Comment on And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere

conditional_soup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• 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.

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  • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Enshrinklification of the internet

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    • HerbalGamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Rolls of the tongue

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      • eatham@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        En-shrink-if-ication

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• Bonehead@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Welcome to cable TV in the late 80s...

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• 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

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  • 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.

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    • clonedhuman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve become a strong proponent of the joys of piracy.

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      • billy_bollocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This. I’m building a media server as we speak. Fuck these assholes

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      • 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

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    • 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.

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  • 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.

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    • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which app?

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      • steelrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instant…

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• 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

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  • 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…

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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