Roku Plans to Inject Ads via HDMI: Adblocking is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED, and your duty as a citizen
Summary
TLDRThe speaker criticizes Roku for altering terms post-purchase and patenting a technology to insert ads into paused content. They argue that companies should respect consumer consent and privacy, and encourage viewers to use ad blockers to resist invasive advertising practices. The speaker emphasizes the importance of ethical consumer behavior in the face of industry predatory practices.
Takeaways
- 🚫 The speaker criticizes companies like Roku for what they perceive as a lack of concern for user consent, likening it to a 'rapist mentality'.
- 💭 The speaker recounts past instances where major automakers and organizations used fear-mongering to sway public opinion, comparing it to companies violating user consent.
- 📱 Roku forced users into accepting new terms, including a forced arbitration agreement, by limiting access to their televisions until they agreed.
- 💡 Roku has patented a technology that allows them to insert advertisements into paused content, even if the original content had no ads.
- 🎬 The speaker argues that advertisements are often justified when content is free, but not when users have paid full price for both the television and the content.
- 🔒 The speaker advocates for the use of ad blockers and criticizes companies for changing the terms of sale after the purchase has been made.
- 👥 The speaker emphasizes the importance of consumer privacy and the right to use purchased content without unwanted ads or data tracking.
- 🔑 The speaker encourages viewers to support content creators directly rather than through ad revenue, which they believe is an insufficient and intrusive form of support.
- 🛠️ The speaker discusses the default settings on smart TVs, which often enable data collection and ad personalization, highlighting the need for users to actively opt-out of these settings.
- 📱 The speaker expresses frustration with the industry's predatory practices and the lack of respect for user consent, urging consumers to take a stand against such practices.
- 📢 The speaker concludes by reiterating the message that it is the consumer's moral and ethical duty to avoid advertising and protect their privacy in the face of industry overreach.
Q & A
What is the main issue the speaker has with the company Roku?
-The speaker criticizes Roku for implementing a forced arbitration agreement and for their patent application that allows them to insert advertisements into paused content, which they equates to a lack of respect for consumer consent and privacy.
How does the speaker describe the behavior of companies that do not respect consumer consent?
-The speaker likens such behavior to a 'rapist mentality', indicating a strong disapproval of companies that disregard consumer consent and privacy, using a strong metaphor to emphasize their exploitative practices.
What was the controversial advertising campaign by the Coalition for Safe and Secure Data?
-The Coalition for Safe and Secure Data, funded by major automakers, ran a campaign in Massachusetts that falsely associated independent repairmen with criminal activities, like rape, in an attempt to sway public opinion against the right to repair legislation.
What is the speaker's stance on using ad blockers?
-The speaker encourages the use of ad blockers, even though they themselves benefit from ad revenue on their YouTube channel. They believe that the negative impact of ads on the consumer experience far outweighs the minimal revenue they receive from ads.
Why does the speaker prefer using a Linux box instead of the default operating system on their television?
-The speaker prefers using a Linux box to avoid the built-in spying and data collection features of default television operating systems. They value privacy and want to prevent their viewing habits and other data from being sold or used without their consent.
What does the speaker suggest is the moral and ethical duty of consumers in relation to advertising?
-The speaker suggests that it is the moral and ethical duty of consumers to avoid advertising as much as possible, as a way to resist an industry that they perceive as predatory and disrespectful of consumer consent and privacy.
How does the speaker feel about the default settings on smart televisions regarding privacy?
-The speaker is critical of the default settings on smart televisions, which often allow for data collection and sharing for advertising purposes. They believe the 'do not sell my personal information' option should be checked by default, rather than requiring the user to opt-in.
What is the speaker's view on the justification of advertisements based on the cost of content?
-The speaker argues that the traditional justification for advertisements—free content funded by ads—does not apply when consumers have paid full price for their devices and content. They believe that companies should not insert ads into content that was purchased without them.
What does the speaker recommend for consumers who want to support content creators without being subjected to ads?
-The speaker recommends that consumers find direct ways to support content creators, such as through donations or purchasing content, rather than tolerating intrusive ads that disrespect consumer consent and privacy.
How does the speaker describe the overall state of the advertising industry?
-The speaker describes the advertising industry as predatory and disgusting, with companies constantly mining data from users and disregarding consent. They believe that the industry has reached a point where it is exploitative and consumers should resist it.
Outlines
🤬Criticizing Roku's Consent and Business Practices
The speaker expresses frustration with Roku's company practices, accusing them of disregarding customer consent and comparing their approach to a 'rapist mentality.' The criticism stems from a forced arbitration agreement that Roku imposed on its users, as well as a patent application that suggests inserting advertisements into paused content, even for users who have paid to avoid ads. The speaker argues that such practices are a violation of the terms of sale and customer privacy, and encourages consumers to use ad blockers as a moral and ethical duty.
🚫Defending the Use of Ad Blockers
The speaker defends the use of ad blockers, stating that despite earning a small amount from ad views on their YouTube channel, they still recommend ad blockers to their audience. They argue that the minimal revenue gained from ads does not compensate for the disruption and annoyance caused to viewers. The speaker emphasizes that paying full price for content and devices should mean not having to deal with ads, and that companies like Roku and LG are infringing on consumer consent and privacy by changing terms of sale and collecting personal data without proper consent.
😤Standing Up Against Predatory Industry Practices
The speaker calls for consumers to stand up against predatory practices in the industry, expressing concern over the excessive data mining and lack of respect for consumer consent. They argue that the industry has become too intrusive, with even high-end televisions coming with default settings that favor data collection and ad personalization. The speaker shares personal actions they've taken to avoid these practices, such as using a Linux box instead of a smart TV system, and encourages others to disconnect their televisions from the internet to protect their privacy.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Consent
💡Rapist Mentality
💡Forced Arbitration Agreement
💡Customized Advertisement Insertion
💡Privacy
💡Ad Blockers
💡Consumer Rights
💡Data Mining
💡Smart TV
💡Content Ownership
💡Predatory Practices
Highlights
The speaker criticizes Roku for having a problem with the concept of consent, comparing their business practices to a 'rapist mentality'.
The speaker mentions the criticism received on Reddit and in comments for using strong language to describe certain business practices.
The speaker recounts how major automakers invested $25 million to label independent repairmen as potential sexual assaulters in an attempt to sway public opinion.
The speaker describes a situation with Roku where users were forced into a forced arbitration agreement to continue using their televisions.
Roku has a patent application for technology that can insert advertisements into paused content, even if the original content had no ads.
The speaker argues that advertisements are often justified when content is free, but not when the user has paid for the content and the device.
The speaker discusses the expectation of an ad-free experience when paying full price for television and content, and the disappointment when ads are still present.
The speaker encourages the use of ad blockers, even though they profit from ad views on their YouTube channel, because the time lost to ads is more valuable than the revenue.
The speaker emphasizes the importance of respecting consumer consent and not continuously changing the terms of a sale.
The speaker highlights the issue of smart TVs spying on users by default and the importance of avoiding such systems.
The speaker criticizes the industry for being predatory and for mining every piece of data from users without consent.
The speaker suggests that it is the consumer's moral and ethical duty to avoid advertising at all costs due to the industry's disregard for consent.
The speaker advises viewers to support content creators directly rather than through ad revenue, which they believe is predatory.
The speaker expresses frustration with the assumption that buying a cheaper product means consenting to invasive advertising and data selling practices.
The speaker shares their decision to connect a Linux desktop to their TV to avoid spying, data selling, and ads.
The speaker ends with a warning against buying products that will force unwanted ads and data selling upon the consumer.
Transcripts
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
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