This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I'm all for services making a reasonable profit and being able to fund new shows and such endeavors...
But we're rapidly getting into an environment of "soaking viewers for all we can get out of them" simply to feed the fucking shareholders ever larger payouts.
Thank you Milton Friedman. ๐
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Iโm amazed that ads are so effective that they can make more cramming unwanted video in my face than just asking me for a couple bucks.
YAHAR!!!!! HOIST THE MAIN SAILS!!!!
ahoy!
Implying there's anything worth pirating on Netflix these days.
Wednesday was pretty good
They want the old cable tv days back, but worse
Yeah, to this day all commercials are skippable on a DVR. It was stupid for anyone to think things with streaming would settle any differently.
โ[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,โ Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, per the publication.
Amy, I want you to be honest with me, are you an alien.
Because on planet Earth we do not, if fact, pay as much attention to the ads as to the things we're actually interested in. Famously our brains even produce this fascinating effect to spare us from the bullshit you're shoving into our eyeballs.
I'm just waiting for it to be like that Black Mirror episode where ads came on, the guy closed his eyes, and alarms went off until he opened them again.
The bad thing about those kind of shows, is that while most people see that as a warning, and something to avoid.
Some people immediately start charting a path to how to make it a reality, and sometimes those people are very very smart and can chart a path that might take decades.
I say this while on the toilet, writing on a device that has cameras both front and back, always on microphones and location sensors, and facial recognition and 3D scanning equipment.
When the personalized condom ads start popping up, I will only be slightly annoyed.
They show me an ad, and they are out. It is that simple. Luckily, my life does not depend on streaming.
i just subscribe to the netflix tier that serves all streams as torrents
Between that, price hike, and some weirdly low quality content because you don't use this or that browser, netflix really wants people to stop their subscriptions it seems.
High seas baby!
There is surely a recognisable pattern here in which people leave because of this shit and to keep the flow of money going up they then have to further reduce quality by increasing ads.
I deleted my facebook a few weeks ago and signing in for the first time in years gave a look at what it became and it was unrecognisable.
If I pay for a service and get ads, that service is dead to me forever.
94 million people decided $10 a month savings was worth watching ads rather than doing without. Fuck em. They are the reason many things only have an ad supported tier. Pay for stuff or pirate it, but don't use ad supported tiers when you have a choice.
โ[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,โ Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, per the publication.
In terms of attention, she's either lying or admitting that members barely pay attention to their content.
They have told writers to dumb things down and have the characters speak aloud what theyโre doing because so many people doom scroll while itโs on in the background.
There not making quality. Theyโre making elevator music for your home.
No they won't ๐ดโโ ๏ธ
Rejecting Netflix fixes things for you and me, but the article says Netflix has 93 million ad-supported subscribers. I'm really worried about the amount of influence advertisers have on our society, and it's only getting worse. Even if you and I can be above the direct influence of these ads, many people are not, and those people are influencing you and me. This produces a dangerous secondary influence that can reach most of society, and just fills everyone's mind with lies, for hardly any cost.
Either they have great technology, or they have great entertainment,โ she said. โOur superpower has always been the fact that we have both.
Please. Your software is an image carousel and a video player.
The sooner people realize that the subscribers are nothing more than super-slow-boiled frogs to them, the better.
"Millions of former subscribers will cancel their accounts in 2026"
FTFY
Pirating has never felt so good. Normally I'm indifferent to it but now I'm enjoying it.
So the dead Internet extends to streaming.
Also anyone else interested in just crazy an ai add what will be.
I was looking to cut down on subscriptions and picked Netflix as an experimental one. I haven't missed it at all. Things like this make me less likely to occasionally reactivate for a couple of months as I was originally planning.
I wonder when they'll see a big enough effect to break their current run of fucking over their customers.
Well piracy is the only way then.
I'm sorry, did you say Netflix is going to be pirated aggressively for the few shows that aren't complete slop?
Well, time to cancel finally I've gotten used to torrenting again anyway
๐คฎ Glad I deleted my account years ago and use kodi to host my own library
Bye Netflix, hello plex.
Edit: hello Jellyfin, as helpful users have mentioned the enshitification of plex to me.
You seems unaware of plex enshitification. Bye bye plex, Hello Jellyfin.
