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The Vizio TV that you bought with hard-earned cash has a new feature; Jump Ads. Vizio will first identify what is on your screen and then place interactive banner ads over live TV programs.
LG and Samsung have both redesigned their Smart TV platform to more prominently display ads and highlight content from partners, much like Android TV. Meanwhile, owners of Roku TVs have complained about banner ads on live TV.
Vizio is no stranger to Smart TV ads and the company is now taking it a step further with so-called Jump Ads.
- "Jump Ads represent yet another step in VIZIO's ongoing mission to unify the smart TV experience with features that benefit viewers, content providers and advertisers," said Adam Bergman, VP of sales, Vizio Ads.
(Score: 2, Informative) by pTamok on Tuesday April 05 2022, @08:05AM (3 children)
As far as I know, Google/Alphabet have made it near-on impossible for ordinary folks to enable/activate a Chromecast for use without using the Google Home application, which requires a Google account; or using Chrome on a PC.
Someone has analysed the activation process and produced a bash script
https://gist.github.com/interfect/5f68381d55658d334e2bc4619d796476 [github.com]
(Found via: https://superuser.com/questions/1164607/how-to-set-up-a-chromecast-without-logging-in-to-google-home [superuser.com] , answer by 'interfect')
The superuser.com answer lists the technical steps in the process, which are most likely not easily followed by the average person. It is worth a read.
I fully expect Google to do its best to stop this sort of thing. There are easy techniques that would stop workarounds like this dead in their tracks.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday April 05 2022, @10:12PM
I guess I will have to look for my next TV on Craigslist or neighborhood garage sales. Although my dreams were to buy a big 4K display that was also useful as a monitor and general purpose display, something I could hook my microscope ( it currently has a VGA camera on it ) to.
I work with microcircuits / PCB and sometimes need to show my patron what I am seeing that biases me to a certain opinion.
A MBA gets into the fray, and often renders the whole environment useless in his drive to license/control everything.
Just like what is happening almost everywhere today as they see that the thing that they sell to the customer can still be controlled by them if they can compel the customer to connect it to the net.
A major aerospace company I used to work for did the same thing, when we hired our MBA, to our patron. Obligated our engineers to do nonsensical things, the ethical engineers left, and our patron was left dealing with negotiators, hand-shakers, marketeers, and lawyers. Boeing bought up the remains. Most of our corporate knowledge was lost, but our real estate was still worth something. It's now warehouses where others store imported goods.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday April 05 2022, @11:08PM (1 child)
Thanks for the reply, pTamok !
I was so frustrated a few minutes ago. I was fuming mad that our government grants these big guys rights to do things like this via patent and copyright law.
I am extremely concerned with what I see as the enforced ignorantization of America by our own elected government.
I have relatives in their own family businesses, and they have woes far greater than mine when it comes to losing control of their own stuff and being compelled and bullied over the internet by those who study how laws are made, and of how little importance these law makers see the entrepreneur.
Again, thanks for the info how to work around this issue. I have downloaded it ( while that still works ) .
I feel sad for our kids, who are gonna have to deal with being subordinate to machines.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Wednesday April 06 2022, @07:04AM
I hope it works for you!