A couple of years ago Microsoft announced that it would be adding adverts into Windows. So while the initial adverts were not all that intrusive, and can be switched off. The trend for having adverts in a devices user interface, have started to spread. In particular to devices like smart televisions and games consoles.
So in a recent announcement by Sony, Sony said that they will be adding adverts to the user interface for its PlayStation 5 console. Then LG, who are one of the world’s largest manufacturers of televisions. Also made a statement that they too were pushing an update to WebOS. Which would then allow their smart TV’s to display adverts.
However it does not stop there. According to a Techradar article, Google will soon start to push adverts on all its Google TV devices. Which means that not only will the new Google TV Streamer be getting adverts. A whole host of smart televisions that use Google TV, will also become infested with adverts.
While the word infested sounds hyperbolic, you only have to look at the state of YouTube to see how intrusive adverts can become. So while adverts are important in order to help to pay for the creation of content. They have no place in the user interface of a device.
Not only because you paid a premium for that electronic device. But the cost to the manufacturer for building and supporting an operating system. Should have been factored in before the devices release. So as we move forward, will user interfaces become even more cluttered and difficult to navigate. Particularly in light of the fact that adverts are designed to distract you from what you are doing.
But what do you think?
Current Project updates
When YouTube introduced Shorts, we were initially very interested in creating content for that format. However as we quickly discovered, there are just too many limitations with the Shorts format for our style of content.
However because we like the idea of short videos. We are going to see if we can edit down some of our existing content into more bite size pieces. Which hopefully will cater for more technically minded viewers who don’t need to know the theory behind why we are doing something.
So over the next couple of months we will experiment with editing down a number of videos to see how feasible this new short form format will be. Then we will have to make a decision as to if we put them on YouTube or just make them exclusive to our Website.
Early Access content
This month for site members, we will be posting a video on configuring the firewall on a Synology NAS. However, as this will be a long video it probably will not be ready until the end of the month. So we will also be posting a couple of shorter videos, which include how you factory reset a Google Streaming TV, and how you factory reset a Synology BeeStation. Then if we have time we will demonstrate how you flush DNS using the Windows terminal command, ifconfig.
This months YouTube releases
For the first video in November we will release a video that looks at how you can monitor the temperature of a Synology NAS. Something that might be useful to know if you have placed your NAS in a particularly warm or cold place.
Then for the rest of the month you can expect to see three additional videos; How to delete WiFi profiles in windows using the terminal. An updated video that shows you the new way you can find out the IP address being used by a Chromebook. An alternative command to Clear DNS cache using a Windows terminal command. Then finally a video on the two ways you factory reset the new Google Streaming TV.
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