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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 80 points 2 months ago

I'm old, so many may not relate. I remember when the big selling point of this newfangled "cable TV" thing was zero ads. Can you imagine that?

Yeah, I have Prime for the savings on shipping. Got the Kodi addon for watching Prime, never used it except to watch The Expanse a few years ago. Would have been fucking enraged if I had seen ads cut into that. Fuck am I paying for?!

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think about this all the time. Kids today have no experience of the media without ads. Like we had commercials, but imagine Mr. Rogers stopping his show every 5 mins to sell you athletic greens and test boosters.

This image has a totally different context today then when it was first created

Anyways, these kids will grow up and make even worse and more annoying ads. They'll be the next Gen of marketing executives in a decade or two. There's nothing we can do about it.

[-] timetraveller@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I prefer the obvious product placement in old movies, tv shows. How funny it is to see product placement all over the place on the kitchen shelves of Seinfeld, the sugar cookie of Honey I Shrunk the Kids.

The list could go on.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Larry David said Seinfeld was just before studios did product placement deals and that they missed out on a lot of extra money from it. He said a lot of things they referenced were just plot devices. I'd say the one clear exception was George and his Rolled Gold pretzels that he was a commercial spokesman for at the time.

[-] turdburglar@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

well i don’t know about no rolled gold, but i can tell you that these pretzels are makin me thirsty!

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I don't know about Seinfeld, but I know in Friends, they used look-alike, but not real products.

It's not Sprite, it's Sprita. Same logo (for the time), but not the same.

It wasn't skittles, it was skitles.

You see where I'm going with this. They wanted the feel of a real apartment, without the legal trouble from using real products.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Honestly product placements in shows often made them feel more real. Yeah they’re drinking Coke…that’s what me and my friends do too. Products are already placed all over my house.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 points 2 months ago

I'm really torn here. Like people complain when superman flies through an ihop or there are billboards. But they make it more grounded. My problem is that they frame it like a commercial. Or world war z where brad pit is drinking every pepsi(?) or Heineken(?) like it was a commercial. In one of these godaweful tranformers movies, they just show products in a way that is so disgusting not even an actual commercial would do it.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Fucking weird, isn't it? Another rant would be about where is all the advertising money coming from?! Imagining being a buyer, I'd have to wonder how well my spend would be profiting.

A couple of decades ago I played around with being a salesman. Top advice was to try this ad, try that ad, compare results. Surely these people are finding revenue from spending on these ads? It just seems impossible to me that there's profit for all of these cockroaches.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

There are so many garbage ads out there now that either advertising is very cheap or businesses are pissing away lots of money.

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 2 months ago

Actually for my kids at least it's different. They're so used to ad blocked YouTube and ad-free Netflix. That when the adblocker fails for whatever reason they get first delighted to see something new and very soon after annoyed at having to see that shit all the time and cry for someone to help them.

We watch regular TV so little. The other day we didn't have internet for several hours, maybe a few days. That's when we discovered that the TV is actually too far away to reach the cable of the satellite dish.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 12 points 2 months ago

Some time ago i found a old VHS of karate kid that i recorded. That was on free open tv and the commercials were super short. And i think two for the whole movie. I downloaded some trash tv like 60 day fiancee, and it was accidentally an episode where they left the commercials in. That was the most insane shit i have ever seen. They streched a 45min show into a 1 1/2 hour show. With the same pharma commercials over and over all the goddamn time and then the recap after every commercial. This shit has to rot your brain in some capacity.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I've had the same thoughts about people who watch free to air TV. Between the same set of ads every ad break, and the frankly dubious quality of the programming, it has to be contributing to some type of cognitive decline.

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago

I have Prime too for shopping mainly. I also can't use Prime Video because it refuses to go beyond 480p on Firefox for Linux (Atleast last time I tried).

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[-] huquad@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 months ago

I recently did the same on my jellyfin server. 100x the ads actually.

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

I'll do you one better. I'm upping the ads on mine by 1,000,000x.

You know what ? I’m starting a Jellyfin only to stream all the ads !

