Can't wait for ads to be grotesquely injected into any video on big streaming sites. If you don't want reruns of Cheers to have distracting ads for Rings of Power you better spring for Prime Platinum. Even the heroes at uBlock Origin are going to have a hard time filtering out injected ads on some YouTuber's bedroom wall.
Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video
https://www.amazon.science/publications/zero-shot-virtual-product-placement-in-videos
83 Comments
usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip · 123 pts · 263d
Such a waste of R&D resources
bcgm3@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 262d
Not when the only metric considered is ROI.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 262d
have to recoup the loss of diverting so much cost to AI data centers. thats why MS and google is jamming ai into everything they can put into, plus the increasing privacy invasion of storage email, so they can sell your data.
on a sidenote, during the early mid pandemic, amazon overbuilt thier warehouses/distribution centers and it costed them alot of money, JASSy never learned(he blamed Clark at the time who was in control of that area)
Setiyeti93@lemmy.ca · 86 pts · 263d
You see it first they'll do it with carefully chosen surfaces....
Then I'll just let AI do it randomly, Before long an incredibly emotional scene we'll get a tasteless ad.
Who wants to be watching a dog get put down in Marley and me, only to be taken out of it when you see an advert on the back wall for... Idk.... Trojan condoms?
Tangent5280@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 263d
The dogs gonna die anyway, why not fuck it before it gets cold?
Trojan, for all your animal fucking needs.
/s
elvith@feddit.org · 11 pts · 263d
John Wick: I'm coming for you!
...wait...
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 263d
I vaguely remember seeing ads on cliff faces etc in movies 15 years ago on television, but I think they stopped using them very quickly. Is this just a comeback of a failed test?
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 262d
Subliminal messaging?
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 263d
I've been ad-free for long enough at this point that I feel physically assaulted when I see one (at a friend's house or whatever). It's insane that we ever thought that was ok, and it's become worse.
At this point, adblock is a survival measure. Piracy is self-defense. The first presidential candidate who campaigns on legalizing graffiti on billboards and mandating their eventual removal gets my vote. Burn it all.
BattleGrown@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 263d
Ads are against human rights. They manipulate your feelings and force you to make biased choices. They should be banned.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 262d
Companies/creatives/collectives need a way to show what they have to offer so it gets out there. Ads are far and away out of control, but their abolishment has it's own problems (and people will advertise anyways, just stealth like they already are)
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 11 pts · 262d
I can't even watch sports in real time. I have to let it buffer so I can fast forward through breaks and such.
Still a lot of ads on uniforms and all over the stadium, but it's mostly the audio (that is often louder than what you're watching) and the break in continuity for commercial breaks that pisses me off the most.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 262d
What's worse is this even makes attending the game in person miserable. I know many very passionate college football fans who show up hours before the game to hang out with friends, and then more times then not end up leaving the game itself early. Why? Because the game itself is a drag. If a game is televised, they add extra breaks to the game to accommodate ads. The game gets stretched out from something of reasonable length to some absurd 3-4 hour long slog. People then only stick around if the winner remains unclear. If the games were a more reasonable 2 hour length, with more engaging and constant action, then most folks would stay to the end.
Bosht@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 262d
I'm the exact same way. Ads are revolting to me and usually make me angry to some extent, and it's only getting worse. Like they literally cannot get enough. I paid for a Nvidia Shield just so I didn't have to deal with the Fire sticks bullshit constant eye rape the second you turn on the thing.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 68 pts · 263d
This is the inevitable next step. YouTube is looking at doing this too, where ads would be served as part of the same stream id as the content (eg your page wouldn’t refresh and the ad would be cut into the video itself) but they have to make the player work with changing states without refreshing the page across all platforms and it puts a lot more stress on CDNs (plus sponsor block would still be a method to defeat, although not as effective).
