Comment on Xbox consoles getting full-screen ad

• ultratiem@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Especially retroactively. I’m seeing that in a lot of apps. You buy it. A year later, ads regardless. That kind of chicanery should be illegal.

  Also, I sold my Xbox SX a few months ago. Dodged one 😅

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• VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Absolutely. Hell, with how much of the heavy lifting they’re doing for corporations destroying most aspects of the world, it should probably be illegal to advertise at all except in strictly limited circumstances.

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  • AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m all for banning billboards and whatnot. Forced advertising without any service in return is theft of attention and time.

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    • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Not to mention the fact that huge billboards along streets and roads are by definition either ineffective or an impediment to traffic safety, depending on whether or not they manage to catch your attention while you’re operating a vehicle…

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      • AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        That’s a great point. I wonder how many people have died because of billboards.

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• aniki@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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  • Shyfer@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Unfortunately ads also help determine what candidates get elected.

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  • AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    We should use sortition to get the money out of politics. Modern cryptography allows us to generate verifiably random numbers. You should be able to put your name into a lottery that gets drawn from using calculations from said random numbers and if your name gets drawn, you have some period of time to study up and prepare to serve a term in congress. No elections, just pure and truly representative legislature.

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