How soon until we see AI-powered adblockers that filter the output of any signal to remove anything that it perceives as an ad?
What happens when you watch Fight Club?
The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
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Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
mythtv is still pretty great fwiw. Auto flagging ads is pretty good, but even don't bother, just using kodi as a front end with the plugin and skipping forward 3 minutes when an ad comes on does most of the job. (sometimes you do another 30 seconds or 1 minute and you get really good at it). Start watching your program 10-20 minutes late and no ads. Live sport is the only place I see tv ads at all nowadays - hence th…
Hey, do you have a good way to communicate this to normies? I haven't had any luck explaining to my wife that advertisements are basically a sort of cancerous meme designed to deliver misinformation and manipulate you into wasting your money on products that focus more on self-promotion than quality or value. I just sound like a jerk and she somehow takes it as a personal attack
Some people will see the world differently than you do, no matter what you say. You'll learn to live with it.
Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Advertising is a blight. You do realize that you’re an enthusiastic and active participant in what is the marketing and advertising project of a VC firm, right? I think what you mean to say is that the advertising you like isn’t a blight and the advertising you don’t like is a blight.
What makes you think I'm at all happy with the advertising here? As I said: advertising is a blight. In the meantime, I'm happy to exploit the false generosity of advertisers to denounce their practices on their own platforms. I'm unclear why you thought this was a counterargument?
You may say you’re unhappy with it, but your actions say you’ve been contributing heavily here for 11 years. You support something that you think is a blight because you don’t think this is a blight.
Just like every HN commenter who thinks they hate ads, the truth is they hate the ads they hate and (at best) pretend the other ads aren’t ads.
Also I really like ads and am quite stupid so that might explain why I thought my comment was a good one.
Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
#114> I have a good relationship with Godsey ... so I emailed him and asked if he could tell me the backstory, even if only off the record, just to satisfy my own curiosity. > “I’m not sure I want to deal with the can of worms it will open, so I’ll tell you privately,” he wrote back. And then the author published it. WTF? They won't have a good relationship now!
No need to by sensational... Shortly after your quote the author wrote: > After thinking about it for a bit, Godsey agreed to let me tell that story. Here’s a transcript of a Zoom conversation I had with him a few days ago, edited for length and clarity.
Okay, I was disgusted and quit reading right there, but I guess I should have given him a bit more of a chance. Maybe. Still a little bit disgusted, to be honest. Even if the reason was ultimately allowed to be communicated, these were still private words.
Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
#115It's kind of weird how Nike owns basketball. The NBA is pretty much one of their marketing arms.
Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
#116Now, how to get everyone attending the games to start wearing cream clothing?
Unless they're on the court, it wouldn't matter. It's not just the color, it's also the position of the players. The graphics are mapped to certain spots on the court, so this only happens if a player wearing the color stands where the graphic is.
What about fans sitting right on the sidelines, or maybe the first few rows?
Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
mythtv is still pretty great fwiw. Auto flagging ads is pretty good, but even don't bother, just using kodi as a front end with the plugin and skipping forward 3 minutes when an ad comes on does most of the job. (sometimes you do another 30 seconds or 1 minute and you get really good at it). Start watching your program 10-20 minutes late and no ads. Live sport is the only place I see tv ads at all nowadays - hence th…
Hey, do you have a good way to communicate this to normies? I haven't had any luck explaining to my wife that advertisements are basically a sort of cancerous meme designed to deliver misinformation and manipulate you into wasting your money on products that focus more on self-promotion than quality or value. I just sound like a jerk and she somehow takes it as a personal attack
I sometimes have trouble explaining this to others without coming off as a jerk as well.
I think the thing to do is to focus on yourself rather than the person you're talking to: instead of saying to someone that ads are "designed to manipulate you", say that they're "designed to manipulate, and I know that I'm not always strong enough to resist being swayed to want to buy something I don't actually want or need".
Frame it as ads making you, personally, feel manipulated. Don't try to proselytize and tell people that they're being manipulated, because no one likes to be told that they're gullible and weak. So focus on how ads affect you, not on how you believe they affect the person you're trying to convince. Because even if you're right about how it affects them -- and you probably are -- it doesn't feel good to be told that.
Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
#118The digital boards in hockey can get really annoying even when they're working as intended. Animating them should definitely be banned and I wouldn't mind seeing the digital ads disappear entirely.
It's even worse when the hockey players' white uniforms confuse the video effect algorithm into thinking the uniforms are part of the board and the algorithm paints the uniform with part of the ad. see https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/nhl-fans-are-already-fed-up...
What's crazy to me is that the NBA is banning a specific shade of cream from one team, on the basis that it may interfere with court keying in some locations, when several possible solutions are proposed in the article.
But then the NHL is just like "hey, away jerseys are white and the ice is white and the boards are white and we really dgaf".
Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
#119The digital boards in hockey can get really annoying even when they're working as intended. Animating them should definitely be banned and I wouldn't mind seeing the digital ads disappear entirely.
I was shocked as a non-hockey fan to see an ad of a car driving along the wall during active play. My eyes instinctively moved to the ad away from the puck. It was gross. As an NBA fan, I hate how ads keep getting crammed into every piece of equipment on the court, the jerseys, etc.
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Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
In this case, it's relatively easy to avoid the ads in question by not watching sports. You're not losing anything that you would otherwise get without ads: US sports wouldn't exist on the scale that they do without advertising.
I don't agree with that perspective. A lot of stuff on the internet wouldn't exist without advertising, just not using the internet is a poor solution. How about advocating for, or working on, solutions where the users are not the product. There are lots or successful examples, and they are growing.
I agree in general but am doubtful that it is a working model for the kinds of expensive elite sports that we're talking about here. If you want sports without ads it's possible, go to the park and watch a bunch of people play pickup basketball, it's just not going to be the same kind of production value.