Ad-shittification
Note to self: Hi self, you’re awesome! Thanks for not spending all my money on streaming services that treat you like shit, and keep raising prices. I shall continue to not buying peacock…or hulu…or netflix.
“No commercials version, $3 extra…may contain commercials.”
Fuck the core concept of that.
It drives business people insane, that people who have enough disposable income to pay to remove ads, are exactly the high value customers that they can charge more money to advertise to.
Once you have a ‘no ads’ tier, your advertisers know that the only people they’re getting seen by are people who don’t spend money, and they won’t want to advertise with you. But if you make a special “here’s an audience who piss away money like it’s going out of fashion” tier, they’ll triple their spend.
I was on an airplane the other day, the ticket advertised free wifi, but in reality you have to watch ads to unlock minutes.
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You can put your phone in airplane mode even if you don’t have a flight. I’ve tried; it works! I tell my phone when it’s time to get notifications. The elation is indescribable.
Also scheduled summary and ruthlessly culling notification permissions. The minute an app disrespects my attention and time, their permissions get revoked.
Here’s what you missed! Don’t forget to log in!
Yeah nah
Kiwiland or Aussie?
OZ
Which airline was this?
yeah I need to know who’s doing this fuckery so I can avoid it
If this had been posted 2 months ago, I’d say “hopefully it’s Spirit or Frontier”. Because I avoid those airlines anyways.
But seeing as it’s being posted now, I’d say we can rule our Spirit.
Hopefully it was Frontier. Because I refuse to fly that airline at all. Though, I think we can rule them out too. They’re too cheap for screens in the seats.
spirit’s a ghost airline now :D
Tell us what airline so we know which to avoid.
That sounds fucking atrocious. Flying can already be stressful, and I usually just try to relax and chill for the whole flight. It’s one thing if a nearby passenger is being annoying. It can make a five hour flight seem like an eternity. Even worse for longer flights.
But to be forced by the airline to watch ads on the screen? Fuck that. I always turn my screen off. I don’t want that in my face.
Icelandair
Damn, I flew with them once well over a decade ago. I had a good impression of them at the time, but I guess that was before capitalism reached its “late-stage”.
That sucks, man…
It’s real cool flying with a toddler that I’m desperately trying to keep away from screens only to have them be forcibly mesmerized by bullshit on screens that can’t be shut off.
Thank God you didn’t mention the airline, I was really worried your vague post would have context in it
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Friends don’t let friends subscribe. If you’re 20 something know this… We fought our way out of bunny antenna TV and cable shows. We left that for freedom to choose to watch anything we could find on the net. Dvx. But tv followed us. Its here trying to reclaim its “lost revenue”.
Cancel, don’t subscribe! Fight for your right!
That is true… But the issue is more widespread than just applying to 20 something year olds. Teenagers also have these exact problems - fighting the industry takes everyone of all ages not just a select few.
I noticed this on a relative’s YouTubeTV, that when I paused to read the screen, it threw garbage up on the screen over the text. “Mildly infuriating” is right!
Wtf is this a tv thing or a youtubeTV thing? Or 3rd party YouTube app?
Isn’t it funny, when you visit a relative or friend and see their TV and web browser experience is full of ads and shit, while at home you see no ads and sometimes forget they even exist? I’ve noticed this many times.
same.
Yep. Except in podcasts. They can’t be avoided there in any other way than hammering the forward button. F-ing nuisance.
Discovering the next track button on my steering wheel does a +30sec instead of skip track was a game changer lol
I’ve found that DNS-level blocklists usually take care of the ads that are added into podcasts on download.
Now if only we could have something akin to Sponsorblock for podcasts.
if on youtube and popular enough sponsorblock should cover it
I hate them. This kind of small interaction ads are even more intrusive than other kind.
And they just raised their subscription price. 😆
Well they need to pay their teams of engineers dedicated to adding ads everywhere, that ain’t cheap!
This seems more than mildly infuriating
I remember watching TV a while ago. I think it was paramount?. But for every 5 minutes of movie they played 10 minutes of commercials. It was the most infuriating thing I ever saw. Abandoned the movie after 30 minutes.
thats alot more annoying than MILD.
Subscription service huh? Yup.
/uninstall & cancel
Stremio 👍
jellyfin doesn’t. and your shows never go to another streamer. oh and you can watch them when the internet goes out. oh and they don’t track your watching habits.
why are you watching
paramountnetflixhulupeacock again?Isn’t Jellyfin something you have to run on your own server? It’s not comparable to normal streaming services in any shape or form.
It is comparable because they fill the same service.
It just needs more configuration on your end. Unless you can join a friend who has setup their own.
That configuration is a bit of a deal though.
A big part of it is discovery. I discover a lot of movies and TV shows by browsing what’s avaliable. With Jellyfin I need to plan ahead instead of pushing the magic button and doomscrolling until I pick something.
You can rent Plex access, need to find the sites, usually a discord server. So like $10/15 per month for thousands of good movies and shows.
That’s the point…
It’s very comparable to “normal streaming services”, just better in every way imaginable, provided you set up the backend with supporting services
So it’s like a party where you’re responsible for building the venue, providing the entertainment, the refreshments, and the party itself.
Yeah super comparable.
(Just to clarify I’m not defending shitty streaming services and I sail the seas myself, just can’t stand people with their “iTs JuSt ThAt EaSy” attitudes when it comes to certain things or trying to convince people that don’t have the kind of expertise or resources to do the thing they’re pushing)
ok. you sound fun.
also it’s pretty fuken easy.
These days you can just ask an LLM to help you step by step. Instead of 10 minutes, it may take a couple of hours to get automated free media forever
I kinda wish we could federate jellyfin instances. Just manually, with friends I trust. Would instantly expand everyone’s catalogue.
You kinda can by just adding remote libraries
Unrealistic, you can see the show in the center.
It was pretty optimistic, as far as dystopian fiction goes.
