In that case, it is definitely worse now if it is still on. They've got all kinds of tricks for tv. I've got friends who watch various shows and then need to go buy certain foods. It's nuts lately. I see posts that say, "I just watched XXX and now I need to go eat XXX like the people in the show did." That is how they phrase it and it is always a fast food place they "need" to go to. My suspicious mind says that's the day they put something in the food at those places and then watch through the tv to see what happens to the people after that. Didn't it come out the the "smart" tv's are spying now?
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Smart TV's for the most part do track user viewing habits and other things. The most high profile one was Samsung a few years ago. They had a major PR backlash over the fact that the televisions with voice remote were listening to conversations (listening for keywords for instance).
The same thing with Alexa by Amazon, voice search Roku's, your cell phone (just look at the permissions needed by Facebook and Messenger to operate). My wife finally experienced the Messenger "listening bug" over the weekend. We were talking about McDonald's and getting something for lunch. Keep in mind, she has never typed McDonald's or searched for fast food on her phone. Also, we were in the country riding around so there were no fast food joints within miles of us. She opened Facebook and saw several ads for various McDonald's foods. She was not aware that her phone was listening to her.
My co-workers and me discovered this years ago and have fun with it. We talk about off the wall stuff and see anything close pops up on Facebook or banners while browsing the web. So far we are batting nearly a 1,000% with it.
Yup, I experiment as well. It's very easy to see once you start looking. You can get reminders of unfinished projects out of it. "Oh Yeah! I looked for that a couple days ago." What I watch on yt appears on fb suggested group topics. I join groups like a fiend and it is amazing what pops up and why.
I have a Thai phone and I don't know if they know it's me. I watched the lady who sold it to me give me someone else's name. She was all sketchy about it, but I had just watched her fill the paper out for the lady before me and it was not my name on the new form. I was all for it. I'm not sure if she thought my ID would not go through or if she could not read it. I never use it anyway, but I needed one to get a bank account. Everything on it is in Thai and I just have $4 credit on it forever, I guess. I'm sure the only one in Bangkok without a phone though. People here can't believe I survive like this. If i get lost, I ask the nearest Thai person to please help me with google maps and that's that.
I got rid of tv about 20 years ago and can't even look at the screens with whatever they've done to them. They hurt my eyes and pull on my head. I do elder care and lots of old people have trouble seeing the new tvs and deciphering what's going on. They like the old tvs better.
I can't get rid of my computer though so they can just spy away. They very best thing about my computer in Thailand is that the majority of ads do not come through and the ones that do are in Thai so I don't even see them. This was immediate relief when I got here from San Diego. I was not aware of how much it happened until it stopped.
That Mcdonald's thing is nuts though. You would think they would be more refined by now. I have more than once read posts like these. "I just finished show xxx and now I need to go to fast food joint yyy and get food zzz." It is always fast food. Then they often run out and go get it and eat it. Good poisoning opportunity.
The way the picture is displayed on modern televisions is different than old CRT models. CRT refreshed at 29.97 frames per second while HDTV's refresh at closer to 60.
OOOHHH! That'll do it. Jeez. I will stay on my "avoid" setting for sure.
It also doesn't help that most television stations have sped up older programming so they can squeeze in another commercial or two per half hour. That can cause disorientating feelings while viewing.
Oh my goodness! I had not heard that one. I listen to yt tutorials and 1.5 or 2.0 and sometimes i have to stop for just that reason. I do not know how anyone can watch tv at all but I guess it is addictive. So glad i never really watched. My dad was one to let us watch only one show and that was it. I never really got into it much. I got rid of it when my son was 5 and he did not want to do anything until the commercial came on. It only took a couple of weeks before we both no longer cared it was gone. He has thanked me a few times since then. He says it's hard to be friends with people who watch tv.
It is certainly a change of pace not having television. We have it but I mainly only watch WWE wrestling, Ghost Adventures and the occasional childhood cartoon I own on DVD. We don't watch a lot of regular television back to back "binge" style like a lot of people do.
I believe television has a way of programming people over time. I don't think it is a government agenda, just simple marketing. People that watch certain shows like/dislike certain things and it has been studied before. Like the age old question - were you a fan of The Addam's Family or The Munsters? There have been studies that show a lot about you (basic stuff) depending on which you preferred. It is weird and unsettling.