{"id":307818,"date":"2021-03-23T08:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=307818"},"modified":"2021-03-23T08:31:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:31:38","slug":"things-designed-to-rob-you-of-your-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/23\/things-designed-to-rob-you-of-your-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Designed to Rob You of Your Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Or why I hate Google Chrome, Android and (most) of Google products and social media:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-distractions-are-lucrative\">Distractions are lucrative <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I am convinced\u00e2\u20ac\u201d almost all advertising is bad. Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Most of modern technology and internet companies monetize your attention. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Now this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t \u00e2\u20ac\u0153evil\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d just annoying. I personally hate being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153primed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to think or feel a certain way, or also being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nudged\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to behave or act a certain way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, I hate the Google Chrome \u00e2\u20ac\u0153discover\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153explore\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsuggested articles\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with a passion. Same goes with suggested related videos on YouTube \u00e2\u20ac\u201d pure distractions when I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to get distracted!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even more annoying and egregious of lately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>All these ads which pop up in Google Maps, which distract me before and <em>while<\/em> driving. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I envision a more beautiful world and future which is AD-FREE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-to-make-money-on-the-internet-or-with-the-internet-that-doesn-t-require-advertising\">How to make money on the internet or with the internet that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t require advertising?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The next trillion dollar industry:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>How to monetize the internet and modern technologies which do not require advertising. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my personal pursuits, passions and interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also social media which doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t require playing with your emotional heart strings, and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/22\/unquantify-yourself\/\">quantify your self worth<\/a>? Anti \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/21\/dont-crowd-source-your-self-esteem\/\">crowd sourcing your self esteem<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (<a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/10\/10-lessons-kanye-west-can-teach-you-about-photography\/\">Kanye<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or why I hate Google Chrome, Android and (most) of Google products and social media:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":307752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-wide.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/seneca-8-152-of-166-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307818"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307830,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307818\/revisions\/307830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}