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The whole idea that it violates the terms of service of a company to not let them show things on my screen without my consent is insane. It's like if every time you went to the grocery store, the employees held you down and force fed you a free sample, then banned you from the store when you started running away from them.
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I’m imagining a future where you’re not allowed to mute broadcast commercials
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Fifteen Million Merits - Black Mirror - 2011
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Please drink verification can.
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I mean they already show ads when you pause. It's just a tiny jump further to play video ads when you pause.
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You already often can't mute ads directly, you can only mute them on whatever platform you're watching them on.
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The whole idea that it violates the terms of service of a company to not let them show things on my screen without my consent is insane.
Something something contract of adhesion something something. It is functionally a term of service to watch the whole body of content as a condition of watching any of it.
It’s like if every time you went to the grocery store, the employees held you down and force fed you a free sample, then banned you from the store when you started running away from them.
This effectively used to be how people would sell Time Share rentals. You would "win" a "free vacation" to a destination that hosted the time share. Then, in order to check in you needed to sit through a sales pitch that only ended when you agreed to purchase the unit you'd allegedly been awarded as a prize.
If you tried to leave the sales pitch prematurely, you were ejected from the venue.
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Yeah, and there's a reason contracts of adhesion are [supposed to be] illegal.
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Incoming Meat Canyon video
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It's worse than that. They use so much bw that most users have limited higher -speed to access, but they're not giving anyone vouchers to pay for extra bandwidth.
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