In the clutches of the algorithm

[ThinCrappyTone2]

Loe Sounds Signature Muff. This is why they call it enabling.

just one more fuzz then. i’ll quit tomorrow

 

[mrperkolator]

my bad habit is coming up with 1000 different ways to modify different basses (i like to tinker). Luckily for my wallet, It's just a mental exercise. But it does make GAS worse....

Edit: I've actually got several circuits I want to try, but I haven't.

 

[N. Kentucky Bass]

This morning, I woke up and looked at my web browser. I had 20 tabs of octave fuzzes teed-up.

20. Tabs. Of octave fuzzes.

I don’t need an octave fuzz.

Dude: you need a therapist.

 

[LBS-bass]

I've installed an ad blocker and developed a measure of self-control. That seems to work.

 

[WarwickE36]

Get yourself a VPN and no longer get ads based on your browsing history.

 

[clickclack]

@RustfeatherBass The only effective method that works is turning this into a hobby. Keep the passion but don't be the consumer only. Learn how all those circuits work; the real technical differences between stuff and go deep. Build them yourself, modify them for yourself.
It's got some learning curve of course but I assure you it's great fun. So much that it's sometimes more fun playing with EQs, ODs, compressors and all that "magic" than actually playing the bass.

 

[chazolson]

What I find interesting is when the algorithms are misfiring and putting the wrong message in front of you. I am the opposite of an NRA enthusiast, and yesterday I got six holster ads in my Facebook feed. It makes you wonder - what code just got tweaked that is changing what I'm seeing?

 

[Deleted member 365158]

Im pretty impulsive about a lot of things and will buy something that catches my fancy without thinking twice about it. The things that dont catch my fancy are usually things that most others like... My stubbornness sends me against the grain. I also clear my browser history very often and TB is the only social media i take part in. I dont get a lot of adds.
This being said, i was in a pawnshop the other day and an 80s Aria bass caught my eye for a reasonable price. I plucked at it fir a couple minutes and put it back. I felt pretty darn good about my self control.
Well, i am literally now on my way back to that shop to see if its still there

 

[dbsfgyd1]

tl;dr - As marketing improves, and various algorithms learn more about me and what will attract me, I am losing my mind with desire for things and stuff. It didn't used to be like this.

Ads for shiny musical things are constantly paraded before me, wherever I go.

And oh, do they have me down. It’s getting cleverer and cleverer… basically everything they show me triggers some sort of “want”. The music gear marketing skynet knows exactly what I like.

I further feed it by hovering over things too long. By clicking things. Occasionally buying the thing.

It didn’t used to be like this!

I was happy with what I had. I was most concerned with playing and composing, not gear.

I very rarely looked into getting something new.

This morning, I woke up and looked at my web browser. I had 20 tabs of octave fuzzes teed-up.

20. Tabs. Of octave fuzzes.

I don’t need an octave fuzz.

10 years ago, I had maybe 5 pedals. And I was perfectly happy.

I now have somewhere in the neighborhood of 45 pedals. How did this even happen?

I think about it and realize something is off. It feels like the behavior of a brainless bird attracted to collecting shiny things.

It also makes me feel like a prey animal. To marketers, I sort of am. The digital hunter/predators have learned my habits. They know what works. They lay the right shiny bait out just when and where I’ll find it.

I feel like I need to consciously work to reverse this. To bust myself out of the music gear marketing matrix.

Anyone else feeling a bit like this?

If you want something scarier about algorithms. They are in a quest to eliminate as much of humanity as possible. The most vulnerable humans on the planet are us bassists. We are dinosaurs trudging onward to the tar pits of history.

How is that for an uplifting commentary
.

 

[Herrick]

I use uBlock Origin. I don't know if that works on a phone but then again, I rarely use my phone for internet browsing.

 

[doran.dragic]

Install Brave browser.

 

[JamesDeGrandis]

Can’t reply now - l’m telling my dealer about my heroin problem…

That, my friend, is no dealer...
You know the dealer, the dealer is a man with the love grass in his hand...
The dealer for a nickel, he'll sell you lots of sweet dreams...

You are talking to the Pusher... and the Pusher don't care... Ah, if you live or if you die.
Well, now if I were the president of this land, you know, I'd declare total war on The Pusher man...

 

[Katoosie]

Just unplug. No one is forcing you to be looking at ads.

 

[Pdaddy1978]

Our robot overlords have already assured us we have nothing to worry about....

 

[tpaul]

You could always spend an afternoon searching for things you have no interest in. Then enjoy being bombarded with ads that have no hold on your attention.

 

[Wood and Wire]

How did this even happen?

You are the weak, and they are the tyranny of evil men.

 

[ThinCrappyTone2]

You are the weak, and they are the tyranny of evil men.

preach, brother

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

Jeannie really doesn't understand how algorithms or web bots work. And I thought about explaining it to her... then I thought through the possible consequences. She has some really badass relatives that carry swords. I'd just as soon deal with the bots.

 

[db59]

I like when the bass I have for sale shows up on other sites including TB. I am now considering buying it from myself.

And here it is.....

 

[juggahnaught]

tl;dr - As marketing improves, and various algorithms learn more about me and what will attract me, I am losing my mind with desire for things and stuff. It didn't used to be like this.

Ads for shiny musical things are constantly paraded before me, wherever I go.

And oh, do they have me down. It’s getting cleverer and cleverer… basically everything they show me triggers some sort of “want”. The music gear marketing skynet knows exactly what I like.

I further feed it by hovering over things too long. By clicking things. Occasionally buying the thing.

It didn’t used to be like this!

I was happy with what I had. I was most concerned with playing and composing, not gear.

I very rarely looked into getting something new.

This morning, I woke up and looked at my web browser. I had 20 tabs of octave fuzzes teed-up.

20. Tabs. Of octave fuzzes.

I don’t need an octave fuzz.

10 years ago, I had maybe 5 pedals. And I was perfectly happy.

I now have somewhere in the neighborhood of 45 pedals. How did this even happen?

I think about it and realize something is off. It feels like the behavior of a brainless bird attracted to collecting shiny things.

It also makes me feel like a prey animal. To marketers, I sort of am. The digital hunter/predators have learned my habits. They know what works. They lay the right shiny bait out just when and where I’ll find it.

I feel like I need to consciously work to reverse this. To bust myself out of the music gear marketing matrix.

Anyone else feeling a bit like this?

I don't feel like this. (The only thing that I have GAS for is a Roland VAD electric kit. I don't see ads for it.)

Two ways to beat this:

• Decide to buy a thing only if you meet a certain musical goal beforehand.
  
• Ensure that you can pay yourself back for the thing by using it in a paying environment, and do that until you have paid yourself back for it.

Buy a modern multi-effects unit and call it done. You'll have a lot of options for a fraction of the price of all the pedals you currently own. (I bought an HX Stomp for around $475 last year, which I used to play two months of church services at $150 per service. I paid myself back for it in four weeks.)

Also, use an adblocker.