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> token balance tied to watching old school regular ads This feels like such a weird but also 'natural' extension of the current model where the timing of an a
by sunrunner 1y ago
> token balance tied to watching old school regular ads
This feels like such a weird but also 'natural' extension of the current model where the timing of an ad is not guaranteed except for at least at the beginning of, say, a video. Instead of ads being inserted at times that may or may not correlate with some kind of 'pause' point, being able to opt-in to a number of duration of ads that equal payment
Taken _directly_ from Google's AI Overview of a search I did (to make sure I remembered correctly):
"In the fictional world of the Netflix series "Maniac", an "Ad Buddy" is a person who is assigned to follow another person around, delivering advertisements for them. Essentially, it's a human-powered advertising campaign, where someone is paid to be a walking billboard."
- autoexec 1y agoCompanies already pay people to act as ads by walking around wearing or carrying something with their logo on it, or to hang out in bars and video games in order to casually name drop products while talking to people and pretending to have normal conversations. Influencers are paid to push products in videos and social media posts without any disclosure. Human-powered advertising is everywhere.
- sunrunner 1y agoGood points, although there's a level there where you're not directly opting in to those and are somewhat a passive consumer (if you ignore being conscious of being immersed in an ad-laden environment), while the Ad Buddy model seems to sit just before directly and simply paying for the service or product by having your balance topped up by opting in to as direct an ad as I could imagine that's not subliminal messaging.