But you’re only getting ads if you choose to get them. What’s your problem exactly?
Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026
mriswith@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If I pay for a service and get ads, that service is dead to me forever.
Aux@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
gradual@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Always sad watching people complain about ads on free streaming sites which can be easily blocked with an adblocker while defending their subscription to netflix.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Since when is Netflix free?
mriswith@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As the old saying goes: Don’t feed the trolls.
Replying as if half the comment doesn’t exist and putting the word intelligent in quotes is a classic antagonizing move by trolls to make people try to engage them.
dellish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Huh?? If a streaming site (or any product for that matter) is free, the user is the product - be it their time, personal info, whatever. It is known and accepted that a “free” service will have a catch that allows the provider to make money.
If a user PAYS for a service it is expected that the payment is enough remuneration for there to be no strings attached. Of course companies will look for shitty ways to do shitty things to make more money, and those companies ought to be punished, generally by a reduction in customers, for their shitty behaviour.
gradual@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Not necessarily. This is rhetoric peddled by useful idiots to justify spending money on things they could be getting for free.
Companies have a way easier time harvesting and selling your data when you give them your credit card info.
But good job defending corporate abuse with a “saying.” You’re not a useful idiot.
b3an@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They said if they PAY to use… and get ads. They are right, I ditched tv for streaming because less ads. Now they want to go full circle? I feel like I can’t even open up the fridge these days without having some agenda or ad start.