Want to secure your smart TV? Do not add connect it to your wifi. If you need to update its firmware, plug it into your ethernet, update then disconnect.
@@tyty0071 Don't forget isolating it from any nearby XFINITY wifi. Just like xfinity mobile phones automatically connect to any nearby xfinity hub(including yours, but under a different login/route) for near endless wifi speed it is the same for smart TVs. They have accounts with XFINITY and some other smaller ISP services that provide a similar auto connect service to ensure the tv still can "collect technical data" for the manufacturers.
I really admire Roger, he can say the most bizarrely phrased sentences ever written without a hint of shame and look serious and professional while climbing out of a TV or playing with an space helmet
I can't think of any actor who could play Roger better. I was a fan before the hiatus and was ecstatic when I saw Roger (and Cracked) had returned. The writing and acting for these segments are just stellar. Even the actors of the "target" characters are good, too.
Don't plug it into or let it have access to the internet, now it's just a TV. I'm sure something you have plugged into your TV has all the apps and software you'd have on your smart TV anyway without quite as many spying features.
@@snap-off5383 And don't have the computing power to even do basic tasks well. Seriously, the most expensive new smart TVs have ancient hardware and Several year old OS versions. Which in theory would make hacking them easier but in reality adding even rudimentary background processes would make them unusably slow. It's deliberate, because they want you get frustrated and buy a new TV every year, but it does make this kind of spying difficult if not impossible.
@@awo1fman -All they have to do is tie your TV watching habits to your accounts… It’s not really “spying” on you picking your nose: it’s observing what you watch.
@@whatisahandle221 Spying observe (someone) furtively. "the couple were spied on by reporters" Similar: observe furtively keep under surveillance watch keep a watch on keep an eye on keep under observation follow shadow trail tail surveil discern or make out, especially by careful observation. Similar: notice observe see spot sight catch sight of glimpse catch/get a glimpse of make out discern pick out detect collect information about something to use in deciding how to act
Most paid tv services dont show ads ....and if you want personalised recomendations or find similar shows they have to know what you watch..else use multiple accounts for each website... each login is consodered as a customer id number....luxory hotels and airplanes used to do this for their customers long back ..so they know ahead what the requirement of customers is......
@@vincevvn 🤣🤣🤣 No silly! I low-key enjoy the smart TV's functionalities. Ex. Speech response, surveillancing my conversations to market me directly so I don't have to be bored and suffer through commercials I don't care about. Things like that.
@@biglizzy1234 It's true, the only reason Cable companies were able to fight recording devices for so long was because of the data and analytics they provided the NSA and other 3 letter agencies. Now that same data has evolved into a new form and everyone can buy it so long as they have the market capitol.
@@AlcorSalvador true that’s why the net neutrality was so critical and it sucked that it got shot down so badly or smothered in the crib as it were and the previous administrations repeal of isp guidelines hurt the freedom of speech so bad
@@liamnehren1054 Well yeah, that's our point, it's a corrupted form of Capitalisms which opens the gate to a Corporation Class based Dystopia, Feudalism with a different name.
YESSSS! So glad y'all are talking about smart devices. The first time I heard about a "smart TV," my first thought was, "This is literally the telescreen from 1984 and no thank you."
Same here. Like the scary " I just crept out of your tv" man said: I'm rarely even paying full attention to the tv, why pay a lot of money so it wastes more electricity and spies on me? Oh, and not just 1984: in China it's already official: you get extra "good citizen" points if you watch the right channels. Inspiring thought, right?
it's funny we as the consumers are what roger buys in the end and he knows we're not honest enough to know we're doing wrong - so he explains that to us too!😆roger knows the truth and tells it - so we're all on the same page facing our inadequacies face-on.
We need an "If Honest Ads was honest " segment. "We collect your information like everything else we warn you about, tell you the truth knowing you will laugh and still do nothing, then write a snarky comment in the section below. It still feed the algorithm and earns us more advertising dollars as you are our product. Keep subscribing because we are the good ones." Granted I would still watch because at least they don't lie or hide what they do.
they give us a disclaimer - but in an area so far out of reach we'd never see it and it would update without our knowledge - so laws (out of international lawsuits) were enacted to make sure we see them, yet are written so vaguely we still don't know what's been done. Even if we violate our own policy we won't do anything about it and there's little you can do to get them to fix it.
all the honest ads are like every exploitative-to-the-point-of-silly industry's way of saying 'we're sorry - so we'll explain to you how we run so now you know - so there'll be no excuse for what we do now'.
