Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.

ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imo, the larger problem seems to be the majority of users appear to be fine with ads and data collection a lax and ineffective regulation.

  “Voting with your wallets” is a false premise dreamed up by corporate to avoid govt regulation and has not and will never be a real thing that works in this world of monopoly and lack of option.

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It only works in competition which we don’t have for the most part.

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    • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I notice OP said

      This world of monopoly

      And you agreed with him, but I’d like to point out you’re talking about one country

      Monopolies are really really bad for consumers and are strictly regulated in modern countries

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah that’s well put. All this advocacy for adblockers and not accepting the awful state of things fall on deaf ears, most people don’t care, they accept the state of things as it is, and technology as magic.

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  • ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People deserve better and should expect/demand better.

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But that’s the thing. To play the devil’s advocate:

      Should expect/demand better

      Should they? Says who? Us - who to most people are - “weird computer people” for knowing how to navigate an excel spreadsheet?

      We know it sucks. But they’re entitled to think it’s fine, especially since we’ve made so much noise about this for the past decade that it’s hard to imagine anyone is uneducated still.

      “Liberating” the masses in this manner seems like a crusade up the alley of Don Quixote.

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• kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re not “fine with ads and data collection” so much as they don’t care and can’t be bothered to look for a better way.

  It’s just apathy and a bit of lazy inertia.

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  • ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    they don’t care and can’t be bothered to look for a better way.

    This implies they are fine with it by tacit agreement.

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    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, it implies that they don’t understand that there is an option.

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• Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your average user would also never be on lemmy to see this, at least for now.

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• kusivittula@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  and i bet if most users would not put up with that, they would remove hdmi ports.

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