Roku Plans to Inject Ads via HDMI: Adblocking is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED, and your duty as a citizen

hey everybody how's it going hope you're

having a lovely day because I'm about to

ruin it this is uh regarding a company

called Roku I went over them recently

they seem to have a problem with the

concept of consent uh this is something

I have gotten a lot of criticism for not

only in my comments but also on Reddit

because very often I will say that these

companies have what I like to call a

rapist mentality they take part in

practices where they don't really care

whether or not you consent they simply

want you to uh to comply anyway and very

often they will use nefarious means to

do this and one of the reasons that I

started using that phrase is because

four years ago you actually had $25

million invested by Major automakers

into the Coalition for safe and secure

data that did everything they could to

convince Massachusetts voters that

independent repair men are rapists that

we're going to follow you through a

parking lot that we're going to force

your garage door open and then force

ourselves on you and they spend quite a

bit of time in that commercial actually

claiming that the majority of the uh of

people that advocate for sexual assault

victims agreed with them that if right

to repair gets paid

that you are going to be hurt so I've

kind of tried to do this thing where I

where I turn the word around and I take

a word that has been used on us and I

rightfully so use it on them because uh

unlike uh the unlike us who actually

care about the consent of our customers

before we we take away their freedom

their privacy their right to do what

they wish with what you own often times

the manufacturer is the one doing it and

I could not think of a better example

than Roku a few weeks ago they decided

that you're not allowed to use your

television anymore unless you click

agree on a screen that forces you into a

forced arbitration agreement you you

bought the TV without the agreement but

now you can't even switch to an HDMI

input unless you accepted new terms they

held your television hostage unless you

agreed they wouldn't let you leave

unless you said yes that in my opinion

takes a rapist mentality but wait it

gets better because I said I was going

to ruin your day and I don't think I've

done it yet this is a patent application

from Roku and I'm going to summarize it

for you this is so that you could insert

advertisements in between the device

that has an HDMI output in the

television so this means that the

television will be able to detect when

you've paused content and it will be

able to insert an advertisement into

that content even if the content that

you were using the HDMI part to view had

no advertisements on because apparently

this is something that users are asking

for let's read over the pen HDMI

customized advertisement insertion when

the media device pauses the media

content the display device can determine

that a pause event has occurred and

insert an advertisement shown on the

display device further some embodiments

include determining the context and or

content of the media content that is

paused and determining an ad that is

customized at the determined context or

content displayed on the display device

okay so let's go over this

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you

okay so let's go over this

so people will very often say that

advertisements are Justified because you

did not pay for the content so if you're

viewing television via you know using an

antenna like I did back in the 90s and

you have an antenna and you have your

little vcr and you're recording it

you're not paying for that content so

the way that they monetize It Is by

having commercials or when you view

YouTube if you don't use YouTube premium

you're you're not paying for the content

you're not paying them for the hosting

you're not paying the Creator so you

become the product and they will serve

you an advertisement so that they can

get paid the argument is made that if

you're not paying for the content the

way they fund it is advertisements the

problem here is that you purchased your

television and if I paid $100 or $200

for several seasons of of a teleion show

like you know 24 heroes or something

like that the entire point of me paying

full retail price is so that I do not

have to see ads the entire reason that I

am using the HDMI input of the

television and my own content is because

I don't want to watch ads I don't want

to watch normal television with

commercials and above all I don't want

to use the garbage malware spy wear

ridden trash on your smart TV to watch

television or to watch shows that are

going to be filled with ads I don't want

the smart TV experience where I am being

spied on and advertised to so as a

result I will connect my own device to

the television the entire reason that I

connect a Linux box to my television is

because I want to avoid ads and I want

to avoid being spied on and I highly

suggest the same for you I have a

YouTube channel with 2 million

subscribers and if you watch my videos

and watch ads I make money in spite of

that on this channel many times over the

past 10 years I have suggested that the

people who watch this channel use

something like you block origin I have

something called PF Blocker on my router

I know I know OPN sense is better I

don't want to reconfigure the whole

thing from scratch point being I make

money when you watch ads and I still

suggest that you have ad blockers

installed the reason for that is that

the one 100th of a penny that I get when

you watch 50 or 200 of my videos is not

worth the amount of time that you lose

from that ad I make such a negligible

amount of money from something that is

going to cause you uh so much grief if

you actually don't skip the ad that it's

just it's just not a fair ask in my

opinion so feel free to use an ad

blocker I'm saying that from from my

perspective I encourage you to use ad

blockers the reason that I feel that

using ad block is becoming not just uh

Justified but your moral and ethical

Duty as a consumer at this point is

because the we're at a point where

paying full price for your television

and paying full price for your content

is not good enough it doesn't matter and

again this is one of the things that I

keep talking about when I say changing

the terms of the sale whether you're

talking about a company deciding that

you need to accept a forced arbitration

agreement that was not there when you

bought the product in order to use it or

we're talking about a company that says

