in a dystopian future, not so distant they will obligate you have a cam connected all times to track your eyes movement to make sure that you saw the ads
🏴☠️
Yes, this was in 1984, the TVs that watch you back.
wait what this is real
Neuralink beaming unskippable ads into your head
You won’t even know they’re ads, it will just implant false childhood memories, giving you positive associations with the brand.
P.K. Dick’s novels were not an instructional manual, dammit :(
Unlock your long term memory for $696.90 a month!
You’re describing ADHD meds
I’m sorry what? Short term memory issues are an adhd thing?
Dunno if you’re referring to me misreading long as short term memory, or if you actually are asking if short term memory is an ADHD thing.
In the case of the latter, I think so? Most of my siblings have very bad short term memories, so do I. And we all have ADHD. Though medication doesn’t really help a lot for me in that regard, it allows me to concentrate better so I can use my short term memory more effectively.
Note: I’m not an expert, don’t take this as fact 😅
In case of the former option, haha get rekt me lmao
Light speed brand briefs‽ I need to pick up a pair.
Strawberry Mansion movie had something like this
Cars already have this. It will be in tvs in no time
w…wait , really?
ford just filed a patent for an idea similar to this but I’m not sure if its in production yet or if OP is talking about Something else.
That’s some ominous capitalisation you got there
Not for ads but for looking forward if you take your eyes off the road it cancels the auto drive. They can apply it to looking at ads very easily
Wow, a DEC AlphaStation computer. That couldn’t have been cheap.
Cough cough Sony patentI’m gonna patent a robot that uses Deepseek to identify forece-response ads on the telly, and it automatically responds to the ad in lieu of the human.
Let the arms race commence. I’ve got all day.
And yet never implemented! Good guy Sony getting a patent so nobody else will do this
Do you not have to actually use patents to keep them?
That would be reasonable, which IP law is not
anyone got a solution for apple tv? found one app but it works through invidious and invidious doesn’t really work anymore. even tried hosting my own at home but nothing :(
I’ve honestly just switched to screen mirroring my Mac and using Firefox / ublock / etc when I want to watch YouTube on the tv.
I ended up manually downloading my subscriptions using Freetube and yt-dlp and throwing them in my Plex server. I don’t watch a huge amount so I’m happy to spend 20 minutes a couple of times a week doing it. There are ways to automate the process but I’ve never been able to wrap my head around it.
The sheer sense of smug power I feel when hitting the mute button
This shit doesn’t work when it’s a two hour ad lol
I usually don’t watch YouTube on my playstation but yesterday I did and every 10 minutes it played a 2-minute unskippable ad and I simply turned off my TV. 10/10 very effective.
That’s been my experience going to some of my friend’s houses. It’s despicable that Google thinks this is acceptable.
I swear I don’t understand how people without adblock can stand any website these days…
Ad pauses until your eye tracking shows you are engaging with the Ad. (The future)
Yeah. Unfortunately. This sounds far too likely.
googly eyes on a stick.
Watch me fuck off from the platform at the speed of light - I am already halfway from going full “fuck it, let’s pretend it’s '99” and hanging out on phpbb forums and Neocities.
If you don’t watch your youtube, how can you have any lemmy?
How can ya have any Lemmy if yew don’t watch yer YouTube‽
RESUME VIEWING
Robert Rankin’s “Armageddon” trilogy has something like this, where Actively Viewing pays you rehousing credits, so the main character has developed away to sleep with his eyes wide open, as if actually watching the screen.
Press M for mute. Most adds’ sound design is awful.
That’s when I copy the URL, close the window, and download the video without the ad.
Downie for MacOS or yt-dlp at the command line. When those stop working, and if there’s no alternative, I will stop watching YT videos. I will not be harassed by ads. There’s already more content than I have time to consume.
you know freetube/invidious/piped/materialious/tubo/grayjay exist right?
When I’ve tried a couple of them, they were slower or felt unreliable. I’ll give them a shot if my local tools stop working.
Why don’t you just use a youtube player that filters the ads out? Seems like extra steps.
uBlock Origin on Firefox
I am partial to freetube on the desktop. I can make a list of channels without actually subscribing or having a YouTube account.
Not for long…
Lol I’ve actually done this and muted it too
On my smart tv i set up the custom picture settings profile with the black level set so the only thing visible is the ad timer counter. So when an ad comes on I just switch it to custom picture profile and mute it, then switch back to standard when its finished.
Literally with any ad nowadays. I immediately tune out all my sensory organs
Damn even your genitals??
