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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 week ago

If you pick the wrong answer it plays an unskippable ad again and again until you have taken notes on the ad so you can be sure you pass the exam. Black mirror episode in real life.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Obligatory:

A decade ago this was a joke.

Now its basically here.

Only... what, 2 years until 'drink verification can to continue' is real?

[–] fsxylo 4 points 1 week ago

You know Elon musk read that copypasta at some point and got moist.

[–] brbposting 2 points 1 week ago

The future I imagine is one with choices:

Test drive Lexus TX to continue

or

Insert verification suppository to continue

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago

This is the worst fucking thing I've ever seen

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Taken from Reddit.

Comment by OP:

So the ad was supposed to play in that black box and this is a bug?

I had Bob's Burgers on in the background but was playing a game with my kid. The silence caught my attention, but not at first. At first I assumed it was a, "choose your commercial" thing.

After some more time I thought maybe it was asking if I was still watching, that's when I looked up to see this

I waited, nothing. I made a verbal comment and the whole family started looking. We waited, nothing.

I grabbed my phone, snapped the pic, made the post (but didn't actually post it), and it was still sitting there.

I guessed an answer, got it right, and the show came back

Then I hit "post" to actually make the post.

Some people say it went away on its own. Others say, like me, they had to answer, and others said even after answering it didn't go away

I've had Bob's Burgers on all morning and I've yet to see this again

https://old.reddit.com/comments/1i4ozrf/comment/m80ouiz

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Love the reply from the advertising apologist

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

As if paying without social ownership ever stopped advertising from crawling back in.

Yes, you, Netflix.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some people twist themselves into a pretzel to lick corporate boot, it never ceases to amaze me

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago

DRINK VERIFICATION CAN

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Cancel subscription and move on, don't just sigh and answer it. Companies try to milk us like malnourished cows, when people stop consenting to it then things will change.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The pot got 1 degree warmer 🐸

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This feels like multiple degrees

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

10 degreess

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Wow, they brought this shit back? I remember this from way back when Hulu was free.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

A quiz to let you continue using your device?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Sorry they would have to pay me to use some bullshit like this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Oh look, now I don't have to even consider getting a Lexus or a Hulu subscription!

Yo ho ho and fiddle-dee-dee, the pirate's life is the life for me!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Arrr, that be terrible!

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

RESUME VIEWING

RESUME VIEWING

RESUME VIEWING

RESUME VIEWING

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

👆👆What HR puts on their timesheets

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Please drink a verification can.