Gregory Cotton

01.02.2024 – 29-02-2024


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  "Title": "01.02.2024 – 29-02-2024",
  "ShortDescription": "Reporting every advertisement online",
  "Year": 2024,
  "FeaturedWork": "FALSE",
  "URL": "01-02-2024-29-02-2024",
  "Modality": [
    "Digital",
    "Performance"
  ],
  "Medium": [
    "Data collection"
  ],
  "Tools": [
    "Google Sheets"
  ],
  "Object": [
    "Report"
  ],
  "Collaborators": [],
  "Keywords": [
    "Culture",
    "Self",
    "Technology"
  ]
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For the entirety of February 2024, I disabled all of my adblockers across all devices, and reported and cataloged every online advertisement I saw. I purposefully negatively impacted my experience online by forcing myself to engage and be attentive to the content I normally would ignore.

This include digital banners, overlays, popups, etc. on webpages, advertisements before/during videos on streaming services, sponsorships/advertisements inserted into content (e.g a blog post with a sponsored paragraph, an ad read on a YouTube video, a sports team with an ‘official beer’, etc.), commercials on television, spam emails, and more.

I reported 2,056 advertisements.