Huh, seems to me that there’s a full screen advertisement for Spiderman Across the Spiderverse when you hover over Spiderman Miles Morales. So that’s a direct ad that is also a money maker for Sony.
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Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s upsetting how news outlets can now call anything an ad to generate outrage and people here just eat it up. Something about that word seems to turn people’s brains off and they start commenting misinformation.
This is:
A feature to show you news from the game you’re about to play.
Badly designed since it can’t be turned off and it covers the entire screen.
Prone to abuse for ads.
This is not:
An ad.
A money making venture by sony.
Unique to playstation.
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
simple@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I don’t know, it’s a bit hard to assume this was an accident and just a poorly implemented feature. It does cover the screen with the most recent news post, but that’s often an ad, and even on first-party titles like Horizon it just covers the screen with a giant ad for the upcoming lego horizon.
Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 months ago
On other news, welcome to my blog adshittification. The blog that uncovers the sinister truth about the ads being shown in your throat! This week’s highlights:
Youtube still hasn’t stopped ruining my week by filling up those precious few seconds between opening a video and going fullscreenwith intrusive ads that cover a quarter of your screen, and still even then you can’t stop the wall of ads that show up after the video finishes:
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I opened up steam to play some factorio to calm my nerves, but I got greeted by an illegal ad telling me to kill myself:
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So instead I opened library home to play something alse, only to be assaulted by more ads at the top!
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I decided to give up trying to play. Normally I would open reddit next but I haven’t been using it since they put promotions in the post screen:
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Thankfully lemmy is immune to such corporate bs
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No lemmy-chan not you too!