I definitely consume too much dystopian content to be a fair dystopian barometer, but the sheer amount of ads being pushed my way is starting to make me feel legitimately anxious. It feels like a techno-dystopia where all of the neat and artistic elements have been extracted and then ground into dust for our corporate overlords. Even the ‘regular’ people are just trying to sell themselves. The streamers, the funny videos, the pet videos, the porn, the reposts of all of those, so much of it is just monetizing my attention.
Do ads even influence people that much? Does anyone even eat Church’s Chicken?! Do people consider switching their car insurance? I though the postmoderns were jumping the gun a little with the pictures they painted of a future with corporate logos and other advertisements spread across every visible surface, but now I have to see 5 ads and a cookie consent pop up to look up a quick definition. Watching a friend’s youtube video? 30 seconds of rapidfire ads from 15 brands. It’s starting to feel absurd. Are we going to be okay?
Thanks for both suggestions! I’ll take a look at jellyfin again when I have time to deal with this. In the past I’d heard it was pretty hard to integrate with xbox smoothly, and I have friends with plex I was hoping to share with.
If just pointing the xbox at adguard or similar would work that would be quite elegant, but I’m not sure how I’d add vpn protection? At the router?
I need to prioritize this before I go mad. Anyway, I appreciate that you took the time to cater some responses to my use case:)
