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Reminds me of that black mirror episode where you had to pay to mute commercials.
by mrhappyunhappy 8y ago
Reminds me of that black mirror episode where you had to pay to mute commercials.
- rolleiflex 8y agoThat’s not Black Mirror, that’s Tuesday. Meet Google Contributor: https://www.zdnet.com/article/sick-of-ads-now-you-can-pay-google-not-to-see-them-plus-sites-can-charge-ad-blocker-users/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/sick-of-ads-now-you-can-pay-go...
- ChucklesNorris 8y agoAnd apps. I hate flashing ads, I always pay the extra to be left alone. But I wonder, how many have fake, extra annoying ads? It's almost like extortion. But as technology progresses, I can see a future where AI and facial recognition and this targeted sound will torment every person, everywhere they go. The more recent Time Machine movie showed a bit of this.
- aasasd 8y agoHenry Kuttner and his wife C.L. Moore described hyper-aggressive physical ads and ad-blockers in the short story “Year Day,” published in '53. Notably, the anthology that first included the story is named “Ahead of Time.”