https://i.pinimg.com/originals/45/f1/4e/45f14eba51b9f3ccec9f912cb36cfcad.jpg Richard E. Grant (Withnail, Retro Loki) in 'How to get Ahead in Advertizing'

Are we a little different from the general population when it comes to ads?

Can you empathise with me when I say, • One, I really don't like adverts and • Two, I don't think ads 'work' on me

I think the last time I was almost tempted to buy something when presented with anything like an ad, was hearing @siggy47 speak about getting a Google Pixel. Sure, that's not really an 'advert' as such, but that's the closest I get to seeing any.

You see, other than the gentle 'ads' on SN that are boosted every hour, I don't see ads.

• Where I live, there's zero billboards - I really like it this way, believe me.

• I don't have a TV - therefore no ads every few minutes. When I visit my folks, I advance through the ads (or mute them - the ads, not my folks - but sometimes that's tempting...)

• I use an Android phone, and have for a number of years now. The very first thing I do is deGoogle them, add a firewall, F-droid, a VPN and set up a whitelist to filter out ads. I never see ads on my phone. Trackers - mostly squashed too.

Really, the only thing that I buy that isn't a necessity is... Bitcoin.

It'll obviously be no surprise to any of you out there to see that as there's no company behind it, there's no ads. Perhaps I'm living in a reverse consumption life - which in the 21st Century, is pretty strange...

I can't be alone out there in Stackerland™. It's almost like we've gone down some new, evolutionary branch.

If I'm not alone, maybe it's not so strange that we're attracted to what must be the only thing that doesn't strictly have ads.

I've always wondered what we stackers have as a common denominator between us (other than Bitcoin) maybe a strange relationship with advertizing is another.