I want a gotcha moment - like with sugar in cereals and the smart consumer avoids it only for the industry to still profit by having them say you use ad blocker, but it's no worry - you'll get it anyway inside the video itself - cutting off the precious watch time. Even if you don't see an advertisement, we're just are going to up our prices to make those who do buy compensate for your inadequacies until whatever you buy increases in price to through inflation.
But wait, there’s more! Now it’s a full-on combination of both Oceania and this Brave New World and the best part is: you went willingly into it, and so did I. We just didn’t realize it was a dystopian trap until long after the gates closed behind us.
@@garrettbates9124 it's willfully, nobody rose up to stop the birth of the internet. Nobody stopped streaming services from killing video stores/ most cable TV, Nobody objected to smartphones that are connected at all times. People just choose what's convenient, available, and overall affordable. When people do rise to the occasion, will probably be when terminators show up lol
I don't think Horton Autos had anything to say about their WeSpyOnYouInYourCar gimmick that now comes with not just one but 3 screens to better distract you while you are operating a multi ton murder device at 17m/s.
Soooooo good and Soooooo true! A friend bought a 7000 dollar entertainment rectangle and within 2 months the exact same one was only 3000 dollars. Then something burned out and cost a fortune to fix. But only took the dude 10 minutes to fix it.
One of the main reasons I went for a Projector instead of a TV is that it does one thing. It takes the input image and flings it towards the wall I point it at. And no more. No smear-vision. No ads. No nothing. Just a picture showing device. Then I hooked it up to my easily pronouncable Google Chromecast with TV so that I still can enjoy the thrills of tracked spying services.
Don’t forget Roger’s got Horton Industries shirts now! And you can get them for 25% off with promo code “horton” right here >>> the-cracked-dispensary.creator-spring.com/
I cant wait to buy an average level quality shirt with mundane quality lettering and art, at a disproportional price, all to commemorate our love for a UA-cam channel. Paying to advertise for this channel is the highlight of my day. :) *sarcasm in the style of honest ads, to celebrate their success*
No it is not. Voice to text is not cheap hardware. They use your accounts. You login to Netflix on everything. You login into Disney on everything. You login to some Microsoft crap, on everything. You login to some Amazon crap, on everything. You login to some Tencent crap, on everything. The whole network stuff isn't worth it either. Why hack another device when they can just call up Algolia and get the data with just few keywords?
you guys could have also said that the hardware is so focused on spying on us that when we actually want to use the smart portion of the TV it delivers a mediocre experience at best.
These guys hit as gently as a sledgehammer. You can actually feel yourself blushing at where the world is going.... and how much your hands are in the cookie jar.
0:25 the coming out of the plunderous depths as an animal only to package himself into business person is hilarious. Gets me all the time. Super sinister when he takes resources from you when you have no money - as pleasant as a peach when you have and will fist over the hard-earned dough.
This is the most important show, Period. Always so profound, funny, and so literate and well acted. So grateful you came back. This might be my favorite one.
I laughed harder (not by much) reading all the surprised comments here. I saw it coming when my fifteen year old Sony TV restricted access to online content because it was unable to identify me as the one using it, for Security Reasons.
Hahaha, masterfully done, as always. The reality, well, the reality will seem bitter or sour to many, but is better said and put out there like you guys do. Keep up the good work, as always. ♥
4:07 Oh... my... so I live in the stone age and don't have a smart TV and was completely unaware - advertising yet then disabling "free" streaming access after users opt to block data collection is low key dystopian.
I LOVE ROGER!! did not know this series was still going. thought it went with the exodus. good to know there is still ONE thing on cracked that i used to like.
