I'm traveling to the Big City for some adulting, and saw a huge advertisememt poster from the bus: it said something like "large advertisement posters are how we learn about important charities we can donate 1% of our taxes to. These banners and posters are important."

And I'm sitting here, wondering how an ad from 1996 made it to 2026, and why would anyntime traveler bring this with them.

It's 2026. We're terminally online. Noone learns about important charities from these large ads that important charities can't afford to begin with.

Of course I know this is a political message. Our current governmemt wants to drastically cut down the amount of large banner ads poisoning our view.

@algernon
do I remember correctly that the party that currently rules is a pro-business one?

@wolf480pl yes. But also very online. To the point where they're accused of governance-through-facebook.

None of their business buddies care about physical ads.

@algernon Not necessarily, I think some foundations are really bothered that Partizán and Telex is leading the 1% donations for the last 3 years. It also seems that the wealthier people are choosing these two, Telex was choosen by 1,96% of all people, but they received 2,54% of all amount, Partizán was choosen by 2,37% of all people, but they received 2,7% of all amount. NAV is publishing the Excel sheets, they are fun to play with.

@gaborudvari neither of those have physical 1% ads, do they? So if they receive the most, then the physical ads aren't very effective for this purpose.

Both of them advertise heavily online, though.

@algernon Yes, but I think the form of advertising has little to do with it. These two are unicorns fueled by the desire of the regime change. And now that the change happened, the other foundations have a glimpse of hope that the 1% donations will return to normal. Look at Direkt36 (Független Újságírók Alapítványa) and 444.hu (Alapítvány a Tájékozott és Szabad Nyilvánosságért), I think they are comparable to Partizán and Telex, and they came in at the 15th and 21st place.

@gaborudvari

Yes, but I think the form of advertising has little to do with it.

Which is why I found the large physical ad that literally said "you need large physical ads  to learn about charities to donate to" funny.

You don't. The charities that'd benefit from that can't afford it. Those that can, don't need it. Advertisements? Yes. Phyiscal, and even within that, large banners? No.

It's a political ad, nothing to do with charities, that's an excuse.

@algernon @gaborudvari I agree that's cringe but I'd also like to note that the largest companies in the world are built on AdTech. People/societies are weird when it comes to desires and consumption.