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Second episode, Fifteen Million Merits.

Guy can buy out the ads, spending currency to skip them. One day he doesn't have the money and is forced to watch the ad. Literally forced. If he averts his eyes, the ad follows them. If he closes his eyes, they torture him with high pitched noise until he opens them. It drives him to the point of physical violence.

It's one of my favorite episodes. The incredible inhumanity of it all, and I bet these ad tech companies would think nothing of it.




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