Rejecting Netflix fixes things for you and me, but the article says Netflix has 93 million ad-supported subscribers. I’m really worried about the amount of influence advertisers have on our society, and it’s only getting worse. Even if you and I can be above the direct influence of these ads, many people are not, and those people are influencing you and me. This produces a dangerous secondary influence that can reach most of society, and just fills everyone’s mind with lies, for hardly any cost.
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MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No they won’t 🏴☠️
Limonene@lemmy.world 10 months ago
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 10 months ago
Eh, people are dumb as bricks. If it’s not ads it’s some fake news, social media nonsense, ai bullshit. It’s really pointless to worry about. You can either accept that you are sharing the planet with Trump voters and suckers who fell for NFTs or you will just go crazy.
kalpol@lemm.ee 10 months ago
No different than the decades of ad supported broadcast television.
LordCrom@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Except I didn’t pay a monthly fee for over the air TV. The Jeffersons didn’t cost 4.99 a month
kalpol@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah this part is truly infuriating
RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
[deleted]kalpol@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Oh im not defending it. Just saying we’ve been well-fed geese for a very long time now. It has just changed from cramming us full of the Tootsie Pop Owl and the Doublemint Twins with a chaser of Sears Christmas Catalog to a succotash of targeted ads.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yes, that bit is terrifying
trum_pam_pam@lemmy.world 10 months ago
YoHoHo Arrrrghhhhhh!!!
samus12345@lemm.ee 10 months ago
They will. We just won’t see them when we watch their shows.