Soon in the news: Comcast sues to make going to the bathroom during commercial breaks illegal.
Or they could make bathrooms without TVs illegal.
Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers in New Legal Battle
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#22Axel Springer should really read up on the Streisand effect. If they hold on a bit longer the whole world will know about these absolutely terrible ad blockers.
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#23Soon in the news: Comcast sues to make going to the bathroom during commercial breaks illegal.
You joke, but network executives have actually said such things, and there's a long history of them suing and winning against ad-skipping features for TV. Here's just one example: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120525/04185919074/tv-ne...
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#24Oh well. It's like Music Lables vs Napster all over again.
The funny twist is, Springer gives away content for free. They just imply that there is "some kind of contract" between a website provider an a visitor, that the visitor has to "pay" for the content by viewing Ads.
Most people (especially in Germany) don't block Ads because they hate Ads. They block because they hate tracking, slow websites, bandwidth usage etc.
The sad thing is, most of the big publishers, that rally against ad blocker don't have the guts to just go subscription-only.
Since they love their old business model so much, why not try that on the web? Because showing Ads and sell visitors to tracking and ad networks is so much easier.
Just to clarify: If the visitor has the choice to block ads, publishers should have the choice to block adblocker-enabled visitors.
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#25Soon in the news: Comcast sues to make going to the bathroom during commercial breaks illegal.
Or they could make bathrooms without TVs illegal.
Black Mirror, episode Fifteen Million Merits:
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#26i was more startled to learn in passing that yahoo was blocking people's email if they blocked ads. that one seems particularly desperate, given how the last thing yahoo needs now is more reasons for people to abandon them.
That one is right along the lines of 'the beatings will continue until morale improves'.
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#27Soon in the news: Comcast sues to make going to the bathroom during commercial breaks illegal.
There is already a concept of TV checking (using Kinect-like stuff) whether you're there watching ads or not. I recall there being news articles about it, and people proposing it were not joking.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or they could make bathrooms without TVs illegal.
Black Mirror, episode Fifteen Million Merits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
The episode was absolutely wonderful (and disturbing). The whole series is worth watching.
BTW. It took me a long time to figure out the meaning of the title of the show.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Black Mirror, episode Fifteen Million Merits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
The episode was absolutely wonderful (and disturbing). The whole series is worth watching. BTW. It took me a long time to figure out the meaning of the title of the show.
I'm a little tired, sorry about the typo, been reading that Atari stuff until daylight and still got up at 9 am. So, yes, Black mirror, and it's definitely worth watching though some of it may not for everybody, especially not if you're easily disturbed.
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#30Soon in the news: Comcast sues to make going to the bathroom during commercial breaks illegal.
Sssht, you might give them ideas. I am cynical enough to believe that they will add a IR heartrate sensor (a la XBox One Kinect) to 'pause entertainment' when nobody is in the room. Formulated like that, it even sounds like a feature ;).
Theres a rather convincing episode of Black Mirror about this...