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I love this sort of content on HN. I am very curious what the impact of powerful AI has on these type of things

I have been searching for something like this. I am immensely annoyed by ads on streaming services and will put forth an unreasonable effort to mute them before I spend another penny on streaming. I'd rather a one-time purchase for an offline ad-blocker/ad-muter.

These types of services almost seem squarely in the space of what governments should/could do with intelligent leadership.

It is probably not too late for a state-driven type of service layer like this from some rationally led government somewhere in the world.

This is a great app and will likely sell well if put in front of the right people.

Many people are far too picky and have expectations out of line with the rest of the world when it comes to software. Ignore those. There are plenty out there who will happily part with $3 for some entertainment to share with their pet.

You will never please everyone.

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As a reminder, lacolhost.com and all subdomains will forever resolve to localhost (well for as long as I'm around at least)

Very curious if there's a way to use the accessibility features of Android TV to auto-mute when the ads appear. It's not worth it to pay for anything more than the lowest price plan here.

I've looked multiple times for something like this that I could load onto my nvidia shield, but nothing seems to exist.

There is a tool available for chromecast that works very well, but my ideal solution would be an app I can load onto the shield that auto-mutes during ads and un-mutes when the ads are finished.

If I didn't already have my hands full with side projects, I'd dig into this on my own time.

In before someone floods this with ideas to chase the patent troll model

My gut says there are sharks circling this issue waiting to pounce once this storm passes. They want to see it gutted so they can strip the carcass to the bone and try to extract rent from half the internet.

Enshittification comes for everything, eventually.

I can't find a way to strip these out, so I am considering another approach. Is there an alternative frontend for consuming Prime Video?

If not, how hard would it be to interact with the hdmi stream and implement an auto-mute feature? I've been considering ways to remove these annoyances and since they don't provide a convenient way for smart people they're justifying the effort to a more complicated approach.

These companies need to leave some low-hanging fruit or they're going to be incentivizing a whole host of developers who are more motivated to solve this problem than anyone they could possibly hire internally.

This was on the 17th, not today according to the date on the article

I have this theory I cannot prove that Microsoft has had an existential level security breach, something like a full access breach to all of Azure, but it is covered up in a "too big to fail" type manner.

I have absolutely no way to prove this gut feeling.

Wish this had the fun pack