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Can't wait for ads to be grotesquely injected into any video on big streaming sites. If you don't want reruns of Cheers to have distracting ads for Rings of Power you better spring for Prime Platinum. Even the heroes at uBlock Origin are going to have a hard time filtering out injected ads on some YouTuber's bedroom wall.

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[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

I've been ad-free for long enough at this point that I feel physically assaulted when I see one (at a friend's house or whatever). It's insane that we ever thought that was ok, and it's become worse.

At this point, adblock is a survival measure. Piracy is self-defense. The first presidential candidate who campaigns on legalizing graffiti on billboards and mandating their eventual removal gets my vote. Burn it all.

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 6 points 2 months ago

I can't even watch sports in real time. I have to let it buffer so I can fast forward through breaks and such.

Still a lot of ads on uniforms and all over the stadium, but it's mostly the audio (that is often louder than what you're watching) and the break in continuity for commercial breaks that pisses me off the most.

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[-] BattleGrown@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Ads are against human rights. They manipulate your feelings and force you to make biased choices. They should be banned.

[-] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Companies/creatives/collectives need a way to show what they have to offer so it gets out there. Ads are far and away out of control, but their abolishment has it's own problems (and people will advertise anyways, just stealth like they already are)

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 2 months ago

in existing video

So... A fucking overlay? 🫩

[-] rdri@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

You should check the included PDF - contents are crazy. But the example result looks comically similar to an overlay.

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Ads are way past the point of pissing me off so much that i just block my ears and close my eyes until they go away.

Its fucking disrespectful to expect people to just be ok with having that shit shoveled into their eye sockets.

Amazon is a tool to me to get the things i want based on need for things that i am doing or to replace things that are broken. I am not window shopping there. I am not browsing things. I know what i need. I find the cheapest one with the highest rating and buy it.

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Look at this guy, thinking he's worthy of "respect"! The fucking temerity, the absolute gall of these poors!

[-] usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

Such a waste of R&D resources

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

have to recoup the loss of diverting so much cost to AI data centers. thats why MS and google is jamming ai into everything they can put into, plus the increasing privacy invasion of storage email, so they can sell your data.

on a sidenote, during the early mid pandemic, amazon overbuilt thier warehouses/distribution centers and it costed them alot of money, JASSy never learned(he blamed Clark at the time who was in control of that area)

[-] bcgm3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Not when the only metric considered is ROI.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

This was in June 2023? Or am I missing something?

Wouldn’t be surprised if this was the garbage tech powering the NHL board ads.

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

They started doing it with cereal boxes and other products in Seinfeld reruns years ago.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That’s gross

[-] Acamon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Here's something from 2025 and it's even better, because AI!

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago
[-] Bababasti@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

That image alone looks like it’s from a movie that would be right up my alley, so where’s that from?

[-] elvith@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

That's Black Mirror S01E02 - Fifteen Million Merits. It's on Netflix.

If you haven't seen that Series, give it a try. Also it's an anthology, so you can usually watch any episode in any order without needing the other episodes (at least as far as I have watched it).

Every episode is usually its own story in its own universe and depicts a not-very-far-in-the-future dystopia that (ab)uses media and technology and extrapolates from our current social issues.

[-] BarfSqelcho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

This is largely true but it's worth noting that they're frequently in the same universe with a lot of them referencing each other in subtle ways. It's neat.

But yeah you can start anywhere and not be lost.

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[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Note that many people find S01E01 off-putting in a way different from the rest of the series. Up to you where you start, but if you start with the first episode I recommend watching at least two before judging.

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[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Inb4 someone writes a program and calls it AdblockAI. It gets trained on the shape of corporate logos and on the fly in-paints those regions of the screen to remove the logos.

On that same note, how about AR glasses that put black bars over ads and logos you encounter in real life so companies don't get to subliminally advertise at you.

[-] dickalan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

This was my first and only idea for AR goggles and I think somebody has already made that mock up if you search online that will actually do that

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[-] bcgm3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Fast forward 100 years, and we'll be working on anti-ad glasses that counteract the Meta glasses that counteract the anti-ad glasses that counteract the Elon eye implants. 😔

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

How about ar glasses that put a bag over my head so no one knows I have ar glasses

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

and this is why im watching the mighty nein and hazbin on jellyfin

[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

This is the inevitable next step. YouTube is looking at doing this too, where ads would be served as part of the same stream id as the content (eg your page wouldn’t refresh and the ad would be cut into the video itself) but they have to make the player work with changing states without refreshing the page across all platforms and it puts a lot more stress on CDNs (plus sponsor block would still be a method to defeat, although not as effective).

