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This wasn’t a shit post, it was a shit prophecy
This is from after the patent.
IIRC this is a real patent from Sony.
its number is right in the title
Yep it is, System for converting television commercials into interactive networked video games https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en
Lmao standing up and shouting “McDonald’s!” is my favorite video game mechanic
Tbf, if Sony hadn’t patented it, Roku would have implemented it by now.
If I ever have to see this, I’m gonna end that commercial permanently with a fist through the screen.
A perfectly understandable reaction, but the company will be happy about that. If you willfully destroy a product you bought, they already have your money, and now you need to buy another one.
I can’t say I blame you, but I’d just set up a pihole.
Unfortunately in this situation, where the ad requires active user engagement to resolve, a streaming service would have the ability to gate further access to content behind an authorization token they receive from the advertiser after the ad “clears”, like some dystopian Captcha prompt.
Solutions could be to find some way to trick the ad into thinking it had been engaged with to receive the token, or to find some way to crack the algorithm and and generate tokens as if the ad was engaged with…or just skip the bullshit and pirate the content.
Oh, I already do :)
And I don’t let my TV connect to the Internet, and instead do everything through a separate device which I have full control of.
I’m pretty committed to never having to see this.
Why wait?
This would be true internet funeral if it didn’t have the bottom text.
People should be scared, this kind of thing will likely be normal eventually. It’s amazing how quick people just become normalised to shit like this. I remember a Reddit post about Angry Birds 2 where someone had posted a picture of it requiring an internet connection to play and then had just written “Uninstalled” beneath it; now like 80% of the free games out there require an internet connection to work. We could have Netflix that’s half the price and included password sharing, we could have all games working offline, and so much more, but there’s so many people out there simping for these corporations that don’t give a fuck about them.
that’s why i pirate everthing
i think it’s more of ignorance, there are people out there using normal internet without adblocks
So many things became normalized… paywalls, popups, clickbait titles, bloated sites, all sorts of data collection and abuse, geographic restrictions, being forced to have a phone with you all the time, having to use apps as the only means to access stuff outside from the internet, software obsolescence of functional hardware, and the list goes on.
And here we are, like boiling frogs, collectively accepting everything.
I legitimately would throw away anything anything that did this. I’d throw it off the roof and link a video to their social media account.
am i missing something here? this is what most video streaming sites already do just in speech form rather than pressing a skip ad button.
In any regular situation you can leave the room and come back a few minutes later to your content playing. This potentially will play the ad on repeat until you say what it is basically acknowledging you paid attention to it and know what they are advertising.
It’s a shitty pop quiz that doesn’t go away on its own. I hate intrusive ads with a passion and would give up modern convince to avoid it.
Most of the interactions described in the patents imply that the commercials wouldn’t be indefinite, instead just being like a regular commercial that you can fast forward or skip through by interacting, such as the patent description of throwing a pickle to “speed up” a potential commercial. An ad that requires user interaction to continue is awful indeed, and we already see something close to this with I believe Hulu ads asking which cut of a commercial campaign you’d rather see, but it seems like most of these are just trying to engage the user more in trade for less time intruding. If it really was just blindly saying a phrase to instantly end a commercial, I’d be concerned about what it does for people who exhaust their will to resist regular commercial exploitation, but I wouldn’t mind getting back to my show a little faster if I just can’t get rid of commercials.
I guess I’ll hold onto that box of dvds i was planning to donate. I think there’s a vcr in the garage. Anyone want to watch Mrs.Doubtfire with me?
I have so many happy memories of putting dvds in vcrs.
Perfect way to tank the entertainment market
Is that even eligible for a patent? Voice activated commercials?
ted kaczynski?
