“Non-personal identifiable information may be shared with select partners… to permit these companies to make, for example, better-informed decisions regarding content production, programming and advertising,” Vizio said in a statement
So that means I get the TV for free, right? Since I as the user would be a generator of residual income for them...
Sure.
Leela: "Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?"
Fry: "Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree."
One place that surprises me: At restaurants, there is often a little piece of paper wrapped around the napkin and silverware. It's almost always, at least from what I've seen, just a blank piece of adhesive-backed paper, with no advertising printed on it.
Napkins: Usually no ads there either.
Oh well, I'm sure we'll get there. Any blank space that's not covered in advertising is just being wasted.
Many, though not all, advertisers have all the charming dignity of singing birds, which is little more than loudly screaming, "Hey! Anyone out there wanna fuck! Someone want to come get some of this? You know you want it! Do me already! Hey!"
Or a toddler incessantly pestering for attention by repeating "Look! Look! Look!"
Profitably professional attention whoring.
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