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Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 56 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This future fucking sucks

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 18 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

This is the cyberpunk future that the 80s kids were so hyped for.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 19 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

If anyone remembers the cyberpunk 80s TV show Max Headroom, then they know that TV was everywhere all the time in that universe. There was a scene in one episode where the police enter a suspect’s home and discover that she had an off switch on her TV. The cops react in shock to the fact, and one of them says “She’ll get twenty years for that.”

This universe also had "blipverts" which were a type of ad (advert..advertisement) that directly accessed your brain's motivation to get you to buy something. The only problem was that blipverts also had a high chance of killing the people that watched it.

This was a TV show from almost 40 years ago now and it looks like these would be the things that are coming in the next few years from now.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

The torment nexus is very profitable.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Sci-Fi dystopia/Cyberpunk has called a lot of things correctly.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

Rather, rich people are copying dystopias

[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

As a 80s kid I don’t recall being hyped. If anything all sci-fi books were warnings for us. Younger generations embraced the black mirror shit thought.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Somewhere between Snow Crash and Hackers it became the dream instead of the nightmare.