[concerndc1tizen]

Nice idea!

Related:

In Black Mirror, they pause the advertisement when you disable the sound.

So maybe you'll eventually have to use a separate sound system whereby they cannot detect that you're muting it.

Then, they'll track your eyes and require you to watch the screen :)

At which point do you stop consuming?

[notjoemama]

> Then, they'll track your eyes and require you to watch the screen :)

Check out the recent controversy over Activision and Call of Duty. Evidently the game code requires access to your webcam and the company has patents on using your gameplay to train a bot that play like you do, then uses the idle time to make the bot play while you are away. This bulks up the pool of players ensuring you are matched with people resulting in a good experience for you. There's also a patent detecting your emotional state while you view their in game store, possibly for adjusting price to influence you to buy or spend more.

[gruez]

>Evidently the game code requires access to your webcam

Source?

>then uses the idle time to make the bot play while you are away

Surely they're better off using a GPU cluster to do training like every other AI company?

[Alive-in-2025]

What if you don't have a webcam, you can't play the game? I'm skeptical.

[kurikuri]

>”There’s also a patent for detecting emotional state”

What a tragic state of affairs! Computationally detecting human emotion is an open problem in human-computer interaction, and has been for a while now. I wish I had the hubris and audacity to file a process patent which claims to be able to do so.

[AyyEye]

Drink a verification can to continue.

[BrandoElFollito]

In France the first TV program (TF1) now has unskippable ads. Until now you could just start later, get back to the beginning and fast forward the ads. I am not sure how this works if you recorded your program.

I do not watch TV but it was in the news.

[moffkalast]

At some point pirates come along with their own streams offering better service :P

MBAs think they can enshittfy into perpetuity, but eventually people have enough and leave to whatever the competition is.

[mylons]

i'm about to do it myself. the streaming services are just generally putting out shitty content (there's the occasional gem), charging more, and creating more and more walled gardens. it sucks to be a consumer right now other than the "ease" in which you can access these services.

[ge96]

Black mirror haha I think Samsung actually does it.

[nejsjsjsbsb]

Yeah... of course our execs took that Black Mirror course. Don't want to get left behind.

[zachanderson]

"At which point do you stop consuming?"

The tech cultists won't, will always think "urrhurr let's counter this corporate restriction / government regulation with <stupid tech solution #921>.

It's so rewarding to do simpler things in life instead, f.e. growing your own food and not partake in this "more-and-more pervasive tech spread" BS.