Drink verification can now.
Instant classic that one.
If this shit ever becomes reality I'm commiting corporate terrorism in Noita
Make Johny Silverhand proud
Silverhand was a goddamn hero
At the point ad-blockers are regarded as terrorism and gay sex is a capital crime, there's no reason not to play with explosives or enrich uranium.
In for a penny, in for a kilo of cobalt.
great now my top post on lemmy so far is about piss
Terms of service were meant to be broken, they are a once-sided agreement that the other party never needs to uphold, there are no consequences for them if they don't. So I say the moment they try to screw you over give them a good punch in the face, there are some nasty ways to do that to online entities, some illegal, others just petty, some in grey areas (in real free countries none of them are illegal, because corporations aren't protected in places like that).
Please show me the ways
once-sided
Literally black mirror lol
I think it's Sony that has a patent on a TV that uses a camera and microphone so they can play ads that only stop when you stand up, raise your arms and shout "McDonalds!", for example. Not in Black Mirror, in real life.
I'm not familiar with black mirror. Is this literally in the literal sense of the word by definition or literally in the oxymoronic figurative sense?
As in that's somewhat happening in an episode of the series where ads are being forced onto the main character, and it paused when the MC close his eye because he didn't want to watch it.
Literally literal
1984 as well, at least in some aspects
This is why I don't give applications access to my webcam or microphone unless it's an application designed for video calls (ex. Zoom).
Oh my God that's horrifying
Watching the ad instead of clicking constitutes a violation of the terms of service
Watching the terms of service instead of clicking constitutes a violation of the ad.
Foot the bill directly
Too real. Facebook is currently attempting this "feature" in the EU
Am I the only one perfectly fine with that option?
Like...shit costs money. Somebody has to pay for it. Ultimately it's going to be advertisers, creators, or users. A company can't be comelled to offer a service at a loss without compensation indefinitely.
The big change I want to see is for payment to remove not only ads, but tracking as well.
I already pay not to have ads. I'll pay extra if it means they don't collect my data.
The concept that the internet doesn't cost money harkens back to the days when the only people who were hosting content were community driven enthusiasts. The fact that "shit costs money" is even an argument here is a symptom of the greater problem that corporatism has invaded a community space for profit.
I guess you can argue that corporatism has made the internet more accessible, to a degree. Really corporatism has only increased the exposure of a handful of social media sites. But that doesn't really change what their goal is, which is to squeeze money out of people trying to socialize.
Now that they have invaded what was once a space for enthusiasts and tech minds, made it into a people trap and scape money off the backend with metadata, the idea that they're now asking people directly for money that they can no longer make due to their government protecting them is grotesque and an absurd direction for services like these to go in.
Don't pretend like Facebook, youtube, et al don't make enough money hand over foot to just to cover their operating costs already. They're asking for money for profit. Billion dollar companies are now asking directly for profit because they can't extort a newly formed protection.
I suppose selling a better experience is one thing. There's legitimacy in that. Although selling a reprieve from a bad experience that you created (youtube) is a bit like creating a problem to sell the solution, which is still fucked.
For some of us with smaller bladders it can be a problem. Installing the https://runpee.com/ app has been a game changer going to the movies. Tells you the best times to go pee and not miss anything.
Last time I tried to download that they wanted me to purchase a subscription service
I'd PaaS on that offer, smells suspicious.
I just love the pause button, but then while I enjoyed collective effervescence as a young boy watching Star Wars I get spooked by culty-acting crowds as an old man.
This old blog bit of mine might be relevant. TLDR: The owner / executive class is always on the market for stupid cruel ways to enhance revenues, increase productivity or just seize more control of workers and customers, even when these schemes have the opposite effect. And when they are implemented, we'll find ways to hack, circumvent or exploit the new paradigm.
nice edit.
but i can't call "the onion" a satire/humor these days anymore.
Me: Nuh uh man! Not me! I'm never gonna use youtube ever again!
Youtube Ad-marshall: BRAIN-STAPLE THEM!
we don't like nazis here
