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.
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shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
They want the old cable tv days back, but worse
fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Libra@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Streaming was different for years and years. But then people got greedy.
fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Greed isn’t new, streaming companies aren’t more or less greedy than cable companies. But internet companies innovated surveillance capitalism which cable companies couldn’t do with their infrastructure. Streaming just waited to roll out unskippable ads so they could win customers early on with an artificially, temporarily better service.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Streaming just waited to roll out unskippable ads so they could win customers early on with an artificially, temporarily better service.
This is the exact same thing cable did when it came out.
Libra@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
No, but companies are made of individual people who get more or less greedy with time, like most other attributes of people. Which is why I said ‘people got greedy’.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 hours ago
For ages the four nations lived in harmony…
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s quite something how they’re trying to force the Internet to work as an artificial version of things we already have, instead of using it for the unique purposes which it can actually fulfill.
Libra@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
They want the old cable TV days, but worse, and filling their pockets instead.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 19 hours ago
Youtube is also trying to be more like TV. Apparently, TV wasn’t bad enough.
deathbird@mander.xyz 13 minutes ago
Nice thing is it can’t come back. There are too many other sources of entertainment and information to make one feel like one is missing out by simply opting out.