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I want an AI TV that blocks all forms of advertising. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That would be glorious.

But you'd definitely have to jailbreak your device and sideload it somehow.

Or pay to import one from a country where the govt doesn't give a damn about piracy if it ever gets made.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ad blocking is not piracy. It is not copyright infringement. It is not illegal. Given the right circumstances it could come to be, but it'd be a fine line to walk.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Agreed 100%.

But no business in the capitalist world where selling ads is a billion dollar industry is going to make this available. In fact they'll fight it tooth and nail. All the way to the SCOTUS if they have to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

no business in the capitalist world where selling ads is a billion dollar industry is going to make this available

How about an open-hardware open-source project on e.g CrowdSupply (something like https://www.crowdsupply.com/jie-zou/rggber but dedicated) where everything is setup to do so efficiently, e.g an HDMI/HDMI box where you put the signal in, get the signal out, and on its own does nothing but cool looking visual filters, e.g from color to black&white, yet when the user reconfigure it, with community made filter, it removes ads?