Google admits it may place ads on thermostats, glasses, car dashboards & refrigerators

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  • Reply 41 of 127
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,772member
    Yeah, right, if that was true then that frickin' insurance ad where the guy yells at us wouldn't run. It makes me turn the TV off every time it runs. I absolutely *hate* Progressive now.  I won't do business with them ever.  But their ads still pollute my TV.

    Don't think I ever saw the Progressive ad with "yelling man". No doubt tho that for every ad viewed favorably by 100 people there's also going to be a few who don't like it. I can't imagine any well-established company would continue running an ad that most viewers hate but I suppose it can't be ruled out.
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  • Reply 42 of 127
    disturbiadisturbia Posts: 563member

    No shit Einsteins! ROFLAMO

     

    It's google. What did you expect?

     

    And guess what. google will display Ads on your A$$ too ... and your unborn babies!:smokey: 

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  • Reply 43 of 127
    sestewartsestewart Posts: 102member

    Why is no one complaining about the amount of malware advertisements that are prioritized through Google's search bar? The image that AI is showing with the refrigerator are malware links, pushed to the top of the Google Search engine as mal-vertisements. Anything with the "Avert" tag on any browser should not be trusted. 



    These ads install all kinds of spyware/malware. Take searching for Adobe Flash for instance. The top 3 hits are bad download sites that install all kinds of horrible malware on your computer, powered by Google's advertisement services. Why is google allowed to peddle malware to it's users, and circumvent it's own blacklisting/malware protection in Chrome? 



    This will be a giant headache once this type of malware gets infected on refrigerators, thermostats, watches.. ect. 

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  • Reply 44 of 127
    apple ][apple ][ Posts: 9,233member

    Google is selling to the Android crowd, a crowd that will do anything to save a buck, so putting ads on anything and everything certainly makes sense. There are people out there who will buy these products, as long as they cost less than the proper ads free versions of these products.

     

    In the future, Google will be implanting a chip into people for free, and it will be the next version of "Android" in the truest sense of the world. Google will basically own people, and there are definitely people out there who are dumb enough to do this, as long as it's free or extremely low cost. Just look at how many people use cheap and free Android phones. Googles Glass is only a taste of what's to come.

     

    Cross eyed people everywhere will be walking around like robots on drugs, being served up Ads 24-7. Even when they sleep, Google will tap into these people's brains and the word Fandroid will take on a whole new meaning.

     

    It will be the perfect idiocracy society. People wont have to drive themselves anymore, there's Google's automated cars for that, and people wont even have to think anymore, and why should they, because the microchip implanted into their bodies will be much smarter than many people's brains, especially people who can't afford anything.

     

    There is no shortage of cheap people who will whore themselves out to Google, allowing and accepting Ads to placed everywhere.

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  • Reply 45 of 127
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
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    Originally Posted by sestewart View Post

     

    Why is no one complaining about the amount of malware advertisements that are prioritized through Google's search bar? 


    Because what you are claiming is complete nonsense.

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  • Reply 46 of 127
    boltsfan17boltsfan17 Posts: 2,294member
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    Originally Posted by kerryb View Post



    The sheep often called the American consumer will accept it the same way they accepted 33% of their TV time is advertisements, movie theaters showing ads before the feature, ads embedded into content such as sitcoms, ads on just about every web page that exist, etc...

    I don't know what the stats are, but I imagine the percentage of TV time that is advertisements for viewers has to be lower now with so many people using DVR's. I don't watch anything live other than soccer games. No commercial breaks during the game except at half time. The NFL has become unwatchable for me now with so many TV time outs. All the shows I watch are recorded so I can skip through the commercials. 

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  • Reply 47 of 127
    carthusiacarthusia Posts: 585member

    I don't think Tony Fadell or other Nest Labs founders/investors care about what happen now. They already sold and already got paid. They knew on some level how Google monetizes its assets.

     

    (By the way, isn't it interesting that the rumored $3.2 billion that Apple is paying for Beats Electronics is exactly the same purchase price as Nest Labs to Google?)

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  • Reply 48 of 127
    carthusiacarthusia Posts: 585member
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    Originally Posted by Apple ][ View Post

     

    Google is selling to the Android crowd, a crowd that will do anything to save a buck, so putting ads on anything and everything certainly makes sense. There are people out there who will buy these products, as long as they cost less than the proper ads free versions of these products.