You know, I'm not necessarily against targeted ads when they work, but I get pretty sick of seeing Reese's commercials when I'm medically allergic to peanuts
It's too late for you, you've already been assimilated. The problem isn't that they are bad at choosing ads for you, it's that they are collecting all sorts of personal information in the first place.
@@danb.709 I mean I wouldn't say that taking in that information is bad, but collecting and SELLING that information with the express knowledge that they are allowed to do that because individuals don't get the ability to say no but might otherwise be forced to use the product is the scummy part
"Don’t worry, a few hours glued to your small entertainment rectangle with the big entertainment rectangle playing in the background will cure you of any desire to do or care about anything. So sit baaaack :) And put on some bright existential crisis repellent." Scarily accurate description of what most of us are doing on most days, and not just in front of the TV.
That's why I use a dumb TV hooked up to a console. I know for a fact whether or not the console is powered on, and as far as I've been able to discern the console doesn't harvest, sell, or use my data. At the very least it doesn't have ads, and I haven't seen ads elsewhere that seemed connected to anything I was previously playing.
I don't know if this is the same, but maybe someone can enlighten me: The other night I'm watching DVR'd DISH shows -- skipping commercials -- and I accidentally stopped for a moment on a commercial that piqued my interest, but I reflexively continued on past all commercials. When I went back to view it THE RECORDING HAD SWITCHED-OUT THE AD I WANTED! I ended-up experimenting for 20 minutes and found out that if I watched all 7 commercials, my ad played, but if I zoomed past it and came back, the last 3 ads were replaced with 2 longer ones, and the last ad barely cut into my program (more break time needed). Does DISH think it knows what I want to see? My TV isn't connected to the 'net.
This was brilliantly done. Some of these also do fingerprint recognition on the media streaming into the hdmi ports to also get what media is playing via other sources.
I already knew this, but hearing Rogers say is just creepy and scary. What he describes it, definitely has an invasion of your privacy. Guess the only Surefire way to not make sure your information is being sold, is by simply disabling the Wi-Fi on your television, essentially making it a monitor only who your Blu-ray player, console, or whatever device you plug into it.
@@michealoluwafemi4145 you're absolutely right about that. But I haven't connected my console to the internet since initially setting up my account. My Blu-ray player has not been updated once since taking it out and plugging it in. And one of my TV's is a dumb flat screen TV.
Roger has legit helped me avoid some pitfalls of WiFi life. Thanx, Roger. You're not watching me because I have REALLY dumb TV's and phones. Hell, my monitor doesn't even have a camera or microphone. And everyone said there's no advantage to being on welfare.
"Be careful, your smart toaster could be hacked. The criminals could gain access to your most intimate details." "Like... the fact I don't use my toaster a lot?" "Exactly. You'd have to be basically your wife to know that."
Remember the days when you switch the TV on and wait several minutes for it to start? (Those of us who are old enough do) Those days are back. We call that _smart_.
Jokes on you, I bought some rando tv for half price, wiped it, blocked all native apps and use it as my computer screen to play games and adless you know what tube streaming with skipping sponsored regions. device is stupid enough to not have any mics, and can't get past by my devices' passwords just like that. XD
Install a Raspberry Pi with Pihole installed. Ads gone. Best privacy decision I ever made. Also, you'll be appalled to learn how much of your Internet traffic goes to ads.
The biggest disadvantage of all this is that, because all the money is in smart TVs, monitors suffer :( There's little to gain by selling you a screen that you're not going to connect to the internet.
Couldn't resist slipping in more of Roger pretending to be something else? Don't blame you, I'd be putting that shit on every television/phone/screen I could.
The writers are at another level... "Man chooses wife from pre selected harem show" LOL. You've been rogered
Hell yeah, thanks!
season 69 premiere
@@veganmanofsteel Nice
Right as I read this comment that part played. I laughed loudly and uncomfortably.
I have never BEEN rogered… *cough*
Okay. This was the creepiest honest ad ever. And it was spectacular.
Haha thanks!
Want to secure your smart TV? Do not add connect it to your wifi. If you need to update its firmware, plug it into your ethernet, update then disconnect.
