Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994

• Szymon@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Attention citizen, your Economic Consumer Activity Monitor has identified error with your system and/or the Citizen Observation Rate to the unit… Your worldwide credits have been locked pending resolution.

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  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re joking but that literally exists

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m plenty fine with an OS that doesn’t try to abuse me in the first place.

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• logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you remember a few years ago, it came out that some company was working on a new idea that, when you were given an advertisement on a TV, it could require you to say the product name aloud or it wouldn’t continue?

  I try not to concede anything related to advertising because everything they want seems so dystopian.

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Sir_Fridge@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Please drink a verification can.

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  • Patch@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember another one proposing using eye tracking on a phone’s selfie camera to make sure you were watching ads, with the ads pausing every time you looked away.

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  • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There was also another patent for a TV with an eye-tracker camera in it to make sure you were actually watching the ads, another one that would unmute itself if it was muted during ads, and one designed to count the number of people in a room to charge you for piracy if you didn’t buy enough tickets for everybody for pay per view shows.

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• Sabata11792@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Please drink verification can to continue.

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• KISSmyOS@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Monitors come with proximity sensors now. If the monitor doesn’t detect a user in front of it, ads will be shown on the primary instead.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey, finally a legitimate reason for a Realdoll!

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