I have so many ideas how to circumvent or exploit that on multiple levels.
This mean that they are not interesting for ad providers -> the might go out of business soon -> free TV with no ads -> now I want one
they’re probably gonna remotely disable them or reclaim them before they ever end up in your hands
“Honey I’m home!
sits down
Work was great today sweety, we made some great ads, and not just any old boring ad. Genuine addiction inciting, mouthwatering, shake-em-down kind of ads!
Yeah we do great things at the ad factory.”
TVs are so cheap. I don’t understand the business model.
line must go up, when all other avenues of generating revenue have been cornered the only path left to make line go up is ever more intrusive ads and similar rent-seeking/inshittification.
Cheap TVs make for a good business model - more ad revenue for the manufacturers of these pieces of junk. If TVs were more expensive they’d never recover their losses.
10 percent of Telly’s shipments through FedEx arrived broken
No big surprise there. Shipments I get through FedEx are always beat to hell.
Or the fuckers claim they couldn’t deliver, or it goes on the truck, off the truck, repeat 2x, lost, then found 1 month later, or they back up over your pavers off a driveway that’s 7 cars wide, or leave your shit at side of said driveway instead of walking it to the porch 20ft away (one of these happens with every one of my FedEx deliveries) UPS usually does great, except the one moron that left my daughter’s $3k medicine by the trashcans down my hill.
USPS > UPS > Amazon/DHL/etc > FedEx
If Amazon is doing better than you at serving the customer, you need to look deep inwards.
Surprised it’s that high of a number.
It’s free though. As in you can “buy” it to try and hack it or just not use it to make the company lose money.
There’s a contract, modifying it or using it as not intended (or not using it at all) can make them request the unit back, if you don’t comply they could take you to court. I doubt that happens but the threat is there.
I see no way for them to know if I covered the lower screen with something to block it. Maybe even
mount a soundbar to something firm over top of the lower screen.If there is a contract then that’s not a thing you own, it’s more like you leasing your living room.
I can leave everything I own in a storage space, if I can’t then I don’t own it.
Personally, I don’t think I’d want a free TV that perpetually pelts me with ads
Uhh, surely there must be a way to disable this once the TVs are in our hands.
IIRC they contractually get to charge you the price of the TV if the ads are blocked or disabled.
Does it have a proximity sensor on the power screen? If it is only a second screen, I can see an easy curtain hack.
Ready Player One if it were written as a hard sci fi
How to make people hate your brand 101.
IIRC yes it does want to be unobstructed, it won’t necessarily stop working but they collect data on it and could cancel your contract if you do it.
I want one, it would be cool to hack and get a second free screen.
That’s the neat part, the USA, being known for moronic decisions, made it so circumventing DRM measures on hardware you own is a federal crime. Telly detects you attempted to do that, Telly can send you to prison.
Never connect your monitors to the internet.
Then hack them.
You can do it yourself, but the actual crime is if you tell someone how to circumvent it.
I know I’ve seen this before but don’t remember what it is.
The decryption key for DVDs.
My television sending me to prison wasn’t exactly the dystopic future I had imagined but it will do.
Literally 1984 shit.
Eh I already break the law on the daily.
We all do.
Don’t connect the “smart” bits to the internet and just use the screen. No one would know. I expect it is small and/or crappy though.
It won’t work without internet connection.
DRM is for restricting access, not guaranteeing constant mandatory access. I think it would be a gray area if someone disabled the ads.
Orwellian.
There’s a Black Mirror episode with TVs just like these
I don’t remember this one? I remember one where a woman with an implant is forced to “play” commercials.
Maybe they’re talking about the TV walls in “Fifteen Million Merits.”
Yeah I think that’s the one
I wonder how much money consumers will spend on products that are advertised to them when they won’t even buy a TV…
Also I wonder what the quality is like on a “free” TV…
When I heard about it before, they were repurposing old 720p panels.
With how cheap 4K sets are these days, these free TVs are for people who can’t even afford that. I’d say they’re useful as a secondary use for the heat they generate, in that case.
That said, I’d be fine with always on ads if ads and sponsorships never interrupt my content. Like if I’m watching a YouTube video and it’s 4:3, I’m perfectly fine with YouTube filling the sides with ads, as long as they don’t make noise, and as long as I can watch the content uninterrupted. If the video is 16:9 and fills my TV (or monitor), I’m fine propping my iPhone up. They can even use Face ID to pause the content if I look away, as long as I don’t have to look right at the ad (I’ll be watching the content).
Advertising pays for stuff, and if it doesn’t get in the way of stuff, I don’t hate it. They should try working with people rather than straight up exploiting everyone. That just leads to people turning off the ads using a third-party method (e.g. Firefox with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock). Or I’ll just download the video with jdownloader2.
Like if I’m watching a YouTube video and it’s 4:3, I’m perfectly fine with YouTube filling the sides with ads
Look at the photo in the OP. The ads are on a completely separate (attached) display.
What’s keeping me from just putting drapes over it?
Haha, probably nothing
There’s a proximity sensor to detect if the screen is covered.
Unless the sensor is built into the display that’s be pretty easy just to cut a hole for it.
Got it! Used ghost costume it is!
Oh, my bad. I heard about this before, I knew it was 720, but I completely missed the part where it has an attached display not to mention can’t see the picture. /s
Come on now.
I meant in general, like on other devices.
Ow! My Balls!
“Oops, looks like my
hammerwii remote flew into the ad screen and now it doesn’t work”
