Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026

lupusblackfur@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s a word for that: enshittification

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  • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the word is actually “capitalism.” it’s baked into its dna.

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    • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Capitalism - and I am the last person to defend it - didn’t used to be like this, or at least not as bad. shrug I could probably tolerate capitalism if, say, no company was allowed to employ more than say 15 people.

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      • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        yeah it’s not like Smith predicted this but yeah … it’s certainly not human nature either.

        i’d be happy if shareholders, all of them, were held criminally responsible for the criminal things corporations do - all the way down to wage theft and child labor.

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      • wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Capitalism didn’t used to be like this because it was still developing, but it was always going to become this. Enshitification is not a bug, it’s a feature. Capitalism is supposed to work like this. And when it wasn’t, it was just because it wasn’t there yet, mainly due to technical limitations.

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      • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s an interesting debate, if what we are seeing now is the natural, inevitable progress of capitalism, or it could have gone a better way, but eg. Reagan fucked it up for all of us in the 70s.

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      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Late stage capitalism, then. 🤷‍♂️

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      • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That it wasn’t always like this doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t always lead there though.

        I think that is the point.

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      • anzo@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Continued expansion or ever-increasing profits is a definitive characteristic of the system though. Enshittification is just the latest feature it found, for software-based companies.

        One could also argue that enshittification is independent to software, like diluting juice or other “innovations” that products received…

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      • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sounds a lot like gig economy for everyone.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m 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.

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  • Aux@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No one wants to pay money for the services they’re using. Ads is the way to go.

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    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nobody wants to pay for all the little individual piecemeal services and shit, because it’s wildly expensive and inconvenient, and because they keep adding ads to the paid stuff anyway because greed, so what benefit is there to paying?

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      • Aux@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Except that you’re completely wrong.

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• ferrule@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  you just need to keep a shit list of brands that are now dead to you.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have a dwindling list of brands that are not yet dead to me.

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A good rule of thumb is that if you have heard of a brand but don’t remember anything positive about them they should probably be dead to you.

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  • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All of them.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      exactly, if you want to be an ethical consumer you’d need to be a hermit.

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      • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What’s wrong with being a hermit?

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      • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Hermit here, can confirm.

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• adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  they already make significantly more profits off of each ad-tier sub than they do the ad-free… yet it still isn’t enough. greedy fucking bastards.

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  • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How is showing me ads for things I will make a point not to buy because I implicitly hate the products of people showing me ads more profitable than the twenty fucking bucks a month I already give them?

    Imagine if all that misallocated marketing budget got used to develop better products instead.

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And imagine if products that couldn’t get by on their own merits without ads wouldn’t exist at all. How much more productive and happy our society would be if we got rid of useless products and the negative feelings ads induce when we don’t have those useless products at the same time.

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    • Aux@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just imagine that your personal anecdote is not representative of human behaviour. The biggest lie and a myth is “I will pay more not to see ads”. No, you won’t.

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