Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable.

YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re making people watch commercials on the streaming services now too. There’s really only one solution left, matey.

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  • vexikron@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No sir, I am a good Christian Man, raised right.

    Whats my favorite Veggie Tales song, you ask?

    We are the piiiiirates Who dont do anything We just staaaay here And lie around

    Er um. Yes. Just a catchy tune! Nothing relevant about my online activities here sir, nope ;)

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    • LetThereBeR0ck@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Look, I’m just asking you to do anything

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      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And I’m just telling you, we don’t do anything

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      • vexikron@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fine.

        bathes in yogurt while licking a sparkplug

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    • Potatisen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Spastic

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  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My popup blocker works on streaming so no commercials there.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That doesn’t stop, for example, Amazon showing you commercials for other Prime shows before showing you what you want to watch.

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      • aard@kyu.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That was one of the reasons why I was watching pirated versions of the Amazon shows even when I was paying for prime.

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s a skip button and at least it’s for their own content. If they remove the skip button and start advertising unrelated products then fuck em

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      • Smeagol666@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Worse, Hulu advertises the fucking show I’m currently watching.

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    • TheHolyChecksum@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your popup blocker?! What year is this, 1999?

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  • Dethedrus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This chair be high, says I!

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• hydrospanner@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All the people watch commercials, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a correlation between the kind of person that can watch stupid reality shows for hours on end and the kind of person who watches those ads and it actually translates into them spending money on the things in the ads.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably so. I don’t know if home shopping channels are still on the air, but there were people who watched those religiously. I remember when TV switched over to digital broadcast, there was a big to-do in the town I lived in because a bunch of people watched a low-power broadcast station that broadcast a home shopping channel 24/7 and they wouldn’t be able to watch it anymore since it couldn’t afford the upgrade.

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