@@tyty0071 Don't forget isolating it from any nearby XFINITY wifi. Just like xfinity mobile phones automatically connect to any nearby xfinity hub(including yours, but under a different login/route) for near endless wifi speed it is the same for smart TVs. They have accounts with XFINITY and some other smaller ISP services that provide a similar auto connect service to ensure the tv still can "collect technical data" for the manufacturers.
@@rdreynoldsbanana how can I isolate it?
@@tyty0071 unfortunately the only way of doing that is living in a rural area (away from nearby WiFi)
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." ~ George Bernard Shaw
~ Snoop Dogg
Facts
I guess you are right!
Shaw was the George Carlin of his era.
I've heard it attributed to Oscar Wilde.
I really admire Roger, he can say the most bizarrely phrased sentences ever written without a hint of shame and look serious and professional while climbing out of a TV or playing with an space helmet
He is truly the ultimate professional.
@@cracked a national treasure
I can't think of any actor who could play Roger better. I was a fan before the hiatus and was ecstatic when I saw Roger (and Cracked) had returned. The writing and acting for these segments are just stellar. Even the actors of the "target" characters are good, too.
These are the old skits when this channel was actually terrific. I wish they would bring Roger back and a few of the others. They are sooo talented.
@@doomsayer7937 This is not an old skit. This came out four days ago.
when Roger mentioned "Animated hot boys who fight dragons" I felt incredibly seen 😂
We all watch you watch that
Lol
I've never laughed so fucking hard.😂😂😂
Anime rules!!!! Lol
For me it was when he handed the guy a daki.=
I've been yelling at my espionage slab for years to make better shows, but it never listens.
Better doesn't mean quality for them.
Just because it ignores what you want doesn't mean it didn't listen.
I actually hate that it's basically impossible to get a high quality TV without it being a smart TV
I mostly use a large monitor instead for that reason.
Don't plug it into or let it have access to the internet, now it's just a TV. I'm sure something you have plugged into your TV has all the apps and software you'd have on your smart TV anyway without quite as many spying features.
@@devilmikey00 Yes, I prefer my Roku to spy on me through a HDMI cord rather than integrated into the TV itself.
Or you know, just use a regular tv and a hdmi
I am so glad I bought a non-smart TV in 2018 when Walmart was selling them off.
As someone in the software development and network security space, this is annoyingly true.
Tvs that don't have cameras or microphones have camera and microphone capability?
@@snap-off5383 And don't have the computing power to even do basic tasks well. Seriously, the most expensive new smart TVs have ancient hardware and Several year old OS versions. Which in theory would make hacking them easier but in reality adding even rudimentary background processes would make them unusably slow.
It's deliberate, because they want you get frustrated and buy a new TV every year, but it does make this kind of spying difficult if not impossible.
@@awo1fman -All they have to do is tie your TV watching habits to your accounts…
It’s not really “spying” on you picking your nose: it’s observing what you watch.
@@whatisahandle221
Spying
observe (someone) furtively.
"the couple were spied on by reporters"
Similar:
observe furtively
keep under surveillance
watch
keep a watch on
keep an eye on
keep under observation
follow
shadow
trail
tail
surveil
discern or make out, especially by careful observation.
Similar:
notice
observe
see
spot
sight
catch sight of
glimpse
catch/get a glimpse of
make out
discern
pick out
detect
collect information about something to use in deciding how to act
Most paid tv services dont show ads ....and if you want personalised recomendations or find similar shows they have to know what you watch..else use multiple accounts for each website... each login is consodered as a customer id number....luxory hotels and airplanes used to do this for their customers long back ..so they know ahead what the requirement of customers is......
All tucked in and ready for Roger to ruin something else I low-key enjoy. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You low key enjoy tv?
@@vincevvn 🤣🤣🤣 No silly! I low-key enjoy the smart TV's functionalities. Ex. Speech response, surveillancing my conversations to market me directly so I don't have to be bored and suffer through commercials I don't care about. Things like that.
This series is slowly morphing from a series of advertising deconstructions into artifacts from an Omega Mart hellscape.
So the current reality we live in lol
@@biglizzy1234 It's true, the only reason Cable companies were able to fight recording devices for so long was because of the data and analytics they provided the NSA and other 3 letter agencies. Now that same data has evolved into a new form and everyone can buy it so long as they have the market capitol.
