State of the Game
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You still assume that people would want to watch a given "program" - but this isn't the case for me and a lot of my generation - we just stopped watching a program, we can't influence. it is true though, that algorithms like that from google/youtube is in the end not helpful, because the selected content tends to reinforce our opinions and therefore can easily lead to or reinforce existing prejudice - and is the base for targeted adverts. The current trend in youtube is sponsorship inside content videos and those can currently just be skipped and not filtered out - but there is a way to deal with it, by not subscribing to channels which have the sponsor ad not at the beginning or end of the video, but somewhere in between. We have to hinder ads to be successful otherwise commercials will keep stealing our lifetime - we have to put value on our lifetime and avoid ads.
Ads cannot sell anything to people like me, because if those bother me, I avoid the advertised product - they acted predatory, so there is no reason for me to buy their products but instead avoid them. This is not always possible though for stuff I'm already hooked on - like pringles. But the reason there is less that it is a heavily advertised product, I actually cannot remember to have seen any adverts like this, but because the majority of crisps aren't broken in the package. I don't buy cheaper versions, because most of the crisps are broken in those, not because of a successful pringles ad. Forcing ads on me is just achieving that I consciously avoid buying those products.
it is horrible when a 105 minute movie is spread out to 3 hours - due to ads, program information, short news followed by more program information and ads. i can watch 2 movies in 3 hours without ads, why would I want to spend 3 hours on just one with ads?
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I told you the guy was trouble...Welcome back from Exile, @MishaTX
The increasing choices are:
Pay to avoid ads
Don't buy
Unskippable ads (like Youtube has).
Its a bit like Fifteen Million Merits sort of thing from Black Mirror
My wifes Kindle has an option to skip ads for cash, and increasingly more stuff is free in exchange for that lovely data. Computers are moving back to thin client / server so soon you won't be able to skip things because if you do you are shut out of critical services your life revolves around. I mean, this PC I own keeps asking me to 'finish' my install by subscribing to more MS products
W11 Home requires an MS account (or pay to avoid that via Professional for local account access).I've been skipping the "Let's finish setting up your device" for months - not wishing to give MS even more access to my RL than I think reasonable (and Spybot Anti Beacon is taking care of a lot) and that is with W10 Pro!
Trouble is my middle name.I told you the guy was trouble...
You got that right, buddy!Texan.... Say no more
The issue will always be that as computing becomes dumb terminal / server the shift of power goes back to those who run the systems.
I mean, take Apple, the crusaders against Facebook and champion of privacy- it turns out they will be scanning all your photos with neural net powered AI for dodgy photos. They control the information and you hope the 1 in a million false positive is not you.
Saying that sometimes you get proper cash in exchange for information- I've had sites that pay a % of a purchase if you go through that sites links.
What?- i have no ads in my youtube - adblocker plus is taking them out. There is just sponsorship in some content videos and i avoid those channels if that is not at the end of the video or at the very start for me to skip it - if it is in between, that channel won't get a like or a subscription and I might just never watch it again.
On mobile adverts are far more aggressive depending on the subject the video is about.
That's why I prefer watching YouTube on my PC. No ads there.
can be I'm not using my iPhone to watch youtube so I don't know. I'm quite untypical of my generation when it comes to using smart phones - those are not glued to my hand forcing me to look at it all the time - to me that is a way to get important messages when I'm not stationary, I use it to pay with it, to navigate in unfamiliar areas or very rarely even to phone with it - but i certainly will not make me the slave of that device by holding it in my hand and looking frequently at it's screen - that is a time thief as well.
I normally do too, sadly mobile is an ever growing % that will eventually choke that way of doing things.
Undoubtedly- mobiles and easy information have made people dumber and gullible because information both good / bad / trustworthy / untrustworthy is fired at us like confetti.
That is the good thing with aussies - we tend to speak to each other by any opportunity showing up, if we know each other or not - so communication with people directly and looking into their eyes while doing that, is far more common here and hopefully will not cease to be anytime soon. Personal contact to people is a human need and we shouldn't stop doing that just because there is a device trying to consume us and our humanity - we shouldn't stop to act in a social way, and be it just talking about the weather with them and compliment them - it will brighten their day and it brightens my day, if they are kind and nice to me as well. A device cannot do that for you.
People always have been gullible and dumb. Others people are finding new ways to exploit it.
Paying for a service which I enjoy and which isn't bothering me with ads is ok in my books - it is the free content stealing my lifetime with ads what's bothering me. But paying for a useful service is ok to me at a reasonable price.My wifes Kindle has an option to skip ads for cash, and increasingly more stuff is free in exchange for that lovely data. Computers are moving back to thin client / server so soon you won't be able to skip things because if you do you are shut out of critical services your life revolves around. I mean, this PC I own keeps asking me to 'finish' my install by subscribing to more MS products
Lol, I just made a "impressive entry" to some settlement by landing my SRV on some poor lad's head.
Accidentally - there was a small hill just nearby and I couldn't resist to gain some momentum there...
And before I realised I was almost over the other end of settlement.
What made it really funny, is that I haven't even noticed him, just heard a short cry of pain behind me after landing and suddenly everyone became hostile.
A typical "oops!" moment.
Accidentally - there was a small hill just nearby and I couldn't resist to gain some momentum there...
And before I realised I was almost over the other end of settlement.
What made it really funny, is that I haven't even noticed him, just heard a short cry of pain behind me after landing and suddenly everyone became hostile.
A typical "oops!" moment.
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