Video ads will run on the primary Uber app while users wait for their drivers to arrive and during their trips, said Mark Grether, vice president and general manager of Uber Technologies’ advertising division. They will also appear on tablets installed inside certain Uber cars.

The Uber Eats app will play video ads after customers place orders and continue until their deliveries arrive; Drizly will run them in search results on its app and website as well as other areas of the site.

Why do they think anyone will leave the app open after ordering, if it just plays ads nonstop? Is the idea that each time they load it to check their order status an ad starts playing?

Audio for ads on the company’s apps will be muted by default, while users will need to manually turn off the audio and display components of the in-ride tablets, according to Grether. Ad inventory will initially be sold directly to buyers in the form of brand takeover packages, with only one company’s ads running during any single ride or transaction.

In-car tablets with audio-enabled ads for a single company on repeat. Poor poor drivers.

I bet the first thing a driver will say once a patron gets in is “you can click this button right here to disable the ad (please please please)”

so do 100 other options, though.

but nord is a huge advertising spender so it’s what most people associate with ‘vpn’

stop rocking the boat

you’re making me seasick

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warcraft 2

lolol. great hint. I read it in that voice

Unpopular opinion around these parts, I imagine, but I bought a family sub.

Me and 5? 6? other people get ad-free viewing, the creators get a little more for our views, and no worries about finding ad-blocking youtube viewers for my in law’s smart-tvs or my idevices.

Yeah i had that yesterday where i was reading a thread, and then the topic changed while I was reading the page. The comments from the original thread remained, but the original post was replaced.

Weird bugs :)

https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

ah. do you know where i can find a list of all the kbin instances?

I think part of the confusion is that it looks like they’re translucent lenses, when in reality there’s no light pass-through.

What you see while wearing them is video display from the cameras on the front of the goggles. Meanwhile, the cameras inside the goggles capture your eyes and display an image of them on an external screen.

I think the promotional video is shot in a way that makes this seem a lot less disorienting and creepy than it will be in real life.

but (as far as i can tell) kbin is way more centralized than lemmy, so it has a large effect

Yeah. You can dismiss the phone number thing, and log in with your icq number and password

https://web.icq.com/

There are still some good communities out there. I’m still on IRC every day.

It’s about the only constant over internet use from 1994 to present. IRC and E-mail. Also the web kind of, but it’s changed so so much.

yeah HN feels kind of like old slashdot to me

slashdot has really stagnated over the years

Same. I logged in to their icq web client recently for shits. Was a trip to see all the old usernames.

Yeah that’s occasionally a problem. Also, the deck isn’t that powerful.

I opted to not do too many visual mods, and instead mostly did convenience, gameplay and items mods.

Recently: Skyrim yet again, Portal 2

Currently: Horizon Zero Dawn, Wreckfest, Emulators

Next: Probably Cyberpunk. I started it a few months ago, but have been playing Horizon instead.