This "gift horse" encapsulated the early 2000s insane technological atmosphere. Browser toolbars, Bonzi Buddies, media players... all there to "help" consumers surrender their privacy. Companies hoping to cash in lost incredible amounts of money. The eccentric inventor changed his name after its failure.
I once worked for a computer store and we use this barcode reader to setup book store to catalog there inventory. I was surprised to see this today. I would love to see what it can do today.
"We promise not to do anything with your data, and promise never to sell it to anyone, and promise to distract you from reading our privacy policy, and then tell you nothing useful about this product"... but for some reason we need to ask you a lot of irrelevant personal questons... hmm... a bit sus... if you ask me.
No you don't lmao, it was a really early example of a technology that tracked you, and the company was quick to threaten legal action to anyone who distributed information on how to disable the code encryption and the included serial number (used for the aforementioned tracking). We have this, but a million times worse, now.
If only Google had been invented by then... oh wait it had! What an absolutely ridiculous waste of a product. Some poor fellow pumped his whole pension in to this! 😂
Wow that was the most unique, exciting and innovative 8 minutes of my life ive ever wasted.
This "gift horse" encapsulated the early 2000s insane technological atmosphere. Browser toolbars, Bonzi Buddies, media players... all there to "help" consumers surrender their privacy. Companies hoping to cash in lost incredible amounts of money. The eccentric inventor changed his name after its failure.
Imagine a male cuecat connector and a female cuecat connector got a little too close... a couple months later, youd have a load of cuecats!
I once worked for a computer store and we use this barcode reader to setup book store to catalog there inventory. I was surprised to see this today. I would love to see what it can do today.
i could've live my life until i was at least 30% digitally converged. thanks, ben!
And this whole time, I thought "capitalist tool" was an insult...
Cue R ????????
"We promise not to do anything with your data, and promise never to sell it to anyone, and promise to distract you from reading our privacy policy, and then tell you nothing useful about this product"... but for some reason we need to ask you a lot of irrelevant personal questons... hmm... a bit sus... if you ask me.
i want this to come back.
No you don't lmao, it was a really early example of a technology that tracked you, and the company was quick to threaten legal action to anyone who distributed information on how to disable the code encryption and the included serial number (used for the aforementioned tracking). We have this, but a million times worse, now.
@@LocalAitch"But we promise to distract you from reading our privacy policy by talking over it"
@@LocalAitch"But we promise to distract you from reading our privacy policy by talking over it"
Do you think the guy doing the voiceover actually believed this BS?
If only Google had been invented by then... oh wait it had! What an absolutely ridiculous waste of a product. Some poor fellow pumped his whole pension in to this! 😂
Did people really watch the 17 minute intro about this nonsense?