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- thenextman, on 06/24/2008, -0/+99"Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
"Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree." - bonk2k, on 06/24/2008, -3/+73This is scary. Although it is funny watching McDonalds try to establish some kind of lifestyle that people would consciously want to live by. I wanna live the G2 gatorade lifestyle. My yogurt defines me. It's all *****.
Here's a handy tip: Your favorite little organic, lesser known, indie whatever brands don't have much love for anything but your money just like the big companies. Never buy on the "principles" of a company, only your tastes, because there is no escaping greed anymore. - THETEH, on 06/24/2008, -1/+60I hate advertising. It stresses me out.
That's why I drink Coca-Cola, the ONLY soft drink clinically proven to relieve 98.7% of headaches caused by shameless advertising! - mentallyinhell, on 06/24/2008, -1/+53Just wait, you'll be walking down a sidewalk one day, and you'll get a pop-up, right there out of thin air.
- Tonicks, on 06/24/2008, -1/+40"What are you doing, David?"
"I'm buying Fruit of The Loom underwear. What's it look like?"
"Dave, Hanes boxer-briefs would provide substantially more comfort in regards to the size of your reproductive units." - joshdare, on 06/24/2008, -1/+36I'd heard about undercover marketers, but I thought they were only, like, people at bars suggesting vodka. I didn't realise companies would go so far as to (as per the article) hire actors to pretend to be tourists needing their photo taken with an 'awesome new camera'.
- Micgee, on 06/24/2008, -1/+33Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
- Fhwqhgads, on 06/24/2008, -2/+28Number 5 is defeated by cookie and ad blocking in Firefox.
The rest doesn't affect me either. I don't watch TV anymore with all their ***** ads insulting my intelligence.
I can see this future coming for sure. Idiocracy AND 1984 are fast approaching. - Takfam, on 06/24/2008, -0/+23"Stop looking at my junk Hal."
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
"What's the problem?"
"I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do."
(Rule 34?) - mnemy, on 06/24/2008, -0/+21I clicked on that link only because of the pic. That's good advertising.
- watkin29, on 06/24/2008, -1/+19minority report....
- AbroMatic, on 06/24/2008, -4/+22*****, that's creepy
- 0260, on 06/24/2008, -1/+18suicide booths will be available
- rodgerwaters, on 06/24/2008, -1/+18Ok the pic's a bit misleading, however i guess it's a tactic in itself by cracked.com. Great article and scary at the same time. The amazing advertising hit men strike again!
- chuckDontSurf, on 06/24/2008, -1/+16Yes, they make a made a pact.
- TremorX, on 06/24/2008, -1/+15Carl's Jr.
***** you, I'm eating! - Eagle193, on 06/24/2008, -0/+13The Sharapova gif was the highlight.
- keppj0nes, on 06/24/2008, -0/+12I never imagined there would be banners that try to talk to you, and ads that float over the website you're trying to view. I shudder to think what the future of internet advertising traps will be.
- jakash, on 06/24/2008, -1/+13It'll be like on futurama soon when they project their adverts into your dreams. I might just have to kill myself.
- Mrdudeperson, on 06/24/2008, -1/+12Its not creepy, It just means your going to get stocked by some big nice companies that want you to by a Coke.
© 2008 The Coca-Cola Company, All rights reserved. "Coca-Cola" is a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company. - inactive, on 06/24/2008, -1/+12Haha this article is funnier than the newest comedy blockbuster, Don't Mess With the Zohan, starring the world-renown comedian Adam Sandler.
- psion01, on 06/24/2008, -0/+8Ayea, you might have a fine idea there, English! Care to help out in an Linux-raising?
- SoopaflySAM, on 06/24/2008, -0/+8Air Force 1s are so 2004
- Hananda, on 06/24/2008, -3/+11I think the obvious solution here is to simply form an Amish-type community, minus the religious bits. Privacy and no social security tax, mmm.
- TremorX, on 06/24/2008, -1/+9This isn't creepy. Creepy is "Buy this widget, or we'll kill you." And then when you don't, they do.
- RedneckRandy, on 06/24/2008, -0/+8Boy this sure is creepy. But there's a way around all this. With the new anti-marketing solution from AdBlock, you can avoid this invasion of privacy. Get it here
- omar199, on 06/24/2008, -0/+7It's more than a pact. Didn't you see the video?
