• 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.