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Admerica

Can we get a break?

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Engineer of Data
Jan 21, 2026
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Prompt: 'Create an social media / title image for my next newsletter. The title is "Admerica". It's about the general public sentiment against advertising embedded in services for which we subscribe. Please avoid a revolutionary vibe. I want to instead convey annoyance and an undertone of loathing.'
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To quote the engineer in Van Halen’s Unchained, “C’mon Dave. Gimme a break.”

Recently, OpenAI and Microsoft experimented with unsolicited text in applications. I write unsolicited in the “unasked-for” sense of the word. Many labeled the verbiage “ads.”

The general consensus is ads are tolerated in exchange for othe…

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