Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

Re:Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads by strommen on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @02:18PM (#11169382)

Isn't pretty much all advertising everywhere "without the end-user's explicit consent"?

Websites, TV, radio, print media, billboards, sides of buses, posters in public bathrooms, Disney-branded kids' food at the grocery store, product placements embedded in actual Hollywood movies, desktop search in freakin' Ubuntu...

I didn't sign up for seeing ads in any of these. They're just an implicit part of the social contract in 2016.

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Re:Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads by kuschku on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @02:30PM (#11169490)

You can block websites, only listen to radio channels without ads, switch to another TV channel when ads are coming up, use print media that have no ads but are subscription financed, etc.

In many cities you’ll even find that bus advertisements are toned down, and in public bathrooms there are no posters either.

I don’t remember when I saw or heard an ad the last time, but it was not this week.

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Re:Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads by andrei_says_ on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @06:43PM (#11171177)

I don't remember signing such a contract. So I would say these are not consensual

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