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New App Gives Free Movie Tickets To People Who Watch 15 Minutes of Ads (indiewire.com)
MoviePass's original founder and CEO is launching a new company, reports IndieWire, "to score viewers movie tickets for the low, low price of sitting through 15 to 20 minutes of advertisements."
Before you point out that everyone already does that when they watch trailers in the theater, know this: PreShow wants to utilize facial recognition and track how much attention you're paying to each ad. "If it weren't for facial recognition, I don't think we could still do it," Stacy Spikes, PreShow's founder and chief executive, said in an interview with CNET last week. "If not, they could game this all day long."
Here's how it works, per CNET: "Forgoing a password, PreShow's app will only unlock with your phone's facial recognition technology. And while you're watching the ads to earn that free ticket, your phone's camera monitors your level of attention. Walk away or even obscure part of your face? The ad will pause after five seconds."
It's being launched through a Kickstarter campaign, which describes PreShow as "the first ad-supported moviegoer network," saying that the service will be available this July. It also promises that the ad content "is high quality, entertaining, and is an entertainment value in and of itself..."
And though it monitors your face, "Privacy is a top concern. Nobody is recorded, no personally identifiable data is shared, all data is aggregated and anonymized to brand partners."
Here's how it works, per CNET: "Forgoing a password, PreShow's app will only unlock with your phone's facial recognition technology. And while you're watching the ads to earn that free ticket, your phone's camera monitors your level of attention. Walk away or even obscure part of your face? The ad will pause after five seconds."
It's being launched through a Kickstarter campaign, which describes PreShow as "the first ad-supported moviegoer network," saying that the service will be available this July. It also promises that the ad content "is high quality, entertaining, and is an entertainment value in and of itself..."
And though it monitors your face, "Privacy is a top concern. Nobody is recorded, no personally identifiable data is shared, all data is aggregated and anonymized to brand partners."
It sounds exactly like showing up at the scheduled time for any movie in the theater.
I thought they stopped showing movies in theaters long ago, that it was all ads and political propaganda..
Don't you have to watch 15 minutes of ads a the theater anyways? How about just go to bittorrent or pay the money.
what if we were to play recorde face to the camera?
See subject & how's it supposed to do it when it's not running (or when it does)? It doesn't & I'll post tons disagreeing w/ you next.
* You'll crap yourself (which I love seeing, lol) as always, lmao!
APK
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Watch 20 minutes of ads for the privilege of watching 20 minutes of ads.
Pass.
Surely if you are off the demographic that is willing to sit through 20 minutes of advertising in order to get a free/cheap movie, you are the kind of person who has no money to buy whatever shite the adverts are trying to sell you?
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his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
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I guess I'm going to record myself being VERY interested for 15 seconds and just perfectly loop it.
(APK) is still right a hosts file really does work. It even blocked a some of the video ads that were inserted into a stream OrangeTide February 10 2016
the Host File Engine performs exactly as promised - by mmell (832646) on Thursday February 16, 2017
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It's revolutionary, I call it a "Job".
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US DHS issues DNS redirect is HUGE danger (not w/ hosts vs.) https://threatpost.com/gov-war... & ICANN ISSUES SAME WARNING https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
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Aryeh Goretsky/ESET/NOD32: hosts = good security https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7442373&.cid=49747129/
Oliver Day (SYMANTEC/SECURITYFOCUS) http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491/
Spybot S&D uses hosts!
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* That's only recently while I've been on Linux (July 2018) & 100's of times vs. MANY other botnets/malwares etc. in the past circa 2006-early 2018 while I was on Windows: CONCRETE VERIFIABLE UNDENIABLE REALITY (see those links as proof). ... & that's ONLY what /. reported on (there were FAR more /. OMITTED reporting on)
APK
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Hohoho "I have concluded that the evidence is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice" https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
I will therefore give them a big middle finger while I forego watching any of their stinking ads.
Record yourself "paying attention" to a video for 15 minutes one time, and point the webcam at a laptop playing the recording to "verify" that you're watching their new ads going forward?
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Yields more security/speed/reliability/anonymity vs. any 1 solution (99% of threats use hostnames vs. IP address most firewalls use) more efficiently/FASTER+NATIVELY 4 less.
