• @YoBuckStopsHereM
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    781 year ago

    Cable shifted to low information viewers across the board decades ago. Dumb people watch commercials I guess.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      581 year ago

      They’re making people watch commercials on the streaming services now too. There’s really only one solution left, matey.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        No sir, I am a good Christian Man, raised right.

        Whats my favorite Veggie Tales song, you ask?

        We are the piiiiirates

        Who dont do anything

        We just staaaay here

        And lie around

        Er um. Yes. Just a catchy tune! Nothing relevant about my online activities here sir, nope ;)

      • @YoBuckStopsHereM
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        71 year ago

        My popup blocker works on streaming so no commercials there.

        • Flying SquidOPM
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          111 year ago

          That doesn’t stop, for example, Amazon showing you commercials for other Prime shows before showing you what you want to watch.

          • aard
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            91 year ago

            That was one of the reasons why I was watching pirated versions of the Amazon shows even when I was paying for prime.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            There’s a skip button and at least it’s for their own content. If they remove the skip button and start advertising unrelated products then fuck em

            • Flying SquidOPM
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              51 year ago

              Paramount+ doesn’t have a skip button, but I already gave them up.

      • @Dethedrus
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        41 year ago

        This chair be high, says I!

    • @hydrospanner
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      101 year ago

      All the people watch commercials, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a correlation between the kind of person that can watch stupid reality shows for hours on end and the kind of person who watches those ads and it actually translates into them spending money on the things in the ads.

      • Flying SquidOPM
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        31 year ago

        Probably so. I don’t know if home shopping channels are still on the air, but there were people who watched those religiously. I remember when TV switched over to digital broadcast, there was a big to-do in the town I lived in because a bunch of people watched a low-power broadcast station that broadcast a home shopping channel 24/7 and they wouldn’t be able to watch it anymore since it couldn’t afford the upgrade.