New XBox Can Watch You Watch Ads

[dlevere]

Microsoft's new Xbox will track EVERYTHING you watch on TV - but will reward you for watching the ads

Application submitted to the US Patent and Trademark office shows Microsoft's plans for tracking viewing habits of Xbox owners
The company plans to reward viewers who watch adverts or shows with credits and achievements
The new Kinect sensor can follow eye movements, track your reaction to shows using heart-rate monitors and see you in the dark

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[47iscool]

Sounds like a way to spy on people to me.

[bungholio]

I'll make sure to permaban it wherever I live then. How I watch TV and what I'm watching is nobody's business but my own. Monitoring what I watch is fine, it lets people know from compiled data that most people that have seen whatever show give it a ranking of "This is worse than crap" or "The best thing ever" so they start weeding out the crappy shows on TV so I never see them or they notice I watch and rank very similar to X group of people so odds are I'll like these other things of this group X, but that's as far as I go. Monitoring my exact reaction from facial expressions, heart rate, and whatever else in the dark sounds too invasive. Are they afraid there's far too many people on Netflix intentionally giving opposite ratings to things they watch and they need to pull in a lie detector? If that's the case they might as well make it a walking robot following me everywhere monitoring everything right down to how many times I wipe when I take a dump. Too invasive to me. How far does their monitoring of me even go? Are they recording audio and video of me? I don't know, but I'll just assume the worst anyway and not bother with it ever. The more time goes by the more I feel an inner luddite growing in me.

AND I WILL NOT WATCH ADS! I HATE ADS AND SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE! That's why things like Netflix are everybody's favorite thing. I watch what I want when I want without ads. I'd say take the hint but it is so obvious they'd be blind and deaf not to notice because even they hate them. If you don't like something, then why would you force it upon others? Oh, I forgot everybody's favorite sound, *cha-ching!*.