hey I know you paid full price for your

television and I know you paid $100 just

to view this content without ads rather

than viewing a recording from

terrestrial television we're going to

seert ads into it anyway you bought it

without ads but you're going to watch it

with ads now and this is part of a

pattern that I've been going over with

many companies not respecting the

concept of consent not respecting the

concept that there were terms of a sale

that were set and that you cannot

continuously change them and let's not

even get into the fact that the entire

reason that I connect a Linux dbn

desktop to my television is that I don't

have to deal with all the spying

nonsense is that you're trying to put

that in here anyway so again the entire

reason that I do not use the operating

system that comes with my television is

because by Nature it spies on You by

default it spies on you I do not want to

hear any crap in the comments about how

well you bought a Roku TV those things

are cheap you deserve your ads or well

you're getting ads because you're using

YouTube without paying that's why you

get your ads no no no no no no no when

you buy a top-of-the-line television the

flagship LG television from a major

brand that thing costs over $3,500 an LG

G3 OLED 77 in I will show you at the end

of this video the settings that are on

by default in this piece of [ __ ] whether

it is settings related to the television

being able to see which content I'm

viewing or a little button that says do

not sell my information that by default

is turned off in a g of [ __ ] that I paid

$ 3500 $100 for that is an excuse that

people use when they want to to [ __ ] on

people this is when you have people

going oh you use Android you must be

poor oh you use a PC you must be poor oh

you drive an F-150 you should get a

Silverado oh you have a Silverado you

deserve to it to break you should have

got a Dodge R it's one of these things

that we use to just kind of fight

against each other rather than look at

the people that are actually screwing Us

in this case the entire reason that I

wish to use my dbn Linux desktop with my

television is because I don't want it to

spy on me and my television as a will

show you in the video at the end of this

my little like LG anti sponsor is that

my television is telling me in no

uncertain terms in big fond on a 77 inch

screen that it is spying on

me so I decid you know what I'm not

going to use that I'm going to connect

my own HDMI cable to my television so

that I could watch my content without

being spied on without my data being

sold by default and without ads so what

you said is you know what you don't want

to use my system you don't want to use

use my spying system you don't want to

use my ads you don't want to deal with

my trackers [ __ ] you I'm going to put

those on the HDMI inputs anyway you want

to try and plug something into this TV

I'm going to watch what you're doing you

want to plug something without ads into

this television that you actually

[ __ ] paid for suck it because I'm

going to put ads on it

anyway that that's where we're going and

again to be clear at this point it's not

even about me suggesting that you use ad

block I am suggesting that it is your

moral and ethical duty to go go out of

your way to avoid advertising at all

costs because this industry stopped

caring about consent a long time ago and

it's becoming more and more obvious as

you read patents like this and as you

see what companies are doing to be clear

again this YouTube channel it is I do

not have sponsors in this video and when

you look at the way I talk about

companies whether LG Lenovo or anybody

else it never will it just it's not

happening it's it's it's like I know

that the the only route that this

channel has to actually make money is AD

revenue and I am going out of my way to

suggest dare I say it to beg you you

block origin PF block RNG whatever the

hell the equivalent is an OPN sense go

out of your way to block every single ad

humanly possible if you like a Creator

if you like what they do if you really

want to support them find a link send

them something and to be clear you could

watch dozens of my videos I'm going to

get a fraction of a penny if you want to

support content creators if you want to

support journalists if you want to

support your actual local newspaper find

a way to pay for the content or find a

way to send them something directly but

we need to kind of start standing up

against this industry because this

entire industry is becoming just so

predatory and so disgusting to the point

where every single piece of data must be

mined from every user and like it drives

me so nuts when I read comments from

people saying you bought something cheap

you signed up for that I never [ __ ]

consented to LG selling my personal data

but they assume that I did I never

consented to a Roku television being

able to tell what I'm watching and

inject ads into my material but they

think that that's what I'm doing and

when I when I say no when I say I don't

want to use the smart system on the TV I

want to plug in my own they think it is

appropriate to tell me to go f myself

because we're going to put the ads there

anyway don't buy this [ __ ] that's it for

today and as always I hope you learned

something I'll see you all in the next

video bye now this here is an G3 OLED

television that also has cat scratchers

on the side that's my way of trying to

bribe my cat into not scratching my

speaker we we'll see if that works in

all seriousness this is in the menu of

this television if you go in this me any

one of the default profiles and you go

to privacy in terms what you'll notice

with a smart television is there's an

option called do not sell my personal

information and because we live in a

dystopian world this option is not by

default checked it should be the default

when you pay over $3,000 for a

television that you do not sell my

personal information but even when you

pay that much for a television the

default is that they will sell your

personal data which is why you should

never connect a television to the

internet particularly when these

televisions have microphones built into

them that allow them to listen to what

it is you say in your living room there

are many other settings hidden in here

that talk about being able to see what

it is you're watching or what you're

doing to be able to make recommendations

to you and personalize advertisements to

you if you browse around the television

and 100% of those options is the

consumer unfriendly option and The

Advertiser grabs your data sells it and

uses it however they please option