Drink the verification can
That meme was prophetic.
Recently heard about ads that make you take a quiz at the end to make sure you were paying attention, we’re not far now…
in a dystopian future, not so distant they will obligate you have a cam connected all times to track your eyes movement to make sure that you saw the ads
Neuralink beaming unskippable ads into your head
You won’t even know they’re ads, it will just implant false childhood memories, giving you positive associations with the brand.
P.K. Dick’s novels were not an instructional manual, dammit :(
Light speed brand briefs‽ I need to pick up a pair.
Unlock your long term memory for $696.90 a month!
You’re describing ADHD meds
I’m sorry what? Short term memory issues are an adhd thing?
Dunno if you’re referring to me misreading long as short term memory, or if you actually are asking if short term memory is an ADHD thing.
In the case of the latter, I think so? Most of my siblings have very bad short term memories, so do I. And we all have ADHD. Though medication doesn’t really help a lot for me in that regard, it allows me to concentrate better so I can use my short term memory more effectively.
Note: I’m not an expert, don’t take this as fact 😅
In case of the former option, haha get rekt me lmao
Definitely the latter, i’m sorry for being unclear about that.
If that’s true then it clears up a thing or two for me.
Strawberry Mansion movie had something like this
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wait what this is real
Wow is this a clip from Archie’s Weird Mysteries?? I never thought I’d see that online.
Yes, this was in 1984, the TVs that watch you back.
Cars already have this. It will be in tvs in no time
w…wait , really?
Not for ads but for looking forward if you take your eyes off the road it cancels the auto drive. They can apply it to looking at ads very easily
ford just filed a patent for an idea similar to this but I’m not sure if its in production yet or if OP is talking about Something else.
That’s some ominous capitalisation you got there
my keyboard just does what it wants
What kind of ads are in your car besides the radio?
I usually don’t watch YouTube on my playstation but yesterday I did and every 10 minutes it played a 2-minute unskippable ad and I simply turned off my TV. 10/10 very effective.
That’s been my experience going to some of my friend’s houses. It’s despicable that Google thinks this is acceptable.
I swear I don’t understand how people without adblock can stand any website these days…
Look at moi, look at moi, look at mooooi
I’ve got one thing to way to you
Ublock origin
Are there way more Australians on Lemmy than I expected, or are people up voting you you of confusion?
I would like to inform you that Canadian gays love 2 shows from Oz; “Kath and Kim”, as well as “Please like me”.
Wentworth is a little extra, but it has it’s camp moments.
You should checkout Black Comedy, from SBS
Kath & Kim is one of Australia’s finest cultural exports
Cough cough Sony patentAnd yet never implemented! Good guy Sony getting a patent so nobody else will do this
Do you not have to actually use patents to keep them?
That would be reasonable, which IP law is not
I’m gonna patent a robot that uses Deepseek to identify forece-response ads on the telly, and it automatically responds to the ad in lieu of the human.
Let the arms race commence. I’ve got all day.
Ad pauses until your eye tracking shows you are engaging with the Ad. (The future)
Watch me fuck off from the platform at the speed of light - I am already halfway from going full “fuck it, let’s pretend it’s '99” and hanging out on phpbb forums and Neocities.
If you don’t watch your youtube, how can you have any lemmy?
How can ya have any Lemmy if yew don’t watch yer YouTube‽
googly eyes on a stick.
RESUME VIEWING
Yeah. Unfortunately. This sounds far too likely.
The sheer sense of smug power I feel when hitting the mute button
That’s when I copy the URL, close the window, and download the video without the ad.
Downie for MacOS or yt-dlp at the command line. When those stop working, and if there’s no alternative, I will stop watching YT videos. I will not be harassed by ads. There’s already more content than I have time to consume.
Why don’t you just use a youtube player that filters the ads out? Seems like extra steps.
uBlock Origin on Firefox
I am partial to freetube on the desktop. I can make a list of channels without actually subscribing or having a YouTube account.
I like having a YouTube account because it keeps track of which videos I’ve watched across devices. I’m not thrilled at Google knowing that information, of course, but I hate that every single privacy-conscious YouTube alternative fails to provide for that use-case.
Maybe they’re archiving them for future viewing incase the video is pulled from YT.
you know freetube/invidious/piped/materialious/tubo/grayjay exist right?
When I’ve tried a couple of them, they were slower or felt unreliable. I’ll give them a shot if my local tools stop working.
Literally with any ad nowadays. I immediately tune out all my sensory organs
Damn even your genitals??
Lol I’ve actually done this and muted it too
On my smart tv i set up the custom picture settings profile with the black level set so the only thing visible is the ad timer counter. So when an ad comes on I just switch it to custom picture profile and mute it, then switch back to standard when its finished.
Any adblocks x smart TV?
SmartTube if it’s an Android TV.
Edit: Use the link in the reply below. I’ve had it installed for years, didn’t realise it’s changed 😁 Thanks, perfectly_boiled_pizza
Download and install the APK through Downloader app or USB, only takes a few mins following instructions.
Devs keep it very regularly up to date. SponsorBlock included. Many excellent additional features making it way better at being YouTube than the YouTube app could ever be.
That’s not the official site. It has an old version (July 2024) and the file might contain malware. You can safely download the latest version from GitHub and find their updated guide there.
If you don’t want to use Github, you can use the site they have linked to which is https://smarttubeapp.github.io/
If you need it on tizen os (Samsung TV’s) there is tizentube
I now moved to android tv (modified), but tizentube made my Samsung tv at least bearable.
Don’t connect the TV to the internet. Buy a Shield or AppleTV.
My goal is to never buy anything that they ad. I can’t always avoid it, but i largely do.
The only ads Ive watched in the past year were ads from flex seal and tim henson, and those were technically just videos.
If ads were like that I wouldnt mind them as much
Robert Rankin’s “Armageddon” trilogy has something like this, where Actively Viewing pays you rehousing credits, so the main character has developed away to sleep with his eyes wide open, as if actually watching the screen.
