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> Ah, now it makes sense. Your garage door opener app isn't here only to open your garage door; it's here to display ads and upsell you on services. > "I click
by jve 3y ago
> Ah, now it makes sense. Your garage door opener app isn't here only to open your garage door; it's here to display ads and upsell you on services.
> "I clicked door open/close event and it popped up the video storage subscription dialog to ask me to subscribe,"
I mean... who, while waiting to get into or out of garage, sitting in the car or soon to be sitting in the car clicks on ads to buy something? Wouldn't conversion rates be ridiculous?
Not that everything else is wrong there with current approaches to IoT: Blocking 3rd party apps, needing 3rd party cloud server somewhere to open garage door, putting ads on top of actual button, needing special app to operate, be dependent on internet. Cannot comment on security for this particular product, but that is a topic on its own.
- gpderetta 3y agoThe add-free version will be soon be available for 9.99€ per Month.
- rft 3y agoIn a year you need to subscribe to the 14.99€/month tier to remove all ads, the 9.99€ tier will show you "a low number of highly relevant ads to provide you with information on how to more optimally use our^Wyour device and support our continued development of these industry leading services". On a less snarky note, I hate how this has become so common that for some reason this is not "sue the company into non-existence" behavior, but we just sigh and either add the company to our shit list or pay the price because we are now locked in.
- scioto 3y agoMore like in a year you'll need to subscribe to the 14.99€/month tier to get it to work at all.
- dwighttk 3y agoSlightly less irritating than garage door, but: I’ve been going to my baseball team’s website recently to buy stuff because they won, and a 5 second video ad pops up every time you go… I’m here, I want to spend money, and you want to show me ads?
- eps 3y agoThe correct question is why you are on HN and yet don't use an ad blocker.
- passwordoops 3y agoYes and no. OP is pointing to the forest, while your reply is focused on his tree
- 1000100_1000101 3y agoI don't use an AdBlocker. Sites need income somehow. I ignore them anyway, but they show. However, if you run pop-over-everything ads, auto-play videos with audio, resizing ads, run CPU heavy BS, attempt redirects, or other garbage ads, I simply stop visiting your site. Don't abuse your ads. Don't use an ad provider that supports malicious behaviours. Too many sites abuse their users, I agree, but you're encouraging them by still giving them traffic.
- dwighttk 3y agoThis one pierced the protection of my adblocker. For what it is worth the video doesn’t load, but the 5 second pop up does load.
- breckenedge 3y agoClassic case of marketing being separate from operations and having latitude to do whatever the fuck they want. Company suffers but marketing makes their goals.
- gosub100 3y agoSimilar story: I toured Wrigley Field with my dad last week. We're on the MLB team's site, we want to give you money...nope, first you gotta install the MLB app.
- tehwebguy 3y agoThe stupidest ad units are the most expensive for some reason
- jasode 3y ago>who, while waiting to get into or out of garage, sitting in the car or soon to be sitting in the car clicks on ads to buy something? Wouldn't conversion rates be ridiculous? This reddit thread says it uses a UI dark pattern of moving the "open/close button" from a familiar screen position formed by habitual use such that you accidentally click on an ad for a $3000 pet door: https://old.reddit.com/r/myq/comments/xoxrlv/shady_af_advert_auto_appears_on_top/ https://old.reddit.com/r/myq/comments/xoxrlv/shady_af_advert...
- jihadjihad 3y agoIt almost reads as parody: right in my Q zone. It's the Darmine Doggy Door!
- lazide 3y agoWe're this close to living the original Robocop timeline. Even they didn't expect Trump to actually be president though.
- mym1990 3y agoI think it’s not so much about getting a conversion right there and there, but slowly chiseling away at someone’s willpower so that eventually they do buy the thing…whether it’s from their couch or somewhere else. Also, if you’re about to go into your house, the ad in the car may be priming you for buying something.
- dheera 3y agoReminds me of news articles about some local crime, new COVID strain, accident, or other emergency and it pops up asking me to subscribe to read further before I have even had a chance to read 3 sentences. No thanks, I'm looking for information for my own safety ASAP, not your "quality journalism".