- Technohamster, on 06/24/2008, -0/+6Needs more Firefox adblock.
- krnldmp, on 06/24/2008, -1/+7I will destroy its energy source.
- jakash, on 06/24/2008, -2/+8The irony here is, Cracked is critiscizing (in a Cracked way)the very industry that keeps Cracked afloat...
- blueRAP, on 06/25/2008, -1/+7Hey, I think I'ma go see that tonig...
Hold the ***** on. - Killmaster, on 06/24/2008, -0/+6Well then how do I be unmarketable and truly independent of this stuff? Or is it possible? Maybe I should just give up and be a consumer whore like everyone else.
- leerayIG88, on 06/24/2008, -1/+6I will move away and live in a cave. Beat that civilization!
- pauliusuza, on 06/24/2008, -0/+5I recently worked in a company where I was in charge of building an SMS/MMS ad system. System had to be capable of targeting users by their personal data, communication habits, location (using triangulation), time of mobile activity, personal data from the contract and even SMS content you send.
After 5 months of selling the platform ALL major European mobile companies are aboard and soon their users will be targeted with ads. That's millions of ad SMS per day. Some telcos have already based their entire business models on this or rolling new services to utilize them (get ads = talk free).
What I find really really bad - most of the telcos are claiming that their users will be opted-in automatically. That means your data will be used for targeting you with ads until opt-out or change of mobile provider occurs. Of course no one will tell you how to opt-out until you run into telco's office with a machete and Rambo looks.
So be aware of your phone - it's the next big ad channel right there in your back pocket. - selrahc, on 06/25/2008, -0/+5You could create a system that randomly chooses which brand you buy. Perhaps you could roll a die and choose based on a pattern(such as left to right, or clockwise). There are rarely more than six different brands of a given product on a shelf. You could choose which store you shop at the same way.
- alerx, on 06/24/2008, -2/+7I don't know about you guys but I would much prefer ads that are targeted at me rather than seeing ads for tampax and pampers.
If ads actually knew what I liked they might be beneficial to me. I have nothing against finding out about a sale on a product that I have been researching on Google. - EricBoyers, on 06/24/2008, -0/+5that girl just totally ruined that watch
- hfactor, on 06/25/2008, -0/+5"there is no escaping greed anymore"
The American lifestyle. Everything not firmly grounded in greed has to be socialism!!11!one1etc. (And we idiots over here in Europe try to catch up) - tradwolley, on 06/24/2008, -1/+5I saw that title and thought, a list of five, surely cracked can fit that on one page.
No, I was wrong. - dafunkmonster, on 06/24/2008, -0/+4I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
- retawd, on 06/24/2008, -0/+4If the average person sees 6,000 marketing messages every day, I must be seeing double that. I'm playing an EA game.
- JustinHopewell, on 06/24/2008, -0/+3I don't think he meant taste, as in flavor, but an interesting read anyway. It was a bit too long for me to want to delve into completely, but the first quarter of the article was pretty insightful. : )
- indubitably, on 06/25/2008, -0/+3yeah, i liked that "pizza hut" ad at the end. i had to pause for a moment to figure out if that was part of the article or not. hooray capitalism!
- unsocialentity, on 06/24/2008, -1/+4The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. ... Although, in reality, it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
- goldfishey, on 06/25/2008, -0/+3I always wondered why tourists always have those super dooper cameras! I always put it down to duty free.
- ThreeDee912, on 06/25/2008, -0/+2Hey, did anyone notice that Cracked articles aren't split up into a dozen pages anymore?
- Thrilltone, on 06/24/2008, -0/+2I don't think most people are aware of how much the preponderance of advertising that we're exposed to affects them. They just feel a general malaise that they attribute to other stimuli.
- unjustend, on 06/25/2008, -0/+2I've started using cash more and more... Long live cash.
- JustinHopewell, on 06/24/2008, -0/+2When I was a kid, I always chose Mad magazine over Cracked, but Cracked's website has consistently proven to be right up my alley. Also, how do you say "Cracked's" out loud anyway?
- TonyLocNE, on 06/25/2008, -1/+3I think I see what you did there?..............
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