> as Keurig notes, it’s collecting data about your household in order to let Keurig sell it to advertisers.

WTF!! When did we land in the middle of a Black Mirror episode?

I'm half convinced the first run of the LHC split the timeline and we've landed in the evil one.

There is a singular patent owned by Sony that stands between you and being required to physically acknowledge ads on your TV: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en

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etatoby an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you remember how a series of crazy coincidences and freak accidents kept preventing the LHC from being turned on? What if the LHC was causing world-ending or life-ending events, and we simply kept surviving only in thinner and thinner slices of amplitude (timelines) where those freak accidents happened, but where also more improbable world conditions took place?

	▲	FridgeSeal 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There’s an SCP story like that. World only survives, in realities where this particular creature in containment is alive. I’ll see if I can dig it up.

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VariousPrograms an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No one cares. There’s little serious pushback to privacy invasions by big tech. Flock cameras have been a rare exception. Half the people “have nothing to hide” and half aren’t willing to give up the convenience that the popular app or gadget gives them.

	▲	newswasboring 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm convinced this is the state because people don't know the implications and scale of the privacy invasion. The flock camera incident shows that when people can sense, understand and feel the impact they don't like it. If we pose it as they are selling network data, nobody minds, if we pose it as they are selling your identity on the internet people get uncomfortable. But its hard to convince people of the latter. Mostly because nothing big happens due to big data breaches as someone on HN was remarking recently. Additionally, I think people have resigned to the status quo as they think that is the only way they can get their gadgets for cheap. That is just not true, companies can still make a profit without being predatory. Its just that it will not be the maximum profit.

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aintnoprophet an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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