@@AlcorSalvador true that’s why the net neutrality was so critical and it sucked that it got shot down so badly or smothered in the crib as it were and the previous administrations repeal of isp guidelines hurt the freedom of speech so bad
or you know... the world is devolving into the extension of a bunch of mega corporations and so art reflecting reality reflects that.
@@liamnehren1054 Well yeah, that's our point, it's a corrupted form of Capitalisms which opens the gate to a Corporation Class based Dystopia, Feudalism with a different name.
"Espionage Slab" is both a troubling word combo and my new favorite term.
NRO 🛰
YESSSS! So glad y'all are talking about smart devices. The first time I heard about a "smart TV," my first thought was, "This is literally the telescreen from 1984 and no thank you."
Same here. Like the scary " I just crept out of your tv" man said: I'm rarely even paying full attention to the tv, why pay a lot of money so it wastes more electricity and spies on me?
Oh, and not just 1984: in China it's already official: you get extra "good citizen" points if you watch the right channels. Inspiring thought, right?
Sony has a patent for a TV where you have to say the brand name out loud in order to have the commercial skip.
0:50 For those who don't get it, he's referring to resolution, brightness, and refresh rate
Heyoooo
To be fair, those number do have value depending on your use case.
*Say "to be fair" as they do in Letterkenny*
"We want to make sure our product(you) is happy" - Roger 2021
The writers did well. The whole advert thing is just beyond logic here. Samsung TV have them. Can confirm.
Thanks!
Yep, amazon firestick has them. It's harder to navigate to the show that you want to watch than ever before.
LG, Hisense and Vizio have those futures too.
@@cracked I'd call this one lazy af. Just a smartphone redux?
Yup, my Samsung TV lost its wifi access the day it showed an AD, 3rd party dongle spy tools only now
Rodger looks and talks just like a Grand Theft Auto character. I absolutely adore this series.
Yes, like it would be an info ad that comes on right after Lazlo.
Scary how accurate this is. Good job Roger.
Accurate?! 🤣
Ah, Roger. If people selling things were honest, we wouldn't need you but they're not and we love you. Keep it up.
it's funny we as the consumers are what roger buys in the end and he knows we're not honest enough to know we're doing wrong - so he explains that to us too!😆roger knows the truth and tells it - so we're all on the same page facing our inadequacies face-on.
“This is my favorite brand” *I KNOW*
That one got me
We need an "If Honest Ads was honest " segment. "We collect your information like everything else we warn you about, tell you the truth knowing you will laugh and still do nothing, then write a snarky comment in the section below. It still feed the algorithm and earns us more advertising dollars as you are our product. Keep subscribing because we are the good ones." Granted I would still watch because at least they don't lie or hide what they do.
I mean what is the alternative actually? I certainly wouldn't pay $9.99/month to use google
they give us a disclaimer - but in an area so far out of reach we'd never see it and it would update without our knowledge - so laws (out of international lawsuits) were enacted to make sure we see them, yet are written so vaguely we still don't know what's been done. Even if we violate our own policy we won't do anything about it and there's little you can do to get them to fix it.
all the honest ads are like every exploitative-to-the-point-of-silly industry's way of saying 'we're sorry - so we'll explain to you how we run so now you know - so there'll be no excuse for what we do now'.
I want a gotcha moment - like with sugar in cereals and the smart consumer avoids it only for the industry to still profit by having them say you use ad blocker, but it's no worry - you'll get it anyway inside the video itself - cutting off the precious watch time. Even if you don't see an advertisement, we're just are going to up our prices to make those who do buy compensate for your inadequacies until whatever you buy increases in price to through inflation.
"Those are my favorite!"
Roger: I know...
😳😳😳🤣🤣
These continue to get scarily more accurate! Thought it was 1984 OR Brave New World. Not both simultaneously 😭
Just take your Soma break and you will feel just fine😜
But wait, there’s more! Now it’s a full-on combination of both Oceania and this Brave New World and the best part is: you went willingly into it, and so did I. We just didn’t realize it was a dystopian trap until long after the gates closed behind us.
