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(parodical) YouTube popup:

Going to pee during the ad break violates YouTube's Terms of Service

  • It looks like you selfishly left the room while our ads were playing. Don't you know that by watching youtube you entered a CONTRACT?!
  • We killed the competition by operating at a loss for a decade. We paid good money to be the only game in town.
  • Now that there are no other options, we can start to make that money back however we like. So turn your webcam on so that our advertisers know you're paying attention.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Forget YouTube.

Sony owns a patent for a system/concept that needs you to audibly name the company/product the advertisement is for to continue at the end of the advertisement.

https://fortune.com/2013/04/30/sony-patent-is-hilarious-terrifying/

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

With that power comes great responsibility. If they implement it, they are evil. If they don’t use it but have fees so high that others can not use it without going bankrupt, they are less evil.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

On the bright side they haven't used it and now no one else can.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

In the center of the pizza, the toppings appear to make a sad face, as if the person who drew the artwork for the patent felt bad about drawing artwork for such a shitty patent idea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

kill me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

LMAO

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

See, this is the kind of content I love to see deep in comment chains

Edit: though I think you're only one level down from the top - usually I have to go digging farther for gold like this

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Verification cans are coming

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well I suppose AI generated speech will come in handy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah for sure, except the one I set up won't seem to pass verification because every answer might happen to sound exactly like "fuck you" (to Sony) 100,000 times in a row.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

There is no paywall, but thanks.