Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode

Re:Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psych... by isthatafact on Sunday December 07, 2025 @01:35PM (#46183889)

I am not able to travel to work or anywhere else without seeing ads, which manipulate my thoughts in unpleasant and often offensive ways. If samsung and similar companies achieve their goal, screens with ads will become more numerous and impossible to avoid, even at home.

These and other types of "unskippable ads" violate my personal freedoms and should rejected by society.

netflix and youtube are cute examples of paying to get fewer ads, but you do not get very far without finding product placements or other types of ads in their videos.

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Re:Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psych... by wdr1 on Sunday December 07, 2025 @05:23PM (#46185880)

I'm not sure how to express this, but you're not entitled to only see things in life that you find pleasing. You might as well complain you sometimes see ugly people.

> These and other types of "unskippable ads" violate my personal freedoms and should rejected by society.

It's funny you keep bring up unskippable ads. I remember when YouTube invented the skippable ad format about ~15 years ago. How quickly it became a right & a guaranteed personal freedom.

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