• @madcaesar
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    2027 months ago

    I have a hard unbreakable rule:

    Free, you can serve me ads, I’ll try to avoid them but ok. But the minute I pay for something and you try to give me ads on top, we’re gonna have a problem.

    • umami_wasabi
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      477 months ago

      Newspapers. You paid for it, and it still got ads.

      I know, digital and printed ads are different.

      • @kautau
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        567 months ago

        Cable TV, same thing. This is just old media execs trying to “bring back the magic” or new media execs thinking that old media techniques will work

        • @Hoomod
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          137 months ago

          Apparently when cable first came to be, there were no ads

          • @kautau
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            7 months ago

            Probably the same case for newspapers, radio, the internet, movies in theatres, gas station pumps etc. Though each new medium we create has a shorter and shorter Time-To-Ad-Platform runway it seems

          • @ManosTheHandsOfFate
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            77 months ago

            The first cable TV system in the U.S. was built in the late 1940s and had ads from day one since it was created to bring network television to communities with poor reception. Cable has always had ads.

      • @[email protected]
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        257 months ago

        Newspapers. You paid for it, and it still got ads.

        I have never done this and I doubt I ever will.

        • @CurlyMoustache
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          67 months ago

          I’m in my 40s. The last time I can remember buying a newspaper, was when I did it for my parents as a kid 🤷

          • @[email protected]
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            27 months ago

            My parents might have handed me some change to operate the box of newspapers outside the grocery store when I was three or four so I could try opening it. But I’m not even sure if I got to do that.

          • @[email protected]
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            17 months ago

            Newspapers are a long metro ride thing for me. Just never got the hang of smartphones, not in that way that is. Also the interaction is different, and I don’t mean the physical aspects but the way you browse through something with a) a finite amount of information and b) with very few (if any) links. A physical paper comes with an included progress bar. You know, sense of pride and accomplishment and all.

            • MeanEYE
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              17 months ago

              I’d love to buy and read newspaper. Really do. And I don’t even have to commute. But newspaper here are just trash. It’s all about which celebrity cheated who with whom, political propaganda, garbage about crime and some other things. Rarely anything interesting. So I just skip.

            • kratoz29
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              37 months ago

              Same, and I have bought some before, for different reasons that I don’t even remember lol, but yeah, I wouldn’t buy one just to read it now lol.

      • @Ethos_logos
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        47 months ago

        I mean sure, but it’s also been literally a decade since I bought a newspaper.

        I bought it for the coupons.

      • @interceder270
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        67 months ago

        If you still want to watch amazon video content, you can stream pretty much anything for free here: https://fmoviesz.to/

        Just make sure you have Adnauseam or uBlock Origin installed.

        I just started watching the 2nd season of Invincible :)

        • @sock
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          17 months ago

          look up cloudstream and thank me later

    • @scarabic
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      47 months ago

      That’s cable TV in a nutshell. Pay to watch ads.