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.
Nope. Any service that would ever do that is instantly a no-go. I’d stop using a smartphone before I’d put up with that.
I hope this idea is patented by a patent troll who has no intention of licensing it out for a reasonable cost…
Stop giving them ideas.
It was in Black Mirror years ago.
what’s black mirror?
a series about “technology bad” written by an eight year old
It’s a British TV anthology series similar to The Twilight Zone, but most of the episodes are about technologic dystopias
Specifically the season 1 episode “15 Million Merits”. One of my favourites.
It’s what happens when you scorch glass without shattering it
They’ve already had this one, I guarantee it.
That’s when I’d put my “smart” phone in the toaster and go dust off the Nokia 3310
Ya im not using ANY device that does this.
We will just have sketchy apps we download happily that trick the phone into thinking we are looking, further bloating them.
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
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.
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.
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.
You can make a black screen to cover up the ads, you can’t skip it, but you can avoid seeing it.
Also, you can VPN to russia 😉
Thanks, putin
(for context: Russian IPs do not see ads because of sanctions)
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.
Thor is the one person I was referencing
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.
How cute of them to think that they’ll have access to camera or that I got a camera in the first place
Well, that’s certainly one way to reduce our screen time. I’ve got shelves of neglected books that need attention.
I’ll quit using anything that does that.
It’s your government issued app, required to access services like hospitals and social security.
I’ll put a bomb in my underwear
You know we have toilets for that, right?
But where’s the fun in that?
Watching the ceramic 'splode and water go everywhere. Endless entertainment for literally dozens of seconds!
I’ll quite that government
Where you gonna go without your government issued passport?
Seriously? Seek political asylum eslewhere.
Not so seriously? Go SovCiv
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.
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?
That’s how they get all of the Luigi’s.
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
So, all ads.
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.
Blink detected… Added 10 more seconds of ads…
