Hulu quizzing about the ads played

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There-Are-Four-Lights-2765708688

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  • cramola@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you. Came to see if anyone had done this, was not disappointed

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have one TV for my PC monitor and one for, well, TV. Both hardwired to the network, no external network access. Wrote a quick PS script to switch from one to the other or both, made it into an EXE with buttons, très chic. Everything streams off a crappy USB drive “RAID” array. OpenVPN server with Digital Ocean, hosted in Amsterdam, $6/month. DONE.

  I’m not on some crusade against capitalism, I simply choose not to participate in bullshit like this.

  tl;dr: STEAL YO SHIT.

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  • Shameless@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its honestly getting to the point now where doing these home setups are so much simpler than owning these proprietary streaming boxes which have everything locked up to serve you ads or just steal data in general.

    Hooking a PC up to the TV even to watch the paid services is probably better at this point.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Throw in an ad blocker like a Pi-hole. Life changing. FFS, $10 a month on AWS and you can spin a Lightsail instance, or roll your own on a toaster.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For over a decade I’ve been watching TV Series and Movies from a Media Box connected via Ethernet to my home NAS (which is generally an old notebook or even my router - once I got myself a decent router - with some external hardisks), which is actually a pretty simple network to set up using Ethernet Over Powerlinr adaptors (which were already good enough for it back when they only did 20 Mb/second and now that they’re 1000Mb/s will handle even the huge resolution lightly compressed stuff that one can now find as booty out there).

    The setup has been recently upgraded to a Mini-PC with Lubuntu and Kodi, which is in my living room (right next to my Internet router to which it is connect with Gigabit Ethernet) and is also my home NAS and Bittorrent server over always on VPN, with a wireless remote for using in my living room to control Kodi (so it works the same as a TV Box for watching media) whilst the background stuff I control from my main PC remotely using a mix of web interfaces and ssh plus command line.

    I had never had this good an environment for TV entertainment and I’m not even using any of the *arr suite or Usenet to source content so a lot of it is really just doing the same stuff as a decade ago but with better hardware and a more modern UI for media playing and (most importing) away faster Internet connection.

    Anyways, the point I’m making is that nowadays one can actually upgrade a little bit from your setup (which, by the way, is superior to what I had before my Mini-PC upgrade) cheaply and even get themselves very close to the same experience as the corporate stuff (media box with remote and a nice UI to play stuff from a media library) whilst maintaining maximum control and getting no shit from enshittification.

    PS: I couldn’t recommend more getting a wireless remote if you want to just be able to sit down on your sofa and have a no hassle media box experienced (even whilst behind sits a far more complex home infrastructure that what people who outsource that side of things to the likes of Hulu have). It real helps with having a shit-free under your total control entertainment experience without sacrificing the part of that experience that comes from having a modern interface for media selection.

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  • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wish I was technically savy enough to do any of this.

    Unfortunately I am cursed, I break shit and hate having to spend hours working out what’s fucked on my computer.

    TV’s wifi card shit itself, problem solved pulled out replaced.

    Computer wouldn’t boot cause reason number 432 (actually the flash on the MB said fault reserved for future fault finding) hours of struggling.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Perhaps you’re a bogon emitter like my wife?

      Learn more here:

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_bogodynamics

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• leadore@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you answer wrong, what does it do? Refuse to show you any more of the program you are paying them to provide?

  Oh wait, I know. It shows another ad, right? That’s gotta be it. We’ll keep showing you ads until you fucking pay attention!

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  • You_are_dust@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So I think this might be getting misrepresented. Now I don’t in anyway support"interactive ads" like this, but I’m pretty sure that is all this is. I actually had this exact commercial yesterday and didn’t even realize that it was actually asking the question in a non-rhetorical way. So I didn’t touch the remote and the commercial just plays out and ends as it would if the text wasn’t on the screen. I don’t know what happens if you actually answer the question. Hulu puts an ad countdown timer on the screen when ads are playing so you know how much of the ad is left and my show resumed at the time it said it would before the commercials started.

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  • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d be throwing the tv inside their store window. Fuck that noise

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• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  These companies are insufferable.

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• solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  holy fucking shit and people give me the “you’re a bad person” side-eye when i tell them there is such an easy way to never deal with that bullshit ever

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  • Evkob@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s really odd, I bring up piracy in conversation decently often (usually if I’m talking about a show and someone asks me if that’s on Netflix/Prime/Disney+/Hulu or whatever and I have to tell them I haven’t a clue)

    The reaction had never been judgement, more so curiosity about how I go about my piracy.

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• jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Full refund.

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  • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They went full ret*rd, I want full refund.

    (I know you can cuss on the internet, but that word has some baggage…)

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      That baggage still exists even if you leave out one of the letters.

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    • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Je suis en retard aujourd’hui

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this real? I’m pretty sure this is ilegal in my country

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  • spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What country and what law?

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People say stuff like that and I’m like, what’s the actual law? “It feels bad so it’s probably illegal.”

      This particular brand of bullshit is so new I doubt there’s any legislation out there. Maybe an existing consumer protection law could be bent to fit?

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  • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For one you don’t have to answer it or anything. Many streaming platforms have been doing this for awhile.

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    • Muehe@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not what OP said over on the (now deleted) Reddit post:

      So the ad was supposed to play in that black box and this is a bug?

      I had Bob’s Burgers on in the background but was playing a game with my kid. The silence caught my attention, but not at first. At first I assumed it was a, “choose your commercial” thing.

      After some more time I thought maybe it was asking if I was still watching, that’s when I looked up to see this

      I waited, nothing. I made a verbal comment and the whole family started looking. We waited, nothing.

      I grabbed my phone, snapped the pic, made the post (but didn’t actually post it), and it was still sitting there.

      I guessed an answer, got it right, and the show came back

      Then I hit “post” to actually make the post.

      Some people say it went away on its own. Others say, like me, they had to answer, and others said even after answering it didn’t go away

      I’ve had Bob’s Burgers on all morning and I’ve yet to see this again

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• SoJB@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I genuinely don’t understand why people still use Hulu when you can watch the same shit in better bitrate with no ads and no subscription

  We’re not even talking about a Plex server or anything just freakin stream it off the 1000 trusted sources

  The liberal mind is full of mysteries

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  • Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So uh. Just wanna get your input here.

    What single detail stands out to you as “liberal” here?

    I’m sure I’ll be fascinated by your answer.

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    • nomy@lemmy.zip ⁨37⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      It’s an .ml user if you don’t jump through their hoops then you’re not a real leftist and they’ll call you a “liberal” like they’re a fucking MAGAt.

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• mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  🏴‍☠️

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is where we’re headed: Image

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Headed? Were already there.

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hey Hulu, how many masts on my full-rigged ship?

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• Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Despicable

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• rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That image is 100% the academic quadrangle at Simon Fraser University. Hah.

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• IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What the fuck is a Hulu?

  All I know is !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (blocked by lemmy.world instance)

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Some kind of thing US people are reduced to using because their tv has become such a joke.

    Of course, now it’s become the new playground of the corpos. Can’t have the plebs wasting their leisure time without the important people getting some profit after all.

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• Trilobite@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Arrrrrhhhhhh

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• toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Your entertainment area looks lovely.

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure they used to do this, at least a hundred years ago, way back when companies first realised that there’s endless free real estate for adverts on the internet. Always wondered why they stopped.

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