But integration of the ads more deeply into the content has always been the goal. That’s why product placement exists. The fault of commercials is that people can simply disengage - go to the bathroom, talk to friends, fuck around on phone, etc. but if the ad is part of the content they have to see it if they want to engage with it. You lose the ability to shill as effectively (unless you do the youtuber paid segment thing, which makes your ads programmatically skippable again eg sponsorblock) but you gain an ad that is practically unblockable unless the show is essentially censored.

Advertisers are scum. Destroy all advertisers. Admen are the cancer that destroy society. Every cool thing has advertisers encroach in on it once people realize how cool it is and then they destroy it - radio, tv, newspapers, books, the internet, literally any public space, etc. if you work in advertising you should be ashamed of yourself and your parents definitely feel like they went wrong somewhere

[-] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 2 points 2 months ago

roger sterling was pretty cool

[-] bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Bill Hicks Recorded live at the Dominion Theatre, London, 1992:

By the way, if anyone here’s in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. [audience approval] Thank you. Just a little thought... Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are [in advertising/marketing], do [kill yourself — laughter] ... There's no rationalisation for what you do and you’re Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourself, seriously. You’re the ruiner of all things good, seriously... No, this is not a joke. You're going: “there's gonna to be a joke coming”. There's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan’s spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your soul. Kill yourself. [applause, laughter] ... I know all the marketing people are going, “he's doing a joke”... There’s no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail pipe, hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend. I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations.

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart." [laughter] Oh man, I’m not doing that, you fucking evil scumbags. "Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research. Huge market. He's doing a good thing." Goddammit, I'm not doing that, you scumbags. Quit putting a goddamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet! "Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market. Bill's very bright to do that." God, I'm just caught in a fucking web. "Ooh, the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market. Look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..." God, how do you live like that? I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you? "What did you do tonight honey?" "Oh, we made ah, we made ah, arsenic ah, childhood food now, goodnight." [lies down and snores] "Yeah, we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?" [snores] "Yeah, it'll... you know the mums will love it." [snores] [stands up] Sleep like fucking children, don't you? This is your world isn't it?

[-] Setiyeti93@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

You see it first they'll do it with carefully chosen surfaces....

Then I'll just let AI do it randomly, Before long an incredibly emotional scene we'll get a tasteless ad.

Who wants to be watching a dog get put down in Marley and me, only to be taken out of it when you see an advert on the back wall for... Idk.... Trojan condoms?

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The dogs gonna die anyway, why not fuck it before it gets cold?

Trojan, for all your animal fucking needs.

/s

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[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Reminder to send all YouTube videos you watch to various web archives

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It doesn't appear they're doing live recoding of the video, they mention how intensive that is, so the overlay is likely just some js fuckery is my guess. Also the setup is a cooking show filmed from a single camera angle with limited panning. I don't think this will be hard to block and I don't see it invading many videos just yet.

[-] Acamon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Its definitely just proof of concept for now, but it seems a grim, if inevitable, step in the war of ads vs adblockers.

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[-] waka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Ah, a new Invention in the Asshole-Technology Department. Satan has a very special place in hell for the Managers who decided on this and he will place an order on this exact technology just for them to enjoy it non-stop. Forever.

[-] rustyfemboy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Corporate bootlickers: "Capitalism breeds innovation"

The innovation:

[-] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

And that's why I got myself Verbatim 43888 with BU40N drive and also setup an Arr stack.

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[-] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me! (Has been for years now)

[-] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

There's lots of YouTube stuff that isn't popular enough for anyone to post

[-] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You do have plenty of options for downloading youtube videos directly without viewing them using tools like yt-dlp either in terminal or using one of its many GUI front ends. Apps like GrayJay and YT Revanced also have downloading youtube videos integrated, so no setup needed.

I have my own personal collection from my favorite creators :)

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[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

I wish Amazon wasn't so decentralized, it makes it so hard to just burn it all down.

[-] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

We're burning down the wrong Amazon

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