This was inevitable. Cable monopolies went under with the Internet. So they went into monopolizing the Internet instead.
This will never stop until capitalism stops. It’s why we can’t have good things.
I agree I swear if they could they would monopolize air
Once they’ve poisoned the majority of it that’s exactly what they’ll do.
I don’t get how some people can tolerate ads at all. My parents both use Chrome, on mobile and desktop, no matter how hard I try to get them to switch to Firefox with uBlock origin, they always somehow end up with chrome again. Watching them use a website for recipes or something is… unsettling, to say the least. 6 quadrillion ads and they don’t even bat an eye. Superhuman powers fr
I’m currently working on setting up an ad-blocking DNS resolver for our network so they can at least be free of ads at home. Maybe I’ll also ask them to change the default resolver on their mobile devices as well.
some people just click yes on every pop up
I don’t pay to watch advertising, it’s my policy. Sorry, I can’t change the policy.
Looks like I’ll have to do without Star Wars “The Acolyte”, oh no
(my mom pays for cable, it’s unwatchable in my opinion. It’s like 20 minutes of ads per hour)
commercial breaks with cable or satellite tv seem so much for frequent now. like holy shit you get to watch maybe 10min of the show then there’s like 5-7mins of commercials!
i actually looked it up and it has increased. in the 90s there was 8-10min of commercials spread over 4 commercial breaks for 1 30min show. that was 2min long breaks. now for the same 30min show it’s 10-12mins of commercials over 4 to 6 breaks that are 2-3min long. it’s fucking insane and infuriating. especially if you are watching an old show that planned the story around those 4 commercial breaks. now the channel inserts more breaks breaking the flow of the show.
Even in the 90s it had degraded significantly from earlier. Star Trek episodes from the 60s are 50 minutes long. TNG,DS9, and VOY are 44.
I don’t watch ads period as a policy. If you have proper adblock you can just go on special secret sites I can’t mention to watch ur shows.
Why can’t you mention them?
i didn’t even know they had a new series tbh. i got enough of it when half the internet praised the mandalorian as the best star wars since… idk, rogue one i guess? like wdym it’s a category on its own.
i yearn for space fantasy that isn’t star wars or grimdark
skeleton crew was pretty good. not seasons 1-2 of mandalorian good, but still better than the acolyte
Piracy never went anywhere.
Actually a lot of pirates went to prison.
Which only made me seed way more.
I love how companies reinvented Cable TV but somehow managed to make it not only more expensive, but more of a total pain in the ass to consume.
Avast Ye Matey’s we set sail on the High Seas! Raise the Jolly Roger!
Amazon added ads to the plan included in prime and I never opened it again.
Disney fucked with Kimmel and I canceled and never resubscribed, but now I got 2 reasons!
Just watch with an ad blocker. I don’t see commercials on Amazon Video unless they are embedded in the video.
You’re still paying for it though. Cancel your subscription.
Prime yes, but not prime TV.
If you’re paying for prime, you’re paying for prime TV whether you watch it or not.
I was paying for prime before there was prime TV. When TV didnt have ads, I watched it, now i dont.
If they removed ads again, I would because its included.
Different person, similar situation, and I can reasonably conclude that their data miners can see I’m not watching it since they added ads.
And then they looked at the bottom line and saw that they make more money now anyway so they don’t give a shit.
As long as the System values profit over quality this will always be the case. And the system will always value profit over quality because its purpose is to create princes and dukes, not serve society.
Puts in disc. Is greeted by 20 minutes of trailers for things you saw a decade ago.
Jellyfin is about the only way to avoid them completely.
4k blurays do not have ads. Not so sure on regular bd.
You can skip them. If you have the right player it will skip even if the disc tries to block it.
But, yeah, ripping it and rolling your own streaming is the way to go.
And especially Disney will show you 20 times the animated Disney before you’re even in the DVD menu.
Or Nuvio/Stremio + Premiumize if you want an instant streaming option similar to D+ except with no ads (and everything from every platform is on there). Jellyfin is great if you already have a large movie collection that you want to digitize, but not everyone has that.
Edit: Since this is getting some mild attention, you will also need the following plugins at minimum to get it all working like a proper streaming service: Comet (for interfacing Nuvio with Premiumize to enable the instant streaming ability and shielding you from your ISP), Watchly (gives you Netflix-style recommendations based on your viewing habits) Steaming Catalogs (displays top content from every major streaming provider), plus any other plugin that shows you the content you like.
It sounds like a lot of work but it’s not bad. If you can install a browser extension, you can get Nuvio working.
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I have yet to play a blu-ray movie from Disney that did not allow to skip previews and go straight to the menu. Most movies I own allow me to simply press skip forward to take me directly to the menu. Few exceptions of course.
You might have a player that ignores blocking functions. That was a thing for DVD players at least. I would imagine some Blu-ray players are like that too.
Can also try skip, fast-forward etc
last dvd i bought from ~2010 Adult Swim collection has all the stuff I was watching before I cut the cord. ripped to mp4, i just play the whole directory in vlc on shuffle to kill any urges to pay for some new crap. commercial free no doubt.
[as] fan lemmy site if really bored.
Fkn Frisky Dingo! What an underrated, weird show. Primordial Archer, if anybody is wondering; and absolutely worth watching.
The Pirate Bay and a hard drive
Ironically, you don’t see that advert any more because they pirated the music it used.
Don’t threaten me with a download time
Another great reason to own physical media is to combat the potential censoring or manipulation of “your content” depending on what the powers that be might decide is appropriate or not. Like song lyrics an artist might change due to current norms or social pressure or studios removing parts of a movie currently deemed offensive. A rewriting of history, if you will. And you’ll never be told about and there’ll be no way to access the original content of your purchase anymore.
I’ve lived this- I remember when cable had no ads and we were shocked to hear swearing on the home box office. They find a way to enshitify anything. Depressing really. Anyway yo ho ho for the last 36 years has been consistently good.
Some cable channels launched with them, some didn’t, and some were premium (e.g. HBO) and didn’t need 'em.
Why go back to physical when you can use torrent (sonarr/radarr) and jellyfin? My library is mine, it will never disappear due to licensing issues nor will advertising appear
Already started.
Never stopped, honestly. Only slowed down. Speeding up now.
I need to collect more, just honestly been slacking. I want to take my current dvds and put them all onto a hardrive. Just need to wait until prices are better.
Slowly switched to pirating after the streaming services reduced quality and increased prices. Pirating is much more convinient. I have every movie ready in less time than it takes me to figure out what streaming service streams the movie.
I can pirate a movie quicker than the forced ads play.
