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Samsung can now remotely brick your TV
Tomorokoshi:
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--- Quote from: Simon on September 10, 2021, 08:25:24 pm ---Adverts are always going to be around but the insane amount is tiresome but often neccessary. Who would pay for facebook? how many would rather not have adds. I just don't bother to use it.
Isn't anyone old enough here to remember the internet before adverts? I am, it was great, the internet was a place full of content. Then the adds came along and look an the cess pit it is now. How many sites exist just for the add revenue? tons, try googling any product and just look at the number of results for sites that claim to tell you about the top 10 of a product in 2021 or the year before if they have not made another senseless page of dribble yet with promoted links to amazon. Often these pages themselves are advertised.
The add system has gone from being sensible adds to walls of crap that make up 50% of some sites.
But then who does not want free stuff? no such thing as free. I was highly irritated when my brother in law made us all get signal because of the changes to whattsapp. Yet he still has facebook and gave signal no donations. It's a race to the bottom these days.
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That said, it is still wasted on me because I have zero justification for buying new test gear, there is a virtually 0% chance that it's going to result in a sale no matter how many times I see that Keysight banner.
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I don't mind the Keysight banners.
I find the animated JCLPCB ads to be obnoxious and distracting, so I will probably actively avoid them when it comes to PCB builds.
I immediately scroll them off the screen. Therefore the Keysight banner gets blocked out anyway. Guilt by association.
james_s:
--- Quote from: Bassman59 on September 14, 2021, 04:08:12 pm ---Speaking of pet peeves:
Why the fsck does content on a paid service have any ads at all?
Now the advertiser apologists love to say, "you wouldn't have free content without ads, so that is the deal."
Then cable TV was introduced. You pay for the service. Yet the service has ads.
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It didn't used to. Originally when cable TV came out there were no ads, you paid for the service. Then they figured out they could add ads and people would still pay for the service, so they make even more money. One of the most annoying aspects about pay TV services is the bulk of your bill goes to pay for sports channels, a category which I have zero interest in across the board.
Berni:
It gets even worse.
We have a national radio/TV station much like the British BBC that we also have to pay for. They don't care if you watch it, as long as you have a TV (and they assume everyone does) you have to pay for it, much like the BBC. However unlike the BBC they are allowed to have ads just like any other TV station. They also often get the live broadcasts of the big events such as the Olympics where the price of ads is astronomical.
Bud:
I find amusing that TV licensing practice existing is some countries. I should be paid money to watch governement's shit, not the other way around.
james_s:
I'm not opposed to the idea of public TV, as far as I know it isn't a propaganda channel or something. A TV license may have even made sense back when a lot of people didn't have a TV but when it is assumed that everyone has one then it may as well just be a tax so people don't have to think about it. As someone who doesn't watch broadcast TV and hasn't for probably 20 years I would be highly annoyed at having to pay a fee to support the station. If there was a station that had no ads and no on-screen logos I might actually watch it though. Unfortunately even if you can get away from ads, you won't get away from those worthless obnoxious logos.
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