What's next, "YouTube tests pausing videos when you look away from ads"?
This is a slippery slope that I definitely do not want to be going down. At that rate, "drink verification can" is not far off.
When I used to watch the actual TV I changed the channel, muted, or left the room during ads. My eyes, my ears, my brain. I will not be forced to consume.
Thank you for this information. I just find it amusing that instead of calling it "Big Brother telescreen" just calling it "Smart TV" made everyone comfortable with the technology : we are all smart, right?
As they say: just because you are paranoid, it does not mean that they are not after you.
Hmm good point. But I no longer watch live TV anyway. I'm done with that, I don't even have a connection to it anymore. And if streaming services start doing that I'll just download everything.
Yes. What I've done with my ring cameras was open them up and remove the microphones altogether (or in one case cut the cable to them).
They were able to hear my speak literally in the next room even covered in tape :P I don't mind video of my front door ending up in Amazon's cloud but I don't want my audio going there 24/7.
The difference is that having a computer attached to the TV provides significant value to the customer. When people came into BestBuy they’d ask “Does this TV have Netflix?”
I don’t see a built in camera driving that kind of consumer behavior. What feature would they come in and ask for that requires a camera?
The spying with a SmartTV is also hidden and and hard to imagine. A camera on the TV in their bedroom though? They’ll both notice that and understand that it sees them naked.
With Smart TVs if there are two TVs on a shelf, one with “Netflix installed” and one without, I can see people preferring the TV with Netflix.
With cameras if there are two TVs on a shelf, one with a camera and one without, I see people leaving the camera on the shelf almost every time.
You bring up an excellent point. There is no value add for the consumer. Problem is, that having a built in camera will be too great of a value add for the manufacturers selling your eyeballs.
If you take the slippery slope fallacy too far, you'd never be able to notice trends at all.
Google is like climate change - they keep pushing for more money, and ruining the experience for their users. There's no reason to expect this to stop. It's not a slippery slope.
My current Twitch ad blocking solution merely mutes the stream while the ad plays, that's good enough for me. In the end we might have to settle for only muting and hiding the ads in a way that the source cannot detect, but it's better than the alternative.
This is a slippery slope that I definitely do not want to be going down. At that rate, "drink verification can" is not far off.
When I used to watch the actual TV I changed the channel, muted, or left the room during ads. My eyes, my ears, my brain. I will not be forced to consume.