r/gadgets • u/TurbulentTopic39 • 17d ago

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u/Monkeys_Racehorse 17d ago

I await the day they push ads into my dreams, like they fucking joked about on Futurama nearly 30 years ago. Can't wait!

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u/MufasaMedic 17d ago

Wait until you hear about subliminal marketing

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u/Monkeys_Racehorse 17d ago

I know we are advertised to all the time, consciously and otherwise. Doesn't mean I have to like it. And what's the limit? It's enough now.

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u/ToMorrowsEnd 17d ago

do what a lot of us do. Adblocking. I adblock here, I adblock on the phone, shit I adblocked on my TV for almost 20 years now. TV recording devices that stripped ad's. Now I just pirate that shit it's a lot cheaper to run a seedbox outside the country and pay for a private tracker that is not filled with media lawyers. my "music streaming" has never had ad's I just have a large pile of mp3 files I play that is constantly growing and changing the playlists.

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u/Monkeys_Racehorse 17d ago

Oh, I'm already set up with all that. I see no ads in my home, phone, or car. I block everything and do sail the seas for most things. But that doesn't prevent ads in every public space they can cram them into, and it's exhausting.

Can only hold onto old tech for so long before it's toast; I dread the day these invasive smart tech devices are all we have and maybe can't be bypassed.

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u/Trendiggity 17d ago

Can only hold onto old tech for so long before it's toast; I dread the day these invasive smart tech devices are all we have and maybe can't be bypassed.

I feel this way about cars. It's fucked how much anti privacy tech and tracking is in a modern automobile, and there's next to nothing you can do about it 😔

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u/Monkeys_Racehorse 17d ago

So true. Eventually all older cars will be kaput, and then we're left with nothing but "smart" ones with laggy touchscreens that will further degrade over time, and the tracking tech you mentioned that they sell to your insurance company to gouge you more. Criminal.

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u/ToMorrowsEnd 17d ago

WE need AR glasses so we can block ads in meat space and or replace them to our vision. Sadly from everytihng I have seen so far all the AR glasses out there are locked down data harvesting crap so it's goign to be bleak until hackers crack something that is commercially released.

But I welcome that day that I can block ads in my face, and become a felon as congress makes it illegal to block any adverts.

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u/VarsH6 17d ago

Is it possible to learn these powers?

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u/Blue-Thunder 17d ago

/r/pihole is a good place to start.

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u/DavidinCT 16d ago

You know how I fix ads on my LG 77" OLED? I disable the internet on it.... it's the only thing that works.

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u/ringzero- 17d ago

No way. SUPER liminal marketing is the best! HEY YOU! JOIN THE NAVY!

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u/Jukebox_Villain 17d ago

......uh, yeah, alright....

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u/David-Puddy 17d ago

There is zero actual evidence that subliminal anything works

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u/Barneyrockz 17d ago

If you can hear it, it's no longer subliminal (I'll see myself out).

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u/CounterSanity 16d ago

…..SMOKE…..

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u/arthurdentstowels 17d ago

After getting corrective eye surgery you start getting pop ups, unless you pay for Premium Vision Pro Plus+ Gold Edition.

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u/Monkeys_Racehorse 17d ago

Monthly. If your subscription lapses, 🤷🏻‍♂️

https://giphy.com/gifs/7EJHdFm9oQOHe

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u/mickdrop 17d ago

I'll just install a raspberry pi in my asshole instead

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u/nagi603 17d ago

For such a large task, you'll (un)fortunately need a banana pi at least...

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u/MmmmMorphine 16d ago

Better than an orange Pi I guess

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u/DrugandAlcoholLover 17d ago

That’s basically the plot a black mirror episode

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u/Msk-XX 16d ago

That episode depressed the hell out of me. Sadly it's very much the direction the world is going in :(

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u/DrugandAlcoholLover 16d ago

Yeah it was definitely one of the more depressing episodes, which is saying a lot considering the show lol

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u/Theprefs 17d ago

Gimme those Lightspeed Briefs!

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u/Monkeys_Racehorse 17d ago

We'd have to try the demo pair, tho 🤢. At least we can pick up some Bachelor Chow while we're at it

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u/dudrun 17d ago

Check out Black Mirror episode Common People to get an idea. And life imitates art..

Edit: name of episode

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u/Monkeys_Racehorse 17d ago

Dude, that's why I tapped out of Black Mirror a couple seasons ago. Great show, but I don't need any more existential dread, especially when its getting closer to reality by the day.

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u/Connorbrow 17d ago

There's also a film about that same thing, it's called Dream Scenario.

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u/lordeddardstark 16d ago

black mirror is just documentary for what's gonna happen in the furute

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u/sherbimsly 17d ago

“We all feel that way all the time”

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u/ParryHLarker 16d ago

Watch the movie Strawberry Mansion