Seeing Jordan tumbling while dessed as Roger is the ultimate Cracked experience. I'm delighted
Ha you’re welcome
Man, Roger's gone from 'amusingly cynical' to 'hysterically pre-dystopian'.....
Pre????
LOLS SO APT!! 😆😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Gotta keep up with the times, grandma always says let the times dictate what you do.
Roger seems pretty agile for his age.
VERY spry
"Roger" AKA "Jordan Breeding in a wig and tan suit"
But Roger is an ageless eldritch being tho?
@PlaySomething!I'm no scientist, but I'm preeeeeetty sure that Jordan is not Roger's Dad 😉.
"We're playing by vampire rules right?"
Horton: It's too late!
this is true
Roger is the grandfather we all want.
I don't know about you, but I would want him as far away from my family as possible
Or the grandfather of all outs wants.
Yes, but whiter.
"Put on some bright existential crisis repellant"
These videos are hitting WAY closer home than I'd like to...
Yea thats pretty accurate, we willfully get spied on for convenience of having apps on a tv.
Worth it
@@cracked lol yeah thats true
At this point it's not willfully. Most places don't sell non-smart TVs anymore.
@@garrettbates9124 it's willfully, nobody rose up to stop the birth of the internet. Nobody stopped streaming services from killing video stores/ most cable TV, Nobody objected to smartphones that are connected at all times. People just choose what's convenient, available, and overall affordable. When people do rise to the occasion, will probably be when terminators show up lol
Roger has really stepped up his game lately. Those humble scams of days gone by are just peanuts to what he's up to now. Way to go Roger!
Fucking Roger man, what else will you ruin for me? Goddammit lmfao
EVERYTHING
I don't think Horton Autos had anything to say about their WeSpyOnYouInYourCar gimmick that now comes with not just one but 3 screens to better distract you while you are operating a multi ton murder device at 17m/s.
Roger is STILL the man! Keeping it so REAL! Great job, everyone!
Wow, the comedy/horror in this is sublime. Top notch editing.
Hey thanks!
Soooooo good and Soooooo true! A friend bought a 7000 dollar entertainment rectangle and within 2 months the exact same one was only 3000 dollars. Then something burned out and cost a fortune to fix. But only took the dude 10 minutes to fix it.
One of the main reasons I went for a Projector instead of a TV is that it does one thing. It takes the input image and flings it towards the wall I point it at. And no more. No smear-vision. No ads. No nothing. Just a picture showing device.
Then I hooked it up to my easily pronouncable Google Chromecast with TV so that I still can enjoy the thrills of tracked spying services.
The irony is strong with this one, Yoda. 😛
I love this guy. Personal espionage slab. The true things are the funniest things.
Don’t forget Roger’s got Horton Industries shirts now! And you can get them for 25% off with promo code “horton” right here >>> the-cracked-dispensary.creator-spring.com/
What if Roger Horton ads were Honest?
And Stoned.
do u guys ship to pakistan?? i will buy anything sales
I cant wait to buy an average level quality shirt with mundane quality lettering and art, at a disproportional price, all to commemorate our love for a UA-cam channel. Paying to advertise for this channel is the highlight of my day. :)
*sarcasm in the style of honest ads, to celebrate their success*
The "Man Chooses Future Wife From Pre-Selected Harem Show" sounds like the flagship for Horton Studios's "Honest Reality TV Shows"
My TV definitely is monitoring our conversations in the living room. The ads a suspiciously accurate.
Tv's, phones and really anything "smart" is definitely sending all it can about you to be sold for the highest bidder.
No it is not. Voice to text is not cheap hardware. They use your accounts. You login to Netflix on everything. You login into Disney on everything. You login to some Microsoft crap, on everything. You login to some Amazon crap, on everything. You login to some Tencent crap, on everything.
The whole network stuff isn't worth it either. Why hack another device when they can just call up Algolia and get the data with just few keywords?
Cracked never failed us,
When this world needed them the most
😁
This series is gotta be the weirdest documentary show of all time with its realism
Roger is truly a national treasure.
