Youtube is also trying to be more like TV. Apparently, TV wasn’t bad enough.
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shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They want the old cable tv days back, but worse
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 11 months ago
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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 11 months ago
They want the old cable TV days, but worse, and filling their pockets instead.
fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
[deleted]11111one11111@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Way late to the party cuz im browsing top posts for the week, but you reminded me of how I refused to believe my father when he said cable TV used to be ad free. He said it was the whole point of paying for it back then cuz paying for TV didn’t exist yet.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Way late to the party cuz im browsing top posts for the week, but you reminded me of how I refused to believe my father when he said cable TV used to be ad free. He said it was the whole point of paying for it back then cuz paying for TV didn’t exist yet.
Libra@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Streaming was different for years and years. But then people got greedy.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 months ago
For ages the four nations lived in harmony…
fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
[deleted]Libra@lemmy.ml 11 months 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’.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
deathbird@mander.xyz 11 months 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.