internet.

BigDiction ,

Agreed a paid conversion is always much more profitable than the aggregate ad rev/tracking benefit per thousand.

It’s bizarre to produce this message on a product site designed to sell direct.

LordOfTheChia ,

linking your chicken purchase back to a wider consumer profile of you from other ad activity on the internet.

Based on the time spent on KFC.com, the lingering cursor sweeps over the images of chicken, and the occasional clicks to purchase but failure to put payment information, we have determined that user mozz is a fox.

mozz ,
@mozz@mbin.grits.dev avatar

I once went to a pretty sad zoo, which had placed a lion enclosure directly across the person-walkway from the enclosure for a large bird. It was clear that the lion spent a significant part of its life looking across the walkway and wishing it could eat the bird.

LazerDickMcCheese , to aboringdystopia in Can't even buy chicken in peace

“The only secret here is our secret blend” dude, that hasn’t been a secret for a while now

lefaucet ,

Yeah wtf are they saying exactly?

That you, the customer, shouldn’t have any secrets?

The general feeling of the words gives the impression that they have nothing to hide (except their spice blend that the good ol colonel cooked up.)

Scrutinize it for a secons and it’s a pretty fucked up thing to tell your customer.

Kolanaki , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Their “joke” to shoehorn in a statement about their 11 herbs and spices doesn’t even make sense. Like, it’s implying you are using an ad blocker to gain secrets? What?

The overworked tech dude who had to build this page just didn’t give a single shit I guess.

moneyinphx ,

The overworked tech dude didn’t have a single say on what went on there. That was the out of touch marketing team and project manager.

LemmyKnowsBest ,

It’s reverse upside-down inside-out psychology

victorz ,

Does that make it right-side-up, ordinary psychology?

LemmyKnowsBest ,

I’m not sure, I can’t even quite picture what I said because double-negatives and mirror images confuse me.

victorz ,

Same, dude. Same. 🫂

LemmyKnowsBest ,

Ooh That’s refreshing, finally a hug emoji exists that doesn’t look like jazz hands

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d614d3fc-c292-44aa-a553-42c5699e2af7.jpeg

Aurangutan , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace

See though, the thing is my idea of “optimal performance” means using an app without seeing any ads. So, no I don’t think I’ll be turning it off.

p03locke , to noncredibledefense in Operation names don't quite have the ce je ne sais quoi of Have [Pastry Name]
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I love the LaForge version of this meme

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