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I want an AI TV that blocks all forms of advertising. (lemmy.world)
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We mostly watch news and sports in my house. So unfortunately, live TV. Occasionally we watch other things. I mute the commercials and browse my phone when they're on.

But I would love a TV that is smart enough to auto hide & mute every kind of ad. Even little logos on the athletes' uniforms. Hide the ads on the pitcher's mound. Hide the billboards and signs in the stadium. Show some cool little generic animation, music video, or slide show during commercial breaks. Hide the damned popup window ads and scrolling ads that some channels do. Remove product placements from movies and shows. Basically make all ads completely vanish.

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[โ€“] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"We're sorry, using AI-based ad-blockers is a violation of our Terms of Service Agreement. Per the agreement terms, your account is now suspended and you've been charged an additional early termination fee, because fuck you."

While I'm sure there will eventually be some grass-roots attempts, the providers will fight it to the death. A person can dream, though.

[โ€“] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Then they'll get sued by some rando, and the company won't immediately ban other users but instead use their own version of AI generated ads that will figure out a way to increase all the ads, bypassing the blockers, and then they increase their subscription prices because the "pirates made us do it!"