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Spoilers No Personalised Advert for Elnor?

Gyakuto

Lieutenant Junior Grade
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Is there any significance to Elnor not receiving a personalised holo-advert when they made their final approach to Free Cloud? Is it just because, like me, he has never given cookie permissions for personalised adverts? But surely he’d get a non-specific advert for eyebrow pencils or fascia rollers as I do. Seems odd. Is he somehow ‘invisible’ to the technology of the day due to his peculiar upbringing, in ‘isolation’. Might his be a useful plot turnaround point in the future?

Another odd thing, Jurati received a fighting robot advert, who’s head she had to knock clean off to get rid of it. Isn’t that incongruous with her ‘scardy cat’ persona? Is there violence in her that triggered this advert? She did dispatch Maddox, after all, someone with whom she had a close relationship....not an easy thing to do regardless of what Admiral Oh might’ve said about him....
 
1) Elnor has no personality. No chance of getting personalized ads, then.
2) Elnor isn't a UFP citizen. The database thus doesn't know what he eats for breakfast or what he secretly wants to drive. Or with whom.
3) Elnor is a synth. Just like all Romulans.
4) All of the above.

Timo Saloniemi
 
1) Elnor has no personality. No chance of getting personalized ads, then.
2) Elnor isn't a UFP citizen. The database thus doesn't know what he eats for breakfast or what he secretly wants to drive. Or with whom.
3) Elnor is a synth. Just like all Romulans.
4) All of the above.

Timo Saloniemi

Elnor has no browsing history on the 24th century version of Chrome, meaning there's no way to target ads to him.
 
Elnor has no personality, nothing defines him, and there is nothing he wants, nothing he needs beyond protecting Picard. It is equally endearing and tragic.
 
Hedonistic is probably the key qualifier, because if it was generic program, it would have shown him a generic ad, even if he didn't have a profile.

Not all ads were hedonistic either. I mean, Rios's ad was for tune-up services for his ship, and Picard's ad was for freaking tea.

Freecloud may do a lot of business in drugs and underworld stuff, but that's not all it does.
 
He's basically the new Spock or Data of this show. He has no "human" vices or desires, so the computer doesn't know where to start. The moment he does or choose something, he'll get pop-up ads based on that or something similar.
 
1) Elnor has no personality. No chance of getting personalized ads, then.
2) Elnor isn't a UFP citizen. The database thus doesn't know what he eats for breakfast or what he secretly wants to drive. Or with whom.
3) Elnor is a synth. Just like all Romulans.
4) All of the above.

Timo Saloniemi
Jeez, as I read your post I was thinking, how the hell does he know this? Timo must actually be Jonathan Frakes!! All hail number one!
 
Not all ads were hedonistic either. I mean, Rios's ad was for tune-up services for his ship, and Picard's ad was for freaking tea.

Freecloud may do a lot of business in drugs and underworld stuff, but that's not all it does.
True, but in any case, it seems to have been an improvement over modern ad software, which will show hilariously mismatched ads when not enough data is available. The Freecloud's program simply punted.
 
I'm with Jedi_Master. That camp looked pretty low-tech to me. I don't see how Elnor has any kind of profile the system could use. Although in that case, it probably should have served up something generic. What's the 2399 equivalent of a car ad?

On a related note, I've successfully trained my profile to show me lots of ads for women's lingerie. Might as well have something in the sidebar I like looking at. Google also seems to have concluded that I'm a lesbian, which is OK.
 
On a related note, I've successfully trained my profile to show me lots of ads for women's lingerie. Might as well have something in the sidebar I like looking at. Google also seems to have concluded that I'm a lesbian, which is OK.
Ha ha, you’re my new hero!!

You'd think in the 24th Century, they could do a little long distance fMRI scanning or an EEG/MEG recording and pluck ones proclivities directly from ones brain rather than relying on search histories or online purchases....
 
You'd think in the 24th Century, they could do a little long distance fMRI scanning or an EEG/MEG recording and pluck ones proclivities directly from ones brain rather than relying on search histories or online purchases....

Considering the universal translator can't work without reading minds, this tech should be feasible for advertisements.
 
Was he wearing his sword in that scene? Because you'd think they could dig up something to go with that.
 
Was he wearing his sword in that scene? Because you'd think they could dig up something to go with that.
Like an online search for ‘cool swords’, proof of membership and hence insurance from the British Kendo Association, a letter from his swordsmanship teacher vouching for his good character and no criminal record?
 
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