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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 Cupertino95014 »

danjc wrote: post #168
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.

That's a good point, but I think I'd still find the audio annoying even at low volume. The images... now, those are sometimes interesting to watch, muted.

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Post by matheusmoreira »

unraveller wrote: post #218
matheusmoreira wrote: post #158

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Can't wait for the day someone invents a video ad blocker. Let's see if this guy will "get used" to that.

no one is going to flash the firmware on their TV to block ads.

I will.

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Post by yafbum »

trevin wrote: post #211
yreg wrote: post #194

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If anyone has clips of such horrible placements, please do share.

Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk3Jx1juRR8&t=1s Edit: https://twitter.com/NYIslanders/status/1589812414966468608 is a good example of ad creative being way too distracting

The janky overlays in that YouTube video are hilarious... Happening even when nobody's wearing cream colored clothing!

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Post by knaekhoved »

cwkoss wrote: post #164
dymk wrote: post #100

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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

I recently saw a giant plush coca-cola can with the text changed to "cloaca" in some guy's car. Is that a known joke? I thought it was pretty funny

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Post by quacked »

legitster wrote: post #81
quacked wrote: post #38

I hate advertising so much. I would ban it immediately if allowed. It makes society so much worse in every possible measure. http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html

I don't necessarily buy this. These sports would arguably not exist without the advertising that supports them.

The thing about sports that require advertising is that they don't need to exist in the way they do now. If I could ban advertising, and the consequence is that the highest level of sports is now a less-funded, more localized set of players, I think that would actually be a net improvement on society.

Obviously some people would disagree, but therein lies the problem; if one group of people wants to have professional sports and saturate society with ads, and the other group doesn't want to be saturated with ads, then society is saturated with ads. It's the same as the noisy neighbor problem; if one neighbor is noisy, and the other is quiet, life is perfect for the noisy neighbor and hell for the quiet neighbor.

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Post by paulcole »

serf wrote: post #143
paulcole wrote: post #113

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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…

This is a ridiculous argument. 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…

> I don't/can't/won't fall for the idea that 'HN=advertisement'; it's simply not true

This is how you know HN is an absolutely fantastic ad. People who “hate” ads will fall all over themselves to explain why this ad isn’t an ad. “You see it’s different because reasons. I would never like an ad.”

I do believe the other reasons people engage here are real. But the fundamental underlying reason this place exists is for marketing and advertising for a VC firm.

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Post by brokenmachine »

Firmwarrior wrote: post #105
harry8 wrote: post #54

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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

100% agree about the cancerous meme thing but you also need to be tactful, read the room, and let people have their fun. We'll all be dead soon anyway.

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Post by brokenmachine »

kelnos wrote: post #117
Firmwarrior wrote: post #105

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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". F…

I've been a lot happier since completely removing mainstream news from my life, and everything I use has adblocking. I don't see any ads on my devices.

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Post by brokenmachine »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #131
AlbertCory wrote: post #78

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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.

Aah, the old Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses from Hitchhikers Guide.

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Post by brokenmachine »

zimpenfish wrote: post #188
WD-42 wrote: post #51

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That's why we have SponsorBlock: https://sponsor.ajay.app/ It even has an API that youtube-dlp uses to automatically trim out sponsored sections from downloaded videos!

It's definitely useful - especially for yt-dlp - but I eventually had to turn it off due to the clipping being a bit wayward[1]. Often got videos where it'd clip 15-20s before the sponsor and 30s after which leads to horrible glitchy cuts. Or sometimes it would only cut out the middle 2m of a sponsor segment leading to, again, horrible glitchy cuts but with sponsorship. etc.etc. [1] This may be because I was download…

It probably is only cutting on the keyframes.

There's a flag to tell it to reencode up to and after the cuts, which would probably help a lot.

Yep - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ

>Video files cannot be cut at exact timestamps without re-encoding. yt-dlp does not re-encode the video by default, even when cutting is required. You can use --force-keyframes-at-cuts to force re-encoding; however, this process is slow - there is no way around this.

I'd probably rather just tell it to mark the sponsor segments as chapters and then skip them manually. I think it marks them by default.

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