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Put in an old DVD of Dr. Strangelove:... recently in the XBox. It was just a random thought to pop it in and enjoy. (okay, was cleaning up shelf) I eventually
by idatum 5y ago
Put in an old DVD of Dr. Strangelove:... recently in the XBox. It was just a random thought to pop it in and enjoy. (okay, was cleaning up shelf)
I eventually realized I could skip around and enjoy the parts I liked. Freely. Without that feeling of being watched.
Flashback.
- ectopod 5y agoIs your XBox online? Are you sure the DVD player doesn't report back what you're watching and how you're watching it?
- lreeves 5y agoOr your smart TV.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y agoWhich, for those out of the loop, is likely taking random screenshots of the displayed image and uploading enough data up positively correlate images to known content, or more, I haven't bothered to learn these things. The people who implement them are creepy af though.
- specialist 5y agoThese comments made me wonder if any smart TVs have something like built-in content-id detection, which then somehow gets shared with the mother ship. One precedent is Nielsen Audio's Portable People Meter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Audio#Portable_People_Meter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Audio#Portable_People_... I assume that if surveillance can be done, someones are doing it.
- astrange 5y agoThey do. That's literally the reason Vizio TVs are so cheap. Knowing this, I leave it on because I want everyone to be forced to watch what I watch.
- novaleaf 5y agoyes of course. Roku tv does content recognition.
- kbelder 5y agoSo, what's happening when I watch a video on my PC that is feeding into the Roku tv via hdmi? Is Roku actually capturing info about the content of the stream, or just the fact that I'm streaming from the PC? I'm fairly sure they aren't so blatant as to grab screenshots, but are they doing some sort of analysis of the video stream directly? Just stuff I wonder about.
- ergot_vacation 5y agoThey absolutely do, which is why I always deliberately give mine bad wifi credentials (if I didn't give it SOMETHING, it would nag).
- idatum 5y agoFair question. This is exhausting.
- huntermeyer 5y agoI sometimes want to rewatch a funny scene, but the fear of having to sit through a 2min ad on Hulu after I press the back button outweighs the few seconds of joy I'd get from that scene. Nor is it worth the money to upgrade.
- mindslight 5y agoThis is the default experience of vlc, mpv, and kodi. You have to do the surveillance-navigating work when obtaining content, but then when you're relaxing you're free to relax.
- ergot_vacation 5y agoIt's amazing that in 2021 piracy is still superior to all the paid products in terms of quality and user experience. They've had over a decade to figure this out, and they just don't care.
- ergot_vacation 5y agoPiracy wins yet again. If someone is watching what mp4 files you load into VLC, you probably have bigger problems.