[ale] Vizio TVs Sucking Privacy

[Lightner, Jeffrey]

The embedding of "Buy coca cola!" in the penultimate sentence, the final non sequitur sentence and the smiley at the end were all clues.   

Maybe that email proves that subliminal messages actually work.  Did you feel an urge to drink a coke after reading it?  :p


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of DJ-Pfulio
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 4:55 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Vizio TVs Sucking Privacy

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not.

Advertisers were using websites to track which media people watch on other media devices.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-that-use-inaudible-sound-to-link-your-phone-tv-tablet-and-pc/


On 02/09/2017 01:43 PM, Lightner, Jeffrey wrote:
> This like all the hogwash about subliminal advertising by embedding
> things should be disregarded.   I for one cannot believe such things
> would ever happen.   Just because someone writes a lot does not allow
> for this kind of advertising and all who think it does are merely 
> members of the unwashed masses -Buy coca cola! - and would likely
> miss hidden messages if they existed.   Now is the winter of our
> discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.
> 
> :-)
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: ale-bounces at ale.org 
> [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of DJ-Pfulio Sent: Thursday, 
> February 09, 2017 1:20 PM To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts Subject: Re:
> [ale] Vizio TVs Sucking Privacy
> 
> On 02/09/2017 01:10 PM, Dustin Strickland wrote:
>>> Anything we can imagine will/or
>> can be done. Ultra-sonic networking between devices with speakers and 
>> microphones.
>> 
>> My god. This is a horrifying concept.
> 
> Just search on "ultrasonic networking advertising" to be scared more. 
> It is already out there.
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