I've been told that if I met Roger, I should have some courtesy, some sympathy, and some taste.
I see what you did there 😂
You gotta have sympathy for the roger
I will be quite pleased to meet him. 😆
i hope you can guess his name
you guys could have also said that the hardware is so focused on spying on us that when we actually want to use the smart portion of the TV it delivers a mediocre experience at best.
LMFAO .. Classic Roger quote of the day *"Twinkle light bulb numbers"*
I don't need the telescreen from 1984 to watch tv. I'll get a regular tv like I'm supposed to. But this ad was genius.
These guys hit as gently as a sledgehammer.
You can actually feel yourself blushing at where the world is going.... and how much your hands are in the cookie jar.
"We want to make sure our product is happy." Says it all.
Rogers entrance in this one was, hands down, his best entrance ever.
Even if he had a stunt double do the crawling
It's scary how controlled our lives are
0:25 the coming out of the plunderous depths as an animal only to package himself into business person is hilarious. Gets me all the time. Super sinister when he takes resources from you when you have no money - as pleasant as a peach when you have and will fist over the hard-earned dough.
Jack Hunter, you are my favorite person. And Roger too.
This is the most important show,
Period. Always so profound, funny, and so literate and well acted. So grateful you came back. This might be my favorite one.
Best thing on Cracked right now. God bless you Roger... well, until the After Hours crew get back together.
mean
"Man Picks Wife from Pre-Selected Harem"
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I laughed harder (not by much) reading all the surprised comments here.
I saw it coming when my fifteen year old Sony TV restricted access to online content because it was unable to identify me as the one using it, for Security Reasons.
Hahaha, masterfully done, as always.
The reality, well, the reality will seem bitter or sour to many, but is better said and put out there like you guys do.
Keep up the good work, as always. ♥
4:07
Oh... my... so I live in the stone age and don't have a smart TV and was completely unaware - advertising yet then disabling "free" streaming access after users opt to block data collection is low key dystopian.
Why does this have to be such a wonderful series?
Horton crawling out of the tv had me dying lol
I hope Roger understands how much we apperciate an honest old white man. He will live on as a legend long after the rest of us are dust.
I actually got rid of my TV and instead bought a new bookshelf and rearranged my books. Best decision ever.
"Man picks wife from preselected harem," damn, that's a future video right there
Roger you’re a national treasure
I LOVE ROGER!! did not know this series was still going. thought it went with the exodus. good to know there is still ONE thing on cracked that i used to like.
It did. I brought it back.
You know, I'm not necessarily against targeted ads when they work, but I get pretty sick of seeing Reese's commercials when I'm medically allergic to peanuts
I'm fairly certain they hear me fart with all the intestinal medication ads I get.
It's too late for you, you've already been assimilated. The problem isn't that they are bad at choosing ads for you, it's that they are collecting all sorts of personal information in the first place.
This is why I still use a CRT TV primarily and don't use social media with the exception of UA-cam.
@@danb.709 I mean I wouldn't say that taking in that information is bad, but collecting and SELLING that information with the express knowledge that they are allowed to do that because individuals don't get the ability to say no but might otherwise be forced to use the product is the scummy part
gotta stop making those "I hate my life" jokes on social media then.
"Don’t worry, a few hours glued to your small entertainment rectangle with the big entertainment rectangle playing in the background will cure you of any desire to do or care about anything. So sit baaaack :) And put on some bright existential crisis repellent." Scarily accurate description of what most of us are doing on most days, and not just in front of the TV.
That's why I use a dumb TV hooked up to a console. I know for a fact whether or not the console is powered on, and as far as I've been able to discern the console doesn't harvest, sell, or use my data. At the very least it doesn't have ads, and I haven't seen ads elsewhere that seemed connected to anything I was previously playing.
I don't know if this is the same, but maybe someone can enlighten me:
The other night I'm watching DVR'd DISH shows -- skipping commercials -- and I accidentally stopped for a moment on a commercial that piqued my interest, but I reflexively continued on past all commercials. When I went back to view it THE RECORDING HAD SWITCHED-OUT THE AD I WANTED! I ended-up experimenting for 20 minutes and found out that if I watched all 7 commercials, my ad played, but if I zoomed past it and came back, the last 3 ads were replaced with 2 longer ones, and the last ad barely cut into my program (more break time needed).
