• Sarcasmo220@lemmy.mlEnglish
        16·
        17 days ago

        A friend of mine in college pirated a japanese show which included the ads. The first episode seemed to have subs with legitimate translations. The rest of the season the subtitle author had fun and changed them to make fun of the ads. It was pretty funny.

        There were no quizzes though…

        • Mitsu@pawb.socialEnglish
          1·
          16 days ago

          There’s oodles of torrents on one of my private trackers labeled WOC—With original commercials. I LOVE THEM, such a fascinating look into my childhood.

          I refuse to watch any commercials made since 2006.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      171·
      17 days ago

      Piracy is a hassle, the convenience of streaming made the cost worthwhile. They’ve forgotten this. Once the cost outweighs the convenience, the hassle won’t seem like such a hassle anymore.

      • 🕸️ Pip 🕷️@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        16 days ago

        As a person who uses stremio; not only is it not more of a hassle than streaming services, it’s WAY less. Astronomically so. You set it up once and you have literally everything

      • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        41·
        16 days ago

        It’s not a hassle at all. I use my phone to tell my computer what I’m interested in watching. It automatically downloads that, and when I’m ready to watch something it streams to my TV. After I’m done with it, my computer removes it.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        16 days ago

        Kodi, Seren add-on and a debrid provider like Premiumize gets me better service than any streaming provider. Multiple source streams on any show in the last couple decades and every movie way earlier than is available from any source I’ve ever seen. If its not available as a cached stream, I can queue a torrent file at their end and stack them up until I’m ready to watch it, but I’ve rarely had to do that.

        • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          16 days ago

          To be fair, the last time I flew the jolly Roger was over a decade ago. Finding a stream/torrent that:

          1. Wasn’t potato quality
          2. Had seeders
          3. Wasn’t shut down since last time
          4. Wouldn’t give you a virus
          5. Was actually the thing you were looking for (I did not have sexual relations with that woman)

          was a much more time consuming process.

          • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            16 days ago

            The only streamer I’ve ever paid for was Netflix but I only got a few years out of that before it became easier to pirate again. Frankly, the Arr suite is a pain in the ass compared to the above method.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        31·
        17 days ago

        Only upfront effort. Downloading is almost as much of a hassle as choosing what to play tonight.
        Once it’s on the disk it’s fair game.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    971·
    17 days ago

    I would immediately cancel any service that does that.

    I actively avoid advertising. I’ve cancelled Amazon prime now it has advertising.

    I got Sky’s Internet TV here in the UK - a supposedly premium service yet the first VOD demand show I streamed I found it had adverts and you had to pay more to be able to fast forward through them. I immediately cancelled.

    These companies are greedy as fuck, and driven by the stupidity of always trying to be “growing” to grow their share prices. That just means always trying to save money and take more money from their customers. Enshittification is a result of the stupidity of the stock markets.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      53·
      16 days ago

      I was on Amazon Prime for years.

      Then in the space of one year they decided that listening to an album in order was now a “premium” feature, and that ads would be shovelled into everything.

      Sure, I lost the “free” shipping, so now I hardly buy anything from Amazon either. I see this as an absolute win.

      • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        16 days ago

        same i was really buying a lot of pointless shit it turns out lol

      • BigPotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        16 days ago

        I cancelled Prime over a year ago and for some reason I still get “Prime” delivery. I don’t get the games, movies, or Twitch stuff but if I order something it shows up faster than when my partner does.

        So, I don’t hate that about Amazon… Everything else keeps me from ordering there unless there’s no other options.

    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.ukEnglish
      8·
      16 days ago

      I cancelled Amazon Prime the second they sent me that email.

      My GF then got her own subscription within less than a month so it nets out as 0 loss to Bezos in the end…

      Sometimes i imagine him pointing and laughing at me

    • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      16 days ago

      Sky really pisses me off. They have exclusive rights to the F1 in the UK, but you need to pay a fortune for it, as you have to have the base sky package plus sky sports (I think) plus sky sports F1.

      Probably comes to over £50/month for something that’s on every other weekend on average, and they still show ads! If there’s a subscription, there shouldn’t be any ads.

