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I think you are correct. Bit you just used the wrong command. I think better use case: you will watch this 2 min ad in order to browse your filesystem, ok?

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Even better, just play the ad and after the ad finishes, give the user a quiz on the ad to make sure he was paying attention. If you score 80% on the quiz, then you can browse the filesystem. Otherwise, they have to watch the ad again.

Dark arts/dark patterns. I think microsoft just emailed me a job offer. Decisions, decisions.

There is already "work" being done to detect the user's eye focus. If the user looks away from the ad, the ad pauses, until the user refocuses on their garbage. Granted, for now, it's 20 mins of ads for free tickets, and it makes sense. We also know humans don't understand the word, "enough" when it comes to profits.

https://futurism.com/moviepass-eye-tracking-ads

I feel like a captcha needs to be in there somewhere as well.

If you wait too long to respond, Clippy pops up:

“It looks like you’re having trouble cooperating as a willing participant in enforced consumerism. Would you like some help?”

> Yes.

> Yes, please.

The search box is a favorite place for Microsoft to stuff things that you don't want while pretending it's trying to present you with useful information.

Wouldn't you like to have some autoplaying video ads in there?

That's while you are waiting the 2min it takes to search a file using Windows explorer (for a directory tree that it takes me milliseconds to traverse programmatically).

  > Watch now
    Maybe later

The maybe later option will be in tiny print in the corner with a background that doesn’t contrast much and will be followed by “are you sure?”

and you'll have to solve CAPTCHA, obligatory.

Just got an startup idea from hell. Why nobody does CAPTCHAs that are based on ads?

Shouldn’t say that out loud, instant unicorn

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