[9dev]

And then, once everyone is paying more, they pull the coup de grace, and show you ads again! Netflix and Prime and Spotify started with this a while ago; I guess the temptation is just too big to let corporate greed run free.

I guess we’ve come full circle, and the next iteration will see people pirating stuff again. It’s going to be interesting to see what we can do against ads on devices like cars though…

[DJHenk]

Ads are a cancer. They take valuable resources from legitimate functionality just to multiply and multiply, until the host is starved to death.

[autoexec]

> They take valuable resources from legitimate functionality

Including our own. Ads are designed to pull our attention to them and away from what we want to be focused on. The goal is to forcibly embed something in our thoughts and/or feelings. Maybe it's a lie, or a false association, or an impression, or a fear. One way or another ads seek to manipulate us and like it or not we are all changed by them. We'll have a cure for cancer long before we get a cure for advertising.

[lostlogin]

> It’s going to be interesting to see what we can do against ads on devices like cars though

If you can find a way to get by with minimal car use, it’s amazing. Not possible for many/most, but wow is Ford trying to push people away.

> the next iteration will see people pirating stuff again

With automation the world has become amazing. The first rule of fight club applies.

[9dev]

Well, I don’t know. Buying a dumb TV is more expensive than getting a „smart“ one these days, and I understand why. Doubt it will be different with cars.

[effingwewt]

I don't. You aren't signing some contract that the item will cost less woth ads- because it doesn't.

They charge us more for a dumb tv because they know we hate ads enough to pay more to lose them.

Ad companies have become actual Mafia.

They should be paying us for our attention. Period.

[a1o]

> The first rule of fight club applies

You wouldn't download a car?

[lithos]

Ad replacement for radio/streams.

[lodovic]

> It’s going to be interesting to see what we can do against ads on devices like cars though…

your speakers are connected with only two wires.

[franga2000]

In the car industry? If they aren't yet, I'm sure they'll soon have an onboard chip decoding encrypted audio, doing a cryptographic handshake with the car to verify they came from the manufacturer and the car refusing to drive anywhere more than 1 km off the calculated shortest path to the nearest dealership until the "broken" part is replaced with a new Genuine one.