we live in hell

I don't even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they're saying....hey do you want a worse experience?

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[–] 137 points 2 years ago (11 children)

They’re taking pictures of what you’re watching on the screen and sending it to random 3rd party data collectors to analyze and then harass you with ads.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Or just reading the file name on the DVD lol

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Sure but this is actually Automatic Content Recognition, specifically Roku's video ACR that takes snapshots twice a second.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Would it be possible to argue that this is copyright infringement? They're basically screencapping copyrighted content at a shitty framerate and distributing it over the internet.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    They're not distributing it. They're taking a screenshot, identifying the content, and transmitting hashed and aggregated data. Even if they were transmitting screenshots, they'd be transmitting it to their own systems to be hashed and analyzed, not watched.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    You agreed to it when you set up the device. It should be illegal to have incredibly obtuse and impossible to read T&C, they should make it abundantly clear exactly how much of your personal information is being given away, but unfortunately it's legal to just have a little checkbox that lets you lie about reading them.

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