But integration of the ads more deeply into the content has always been the goal. That’s why product placement exists. The fault of commercials is that people can simply disengage - go to the bathroom, talk to friends, fuck around on phone, etc. but if the ad is part of the content they have to see it if they want to engage with it. You lose the ability to shill as effectively (unless you do the youtuber paid segment thing, which makes your ads programmatically skippable again eg sponsorblock) but you gain an ad that is practically unblockable unless the show is essentially censored.
Advertisers are scum. Destroy all advertisers. Admen are the cancer that destroy society. Every cool thing has advertisers encroach in on it once people realize how cool it is and then they destroy it - radio, tv, newspapers, books, the internet, literally any public space, etc. if you work in advertising you should be ashamed of yourself and your parents definitely feel like they went wrong somewhere
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 263d
Bill Hicks Recorded live at the Dominion Theatre, London, 1992:
By the way, if anyone here’s in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. [audience approval] Thank you. Just a little thought... Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are [in advertising/marketing], do [kill yourself — laughter] ... There's no rationalisation for what you do and you’re Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourself, seriously. You’re the ruiner of all things good, seriously... No, this is not a joke. You're going: “there's gonna to be a joke coming”. There's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan’s spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your soul. Kill yourself. [applause, laughter] ... I know all the marketing people are going, “he's doing a joke”... There’s no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail pipe, hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend. I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations.
I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart." [laughter] Oh man, I’m not doing that, you fucking evil scumbags. "Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research. Huge market. He's doing a good thing." Goddammit, I'm not doing that, you scumbags. Quit putting a goddamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet! "Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market. Bill's very bright to do that." God, I'm just caught in a fucking web. "Ooh, the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market. Look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..." God, how do you live like that? I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you? "What did you do tonight honey?" "Oh, we made ah, we made ah, arsenic ah, childhood food now, goodnight." [lies down and snores] "Yeah, we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?" [snores] "Yeah, it'll... you know the mums will love it." [snores] [stands up] Sleep like fucking children, don't you? This is your world isn't it?
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org · 11 pts · 263d
roger sterling was pretty cool
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 57 pts · 263d
Bababasti@feddit.org · 4 pts · 263d
That image alone looks like it’s from a movie that would be right up my alley, so where’s that from?
elvith@feddit.org · 28 pts · 263d
That's Black Mirror S01E02 - Fifteen Million Merits. It's on Netflix.
If you haven't seen that Series, give it a try. Also it's an anthology, so you can usually watch any episode in any order without needing the other episodes (at least as far as I have watched it).
Every episode is usually its own story in its own universe and depicts a not-very-far-in-the-future dystopia that (ab)uses media and technology and extrapolates from our current social issues.
BarfSqelcho@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 263d
This is largely true but it's worth noting that they're frequently in the same universe with a lot of them referencing each other in subtle ways. It's neat.
But yeah you can start anywhere and not be lost.
hefty4871@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 263d
This is one of my favourite episodes from the series.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 262d
Non-netflix source
toynbee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 263d
Note that many people find S01E01 off-putting in a way different from the rest of the series. Up to you where you start, but if you start with the first episode I recommend watching at least two before judging.
dreugeworst@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 262d
can confirm, found the first episode disgusting enough that I haven't felt like watching any others
toynbee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d
The choice is yours, of course, but as others have pointed out each episode is at least semi self contained. I'm a bit behind, but none of the others I've seen have been at all like that and most have been very worth watching.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 262d
As others have said, Black Mirror. In this one specifically, the walls become ads, and if you close your eyes, the ads pause until you open them again.
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev · 37 pts · 263d
innovation
TheBat@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 263d
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 262d
Yep, although it is typically overlaying a surface that is already plastered in ads. At least from what I've noticed.
Just lets them change what ads are being shown.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 263d
Capitalism is out of ideas
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 262d
the next step is beaming it directly into your mind, like in futurama.
nullroot@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 263d
It doesn't appear they're doing live recoding of the video, they mention how intensive that is, so the overlay is likely just some js fuckery is my guess. Also the setup is a cooking show filmed from a single camera angle with limited panning. I don't think this will be hard to block and I don't see it invading many videos just yet.
