This article sounds like it was written by someone who barely understands what a voice assistant is, let alone how a corporation works. Very dumb. Is 9to5 using GPT instead of paying journalists?

Care to elaborate? Do you agree or disagree with the op on any of their takes?

Nielsen never actually knew what you were watching though. They had to take your word for it. The comparison would be if Nielsen had trackers on your eyes and cameras and microphones in your house. I do agree most concerns about data collection are overblown, but that doesn’t mean opening yourself up to any and all data collection is wise. And to act like there’s never an issue of companies taking your data for ill is laughably naïve IMO. If nothing else, unnecessarily sharing personal data exposes you as a larger target for things like identify theft.

I think streaming is a pretty big factor. Lots of households who already have D+ saying to the family let’s just wait and watch it at home? Those longer home video windows had an effect.

This means if you blocked my instance you wouldn’t see my comment? But others on your instance could still see my comment? Wouldn’t that lead to confusing comment threads?

I’m not against the idea in general. I like the idea of curating the experience that best fits your desired experience. I’m just still trying to wrap my head around this federated communication.