Vs. "Bolt on 'MoAr' illogic-logic" slowing u hosts speed u up 2 ways: Adblocks + Hardcode fav. sites u spend most time @ vs. competition w/ security bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + overheads slowing u (messagepass 'souled-out' to advertisers easily detected & blocked addons + firewall filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploit.
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Yeah but how does HOSTS get me free movie tickets?
We hire people in China and India to use VPNs to watch the commercials for $0.19, then we sell the movie tickets for $4.99 each! I figure with Square/Paypal overhead, we should clear a solid $4.50 per ticket!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
prop up your phone just under another screen, stick in some earbuds (for that other device), and watch a different movie while earning free tickets to see one in the theater.
The movies re bad enough as is.
Just waiting for the next Avengers movie with (2 minutes more CGI, 6 more pointless explosions, 1 more famous actors name in the credits but never starred in the movie, even less plot than the last movies etc)
The movies are just garbage.
A better use would be to look at peoples faces during the movie, and discount the movie every time they look away.
But feel free to try it, though I am not sure how videoing the empty seat where I could have been will help.
Can I pay the regular ticket price and avoid ALL of the advertisements?
Didn't think so.
How this type of scheme could be worth a free movie ticket is beyond me. But, I suppose some people will do anything.
Anyway... yep... Black Mirror season 1 episode 2 "Fifteen Million Merits" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nothing can in your case. You haven't given us your real name! Nobody would know who to send them to!
See subject: Yet YOU do - YOU the truly CRAVEN COWARD lunatic that hides behind unidentifiable anon STALKING me as always...
APK
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Until "Stacy Spikes" [who?] can convince advertisers that there's premium value in ads force-fed to a population that gets increasingly good at pretending to pay attention to them while doing something else altogether [yes, dear...]
Why are you such a jizz-guzzling faggot? Look at all this worthless shit you posted a million goddamned times all over the place? You do know that nobody wants your stupid shit, don't you? The more times you post this shit the more you're embarassing yourself. I think it's time you stopped, take a few months away from the Internets, get out of your stepmothers basement and get some fresh air. Take a shower? Put on some clean clothes (especially your underwear, ew, must be squishy by now), maybe thought about getting a *job* for once in your life? Who knows, if you clean yourself up, clean up your *act*, and learn to behave yourself in public, maybe an actual live-in-the-flesh GIRL will actually talk to you without screaming in horror!
Now we know where all those heads can go when all the stores are shutting down.
See subject & a punk like YOU STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anon posts like the PUNK you are bitch? Pitiful!
* I'd take a look up this page beneath THIS POST (where I just made you EAT YOUR WORDS punk) https://entertainment.slashdot... lol...
Actually that's NOT 100% correct - Our fellow REGISTERED /.ers made you EAT, lmao...
I own my own home (fully paid off, vehicle as well - soon to be CLASSIC sportscar that's in GTA type games also) - do YOU "mama's BOY" you PROJECT YOU ARE also?? No, you don't.
You're too fucking STUPID.
I also GUARANTEE I've had MORE pussy & of FAR HIGHER QUALITY than a NO BALLS WORM like you will ever, Ever, EVER even SEE your entire WASTED LIFE, lol.... fact.
APK
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This was covered in the dystopian future in Black Mirror S01E02. Forced to watch ads from your box.
Ugh. Do not want.
Jokes on you. I've legally changed my real name to 'Anonymous Coward' and am filing suit for identity theft against /.
See subject FAKE NAME FUCK - because that IS all YOU are fucker - don't like that? Too bad you do-NOTHING worthless little fuck.
* :)
(I've just described YOU perfectly & you KNOW it, BOY!)
APK
P.S.=> No balls bitch you are... apk
I reckon the Government of North Korea will buy the technology behind this app, and use it to monitor the facial expressions of the thousands of people who turn out to cheer a missile parade, or cry when a "dear leader" dies. Anybody caught frowning at a new missile (or alternately, laughing when they realise it's made from balsa wood) or looking happy when Kim's coffin trundles past is immediately sent to the prison farm.
So they'll throw a bunch of adds that the people wanting free tickets will have to watch. I bet that will be before the set of ads that is normally played because the theatres aren't going to give up that revenue, especially in the first couple of weeks a movie plays when they get almost nothing (~10%) of ticket sales. Then there's the 15 to 20 minutes of trailers that show us the only good parts of movies that will be on a year from now and if we're lucky those scenes will actually be in the movie.
