• Jaysyn@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    This is why I’m sailing the high seas again.

    Because the underlying conditions are the same as last time.

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    8 months ago

    I’m amazed that they have any customers paying to listen to ads. I wont stand for it and I find it surprising others would.

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      8 months ago

      In one year Amazon made it impossible to listen to albums on Prime Music, and shoved ads into everything on Prime Video.

      Easy cancel for me. I can go without your next day shipping.

      Better still I can buy from someone else.

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    8 months ago

    I have a hard time understanding why a option to view it either with ads or pay money to not show ads is bad.

    I understand it’s frustrating that you already pay and still see ads.

    In the end you choose to buy something from a company which sells something. Either you pay with your money or with your attention if you don’t want to pay, just don’t use their service.

    I much rather have the option to pay to get rid of ads than not having it like it was in the 90ies.

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      8 months ago

      So back in the day we did this thing called boycotting and it worked pretty well. If people didn’t care they just kept their mouth shut and their lives improved anyway

  • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Okay, I need to say it: having an ad for your own programming is still an ad.

    Paramount. I’m looking at you, Paramount. I don’t want to watch your shitty movie/TV show/whatever about the shitty mom from the His Dark Materials series losing another kid. Stop playing the same goddamn ad for it before every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Especially since you feel the need to double whatever goddamn volume I have set in the opening to the ad. I pay for the subscription, I already bought your product. Fuck off with your shitty ad.

    I mean, others do it too and it pisses me off, but I’m on Season 2 of TNG and I may just have to get it some other way and canceling Paramount because that ad has started really getting to me.

    • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip
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      8 months ago

      Still annoying, but hit back and restart the episode. So far that’s caused it to start without the ad for me.

      • Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 months ago

        That is the problem. Why should i be doing that? Aren’t I paying them for my convenience? At this rate pirating sites make me do lesser hassle than the legit sites.

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          8 months ago

          Oh I know. Having issues with my plex server, so I’m currently subscribed to Disney/Hulu, Netflix, paramount & max. Paramount is straight trash, so many issues. Max won’t save my play history half of the time, one show it won’t even put in the continue watching section so I have to search for it every time. Shouldn’t have to deal with all this crap when you’re paying for it.

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    8 months ago

    I haven’t used streaming services in a couple of years. Now I’m just doing all piracy and watching it through my Jellyfin server

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    8 months ago

    What I want to know is how much money could insurance companies (cough, Liberty Mutual, cough) POSSIBLY be saving people when they are buying ads on every video on Youtube.

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      8 months ago

      I always wondered what if someone started an insurance business that didn’t spend billions on advertisements, it just offered genuinely lower rates. When you sign up you have to sign something promising you’ll tell 2 other people.