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A middle ground approach from my experience: whenever I would watch tv with my mother, back in the ancient era before Netflix, she would always, always mute the

A middle ground approach from my experience: whenever I would watch tv with my mother, back in the ancient era before Netflix, she would always, always mute the tv when the ads came on. The ads were there, but we had that power over them.

Operyl 8y ago
I’m shuddering at the thought of when it becomes impossible to be able to mute advertisements.
- gruez 8y ago
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- GrinningFool 8y ago
  I realize that you likely meant in home/on device, but in some places it already is. Delta planes with in-seat screens play ads pre-takeoff, and you can't turn them off or mute them. (Or at least you couldn't when I last tried several years ago. That customer abuse was the last time I flew Delta.) The other day I went to get gas and was subjected to in-pump ads that I couldn't turn off or mute. It may not be coming to our televisions soon, but it's already there in many other places.
  - sspencer 8y ago
    Somewhere (possibly Reddit?) I learned about the unlabeled mute button for gas station TV ads. For certain pumps there are two rows of five or six unlabeled white buttons on the left and right of the screen - pressing the second button from the top on the right hand side of the screen mutes the blaring advertisement for me about 50% of the time. The times it works is pure bliss. YMMV but it's worth a try.
    - jerf 8y ago
      Failing that, just press all the buttons you can find that don't immediately look like they'll cancel your transaction. I've found them all over the place. And I've found pumps that don't have any apparent mute buttons. But not very often.
- exikyut 8y ago
  Whereas I'm reveling that I can do network watermark analysis, do a bit of time-shifting so the analyzer is seeing footage in the future, and implement my own auto-mute. Or, at least, this is on the medium-term todo list, and I hope I get to play with it someday. Obviously can't really commercialize the idea... :)
Topgamer7 8y ago
My gf hates when I mute commercials, and I hate when I don't mute commercials. Rarely a problem as we mostly watch Netflix. In my house my dad ran 2 VHS machines and 2 beta machines, commercials were muted if we watched them at all. They still run at least 2 dual tuner PVR's.

Operyl 8y ago

I’m shuddering at the thought of when it becomes impossible to be able to mute advertisements.

gruez 8y ago
please drink validation can
GrinningFool 8y ago
I realize that you likely meant in home/on device, but in some places it already is. Delta planes with in-seat screens play ads pre-takeoff, and you can't turn them off or mute them. (Or at least you couldn't when I last tried several years ago. That customer abuse was the last time I flew Delta.) The other day I went to get gas and was subjected to in-pump ads that I couldn't turn off or mute. It may not be coming to our televisions soon, but it's already there in many other places.
- sspencer 8y ago
  Somewhere (possibly Reddit?) I learned about the unlabeled mute button for gas station TV ads. For certain pumps there are two rows of five or six unlabeled white buttons on the left and right of the screen - pressing the second button from the top on the right hand side of the screen mutes the blaring advertisement for me about 50% of the time. The times it works is pure bliss. YMMV but it's worth a try.
  - jerf 8y ago
    Failing that, just press all the buttons you can find that don't immediately look like they'll cancel your transaction. I've found them all over the place. And I've found pumps that don't have any apparent mute buttons. But not very often.
exikyut 8y ago
Whereas I'm reveling that I can do network watermark analysis, do a bit of time-shifting so the analyzer is seeing footage in the future, and implement my own auto-mute. Or, at least, this is on the medium-term todo list, and I hope I get to play with it someday. Obviously can't really commercialize the idea... :)

Topgamer7 8y ago

My gf hates when I mute commercials, and I hate when I don't mute commercials. Rarely a problem as we mostly watch Netflix. In my house my dad ran 2 VHS machines and 2 beta machines, commercials were muted if we watched them at all. They still run at least 2 dual tuner PVR's.