Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here!

• TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When I can pay for services that don’t show me ads, why would I pay for one that does?

  Don’t worry, they are gradually taking that option away too.

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  • Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then the answer becomes to get those things without paying someone to show you ads.

    When the illegal choice becomes the objective best experience, you’re just a savvy consumer.

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    • thurstylark@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I arrgree

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Joke’s on you: product placement in movies. The ads are already there.

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  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Jokes on them, I don’t recognize half the car emblems they flash at me.

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• MourningDove@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, but you end up paying extra to not see ads, so… it’s the same thing either way.

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  • thurstylark@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So? If I’m paying for a thing, I’ll sooner pay for a thing that doesn’t have ads than one that does.

    When that fails, there’s always the high seas.

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    • med@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You wouldn’t download a fridge, would you?

      fridge0.branchable.com

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      • cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I love the DIY crowd, I don’t really need most of these sort of things myself (yet), but it’s important that they exist, and that people do these things, to prove it can be done and to develop and maintain the knowledge of how it can be done.

        In an ideal world, we shouldn’t have to be independently reverse engineering and reinventing our own tools and appliances and all this would just have to be done once and then shared to become widespread human knowledge. But instead it is “intellectual property” and commercialized and value engineered into maliciously anti-human exploitation devices. Apparently the world we live in is pretty far from ideal.

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      • JetpackJackson@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Bookmarking this for the future

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      • thurstylark@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I absolutely would! That’s pretty kickass

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    • MourningDove@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      True enough!

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