Something happened a few days ago and now I’m too afraid to watch anything related

I think the first time someone had the idea of doing this to verify if you are not a bot is on YouTube 4-5 years ago (I’m not sure)

At least YouTube allows you to verify without giving any sort of data

That was not the kind of TV station I was thinking about, I was thinking of the giant TVs in the streets that contains a bunch of ads, but yeah your idea could work too I guess