Product placement in TV and movies has always gone to the highest bidder, when they can get a bidder. In a capitalist marketplace, image is everything and valuable. When no one pays, the brands on-screen are usually anonymized somehow. Who can afford to pay more than Apple for product placement in their own content? If Elon Musk was making a movie you can bet that the bad guys getting caught in the chase scenes wouldn't be driving Tesla's.

Can't wait to find out what the bots are promoting on Netflix ... oh, wait. I canceled Netflix because they'd stopped offering a diverse catalog of features and had substituted "original" content I found mostly boring.

The ethics belong to the people who write and maintain the algorithm.

Sheesh, mindless click-bait articles hits a new high (or is it low). What is described are reminders that certain services are subscription based. Imagine that! What isn't described are ads for pills to make body parts larger/smaller/perkier, scam ads about debt reduction, sponsored content (love that play on words) and pop-up/pop-over/pop-under ads with screaming audio.

No problem, just name a government benefit you enjoy and let's start the cutting with that agency.

You have to admire the persistence of the police in deploying technology that is prone to false positives, false negatives and not admissible in court.

No, but then the USPS isn't using someone else's video, for free and unattributed, to create ads like Ring is.

I'm sure you used some interesting math to arrive at the 99% figure. But then, 75% of all statistics are fake /s

September 21, 2018, on nowthisnews

Tim Cook said this a long time ago.

Unless there is a means of checking on adherence, and a legal penalty for violating a policy, the policy is just words on paper and without meaning.

You're not a weirdo, you're just outside the norm like me; I'm exactly the opposite. I don't like ANY ads. I find ads intrusive and annoying. Targeted ads are just ads focused enough to increase the frequency of people buying things they didn't intend to buy in the first place. That's not a benefit, it's a more efficient parasite. I'm the same way about entertainment bundles ... don't like them and won't pay for one. They sell bundles of dozens of channels of crap with maybe 3 or 4 channels I'll ever watch; no thanks. I don't mind paying for the content I want and need (I have several subscriptions) and I don't use free (ad supported) content if I can avoid it.

Same Sharepoint with trendy new design ... same sows ear.

Yea, but Apple doesn't sell my data like Micro$oft does.

Yes, upon startup the first thing it did was ask permission to phone home lol