Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility

Pretty ironic for this article to have a paywall.

https://archive.ph/I9Wdo
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To understand how unhinged our society is one only needs to understand how we constantly improve our technology, but don't use it to improve us as a society.

Primitive metallurgy was used to create weapons for millennia before it became commonly used for cookware. Technology has always been primarily used as vector for human beings to control and dominate one another, rather than to assist/improve society.
- Didn't say we used to be better. We've always been a shitshow.
- To be fair, that was back when wildlife was much more of a threat. And probably also a lot more risk of criminals or other bandits. Making a weapon to protect your tribe is not really in the same ball park as this.

Is it any wonder why we pirate and adblock. Im not going to embrace hostility, im going to fight fire with fire. Every time.

I'm glad that The Atlantic is covering this issue. Nothing groundbreaking here for anyone who follows these issues, but the Atlantic's audience overlaps a lot with actual policymakers and their staffs. The tech companies don't want to be regulated by the government, so coverage by these types of publications may be a good starting point for reform (whether voluntary or regulated).

Reminds me of those gas stations that play commercials at the pumps. More and more of them are disabling the mute buttons. I only stop at stations with the TV-free pumps now.

There are fuel pumps that show ads? Where do you live? That's crazy to me
- I just want to emphasize how loud these can be for the unfamiliar as well. Like blaring into your ear while you pump. Also, some of the really loud ones are not synced pump to pump so you'll get this shouting weird echo while at the pump. I think Tesla probably gave the gas stations a grant to put these things in. It seriously has contributed toward my motivation to go go electric for next car.
- American thing
  Not in my town, but they're not hard to find literally anywhere in the US
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."
– Banksy
I have yet to encounter one that lets me mute it…
- Push the second button down on the right 3 times
- Just spam all the buttons as fast as possible. I usually can seem to softlock the display but the transaction old school display still works properly.
One of these days I'm going to find out where they hide those speakers and when I do I'm bringing an icepick to the pump.
- More power to you. Be wary of cameras.

The end is here. You will love not owning your TV and it's sending ads directly into your brain.

Your phone will make calls without you and your PC will do the work for you so can watch more ads.

https://www.science.org/content/article/are-advertisers-coming-your-dreams
- Futurama did it!

The real question is whether or not you can still buy a dumb TV in 2024.

I'm one of the crazy people who spent 4 grand on a 85 inch dumb display meant for stores to use as digital signage. Honestly a great decision. It's no home theater display but damn if it isn't just as good as any smart tv I've seen. I just have it hooked to a raspberry pi running librelec.
- I just don’t hook mine up to the Internet and disable all the ad and tracking stuff on my LG, but at least yours will probably last 10+ years.
Rooting an Android TV gets you there, plus you get a TV that you actually own. It's super niche and difficult to do, though. Hard to find info on which TVs can be rooted.
I use video projectors. Many of them, typically the better ones do not have any built-in smarts requiring an Internet connection.
In general, smart devices are a major security risk, and need to be firewalled off.
business opportunity, Smart TV lobotomies.
You can, but now it's called "a big monitor and your own server with a personal media library".

Sorry but this article is just false and misleading.

The company currently has no ability to see what users might be doing when they switch away from its proprietary streaming platform. This is apparently a problem, in that Roku is missing monetization opportunities!

Now look here.

https://lemmy.world/post/9840946

Look at the logo in the bottom right.

Roku is already doing this and has been since last year. This is not a threat. It is a promise to shareholders and advertisers, and they have already fulfilled it.

I fail to see the claim that the article is false and misleading?
It sounds like what it states is what it is. Replace the phrase "currently has" with "didn't" and your issue evaporates.
Which seems like unfair criticism given that the present or past tensing of an article's statements are dependent on when it was written and is a rather fluid and interpretable thing. It's a reasonable expectation that readers can understand and adjust their perspective of past vs present tense without failing to understand what the article is conveying...
Especially to such a degree where the confusion from the past tense versus present tense of a statement is great enough to be considered "false and misleading"...
- The article was written two days ago.
  It's a joke. A funny joke. Relax.

paywalled. Can someone get me the content ?

Ok got it. Here is this, if anyone want to read https://paste.ec/paste/3CeHnhPZ#8yzuDmyaM8fRRD6Qa+4MYlE0X6RXXyi-lE2L7PMpJ56
- thanks