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LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 40 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Holy shit there were so many ads in that article that I just stopped reading. It sucks LG is going down this route. They make really nice displays but now I dont ever want to buy an LG tv if its spying on me to serve me these ‘better’ ads. Fuck advertising. Its turned into a complete monster

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

It's just the addition of "AI". We've been doing the same thing for a long time. I used to work for an advertising data company over a decade ago, and they filtered all the ads for one of the big channels' streaming services in exactly the same way just with regular algorithms rather than AI. It's what would make ads for men's razors appear in the middle of a soap opera at 11PM because it knew the user was a man getting home from the pub.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can't hardly even buy computer monitors without them anymore either. Every one of the higher end Samsung or LG monitors is starting to include "smart" bullshit.

[–] EstonianGuy@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can probably just cover the camera with tape or smth.

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

it's not talking about tracking emotions from looking at the viewer, it's tracking the emotions in the script of the thing they're watching, so it knows what they like.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't connect a computer monitor to the internet?...

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago

It gets its internet connection from the PC; both HDMI and DisplayPort allow this.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you need an ad blocker. I didn't see any ads on the article except text links that were relevant to the story, which arguably aren't ads.

[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I could really use one. Do you have any recommendations of ad blockers that you like?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

uBlock Origin on Firefox-based browsers.