And if we buy the movie for home use we're stuck not being able to skip past through the FBI and anti-piracy warnings and sometimes even the trailers too. Wonderful if you are watching a ten year old movie on DVD and want to see trailers for movies that came out even before then.
Then they break up the streaming sites into almost 20 sites by the time Disney and all the new ones get introduced. Each one with it's own unique content so you have to subscribe to a whole bunch of them to get what you want. Just like cable and having to get a bunch of packages leaving you with a huge bill every month.
And the corporate big wigs wonder why people turned to downloading content. /rant
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(Better vs. Windows model)
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Yields more security/speed/reliability/anonymity vs. any 1 solution (99% of threats use hostnames vs. IP address most firewalls use) more efficiently/FASTER + NATIVELY 4 less!
Vs. "Bolt on 'MoAr' illogic-logic" slowing u hosts speed u up 2 ways: Adblocks + Hardcode fav. sites u spend most time @ vs. competition loaded w/ security bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + overheads slowing u (messagepass 'souled-out' to advertisers easily detected & blocked addons + firewall filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploitation!
* ONLY 1 of its kind in GUI 4 MacOS!
(Better vs. Windows model)
APK
P.S.=> Protects against ALL known & unknown vulnerabilities. Now supports port filters in hosts. My work is world-class & China copied it because they can't do better. I am God's gift to Slashdot... apk
I am God's gift & have great news: APK Hosts File Engine 1.0++ 64-bit for MacOS h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r M a c O S . z i p
Yields more security/speed/reliability/anonymity vs. any 1 solution (99% of threats use hostnames vs. IP address most firewalls use) more efficiently/FASTER + NATIVELY 4 less!
Vs. "Bolt on 'MoAr' illogic-logic" slowing u hosts speed u up 2 ways: Adblocks + Hardcode fav. sites u spend most time @ vs. competition loaded w/ security bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + overheads slowing u (messagepass 'souled-out' to advertisers easily detected & blocked addons + firewall filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploitation!
* ONLY 1 of its kind in GUI 4 MacOS!
(Better vs. Windows model)
APK
P.S.=> Protects against ALL known & unknown vulnerabilities. Now supports port filters in hosts. My work is world-class & China copied it because they can't do better. I am God's gift to Slashdot... apk
How soon until friend proxy is a thing too? I need friends to go to the movies with.
MacOS model's not done: Stop IMPERSONATING me lying & proof portfilter err's can't happen https://news.slashdot.org/comm... in my work!
u ADMIT u have a /. acct & STALK me by UNIDENTIFIABLE ac https://hardware.slashdot.org/... - YOU got ISSUES.
That's "best ya got"?
u WISH u were ME (as ur POOR imitation = the sincerest form of flattery).
WASTING ur life STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anon OR IMPERSONATING me?
Make a Wheel https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... as I did giving users more speed/security/reliability & anonymity NATIVELY doing more for less vs. ANY single 'solution' via the best hosts file multiplatform:
APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p
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See subject: Your kind uses bitch tactics & hides behind UNIDENTIFIABLE anon to IMPERSONATE me because you WISH you were me. I'm world-class & you're just a soyboy not-man HIDING like the weezil you are.
* I'm not gay, but you WISH. It's why you FANTASIZE about me at truck stops. Paying a man is the best YOUR KIND can get.
I hate homos & that means I HATE you. You sneak around with UNIDENTIFIABLE anon & stalk me but you KNOW you'll never be me. I hate homos, nigs, & Juden scum. I joined the Ku Klux Klan so I could be around like-minded REAL MEN. You IMPERSONATED me on /. all weekend while I was at a cross lighting and prayed for God to crush you Juden homo weezils.
God made he his instrument of vengeance & I win by nullifying ads w/ my work. I give users more speed/security/reliability & anonymity NATIVELY doing more for less vs. any single 'solution' via the best hosts file multiplatform.
APK
P.S.=> Grow up... apk
MacOS model's not done: Stop IMPERSONATING me lying & proof portfilter err's can't happen https://news.slashdot.org/comm... in my work!
u ADMIT u have a /. acct & STALK me by UNIDENTIFIABLE ac https://hardware.slashdot.org/... - YOU got ISSUES.
That's "best ya got"?
u WISH u were ME (as ur POOR imitation = sincerest form of flattery).