Acamon@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 263d
Its definitely just proof of concept for now, but it seems a grim, if inevitable, step in the war of ads vs adblockers.
bcgm3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 262d
If it's not "baked in" to the video, then it seems like it should be trivial to detect and block the ad... Ugh, or else it's literally new technological horrors beyond my comprehension, which is also very possible.
nullroot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 262d
I doubt the latter, no one wants to do on the fly recoding video, it would absolutely eat up so much compute along with any semblance of a sustainable business model... Who am I kidding, the ai bubble is exactly this -.-
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 263d
Stop using these shit 'services' then.
rustyfemboy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 262d
Corporate bootlickers: "Capitalism breeds innovation"
The innovation:
rdri@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 262d
Behold, here is the screenshot of an example result from the included paper.
What do we have on a kitchen wall? But of course, a banner for an upcoming Streaming TV show.
Acamon@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 262d
Not only is it distracting and disgusting, but it starts normalising ads everywhere. Cigarettes were digitally removed so as to not set a bad example for kids. But letting them think that it's perfectly normal to have glowing ads decorating the walls of your workplace is fiiiine.
rdri@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 262d
Brb gonna buy some RGB ads from AliExpress to decorate my bathroom...
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 262d
This looks astonishingly bad. A simple banner at the bottom would an improvement at this point.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 262d
Ads are way past the point of pissing me off so much that i just block my ears and close my eyes until they go away.
Its fucking disrespectful to expect people to just be ok with having that shit shoveled into their eye sockets.
Amazon is a tool to me to get the things i want based on need for things that i am doing or to replace things that are broken. I am not window shopping there. I am not browsing things. I know what i need. I find the cheapest one with the highest rating and buy it.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 262d
Look at this guy, thinking he's worthy of "respect"! The fucking temerity, the absolute gall of these poors!
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
🤣🤣🤣
Swemg@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 263d
Thought about that about 10 years ago. There was already patents on this
waka@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 263d
Ah, a new Invention in the Asshole-Technology Department. Satan has a very special place in hell for the Managers who decided on this and he will place an order on this exact technology just for them to enjoy it non-stop. Forever.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 263d
I wish Amazon wasn't so decentralized, it makes it so hard to just burn it all down.
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 263d
We're burning down the wrong Amazon
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 16 pts · 262d
So... A fucking overlay?
rdri@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 262d
You should check the included PDF - contents are crazy. But the example result looks comically similar to an overlay.
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 263d
This was in June 2023? Or am I missing something?
Wouldn’t be surprised if this was the garbage tech powering the NHL board ads.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 263d
They started doing it with cereal boxes and other products in Seinfeld reruns years ago.
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 263d
That’s gross
Acamon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 263d
Here's something from 2025 and it's even better, because AI!
njordomir@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 262d
Inb4 someone writes a program and calls it AdblockAI. It gets trained on the shape of corporate logos and on the fly in-paints those regions of the screen to remove the logos.
On that same note, how about AR glasses that put black bars over ads and logos you encounter in real life so companies don't get to subliminally advertise at you.
athairmor@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 262d
bcgm3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 262d
Fast forward 100 years, and we'll be working on anti-ad glasses that counteract the Meta glasses that counteract the anti-ad glasses that counteract the Elon eye implants. 😔
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
How about ar glasses that put a bag over my head so no one knows I have ar glasses
dickalan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
This was my first and only idea for AR goggles and I think somebody has already made that mock up if you search online that will actually do that
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d
When these get deployed, they'll finally implement eyeball tracking into the ads. Some smart TVs have in built cameras, and this could easily be one the norm. The companies so far have been too afraid to use it, but the tech has existed for years at this point. Technically, there's nothing stopping YouTube from just requiring users to have an iris tracking camera enabled. And this would defeat a smart glasses AI ad filter. I suppose you could maybe have a screen on the front that projected fake eyeballs towards the camera, but maybe they could then defeat that.