      • Knuschberkeks@leminal.spaceEnglish
        2·
        16 days ago

        If all you want is F1, and you kniw someone who lives ina country where F1TV is available, try booking F1TV through them. It’s 50€/year.

  • SplashJackson@lemmy.caEnglish
    914·
    17 days ago

    Is this fucking real? Get fucked, mainstream media, if this is the case. Plenty of books and old games to keep me occupied until Alzheimers hits, and then occupied again afterwards

    • towerful@programming.devEnglish
      796·
      17 days ago

      This isn’t mainstream media.
      This is capitalism.

      This is a company making a product, selling it for a given price, then making additional money from embedded ads.
      Whether that ad revenue is additional profit, or to offset the actual cost of the item - because the sold it at a loss to beat their competitors - doesn’t really matter.
      This is the consumer paying for something, and not getting a full and complete product

        • towerful@programming.devEnglish
          213·
          17 days ago

          No, mainstream media is part of capitalism.
          Specifically shitty mainstream media (I’m sure there are some mainstream media providers that aren’t shitty).

          This is a shitty product.
          This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism.
          This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism which happens to show mainstream media.

          But this isn’t mainstream media.

          Mainstream media would want in on the ad revenue. Mainstream media would facilitate & encourage this.

          This is just a shitty product from a shitty company capitalising on shitty practices.

          Edit:
          I guess “part of the same bullshit” is correct.
          But it’s placing the blame on the wrong thing

          • SplashJackson@lemmy.caEnglish
            61·
            17 days ago

            Yeah, I had to really masticate on my phrasing for a while and never really settled on a statement that reflected properly my true meaning. Glad you could see where I was coming from

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
          12·
          16 days ago

          Mainstream media is just media consumed by the majority of people.

          It has nothing to do with money.

          But capitalism tends to rot anything it touches.

  • ATDA@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    17 days ago

    Somewhere someone thought this was a good idea.

    Fuck that individual specifically, fuck head…

  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    54·
    17 days ago

    Aaaannnnd this just resolidifies my decision to not engage with streaming services. What a load of shit.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
    523·
    16 days ago

    Why would anyone put up with the attack that is advertising? If it requires you to watch ads, it’s not worth it. You wouldn’t sit through a free movie if it meant a stranger showing up every few minutes and offering to let you rim them, (it’s not that no one wants what their offering, it’s that they don’t care whether you’re interested or not. They’re still going to show you their asshole) why would you allow a similar violation of your mind?

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      61·
      16 days ago

      How old are you? The reason I ask is because it was very common to watch movies with ads via free-to-air TV in the 90s, at least in families that didn’t have cable TV. Not all families could afford to buy more and more movies on VHS.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        16 days ago

        Yeah, there’s a history here. That being said, newspapers have included ads and purchase fees for a long time AFAIK.

    • RaymondLuxuryYacht@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      16 days ago

      I’m, that’s how over the air broadcasting is funded. You watch commercials. It’s been this way since television started.

    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      57·
      16 days ago

      a free movie

      That’s the point. The movie isn’t free. You pay for the admission by rimming that guy. If you don’t want to do that, go to a different cinema and pay with money.

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
      519·
      16 days ago

      Similar violation? How in the actual fuck is watching a few ads in anyway whatsoever even close to what you described?

      Why would anyone put up with the attack that is advertising?

      It’s quite simple because not think the exact way you do and have the same priorities.

      • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        16 days ago

        you’re right. at least, depending on the person, there’s a chance rimming could be enjoyable. not so with ads that quiz you.

        • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
          21·
          16 days ago

          I never claimed that ads aren’t annoying just that it’s bizarre to compare it to sexual harassment.

  • SuperNerd@programming.devEnglish
    48·
    17 days ago

    This is a brand lift study. It’s almost worthless: Hulu is paid nearly zero for it. I can’t believe they’ve stooped this low to scrape so little incremental revenue with such a customer hostile tack. Their product and analytics people must truly suck and completely lack awareness of counter metrics.