I feel a class action lawsuit incoming: "Advertisers using customers likeness in ads, without providing compensation"
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2025
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Ever notice how now a days you have to scroll through the whole TOS before blindly clicking AGREE?
Yea...
TOS means nothing in court.
Here's hoping American courts keep meaning anything.
True. Knock on wood.
In case you were wondering how they would get a picture of the users face…
“DirecTV's screensavers will let a user create an AI avatar of themself by scanning a QR code on the screensaver”
The only good that can come from this is butt faces.
Maybe that will be the data which finally breaks the image generators back.
Cat anus faces
Or Bill Morrow, the CEO.
Thanks for this. I was imagining some dystopian requirement that you had to let them scan your face or pay an extra $10 a month or something.
Give them a month
Ok. But why would anyone actually do that?
"Ooh I wish I was in that dishwasher ad"
No. No, I don't think it will.
I'd be more angry about this, but I just found out that DirecTV is still in business.
I don't get how this would ever be a good idea.
I would be extremely uncomfortable seeing my face in adverts, even for products I use. I'm already uncomfortable with adverts using personal recommendations based on tracking my web history & habits.
I actively avoid those products in the future, and I can only see this alienating their marketing base further.
Oh, you mean the real reason there has been a push to get us to use face ID verification on every site that depends on ads?
Marketers ruin everything. Marketers are liars. I've worked with marketing departments in every job I've ever had, and they're scum every time. Social media obsessed weirdos who can't do anything honest and authentic. Freaks.
What better reason not to get DirecTV
Im surprised it still exists
DirecTV's screensavers will let a user create an AI avatar of themself by scanning a QR code on the screensaver. Afterward, they can use the avatar to browse through different AI content. Users will also reportedly be able to dress up their AI avatars, allowing Glance's screensaver to recommend real-life products to purchase by performing a reverse-image search.
Who is gonna even willingly do this? You're not creating a Mii to put into Wii Sports. It's just to advertise to you.
(the company Glance, mentioned in the quote, is the company providing the AI screensaver ad technology to DirecTV)
Avoid DirecTV like the plague? I'm on it...
I'd cut the plug off the dongle doodad and then run it over if this happened to me.
Bwahahahaha! I don't even watch TV any more. Every time I wind up at my parent's home I cannot believe the idiocy that's on the TV. Ball game is on? They've made sure it's impossible that a single frame of the feed does not show at least one advertisement, whether "splashed" over the video or covering every square inch of the location they're broadcasting.
"Television" is officially dead to me, but I get that a lot of people still watch it. What I don't understand is WHY they do.
People with DirecTV will enjoy looking at my face, I guess?
Uploaded:
Could I just use my cat's face?
Your face, maybe. My face, no.
I was scrolling through my LG TV's settings not long ago and the amount of times it vampirically suggested I invite it onto my WiFi made me laugh.
No my friend, you're my dumb TV. My laptop already doesn't allow ads, so why would I need you to for a less navigable UI?