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Re:Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on wha... by gausswho on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:07PM (#46321094)
I'd like to weaponize all this scanning into a force for good. Instead of phoning home to Roku, send the fingerprints up to an ADID database registering every ad on the planet. Open up an API so that any video stream can detect an ad and inject Max Headroom replacement clips.

Come on hackers. We could murder the global economy with this shit.

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Re:Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on wha... by lodovic on Friday December 19, 2025 @04:36AM (#46323924)
I've been thinking about this as well - make a small device that in real time detects ads and turns off audio an video while it's playing. I'd rather see a blank screen than an ad. That way, the whole ad pyramid scheme stays intact while the conversion rates plummet.
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Re:Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on wha... by Griffinsauce on Friday December 19, 2025 @07:47AM (#46325217)
> while the conversion rates plummet.

Isn't the segment who will set this up also likely to have a low conversion rate to begin with?

You'd need to make it so easy that it becomes fully mainstream. I suspect that's what happened to adblockers, it got a bit too "standard" for (Google's) comfort.

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Re:Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on wha... by xnx on Friday December 19, 2025 @05:00AM (#46324056)
Same here. I've done this for podcasts (not in real time) and it works great. TV should be easier in some ways since the video stream and captions can also indicate an ad.
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Re:Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on wha... by RegW on Friday December 19, 2025 @06:56AM (#46324839)
I used to find when listening to a good many podcasts with VLC there would be:

> ... See you after the break.

brief pause

> And we're back ...

Unfortunately, most ads are now burnt in. The 10 second advance will skip through them, but as it's usually the host parroting the ad text and it's easy to over shoot.

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