“Detecting eyes not focused! Please focus.”
As I have been transitioning more and more of my stuff to FOSS, it has become clear that the infrastructure to push shit on you is a huge problem in itself, even if you block and avoid it all.
The user experience benefit in performance alone makes it worth it for me. Even if we ignore eeeeeverything else, it’s so nice to have your computer just do what you ask it to do, and not triage your request with 50 other corporate priorities.
My favorite two recent examples are replacing Windows with Linux, and replacing Plex with Jellyfin.
Blink detected… Added 10 more seconds of ads…
I don’t know if this is real but if it is, this method of forced watching something you are not interested in guarantees to create negative emotions towards that brand.
Yeah but the C suite is so far removed from reality they don’t know, or don’t care to know about it. It’s not like you have much of a choice anyhow. They’ve bought up the competition, drove out the mom and pop shops. Their mentality is “yeah, but what are you gonna do about it?”
Well why are they paying for ads if there’s no competition
Probably to burn money i guess
Didn’t sony, or another tv maker, file a patent on that? Or did I eat an onionYes they did, someone pointed to the drawing I saw
I believe there’s been a few like that. I think there was an eye contact one, but also one that required you to stand up during ads and another that counted the number of people in the room to make sure you bought the right number of pay per view tickets?
So, all ads.
That’s how they get all of the Luigi’s.
This will cause riots, lol.
If trump isn’t causing riots, this won’t either.
True. If I ever use the internet without an adblocker, I am instantly reminded of how much heavy lifting it does. Normies will just roll over and take this since they are quite used to watching series of unskippable ads at this point.
Be sure to stock up on verification cans
Have you had your Cuppliance?
That’s an immediate uninstall.
“Please watch this 5-minute advertisment to uninstall the app. Don’t break eye contact.”
uninstall your OS
“Before you delete your OS, would you like to know about the hot singles in your area?”
That’s a good way to make some of us dedicate the energy to building and flashing custom firmware.
Banking apps that need the ads to authenticate you for some reason: “Nuh uh!”
rant
Seriously, why the fuck do they depend on everything in your system to work? On my debloated Android there are like 20 different invasive packages that I can’t disable because they break my bank’s app.
That’s not even an install. A non-camera/video chat/QR scan app demanding permanent (!) access to the camera is a big No no
relax, when the industry puts this into practice (not IF but WHEN) they will stick it very slowly in us until we get used to it and don’t even realize that we already accept it quietly without complaining
Unironically they’re basically already doing that by having ads longer than the skip button, as you trade off ignoring the ad for the full duration and paying attention when you’re intended video starts for paying attention waiting for the “Skip Ad” button.
Even just that short 5 seconds is enough for an ad to get embedded in your brain with enough repeated exposure.
Maybe it’s because I’m autistic but that has the opposite effect on me. If I see your ad enough to remember the product that just means I’m going to avoid that product like a fuckin plague.
Same. It’s a great way to get my hatred
You’re not immune to advertising and propaganda. Nobody is. Ads almost never work by directly making you think ‘i should buy this’. You’re even less immune to advertising and propaganda if you tell yourself you are, because that’ll make you less interested in working against it.
I’m definitely not immune but sometimes an ad is annoying enough I decide I’m done with that company for a few years at least.
I haven’t bought Burger King since they started running that annoying fucking whopper ad, literally what pushed me into finally installing uBlock
I wouldn’t say I think I’m immune simply that it generally works in the opposite direction.
Same. If I’m interested or looking for that product, I’ll do my research.
Just got a new pair of chukkas from a company I’ve never heard of (Thursday) based on research. Not ready to spend $500 for some boots, these were great quality at reasonable price for me.
Wasn’t this actually patented?
Yes, boobaAwooga, by Sony.
“Fuck you, Mc Donalds”
“What was that?”
“Nothing”
I asked this further up. Yay for not eating the onion
Black Mirror
Which episode was this?
I’m not OP, but I’m guessing Fifteen Million Merits (S01E02)
Think it’s Fifteen Million Merits
Kenneth Lamar Noid proved that violence is an effective means of stopping advertisements
throws phone against a wall
Oh wow! It worked! The ad is gone!
Well, that’s certainly one way to reduce our screen time. I’ve got shelves of neglected books that need attention.
Charge your phone ffs
The phone only draws a charge while you’re watching ads, so you’ll need to watch an hour per day to recharge.
In this economy?
How cute of them to think that they’ll have access to camera or that I got a camera in the first place
No ads, no masters.
There’s never been a worthwhile server with unskippable or unblockable ads.
This is exactly why I stopped watching Twitch. It was the only service I tolerated ads on. Until they hit a point where the frequency and number of ads were just unbearable and I haven’t opened the site since.
Why not just use an adblock?
Doesn’t work on Twitch; They embed the ads directly in the stream. If you block the ads, you also block the stream.
Alternate Player for Twitch on firefox makes the stream load for a few seconds and makes it a little pixelated for a few seconds, but I’ve never seen an ad on it, and the feed is nearly continuous.
Twitch adblocking could use a few more solutions, though.
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Oh, is that right? I basically only watch 1 channel and I’m subbed, so I guess I just never noticed… I tried to get an ad on Twitch for the past 30 minutes watching several streamers though and didn’t get a single one.
Ad block software doesn’t work on Twitch anymore because they embed the ads directly into the stream.
Like one person uses them responsibly, like specifically for bathroom breaks, forces them at specific times so people don’t miss out on content.
Twitch also requires you to do a certain number of ads per hour/amount of ad time per hour in order to hit the partnership levels for decent pay. Otherwise, IIRC, Twitch puts their own ads in and the streamer doesn’t receive any revenue from the ads.
I think Thor over at Pirate Software did a video on it back when that whole “Twitch Adpocalypse” drama was happening.
Yeah, the issue is that if you don’t run ads, Twitch will just put their own in before your stream starts. And this absolutely kills any sort of discoverability for your channel; If new viewers have to watch 90 seconds of ads before they can even see your stream, they’ll just bail.
So for the sake of growing your channel, it’s actually better to run ads. Because then your viewers aren’t immediately blasted by a ton of unskippable ads as soon as they start your stream.
Thor is the one person I was referencing
This is where you write a companion app to load the ad in a separate instance while feeding it false camera input data and continue watching in peace.
I love that idea