Does DISH think it knows what I want to see? My TV isn't connected to the 'net.
This was brilliantly done. Some of these also do fingerprint recognition on the media streaming into the hdmi ports to also get what media is playing via other sources.
Finally, I feel validated that my smart TV was too cheap to include onboard cameras and microphones.
I already knew this, but hearing Rogers say is just creepy and scary. What he describes it, definitely has an invasion of your privacy. Guess the only Surefire way to not make sure your information is being sold, is by simply disabling the Wi-Fi on your television, essentially making it a monitor only who your Blu-ray player, console, or whatever device you plug into it.
Everything is connected to the internet, even ur consoles n blurays 😅😅
@@michealoluwafemi4145 you're absolutely right about that. But I haven't connected my console to the internet since initially setting up my account. My Blu-ray player has not been updated once since taking it out and plugging it in. And one of my TV's is a dumb flat screen TV.
Roger. The most trustworthy name of all time.
Hitting the nail on the head so feverishly, and yet, no one will force this to change.
Roger has legit helped me avoid some pitfalls of WiFi life.
Thanx, Roger. You're not watching me because I have REALLY dumb TV's and phones. Hell, my monitor doesn't even have a camera or microphone.
And everyone said there's no advantage to being on welfare.
"Be careful, your smart toaster could be hacked. The criminals could gain access to your most intimate details."
"Like... the fact I don't use my toaster a lot?"
"Exactly. You'd have to be basically your wife to know that."
dont have a tv, i get spied on via my phone and pc like a normal person
You're not invited to this house anymore. We're playing by vampire rules, right?"
"Too late"
I died
3:06
I almost don’t mind the end of humanity if Roger is here to tell us why!
can never get enough of Roger's commercials
Roger is amazing. The writers are amazing. Funny and scary. 🤣😅😟
That "The Ring" reference was fantastic! 👏🏽
Jeez, Roger is as convincing as before, If not more...
I'm pretty sure I have that same tie. It came in one of those shirt/tie box sets at TJ Max.
Remember the days when you switch the TV on and wait several minutes for it to start? (Those of us who are old enough do)
Those days are back. We call that _smart_.
Me, out loud, right now:
"Oh Roger, I like your shirts so much."
Jokes on you, I bought some rando tv for half price, wiped it, blocked all native apps and use it as my computer screen to play games and adless you know what tube streaming with skipping sponsored regions. device is stupid enough to not have any mics, and can't get past by my devices' passwords just like that. XD
"For all you know we can smell every fart." Oh Roger, you are silly.
Install a Raspberry Pi with Pihole installed. Ads gone. Best privacy decision I ever made.
Also, you'll be appalled to learn how much of your Internet traffic goes to ads.
0:22 Something told me to listen a couple a times… H.E.R.P.E.S.🤣🤣🤣 Incurable, and never leaves you once it’s in.
Genius!!! You guys are genius!!!🤣🤣🤣
The biggest disadvantage of all this is that, because all the money is in smart TVs, monitors suffer :(
There's little to gain by selling you a screen that you're not going to connect to the internet.
Roger scampering around out of the tv and just casually walking around the other side of the couch is the greatest Roger bit ever
Hell yeah haha
"Pre-selected Harem show" lol
The best show.
All of these honest ads are so frickin' accurate and on point! Especially this one.
I'm so glad these are back
This video is part of why I still watch movies on DVDs, and play video games on my original NES and SNES.
Couldn't resist slipping in more of Roger pretending to be something else? Don't blame you, I'd be putting that shit on every television/phone/screen I could.
I am lit and him jumping out the tv like that got me paranoid 😂
we love our rectangle boxes more than life itself
Impressed by disclosure & Rogered at the same time, give or take a leap day...Too good
I'm pretty sure the only reason I'm watching this channel is because a smart device recommended it to me 😂
1:16 is EXACTLY why I hate the ultra fancy TV’s, I’ll just keep my average “low quality” flat screen tv.