     

    In the future, Google will be implanting a chip into people for free, and it will be the next version of "Android" in the truest sense of the world. Google will basically own people, and there are definitely people out there who are dumb enough to do this, as long as it's free or extremely low cost. Just look at how many people use cheap and free Android phones. Googles Glass is only a taste of what's to come.

     

    Cross eyed people everywhere will be walking around like robots on drugs, being served up Ads 24-7. Even when they sleep, Google will tap into these people's brains and the word Fandroid will take on a whole new meaning.

     

    It will be the perfect idiocracy society. People wont have to drive themselves anymore, there's Google's automated cars for that, and people wont even have to think anymore, and why should they, because the microchip implanted into their bodies will be much smarter than many people's brains, especially people who can't afford anything.

     

    There is no shortage of cheap people who will whore themselves out to Google, allowing and accepting Ads to placed everywhere.


    Who says it'll cost any less?

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  • Reply 49 of 127

    Exactly what I think of. Most cable news and financial channels are like that now: video in a small window with multiple news crawls, weather and sports flashing on the screen. "Infotainment."
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  • Reply 50 of 127
    drblankdrblank Posts: 3,386member
    Ads on dashboards in cars, Google Glass and Thermostats? OH GOD. People don't stare at their thermostat all day long. That's a DUMB place for an ad. People usually set it and forget it and maybe change it 1 to 4 times a year when the seasons change.

    On car's dashboards? Oh, so people are going to have another distraction instead of driving? Oh great. I'm sure that will get knocked down as the Governement won't allow that.

    Google Glass with Ads? There isn't enough room on that tiny screen to do anything.

    Google has LOST their minds.

    I don't buy a computer device to look at ads.
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  • Reply 51 of 127
    zoetmbzoetmb Posts: 2,657member
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    Originally Posted by mstone View Post

     

    I think people are misunderstanding what they are saying here. AdSense works like this: You have a website, you let Google have some space on your page where they place relevant ads, you get paid. I know this because I've been doing it for years. The only way you are going to see AdSense ads on your refrigerator is if it has a browser and you surf the web to some page that has Google AdSense running on it. The ads do not live on the refrigerator unless your refrigerator is also a web server in which case you wouldn't see them, you would just get paid. 


    Not necessarily.   Future "smart" refrigerators (of which I want no part) will read the barcodes of the products within, then remind you when you've depleted that product.  It could even send you a text like, "You're out of orange juice".   That could tie into Google and either automatically display an e-commerce food site or a bunch of ads or coupons for those and similar products.    

     

    I don't see any of this as convenience; I see it as bother and a further privacy intrusion.      

     

    But I don't think this will be accepted by the market anyway.    Back in the 1970s when I was a recording engineer and producer, I produced a spot for "the world's first talking refrigerator from Frigidaire".   It was actually nothing more than a tape recorder in the door where one could leave messages like "don't eat the pie" and "heat the leftovers up to 300 degrees for 15 minutes."     It was a massive failure.   I really don't think people want a refrigerator leaving them messages or showing them ads of any kind.   They have enough other devices to accomplish that.    People are not going to want to see ads on their thermostat either.   What's next - my thermostat automatically sending a message to Facebook and posting how warm or cool it is in my home?

     

    While we're not quite there yet, I think at some point not too long into the future, there's going to be a big backlash to data and advertising overload.    Some study will come out demonstrating how it doesn't actually result in sales and it will be over for that aspect of the advertising industry.

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  • Reply 52 of 127
    nolamacguynolamacguy Posts: 4,758member
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    Originally Posted by Gatorguy View Post



    Google doesn't say that advertising will appear on these other systems.

     

    which is why the title says "may". 

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  • Reply 53 of 127
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    Originally Posted by drblank View Post



    On car's dashboards? Oh, so people are going to have another distraction instead of driving? Oh great. I'm sure that will get knocked down as the Governement won't allow that.

    With self-driving cars, you'll have plenty of time to view ads (and you'll be a captive audience). Now we know the true intent behind this innovation.