Or, more likely, they'll just lobby Congress to ban ad blockers and and blocking devices.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 263d
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me! (Has been for years now)
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 263d
There's lots of YouTube stuff that isn't popular enough for anyone to post
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 263d
You do have plenty of options for downloading youtube videos directly without viewing them using tools like yt-dlp either in terminal or using one of its many GUI front ends. Apps like GrayJay and YT Revanced also have downloading youtube videos integrated, so no setup needed.
I have my own personal collection from my favorite creators :)
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 263d
That's still not a solution, because this sounds like they could embed it in the video file if they pursue it. And the basic issue is that you have tons of short videos you only watch once and all around it's not really a good fit for torrents.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 263d
Regarding the short form content, that is a valid concern, but I would argue that's more of an issue with the medium rather than with the tools available. However, regarding the embedded advertising, yt-dlp already has sponsorblock trimming integrated into the program (you can set a flag to remove detected segments from the finished video file), and extending this to encompass a databank of known circulating advertisements could go a long way.
Also, curated lists for certain categories could be maintained by groups. Hardware tutorials, for instance, rarely need constant updates and therefore a known good library could be downloaded once and circulated.
Windex007@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 263d
I think you're missing what this is. They're not adding sponsor segments.
They're scanning the video, establishing where "free visual space" is, and then embedding advertising into that space. It becomes part of the video, not an intermission. You don't cut a "time segment" to remove it, you have to cut a "space segment" to remove it. And then what do you fill it with?
There are certainly ways to mitigate it, but they're not great.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 263d
You don't cut it, that is the answer. Although I suspect that a foss or community scanning tool could also be created with that same advertising databank to try and redraw that portion of scene without the embedded ad (although that likely would have to be a generated guess).
It is not perfect. That is for sure, but why throw in the towel? If anything, start ripping now and prepare for the future.
Windex007@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
Ok
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 262d
and this is why im watching the mighty nein and hazbin on jellyfin
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 262d
And that's why I got myself Verbatim 43888 with BU40N drive and also setup an Arr stack.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 262d
Any good place to start on a complete arr stack?
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 262d
Check this guide
You will need:
The rest is just trial and error. After you succeed, you'll have automated media downloads for TV/Movies/Music/Books. Also, don't hesitate to google around and see what people suggest.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 263d
Terrible.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 262d
Reminder to send all YouTube videos you watch to various web archives
remon@ani.social · 3 pts · 263d
Wait ... only for cooking shows? That's oddly specific.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 263d
Wait for it.
njordomir@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 263d
They edited all the movie dialog to be woke/ now they're gonna edit all the graphics to grab more money. :-D
Acamon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 263d
What movie dialogue did they edit?
njordomir@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 262d
Rereading that, it's not super clear who "they" is referring to. Here is what I was trying to say: In the past, some of our media has been revised to make it politically correct, books, film, and other media. I don't agree with this, but I do think some of those people have good intentions. Putting ads on cultural artifacts (like our media) retroactively is whole new level of evil: supervillain evil. It's like "Stonehenge, brought to you by CocaCola and Nestle" or "Skip the line at the Great Pyramid with Amazon Prime". One is motivated by a misguided desire to protect everyone's feefees. The other one is just pure greed.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 262d
You never answered the question. Can you give some clear examples to support anything at all you're saying?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 262d
Han shooting first in the OG Star Wars vs shooting secind in the remasters is the first, major change to be more PC that comes to mind. There are tons of classic films that have had re-makes or re-releases that have done what that user is claiming.
Acamon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d
I'm not a fan of that change, but I don't really see it as an attempt to be more 'politically correct'.
I think Lucas is wrong, because even if he shoots first Han is being threatened with kidnap and death, so he's not a cold-blooded murderer to shoot the guy threatening him. But unless we're rolling all ideas of heroism and morality into woke/PC then I don't think that example works at all.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
What is 'woke'? Forgive me, I've been on the internet for years, but I still haven't met someone who can succinctly define what it means. I keep getting these conflicting, confusing definitions.