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conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Tbh, the worst part is when you pay for it and still get ads anyway. Feels like double dipping, but it’s obviously going to happen because wall street doesn’t like when line only goes up a little.
Bonehead@kbin.social 1 year ago
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Yeah it’s crazy. We have TV plan with some 100 channels bundled up with internet, and sometimes rarely when I watch TV I’m just baffled by the fact a paid service still is full of ads
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We let it happen. You either put your foot down at the first instance of this thing or you lose any ability to do it because it eventually gets so big you can’t stop it without some whole new technology. But there’s always going to be people who say “how else are people going to pay for websites if not advertising” I say not my fucking problem. Just like robbing my free time with bullshit ads wasn’t their problem.
clonedhuman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve become a strong proponent of the joys of piracy.
billy_bollocks@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This. I’m building a media server as we speak. Fuck these assholes
IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I am a strong proponent of finding other hobbies, but I have never been a fan of tv in general
jmankman@lemmy.myserv.one 1 year ago
The creator of the radio and even the US government were wary of the idea of introducing ads into American living rooms, but look at us now.
steelrat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Given my entertainment options, I found a small developer that sells an app that allows me to pull streams through my phone and transcode it and chromecast it to my projector. Juijitsu Kaisan never looked so good for $2.
affiliate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
the problem is that making the line go up even a little gets exponentially harder with time. because the graph not going up at any given point in time is so unimaginably horrible to them, they keep having to think of new insidious ways of satisfying it
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I actually find myself wondering lately “what’s so bad about stable (+/- 5%/annum) profits for some stretches of time.” Sure you’re not eating up market share, but a couple million in the pocket every year really isn’t that bad…
I… May not be cut out for capitalism…
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Only private companies can get away with thinking like that. Companies that can put the stakeholder’s interest ahead of the shareholder.
Wolf_359@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Companies who stay private can do this. It’s when you have investors that you’re fucked and the ponzi scheme starts.
The idea, in its purest form, is that companies will innovate to keep investors happy. They will keep expanding and making wonderful new products. As an example, a printer company will start making phones, then laptops, then maybe expand into chemicals or farm equipment, making bold innovations at every step.
Companies who can’t innovate do this shit (inflate prices until they suck) and then they die because they’re no longer competitive.
…in theory.
dan@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah that’s totally galling. Shrinkflation for online services.
You know some shiny-suited corporate asshole got a huge bonus for coming up with that though.
Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Enshrinklification of the internet
HerbalGamer@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Rolls of the tongue
eatham@aussie.zone 1 year ago
En-shrink-if-ication