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NounsAndWords@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Frog with hacked firestick and a pirate subscription: huh?

  Frog who downloads media himself and hosts it on his own server: you guys are in water?

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  • rostby@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You are not immune to propaganda

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And in particular, even if you avoid being exposed to it, you are still affected by other people being exposed to it.

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why come we are affected by what other douchebags are exposed to?

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    • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But to adverts. :-p

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hacked how?

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I dunno exactly, I just know many people have “hacked firesticks” that basically run Kodi, then they pay some dodgy dude on WhatsApp like 30 euro a year and get e v e r y t h i n g as a streaming service. Sometimes the service gets shut down, but apparently they’re pretty decent at referring you to their new operation with credit - and even if not, you’ve paid far less than a full legit TV package.

      I’m honestly a little jealous, as they even get live sports streams. Meanwhile, if I try and get them I have to go to very dodgy websites, and often the stream cuts off at key times. However, I just can’t bring myself to pay for piracy.

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      • Dick_Justice@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I met a guy in the city that supported himself selling cracked firesticks, I shit you not. 40 bucks a pop and it’d be plug and play all the way supposedly, and that’s all he did, sell those via word of mouth.

        As an old, I have to chuckle at the whole thing as it reminds me of the '80s when (if you knew who to talk to) you could pay a guy to open up your 13 channel, wood paneled cable box, move a few things around, and give you free Home Box Office. It was the tits, let me tell you.

        Fuck, I’m getting old.

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Frog who downloads media himself and hosts it on his own server: you guys are in water?

    And when that frog realizes that all the other frogs in the water have been caught and eaten already, where do you think the predators are going to turn to next?

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re right! People should stand against this NOW by not paying for these shitty services!

      Wait a minute…

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      • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        59… 58… 57 …

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If someone could explain to me why that comment is getting downvotes?

      The point I’m making is that just looking out for yourself is never enough, sooner or later its your turn.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If someone could explain to me why that comment is getting downvotes?

        It’s absurd. You’ve strained the metaphor by pushing it too far and it makes no sense.

        1. The boiling frog analogy has nothing to do with predators. Predators do not put live frogs in pots of slowly heating water.
        2. How exactly do you think ads are going to be forced on people who pirate their media?
        3. Telling people “stop giving money to trashy companies” is looking out for them. When companies get too greedy and start being shitty towards paying customers, the reaction absolutely should be “we’re going to pirate it instead” so that these practices actively hurt profits.

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      • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I dunno why the downvotes, but I think your analogy doesn’t quite work. If anything, piracy keeps prices down for paying users - so long as piracy is an option, media services cannot raise their prices to such an obscene level, as the more they do it the more people will turn to piracy. So really pirates are on the front line.

        Also, a lot of piracy is still done by torrents, which inherently helps others to pirate themselves - especially if you leave it to seed.

        It’s just kind of sad that fewer people do it these days. Just like it’s sad how few people use ad blockers.

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• deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s why I’m struggling really, really hard not to feel to annoyed with the average consumers that still buy this trash instead of supporting less oppressive alternatives.

  Like, yeah, people should just be able to buy what they like and not have to concern themselves with the overall market trends they’re helping to entrench… But holy shit is it becoming a serious problem. The customers are what drive the direction of the market, and the customers are sleepwalking us all off a god damn cliff, and by the time they wake up to start complaining about it, we will already be halfway down.

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    By the time they wake up to start complaining about it, we will already be halfway down.

    They’ll be at the “too big to fail” point, where to try to reverse the trend would crash the economy that’s based on selling customer privacy and information.

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• treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m still alive.

  But only because I ditched Amazon Prime at the end of the month.

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  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Of course you are. Frogs jump out if the water gets too hot regardless how slowly the temperature is rising.

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  • Ethos_logos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I left when they started charging $10-11 for whole food deliveries. It used to be included.

    They also used to have Amazon fresh and Amazon pantry delivery, but they exited my suburban area, too.

    So now Walmart+ gets my money.

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