Sorry, but that's irrelevant to "if it's free..." implication. Those are just unrelated ways companies made suckers out of their customers.

"Let me tell you about my mother..."

And got fired for that??

In third panel those are the person's arms ;)

There has been an improvement - and regulations - in this regard over time, so you both may be right.

Similar top-down cultural phenomenon dictated by corpos is concept of "personal carbon footprint" - as a means of shifting blame and focus from them to individuals. This is almost conspiracy level unbelievable when heard for the first time, but true nonetheless.

Well first you need guaranteed food, shelter and safety for everyone, so people don't feel existential pressures. Which means you have to start with utopia before expanding on the ideas you present...

I love this "Cultural malware" as a name for things like these.

Interesting. That is very close to the setup I'm using. Maybe I'll give it another try.

This narrows it bit too much, LGs were the one of few remaining beands.

This plays with the idea of data poisoning for the advertisers. Maybe there are some actual practical options for this regarding TVs. The idea was already implemented on PCs for example in the form of browser extension - Ad Nauseam by some professor lady. Maybe it could be expanded upon in the context of TVs.

What kind of router do you use? That setup has never worked for me with Asus routers for more than few days.

NEVER update the firmware

...bacause that would add ads. I hate this whole ecosystem.

Drupal? About as old as WP ;)

Don't you know any people who are already old?

Well zero coastline is even shorter than these two for sure ;) But even if we ignore the trivial cases and small islands, Wikipedia lists Gibraltar as having shorter coastline.

Well, let's see. Did you get this as a notification? If so, I am sorry to inform you you haven't found a way yet :)

But at least wouldn't have decades to build up their networks.... But those may grow up regardless... Eh, no easy solutions.

Yeah, there was some background drama with his parent institution, if I remember correctly. He didn't have enough money to fly anywhere, his institution refused to donate and he was too embarrassed to ask elsewhere. Or something like that.

That vaguely reminds of real estate business.