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  • Reply 54 of 127
    morkymorky Posts: 201member

    Reminds me of this article where you could hear relevant Google ads during a 911 call:

     

    http://www.theonion.com/video/new-google-phone-service-whispers-targeted-ads-dir,17470/

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  • Reply 55 of 127
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
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    Originally Posted by Apple ][ View Post

     

    There is no shortage of cheap people who will whore themselves out to Google, allowing and accepting Ads to placed everywhere.


    I don't know why people always blame Google for excessive advertising. Have you looked at a newspaper, magazine, television, billboards in the city, or listened to the radio recently? All packed with ads and Google had nothing to do it. Advertising is pervasive in modern society. It is not just Google?

     

    I seriously doubt Google is going to make a refrigerator and put ads on it. That is not the way it works. They haven't put ads on any of their hardware to my knowledge, although Amazon has done that with their device.

     

    It is not Google, but other companies that are responsible for the ads you see in search results and commercial website like AI. Those companies create the ads and pay for them to be displayed. Google simply maintains the algorithm that attempts to find an appropriate ad that will be of interest to a reader. If you are a tech guy, would you rather they displayed an ad for high tech gadgets or or some random ad for feminine hygiene? Either way there is going to be an ad there because that is how capitalism works.

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  • Reply 56 of 127
    MacPromacpro Posts: 19,873member
    Please watch this ad, you can get your ice cubes in 30 seconds .....
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  • Reply 57 of 127
    drblankdrblank Posts: 3,386member
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    Originally Posted by TheUnfetteredMind View Post

     

    With self-driving cars, you'll have plenty of time to view ads (and you'll be a captive audience). Now we know the true intent behind this innovation.


    How many of these self driving cars are they actually going to sell each year for the next 10 years?  A couple of thousand?  The car mfg have to charge a of money for the capabilities and people have to have at least $5 Million in liability insurance which is a lot higher than people have currently, so people's insurance premiums is going to go up because of self driving cars.

     

    How long do you think it's going to take until they sell more than 1% of the new cars with this expensive feature?  at least 50 years before it's affordable enough to grab even a small amount of market share of new car sales.

     

    Remember, Google customers that buy Android phones don't spend much money because they don't have that much money.

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  • Reply 58 of 127
    apple ][apple ][ Posts: 9,233member
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    Originally Posted by Carthusia View Post

     

    Who says it'll cost any less?


    Products with ads suck and they usually cost less than proper versions.

     

    Look at Amazon's Kindle, if you want the cheapest version, it'll be with ads. People have to pay for the privilege of not getting spammed by any ads.

     

    Google is all about ads, pricing things cheap and giving stuff away for free is part of their strategy.

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  • Reply 59 of 127
    apple ][apple ][ Posts: 9,233member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by mstone View Post

     

    I don't know why people always blame Google for excessive advertising. Have you looked at a newspaper, magazine, television, billboards in the city, or listened to the radio recently? All packed with ads and Google had nothing to do it. Advertising is pervasive in modern society. It is not just Google?

     

    I seriously doubt Google is going to make a refrigerator and put ads on it. That is not the way it works. They haven't put ads on any of their hardware to my knowledge, although Amazon has done that with their device.

     

    It is not Google, but other companies that are responsible for the ads you see in search results and commercial website like AI. Those companies create the ads and pay for them to be displayed. Google simply maintains the algorithm that attempts to find an appropriate ad that will be of interest to a reader. If you are a tech guy, would you rather they displayed an ad for high tech gadgets or or some random ad for feminine hygiene? Either way there is going to be an ad there because that is how capitalism works.


     

    I agree that ads are everywhere, and sometimes people have little choice in avoiding them, but that doesn't mean that people should accept ads on hardware like refrigerators, thermostats, glasses and on car dashboards.

     

    And I'd rather see an ad for feminine hygiene than an ad for an Android phone, but that's just me.<img class=" src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" />

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  • Reply 60 of 127
    apple ][apple ][ Posts: 9,233member
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    Originally Posted by digitalclips View Post



    Please watch this ad, you can get your ice cubes in 30 seconds .....

     

    Your refrigerator door is locked for the next two hours and twenty seconds.

     

    If you wish to unlock your refrigerator door it will cost you 7 gems.

     

    A pack of 50 gems may be bought for $4.99 by clicking on this link.

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