WASTING ur life STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anon OR IMPERSONATING me?
Make a Wheel https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... as I did giving users more speed/security/reliability & anonymity NATIVELY doing more for less vs. ANY single 'solution' via the best hosts file multiplatform:
APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p
APK Hosts File Engine 10++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://hosts-file.net/?s=Down...
APK
P.S.=> I BLOW U AWAY https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... + https://it.slashdot.org/commen... + https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
See subject: Your kind uses bitch tactics & hides behind UNIDENTIFIABLE anon to IMPERSONATE me because you WISH you were me. I'm world-class & you're just a soyboy not-man HIDING like the weezil you are.
* I'm not gay, but you WISH. It's why you FANTASIZE about me at truck stops. Paying a man is the best YOUR KIND can get.
I hate homos & that means I HATE you. You sneak around with UNIDENTIFIABLE anon & stalk me but you KNOW you'll never be me. I hate homos, nigs, & Juden scum. I joined the Ku Klux Klan so I could be around like-minded REAL MEN. You IMPERSONATED me on /. all weekend while I was at a cross lighting and prayed for God to crush you Juden homo weezils.
God made he his instrument of vengeance & I win by nullifying ads w/ my work. I give users more speed/security/reliability & anonymity NATIVELY doing more for less vs. any single 'solution' via the best hosts file multiplatform.
APK
P.S.=> Grow up... apk
See subject: Your kind uses bitch tactics & hides behind UNIDENTIFIABLE anon to IMPERSONATE me because you WISH you were me. I'm world-class & you're just a soyboy not-man HIDING like the weezil you are.
* I'm not gay, but you WISH. It's why you FANTASIZE about me at truck stops. Paying a man is the best YOUR KIND can get.
I hate homos & that means I HATE you. You sneak around with UNIDENTIFIABLE anon & stalk me but you KNOW you'll never be me. I hate homos, nigs, & Juden scum. I joined the Ku Klux Klan so I could be around like-minded REAL MEN. You IMPERSONATED me on /. all weekend while I was at a cross lighting and prayed for God to crush you Juden homo weezils.
God made he his instrument of vengeance & I win by nullifying ads w/ my work. I give users more speed/security/reliability & anonymity NATIVELY doing more for less vs. any single 'solution' via the best hosts file multiplatform.
APK
P.S.=> Grow up... apk
MacOS model's not done: Stop IMPERSONATING me lying & proof portfilter err's can't happen https://news.slashdot.org/comm... in my work!
u ADMIT u have a /. acct & STALK me by UNIDENTIFIABLE ac https://hardware.slashdot.org/... - YOU got ISSUES.
That's "best ya got"?
u WISH u were ME (as ur POOR imitation = the sincerest form of flattery).
WASTING ur life STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anon OR IMPERSONATING me?
Make a Wheel https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... as I did giving users more speed/security/reliability & anonymity NATIVELY doing more for less vs. ANY single 'solution' via the best hosts file multiplatform:
APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p
APK Hosts File Engine 10++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://hosts-file.net/?s=Down...
APK
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Ha hah ah ho ho h o ho ho ho...
How many times has Facebook said this. I think at this point, it's agame for them to see if they can get away with it "just one more time!"
Of *COURSE* this app will violate your privacy. It's just a question of how much.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
can you really trust them to give you a ticket after all, it is still moviepass? sounds like another bait and switch scam to me.
Don't worry, you can probably just play a video of you paying attention to the phone and it'll take in place of you actually watching the ad.
The low tech version:
- Hacked android / app, piping the content of a pre-recorded video into the video input of the app.
(In a couple of months, they'll try various way to fingerprint the input to detect if it's in a loop, clever users will trivially bypass these checks, just by flipping random pixels / adding noise).
The high tech version:
- teleprompter-style two-way mirror like the ones used by every single youtuber.
Except that instead of youtube, the camera is actually the android app playing the add (with a dummy cable in the audio jack, so it doesn't actually play the sound)
And instead of the script, your normal activity is visible on reflected prompter image.
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Almost fool-proof until they decide to exclusively only display interactive ads (the kind where you need to play a mini-game to "complete" the ad - usually for a sort of enforced demo-trial games).
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Someone keeps saying that Slashdot has posting filters in place that get rid of posts like Natalie Portmanns Hot Grits or something. If that's true then why isn't Slashdot REGEX filtering for "jQMMMMMMMMMMMMMMQt" which would get rid of this damn swastika spam that I've seen over 100 times on /. the last few months.
