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Vanderhoth writes:
"According to a story from the Washington Post, Microsoft is using gamer profiles to create targeted political ads. The article talks mostly about XBox Live, but other services like Skype and MSN will be included. The article also presents some interesting, to non-gamer, stats about the typical gamer that Microsoft was promoting at the CPAC. As an example, 40% of it's 25 million subscribers are actually married! who'd of thunk it?"
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by codepigeon on Tuesday March 18 2014, @11:13PM
I have xbox live. The ads on the dashboard appear in small boxes at the bottom of the screen....for now.
Personaly, I am sick of seeing ads everywhere and activly try to ignore them. I pay out the arse for cable tv and 50% of the programming is commercials, and then they use overlay ads during the show. Popups and autoplay videos on nearly every website...
I imagine the xbox, maybe ps too, will be overflowing with ads in the future. I am sick of ads everywhere.The only way to avoid them is to become a hermit it seems.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 19 2014, @09:52AM
I too was like you. I tired of the adverts. So much so I got tired of the 'free' stuff they sold along with them. I also got rid of as much paid stuff that had it in there. I made it clear in the surveys they give you when you stop. Not much I know but hey maybe if enough people do it... I am not paying 100+ dollars a month so you can try to sell me something.
If I owned an xbox and saw adverts like that would be about the same day I update my proxy server and block that. Even if I have to man in the middle it. Squid and varnish can handle it quite well.
Cable TV was commercial free at one point too :(
The only way to avoid them is to become a hermit it seems.
Its not *that* bad... At least not yet. What I found was the highest volume of adverts seem to come from entertainment sources. Take for example the 'news' stations. Look at how many adverts they have. They are little more than entertainment to help you pat yourself on the back to say you voted for the right guy.
Adblock and noscript nix 90% of the other stuff from the web. One of the main reasons I have not moved to chrome is its poor adblock and no script capabilities.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 19 2014, @03:45PM
Good luck pulling a MITM on an xbox ssl connection - how are you going to get your certs into it?
(Score: 3, Informative) by etherscythe on Thursday March 20 2014, @12:12PM
You may be interested in a Chrome plugin called NotScripts [google.com]
It is basically NoScript for Chrome. It does require you to manually edit a password into a file because of how Chrome works, but once done is quite effective.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Angry Jesus on Wednesday March 19 2014, @10:03AM
Piracy FTW! Nearly every tv show of any significant quality (which means very few reality shows) is available commercial-free, often free of logos and overlays too. And because it is illicit, none of the data-miners are willing to touch it for fear being of branded as pro-pirate and losing the cooperation of the licit channels, so nobody is recording your viewing habits either.
When peace-of-mind is outlawed, only pirates will have peace!