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.
Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable.
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cable shifted to low information viewers across the board decades ago. Dumb people watch commercials I guess.
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 10 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re making people watch commercials on the streaming services now too. There’s really only one solution left, matey.
vexikron@lemmy.zip 10 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 ;)
LetThereBeR0ck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Look, I’m just asking you to do anything
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
And I’m just telling you, we don’t do anything
vexikron@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Fine.
bathes in yogurt while licking a sparkplug
Potatisen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Spastic
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My popup blocker works on streaming so no commercials there.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That doesn’t stop, for example, Amazon showing you commercials for other Prime shows before showing you what you want to watch.
aard@kyu.de 10 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.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 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
Smeagol666@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Worse, Hulu advertises the fucking show I’m currently watching.
TheHolyChecksum@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Your popup blocker?! What year is this, 1999?
Dethedrus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This chair be high, says I!