It rotates and after some minutes shows the departure times. But if you’re in hurry you want the time immediately, not after a while
There’s a kind of person who figures ‘people are looking here, for some reason; that makes it a great place to slap an ad!’
I feel the way about them that Diderot felt about kings and priests.
what country is this
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Line must go up
I prefer when I see BSODs on those.
I don’t
That means that I’m going to be stranded for a while
It should be legal to just spray paint over information boards that, instead if actual information, show shit ads.
It’s like rotating digital menus at restaurants but now instead of holding up the line waiting for it I get to miss my flight
I think this kind of shit flies because people honestly assume anything their electronics does is technically necessary.
Remote WiFi anal plugs have entered the chat.
“Please purchase a premium subscription to skip sudden interruptions”
Edit: Well no, it would be “please give a credit card number for security purposes”, and then a few years down the road it force-updates to the new version that sometimes edges you unless you press the “purchase lootbox” button on the mandatory app.
This drives me wild in fast food restaurants. I’m already here, I’m going to give you money, so don’t make it harder or more frustrating!
It’s genuinely jarring because some places don’t organize it logically so you’re scouring the board and it switched and you gotta figure where you were … makes me wanna slap the person that came up with this idea.
this is an act of desperation by the digital ad markets. they have to innovate new types of ad to sell because more and more the only ads that actually work even a little bit are personal testimony and billboards, neither of which the digital ad markets actually sell. we are currently experiencing an economic collapse in the advertising space which is driving the ad markets to use their propaganda machines for less and less scrupulous purposes. ever wonder why there’s so much right wing bullshit in your youtube ads now? because that shit didn’t sell razors or soap or mattresses or whatever. but it CAN make people very scared and upset
Well, that’s simply not true. Ads are very effective and it still holds true that businessses get an almost guaranteed return on investment in ads.
read the subprime attention crisis. ads markets have gotten extremely uneffective
Neither of you are giving proof so I choose to believe that ads work
- subprime attention crisis
- nico neumann’s 2019 talk at programmatic i/o
- “data suggests surprising shift: duopoly not all-powerful” eMarketer 2018
- financial markets and online advertising: reevaluating the dotcom bubble
- “wanamaker was wrong-the vast majority of advertising is wasted” forbes 2016
- “56% of digital ads served are never seen, says google” AdAge 2014
to start
What airport is this?
Rome
Italy? Why are all of the signs in English?
Because the Axis powers lost, duh.
English is fancy.
Airport, tourist hotspot. Makes sense
I suppose it might make sense if they were all in Italian and English, but I don’t see any signs that are in Italian at all.
I just think that’s weird
The ad is in Italian
Oh, I missed that
Pretty common
I was just there recently; a lot of the signs all over were in english. It was very easy to get around and everyone was really accommodating.
A lot of people from other countries go there, and I assume majority of Italians understand basic English.
Actually infuriating.
I’m guessing they are using logic how everyone already using internet for everything so why not squeeze more money. And I know how this logic is flawed
What are they advertising for? Flight information on whatsapp or something?
yes, they say (weirdly only in italian and not in any other language) that the departure board can be accessed via their chatbot on whatsapp
Its annoying as hell but I guess I don’t really see a meaningful impact. Yes, not everyone has a cell phone. But… I would say anyone who is flying doesn’t have an excuse of poverty.
And basically every single airport has “free” wifi these days. So either install the app or open the web page to get up to date info. Because there are countless stories of people who missed their flights because they were waiting at the original gate and somehow ignored everyone around them getting up and walking away when the gate changed.
Also: My excuse with departure boards has always been that EVERYONE crowds in front of it to have long conversations or “just stand there” and it is a shitshow anyway.
So yeah. Would REALLY prefer it to not be just even more ads being shoved down our throats. But this very much feels more like phasing out phone booths than anything else.
Sorry, no. The freaking board is there for a single purpose – show flights. This bs just adds an extra step for information that should be immediate and, for passengers, is kinda urgent. This is just to grab datapoints for ads like any useless app.
