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Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads

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Re: Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads

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Has anyone noticed 2-3 ads per YouTube video (especially midstream)? It’s getting ridiculous. There’s got to be a stop to this madness.

The pretend it's not TV, they make into TV, and then everyone who wasn't in Idiocracy leaves.

Re: Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads

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Has anyone noticed 2-3 ads per YouTube video (especially midstream)? It’s getting ridiculous. There’s got to be a stop to this madness.

On an Android phone you can use NewPipe app from FDroid repository, it gives you YT without ads (and you can use it in background for free too)

Re: Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did it need any more data points? It's fairly incredible that it is legal that we are being bombarded 16 out of 24 hours per day with sponsored messages in one form or another. The only medium that is still inviolate is books.

"The only medium that is still inviolate is books." Mostly. I actually have some very old books lying around - with advertisement for various, non existent products in them. But gladly I have not seen any open advertisment in any modern book.

Shush, you'll give them ideas ;)

Re: Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads

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post #23

Has anyone noticed 2-3 ads per YouTube video (especially midstream)? It’s getting ridiculous. There’s got to be a stop to this madness.

On an Android phone you can use NewPipe app from FDroid repository, it gives you YT without ads (and you can use it in background for free too)

It also has this amazing "skip silences" feature.

Re: Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads

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Leela : Didn't you have ads in the 21st century? Fry : Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.

We all had commercials in our dreams, but you don't see us running off to buy brand-name merchandise at low, low prices.
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