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

• Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    For ages the four nations lived in harmony…

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  • 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.

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    • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No. Cable brought improved picture over broadcast signals, brought programming to underserved areas, and had a greater number and diversity of channels. Those fundamental improvements over the prior technology never went away.

        You can complain that cable TV got more expensive over time, but you can say the same thing about cars and houses and health care.

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    • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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