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This is why I don’t give applications access to my webcam or microphone unless it’s an application designed for video calls (ex. Zoom).

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3 points

Oh my God that’s horrifying

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76 points

If this shit ever becomes reality I’m commiting corporate terrorism in Noita

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37 points

Make Johny Silverhand proud

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27 points

Silverhand was a goddamn hero

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At the point ad-blockers are regarded as terrorism and gay sex is a capital crime, there’s no reason not to play with explosives or enrich uranium.

In for a penny, in for a kilo of cobalt.

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27 points

Watching the ad instead of clicking constitutes a violation of the terms of service

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Watching the terms of service instead of clicking constitutes a violation of the ad.

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34 points

Literally black mirror lol

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I’m not familiar with black mirror. Is this literally in the literal sense of the word by definition or literally in the oxymoronic figurative sense?

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Literally literal

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As in that’s somewhat happening in an episode of the series where ads are being forced onto the main character, and it paused when the MC close his eye because he didn’t want to watch it.

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2 points

1984 as well, at least in some aspects

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I think it’s Sony that has a patent on a TV that uses a camera and microphone so they can play ads that only stop when you stand up, raise your arms and shout “McDonalds!”, for example. Not in Black Mirror, in real life.

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They do, but we have to remember that big companies like that file patents all the time for concepts they never actually use. Apple is famous for it.

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It’s true, it’s even possible they’re sitting on it so nobody else can do it. But at the same time I feel like if they felt they could get away with it they’d do it. It’s closer to reality than we’d like to think.

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for concepts they never actually use.

… yet.

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nice edit.

but i can’t call “the onion” a satire/humor these days anymore.

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