Pandering to the cheapskates doesn't make sense. However, the ad-mongers are desparate for funding right now since a recession is looming.
the ad-mongers aren't the only desperate.
If someone is that cheap, then why are they not fetching an ad-free copy from BitTorrent?
The main point of all these attempts at cheap tickets etc. is to try to get people out of BitTorrent (or Netflix/Amazon/whatever/wtfbbqlol) and *back into* the movie theaters.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Welcome to 2001.
What could go wrong.
I'd rather watch the movie in my media room.
The sound system is decent.
The display is decent.
The teenagers with the crisps and phones are absent.
The chattering children have been sent to bed.
The movie starts when I want.
There is a pee/beer/snack break when I want it.
And I don't have to mess about pointing my phone at a looped video of myself paying attention!
You're absolutely right, and when I learn how to use my mod points, I'll mod your comment up!
It does seem these days that companies are obsessed about getting as many clicks or eyeballs as possible without actually considering who is clicking or... umm... eyeballing.
The only real reason for spending money on advertising is to sell something. Surely you can work out roughly how much money people have got to spend by looking at what they'll do to save money? So... 20 minutes watching ads for a £5 cinema ticket, plus the 10 minutes of 'admin' time to register and all that crap basically puts the audience for this app into the "no money", "on benefits" or "minimum wage" categories at best.
And which company's business model is to specifically target that demographic?
APK is right, I wish I was him so I can become a professional cum dumpster for truckers and host unlimited dicks.
Teach me how to write like a serial killer and how to buy derelict houses in the ghetto for a $1.
Tell me how to keep from being institutionalized while suffering from several different mental illnesses.
These are skills you have mastered and I want to learn from the master.
15 minutes watching ads actually costs me more than buying a ticket...
Upward mobility is a slippery slope - the higher you climb the more you show your ass.
"Watch 7 videos (easily 15 minutes), get 1 cent..."
So let me get this straight: You watch 15 minutes of commercials, get 2 free tickets to go to
a theater and watch 30 minutes of commercials, then see the movies.
Wow. Sign me up. 'Cuz clearly what I'm missing in my life is more commercials.
Funny. I was playing a video game on my phone while i had the slashdot page up on my desktop computer.
Both screens were front of my face. If the phone screen was to do facial recognition I would have no doubt that it would think that I was looking right at it, while my eyes were actually focused on the monitor 18" behind it.
So unless the facial recognition is so good that it can see what depth the eyes are focused at, I don't see this as a particularly difficult thing to thwart.
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
"Privacy is a top concern" is exactly the kind of thing that people unconcerned with privacy say.
This is an evil product.
Evan Prodromou | evan@prodromou.name | http://evan.prodromou.name/
I already see people putting their phone in front of their recorded face in a LCD monitor or a printed sheet in front of the phone for getting the tickets.
Hope that works. : )
I own my own home (fully paid off
His parents duplex that he lived in the basement of until they sold it to him for a $1 so he wouldn't have to live on the streets.
vehicle as well - soon to be CLASSIC sportscar that's in GTA type games also
A shitty Hyundai Tiburon from the early 2000s.
I also GUARANTEE I've had MORE pussy
Sex with stray cats.
I haven't HAD TO WORK FOR ANYONE in 12++ yrs
He got fired during the great recession and hasn't found stable above board work since.
run my own business successfully
Sucks cock at the truck stop for tips.
My car's no "shitty Tiburon": Only 37k miles on it run on 15k Mobil 1 synthetic too (regular oil changes @ 5k too). Perfect condition. On resale when it hits "20 yr. classic", I'll make a MINT on it & already have a buyer who is interested (rich Arab kid).
My parents didn't live here. They are divorced & did not live together since 1977. My father did & I bought the place from him (good house, I did the work on it over time is why & knew it inside/out).
Sex with stray cats? That's about the best YOU can do, lol - not I. Human girls are my thing.
I do run my own business successfully for coming up on 12 yrs. now & it works for me. I.E. - My money works for ME not me working for money.
APK
P.S.=> QUESTION: Do YOU own your OWN HOME fully paid off? Do you have a vehicle FULLY paid off even?? I doubt it but answer PROVING you do - you can't, troll, lol... apk