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

• Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Streaming was different for years and years. But then people got greedy.

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  • fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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      • fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨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’.

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For ages the four nations lived in harmony…

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• 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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• 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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