A lower stakes but still illustrative example I see is that the DVR is an invention that wouldn't be allowed to succeed today. All power is being wielded to its fullest in order to prevent skipping ads.

Cable to streaming took us from skippable to unskippable ads. Search results to LLM results will result in invisible/undisclosed ads. Each successive generation of technology will increase the power of advertising and strip rights we used to have. Another example, physical to digital media ownership, we lost resale rights.

We need to understand that we've passed a threshold after which innovation is hurting us more than helping us. That trumps everything else.

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birdman3131 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Modern DVR's are not the same as classic ones. As per this article from today shows that people have prerecorded are being pulled from their DVR's.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/youtube-tvs-disney-b...

	▲	gdulli 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly. A DVR governed by tech giants rather than just Tivo and the cable companies is going to have compromised functionality because it's the tech industry originating the "innovation" for their own benefit.

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noir_lord 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> All power is being wielded to its fullest in order to prevent skipping ads.

And yet I can go to a site right now off the top of my head and watch any TV show or basically any movie made in the last 50 years for free in HD.

It might be shut down tomorrow and it'll be up against 30s later with a different TLD.

They aren't winning but they really are trying hard to.