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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

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Post by imglorp »

AlexandrB wrote: post #135
canucker2016 wrote: post #75

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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…

> dripping with contempt for their viewers

Marketing and advertising in general. Their spend billions to force their way into every aspect of people's lives, steal their attention, spy on their lives, sell their data, force malware onto their platforms, all so they can force people to think in a way they wouldn't ordinarily? It's truly dark, inhumane, mind control. Screw them. If I want your widget I'll come find it.

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by tristan957 »

standardUser wrote: post #28
cwkoss wrote: post #25

Yet another example of how ads destroy culture. I hate that our society bends the knee to them everywhere.

Ads make the culture. Where would American sports be without ads?

The NBA worked just fine when there weren't ads on jerseys, digital ads on courts, etc. This is nothing more than a ploy to enrich the owners and players who already make boatloads of money.

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by thewebcount »

paxys wrote: post #43
kibwen wrote: post #7

How soon until we see AI-powered adblockers that filter the output of any signal to remove anything that it perceives as an ad?

We've had the ability for DVRs to automatically detect and skip ads for at least a decade now. Dish is the most prominent company that tried it, and immediately got sued by TV networks and had to remove the functionality.

My TiVo has a commercial skip button. It doesn’t work everywhere, but for a show that’s been in your queue for a few days it usually does. Apparently it uses AI to detect where others have fastfowarded or used the 30 second skip button and figures it out. It’s pretty nice for those times when I actually want to record something that has ads in it (which is rare).

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by cwkoss »

dymk wrote: post #100
eastbound wrote: post #55

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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.

I'm hoping the defacement would be more contextual and sardonic, like devil horns on people or changing Coca Cola to Cloaca

Privkey QRs would be a bit ugly

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by josephg »

ryandrake wrote: post #154
yafbum wrote: post #119

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You're getting really unfairly dunked on for a sensible point. The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does, and what televised sports unarguably does is relentlessly slather its consumers' eyes with advertisements--and also shows some sportsball every once in a while, between those ads. Saying "I like televised sports but not ads" doesn't make a lot of sense. The entire purpose of televised sports, the only reason for it…

Humans aren't money-optimizing machines. And we don't watch (or play) sport to watch ads.

Companies can try to optimize for profit, but too much focus on the bottom line corrodes just about anything else the company wants to do in the world. And ultimately, the most profitable companies are usually the ones who make a profit on the road of caring deeply about something else. (Eg, Steve Jobs' - who cared about making great products made Apple into a massively profitable company).

> The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does

A complex system will have a complex mix of goals. Some of those goals will be mutually contradictory. For example, some people in NBA obsessively want to maximise profit, while others are there because they love the game. If you take money out, the NBA dies. But the NBA will also die if nobody loves basketball enough to watch the games!

A healthy complex system will navigate its multiplicity of objectives well. For example, as a human I need food. And I want to get work done today. Maybe I'll take a notebook to the cafe. Or maybe I'll relax at the cafe so I'm fresh when I get back home. I don't let either objective override the other.

The criticism here is that the NBA is letting its objectives simplify. The needs of marketing are overriding the team's choice to have creme colored uniforms. Of course this is worrying to some people.

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Post by brewdad »

ytdytvhxgydvhh wrote: post #106
canucker2016 wrote: post #75

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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...

Similarly I seem to remember Boise State football games resulting in glitchy first-down marker lines on TV - the blue field and blue uniforms make blue screening a challenge I’m sure.

Similarly, seeing splashes of color on Eastern Michigan's gray field breaks my brain a little. It's like watching an old black and white film with only certain characters colorized.

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Post by synu »

yafbum wrote: post #119
yawn wrote: post #23

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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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“I like something except this part” is not coherent?

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Post by danjc »

Cupertino95014 wrote: post #137

The Mute button on the remote is surprisingly useful for this (but not if they overlay the regular programming, obviously). The sound is a big part of why we hate the ads. You'd be amazed how un-annoying it is to watch commercials with the sound off. Sometimes you watch and wonder what it's actually an ad FOR.

One reason for this is that ads generally have a high dynamic compression applied to the audio to make them seem louder. It’s jarring because the content you’re watching has a more reasonable level of dynamic compression.

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Post by danjc »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #8

Modern television is insufferable.

I was watching something on Roku and it’s really jarring being interrupted with ads all the time after years of streaming. Ironically, most of the ads were for more Roku hardware!

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by synu »

ryandrake wrote: post #154
yafbum wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quoted post unavailable.

You're getting really unfairly dunked on for a sensible point. The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does, and what televised sports unarguably does is relentlessly slather its consumers' eyes with advertisements--and also shows some sportsball every once in a while, between those ads. Saying "I like televised sports but not ads" doesn't make a lot of sense. The entire purpose of televised sports, the only reason for it…

Would you be amazed if I told you I could connect you with someone right now who would tell you they enjoy tv sports and would like them even better without ads?
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