I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the Wi-Fi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location before showing me the search results.
I don’t want to text with your AI chatbot. I don’t want to download the Instagram app to look at your picture. I don’t want to type in my email address to view the content on your company’s website. I don’t want text messages with promo codes. I don’t want to leave your company a five-star Google review in exchange for the chance to win a £20 Starbucks gift card.
I don’t want to join your exclusive community in the metaverse. I don’t want AI to help me write my comments on LinkedIn. I don’t even want to be on LinkedIn in the first place.
I just want to pay for a product one time (and only one time), know that it’s going to work flawlessly, press 0 to speak to an operator if I need help, and otherwise be left alone and treated with some small measure of human dignity, if that’s not too much to ask anymore.
Author: Robert Sterling
I saw this on Facebook the other day, and oh gosh did it resonate with me.
Rather coincidentally, I had also saved this image from Facebook at the end of last week.
Yes, yes, yes!!
Just leave me alone all you advertisers, all the pop-ups, all the people that ask me to 'Like their page' just because I liked one thing they said, once in the past. It's sad when you have to stop 'Liking' and 'Loving' things just to be left in peace.
Leave me alone, I choose what I want to do, watch, buy, Like and Love. I choose the people I want to interact with ... and when I want to interact with them. I'm going back to my book, all that it asks of me is that I read it, relax and give it to someone else who will do the same after I have finished.
Sue xx
They are very annoying but my husband is very IT savy as it was his job so he is able to sort some stuff out for me.
ReplyDeleteAmen to all of the above x
ReplyDeleteAlison in Wales x
Oh, I love that Facebook image. That is so true!
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly , I could not have put it better.
ReplyDeleteTish x
Absolutely agree, so aggravating! I love reading your uninterrupted -by- ads Blog. Phillis in Middle Tennessee
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely! Its so infuriating! x
ReplyDeleteI agree wholeheartedly. The tone is so bullying, on the phone pop ups, JOIN THIS, NOW OR LATER, interrupting what I want to do. I don’t want games or targeted ads, I don’t want ads at all. THREE fried something for phone calls on my old phone with their recent tech problems, now I have DH’s newer, discarded one, and it is taking ages to get rid of his junk. It is so annoying, and one listens and writes my words. Creepy.
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree!
ReplyDeleteOh yes!
ReplyDeleteSo it's not just me then. I'm really sick of bloggers whose pages are so jammed with flashing, changing ads that I'll not bother to read them anymore. It's all about squeezing a buck out of everything.
ReplyDeleteAgree with the plea. I have spent ages this morning deleting and unsubscribing from things that plague me with emails-sometimes several in one day!! Catriona
ReplyDeleteExactly.
ReplyDeleteI confess, I use Firefox for browsing and have adguard installed as a free add on. I'm blissfully unaware of advertising. Occasionally, on sites that don't have flashing/scrolling ads I will disable the adblocker if they ask nicely. I'm happy to donate to both Firefox and adguard for their continued development but it's not mandatory. I don't think I could use the internet without them.
ReplyDeletePopups, popups, I so wish they'd just pop-off!
ReplyDeleteOh sister, I hear you. The last couple of weeks our TV (which I detest but that is a whole 'nother issue) keeps asking me if I would like it to search for connected devices?
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't want my television to do anything other than show me moving images and some accompanying sound. I do not want it, or anything else, worming its way into places where it has no reaason to be. Bloody technology.
Rant over?
(PS: same as Jane above, Firefox & Adblocker and I am happy to bung a few quid to both once a year to say 'thank you')
Oh I so agree with you. I used to read a blog by a lady in Essex but it's so full of pop ups I've given up. I just want to read, see, watch, hear what I want to! Fiona x
ReplyDeleteFirefox is good, plus I use the uBlock Origin Add-on to keep the ads away. Going to look up Adguard as well. I hate how annoying surfing the net has become!
ReplyDeletei couldn't agree more x julie king
ReplyDeleteI have put an AdBlock on my computer, still get a few but not as many as before. The ones I get are still pretty darn annoying.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
OMG snap! I just found the beginning of your post and put it up on my FB account the other day ... LOVE the pic and true words also! I've just uninstalled a whole bunch of stuff from my phone, unfollowed another bunch of things on FB and Instagram, and am really going off anything digital ... I have days when I don't even go near my phone which some of my friends find interesting ... but if you want me desperately, you can always call or turn up ... the old fashioned way. From Darlene in NZ
ReplyDeleteGood for you Darlene!
DeleteAngie (UK)
Spot on, thanks Sue 👏👏
ReplyDeleteNice to see I'm not the only one to feel this way. It can be all so exhausting.
ReplyDeleteMy mother is 93 and still browses (is that a word) on her mobile phone, we have it secured as best as possible, but she, of course, clicks away. Mostly the: "send me notifications" :-) so every once in a while I "clean" her up. I have Adblock but when I want to look at a promising recipe and a banner of newsletter pops up and another, I am out.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness how I agree with this post! Modern life drives me insane because nothing is SIMPLE any more. I feel bombarded by ads and pop-ups and constant interruptions when I'm doing some research online for something I actually NEED. Graham laughs at me when I grit my teeth in frustration because he loves technology and reads all the ads ...grrrrrr....exhausting indeed.
ReplyDeleteAngie x
You’ve read my mind!
ReplyDeleteKaren S
I totally agree - I feel like a techno dinosaur, but I don't like using my phone (I had to have one for verification at work), I have an adblocker and am so thankful for it, I don't do FB or Linked In or Instagram etc. Please let me speak to a person, not a machine and don't get me started on self service tills with their snotty comments, 'there is an unidentified item in the bagging area'- ugh!
ReplyDeleteBest wishes
Ellie
This is so accurate! The other day I was in bed resting (I have chronic illnesses) my hubby & kids were downstairs. I decided to put a detective show on Netflix on my phone the next minute my phone was saying casting to tv. Awwww no no no. Imagine my kids programme downstairs suddenly switching to a detective show 🤦 (it wasn't anything really bad just a light hearted show but still not one I'd want my kids to watch).
ReplyDeleteI also hate when you're looking at purchasing a product online & before you've had chance the page has pop up notices saying how many people are viewing this item, how many were purchased in the last 24 hrs how fast their selling them . I don't care! Just let me see the blinking product!
I don't like ads, pop ups, surveys at the end of calls, wait music that sounds like ya at a heavy metal concert, when you're trying to speak to someone over the phone and it says press this button, press that button only to find yourself in a constant loop of not being able to speak to a person. The list goes on lol.
I've also noticed more shops are asking at the till would you like to round up your shopping total & donate the rest to charity. Don't get me wrong I do support charities of my choice however as a fam on a tight budget I can't afford to round up my shopping even though it's only 35p here 50p there it does add up! But ya feel guilty when the cashier is waiting for you to say yes or no.