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

If you make it only toonami ads I'm in tho

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago

Amazon is clearly struggling financially, and needs the revenue. Think of the starving investors!

[-] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

Let's start a donation campaign for them...

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago
[-] antisocialite@lemmy.today 14 points 2 months ago

Gotta pay for all those crappy movies they make starring Dwayne Johnson.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 4 points 2 months ago

It's crazy how much money that cunt makes for the shittiest movies imaginable. Somehow people like that guy too.

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[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 12 points 2 months ago

Oi Ue, it's fooking diabolical mate. Omelander topped me wife and now more ads on the tele, diabolical.

[-] Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago

Get the pirate hats ready, we are sailing the high seas ☠️🏴‍☠️

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Just renewed proton vpn yesterday (didn't get any mails or anything, it just popped a box out of nowhere), had that sweet 3 year deal running out 🥲. Its some cash (a hundred something for 2 years) but I'm trying to do my honest work.jpg.

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[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nice I love it. We didn't stop ads years ago. Content creators deserve to be paid right guys. Right!!

Maybe the next Internet we can be more proactive. Whenever that is

[-] KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Farewell Amazon videos. Oh, and I'm trying to do all my shopping NOT on Amazon. Fuck bezos, trump, and all the other orange butthole sucking fat cats.

[-] Sofapunk@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I have been cancelling subscriptions to Trump supporting companies since January. I was on a yearly sub with Amazon.

Thanks for the reminder to cancel..........

........ cancelled.

[-] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 6 points 2 months ago

doubles Prime Video piracy per hour

[-] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Fuck them, I'm not paying for ads, let alone paying more for more ads. I already got rid of my prime months ago, I need to stop supporting amazon anyway.

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Also be aware that Amazon donated one million dollars to the Trump inauguration and is a sponsor of the Jun 14 military parade.

[-] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Piracy, pirate and remember if you want to be free then a pirates life is the life for me.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Still less than cable/broadcast which runs fifteen to twenty minutes of ads per hour. Given time, I’m sure streaming will catch up.

[-] Tanoh@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Just a matter of time until you can't chose what to watch on the lowest tier, you have to follow their playlist of what you should watch.

And we have come full circle back to broadcast TV

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[-] bimbimboy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Exactly, I miss more ads in my life*. Amazon is truly lacking.

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[-] WeUnite@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Amazon funded Trump's inauguration, they've doubled their advertisements, they mistreat their warehouse workers, for people who don't use Amazon often you're paying more money than you'd spend on just paying for shipping on the occasion you need fast shipping or if you don't need fast shipping you can still get free shipping if your order is more than the threshold which I think depends on your account might be $25 or $35.

Given all these things I really hope no one is subscribing to Amazon prime. I'd highly recommend anyone who uses Amazon prime to cancel it. Being shown advertisements on something you're paying for is insane. This should be the final straw for any Amazon Prime customer.

[-] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

It's like they want me to sail the high seas

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[-] Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Good thing I cancelled prime along with all my subscriptions and accounts with US companies just after Trump was elected.

[-] Mondez@lemdro.id 3 points 2 months ago

Pirated content of course has no advertising in it, so it makes sense to pay good money for a service that has adverts in it or how else am I going to learn about all those fabulous products I just have to buy?

[-] bieren@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Just steal it. If its an amazon original, they will cancel it after 2 seasons anyway.

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[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I’m was going to say …. I’ve mostly given up on Prime Video but tried to watch it last night and it was intolerable

Netflix too. Even trying to use it according to their rules, they decided my home network is not my home network. I have to keep using the extra authentication, and they are not willing or able to fix it. I’m really just holding out for Wednesday, but maybe I should cancel, and resubscribe in December when I can watch the whole season

I’m not currently frustrated with Disney+, but am also not watching anything there.

I generally try to stay at 2-3 subscriptions but sometimes none of them are worth ot

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[-] No1@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pray I do not double them again. And again, and again....

Literally, ads infinitum

[-] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

You guys get ads on Prime?

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