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How soon will content makers make their content look like ads to force these algorithms to fail?
That's already happened ... just look at how many youtube channels have integrated a "and now let's briefly talk about my sponsors" segment in the middle.
“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 what was told privately is now public... Can somebody that journalisms tell me what just happened?
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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 thoug…
One can enjoy a single aspect of something without that implying total agreement.
I hate advertisement in nearly every aspect, I hate 'SV culture' in nearly every aspect -- but I can acknowledge that the collision of those two themes created a community that I enjoy, and has facilitated conversation that is generally on a more interesting level than the majority of communities out there on the internet that I could be spending time at otherwise.
>You support something that you think is a blight because you don’t think this is a blight.
I don't/can't/won't fall for the idea that 'HN=advertisement'; it's simply not true. HN has become something that is greater than the sum of its' parts, to ignore the other qualities that drive people to participate here would be disingenuous.
“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 what was told privately is now public... Can somebody that journalisms tell me what just happened?
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It's interesting that no professional sports team has decided to go full pink as one of their primary uni colors. It would be an amazing branding opportunity. The closest I've seen is Miami Heat's Vice unis https://www.nba.com/heat/2021-heat-vice-uniform-collection .
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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...
> "Like anything else, you're going to have your people that don't like it, that think it is difficult to watch. But over time, like everything else, people will get used to it, and we're not concerned at all whatsoever," Keith Wachtel, the NHL's chief business officer and executive vice president of global partnerships, told ESPN ahead of the season. Wow. That statement is dripping with contempt for their viewers. I…
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Dust off my old response to "augmented reality": subtractive reality. I originally thought of it as "subtracting out annoying people" but "subtracting out ads" is much more compelling.
There was a Black Mirror episode which included that. It started off simple: a mother subtracting a scary dog from the view of her young daughter.
It sounds interesting on a psychological/developmental level too, children are routinely taught to ignore certain thoughts, concepts or emotions. Looks like technology could offer increased level of granularity and control. Scary times.
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* That does sound cyberpunk techno-corporatist-lawless dystopian, but what I think would be infinitely more awesome is getting government regulations and human sentiment all aligned with not having ads in public spaces. * Recent HN discussion about the infamous AP writings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32790951
> getting government regulations and human sentiment all aligned with not having ads in public spaces. Money is speech in the US. And corporations have more of it than their advertisement recipients, which is why we see ads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo
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How soon will content makers make their content look like ads to force these algorithms to fail?
That's already happened ... just look at how many youtube channels have integrated a "and now let's briefly talk about my sponsors" segment in the middle.
Either via product placement, or the ad section starts inconspicuously and gradually morphs into a full featured endorsement
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Bounties for citizenly public actions. But how do you prove it’s you? Maybe book a time slot. If the light disappears in this time slot, you get the bounty.
Spraypaint a private key (or any unique symbol, really) to prove you did it.
To be honest, that's what spray tags look like to me already, random, meaningless, unique. I've photographed hundreds of tags and have never seen two alike.
Now, hacking the ad screen with a virus that displays a unique artwork... that'd be cool.
