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I’d be thrilled to have a black screen instead of ads. I suspect you assume that my motivation is to escape the interruption. To me, let me tell you—the interru
by alwa 2y ago
I’d be thrilled to have a black screen instead of ads. I suspect you assume that my motivation is to escape the interruption. To me, let me tell you—the interruption is a mild annoyance, while the ads themselves are an active assault.
Especially now that they’re individually and programmatically targeted to showcase and inflame the neuroses, health concerns, and predilections of each of the specific people in the room around the television.
Amazing how the HIV commercials only appear when individuals in risk groups are around. Those outed a friend once—luckily in a supportive environment.
And the random miscellaneous cancer drug ads come on when the friend who’s an older cancer survivor comes to visit. And the sports betting ads when friends facing gambling addiction are around. And if I hear one more ad hawking supplies for squealing tiny humans when new parents are around, so help me…
- wruza 2y agoInstead of a black screen, I'd like to watch calm cat/dog sleeping videos when they try to serve ads. Maybe one day uBO will add this opt-in feature, like mute the lie and overlay it with a 5-minute preloaded neutral cute content, for desperate services that force users into it. PS. spent 5 minutes on "a dog sleeping" without stupid music and couldn't find one. Search these days, man...
- natebc 2y agoi'll give you one better for free. Behold the Sea Otters of the Monterey Bay Aquarium: https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams/sea-otter-cam https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams/sea-ot...
- xarope 2y agoThank you!
- alwa 2y agoI am completely mesmerized. Locally to me, far from anywhere it belongs, an independent-spirited Japanese man operates a little izakaya as a solo enterprise. Jazz, shockingly varied menu for the square footage and manpower; the whole deal. He keeps a television set up at the bar he works behind—pointed away from the bar, toward him. He shows only kittens playing and views from train drivers’ windows…
- MikePlacid 2y agoI would rather watch a black screen than a majority of YouTube ads. Because: - they are for a product that I just bought x 20 times; - they are for a product that I do not need x 20 times; - “we know you are old, so do this stupid thing… (have I said “x 20 times”?) - “we know you are rich, so do that stupid thing… And so it goes.