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Double-screen ‘free’ TV will show you ads, even when not in use

8 pointsby jackaloabout 2 years ago

3 comments

salawatabout 2 years ago
Once again, this is an example of contract law being used to undermine&#x2F;breach personal sovereignty.<p>The reason I stick to it despite the crowd who&#x27;ll inevitably crop up and go &quot;You can opt out by simply not getting one&#x2F;not entering into the contract&quot;, I have only to say they are sadly deluded as companies will converge on whatever maximizes products, so what might seem abhorrent now, will be normalized 10 years from now.<p>These are products that <i>should not exist</i>. This is an intrusion enabled purrly by the tech industy&#x27;s declaration of assumed sovereignty over user&#x27;s computers when their code comes into the picture. No, it isn&#x27;t slippery slope fallacy. No, I am not crazy, I merely have to point at the last 10 years in which cryptography and industry actor collusion has created the entire concept of &quot;User proof secure computing&quot;.<p>Banality will win every damn time.
AHOHAabout 2 years ago
To be honest, you are already paying a hefty price for a TV that still shows ads.. OP is not a good thing obviously but I think we passed the non return point.
cs702about 2 years ago
Sounds -- and looks -- like a nightmarish trope of dystopian science-fiction.