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To understand how unhinged our society is one only needs to understand how we constantly improve our technology, but don’t use it to improve us as a society.
Pretty ironic for this article to have a paywall.
Get Firefox and use reader mode right after the page loads.
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Another page that works better with js disabled.
Do you want ads or do you want to pay for quality media?
Quality media does not exist.
Sure thing, Diogenes.
Reminds me of those gas stations that play commercials at the pumps. More and more of them are disabling the mute buttons. I only stop at stations with the TV-free pumps now.
There are fuel pumps that show ads? Where do you live? That’s crazy to me
I think it’s an US thing. Have yet to encounter something like that in Europe.
Ohio. It’s all of them now
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."
– Banksy
I have yet to encounter one that lets me mute it…
Push the second button down on the right 3 times
Just spam all the buttons as fast as possible. I usually can seem to softlock the display but the transaction old school display still works properly.
hahahaha enshittification working against itself ! the future really is poorly performing code sitting on top of antisocial designs. What a timeline
It’s not really poorly performing code if I just kinda sorta break it
I’ll give it a shot next time!
They used to let you mute them. But everyone started doing it, so of course they disabled it. Sometimes you can get into the admin menu with the right combo of button presses. I don’t recommend trying this, as most stations have multiple security cameras and your locale might have draconian laws about tampering.
wait, take a breath, do you think someone’s going to get arrested for trying to turn off advertising?
I know America is ever-sliding into Dystopia but that just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
The law doesn’t have to make sense to be enforceable.
If you harm a poor person, you’re generally OK. If you harm a wealthy person or corporation, you’re fucked.
Pretty sure you’d run afoul of some kind of federal cyber crime law if you did that.
One of these days I’m going to find out where they hide those speakers and when I do I’m bringing an icepick to the pump.
More power to you. Be wary of cameras.
Cops won’t do shit. Too much work to track down someone they only caught on janky security cameras.
ACAB
I’m glad that The Atlantic is covering this issue. Nothing groundbreaking here for anyone who follows these issues, but the Atlantic’s audience overlaps a lot with actual policymakers and their staffs. The tech companies don’t want to be regulated by the government, so coverage by these types of publications may be a good starting point for reform (whether voluntary or regulated).
Sorry but this article is just false and misleading.
The company currently has no ability to see what users might be doing when they switch away from its proprietary streaming platform. This is apparently a problem, in that Roku is missing monetization opportunities!
Now look here.
https://lemmy.world/post/9840946
Look at the logo in the bottom right.
Roku is already doing this and has been since last year. This is not a threat. It is a promise to shareholders and advertisers, and they have already fulfilled it.
I fail to see the claim that the article is false and misleading?
It sounds like what it states is what it is. Replace the phrase “currently has” with “didn’t” and your issue evaporates.
Which seems like unfair criticism given that the present or past tensing of an article’s statements are dependent on when it was written and is a rather fluid and interpretable thing. It’s a reasonable expectation that readers can understand and adjust their perspective of past vs present tense without failing to understand what the article is conveying…
Especially to such a degree where the confusion from the past tense versus present tense of a statement is great enough to be considered “false and misleading”…
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The article was written two days ago.
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It’s a joke. A funny joke. Relax.
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The end is here. You will love not owning your TV and it’s sending ads directly into your brain.
Your phone will make calls without you and your PC will do the work for you so can watch more ads.
Ahhhhhhhh WTF! I was only half joking.
Our records indicate you haven’t received your Neuralink implant yet. Please report to the Elon Musk Centre for Compulsory Happiness next Thursday at ten. Failure to comply will result in your arrest.
Ehhh, it’s not like I’d actually do it, but the thought of doing it while I’m pumping gas gives me warm fuzzy feelings inside.
