Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text
Submitted 2 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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comador@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Pirate everything
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You know what doesn’t have ads, ever? Pirated movies and shows.
Why pay insane extortion fees for a deliberately worse experience? It’s like paying somebody to slap you in the face instead of enjoying a free, uninterrupted walk in the park.
As long as these satanic corporations continue to be focused on making their services as unusable and expensive as remotely possible - there’s literally no reason to pay for them, other than donating to a pedophile cult.
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We went full piracy in loke 2002, stayed that way until about 2017, and now in 2026 have reverted to full piracy again. Time to remind them what killed cable.
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When The Pirate Bay launched in 2003, I went full piracy then and never looked back.
From an outsider’s perspective, it’s like watching a wild roller-coaster ride from the sidelines. Never understood all the Netflix hype when they first launched their streaming service. Tried it once in the early 2010s and was beyond disappointed; the vast majority of of content I wanted to watch was not on there (and still isn’t).
These days I use Stremio paired with Torrentio and a Debrid service. Instant streams to anything I could ever want to watch, and it’s all there in one place. IDK why people would pay for multiple streaming services when you can just have one.
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My conspiracy theory is that Netflix existed as it did for so long to try and kill piracy so they could spring the current corpo hellscape on us; they just pulled the trigger to early.
My dad swore off piracy as soon as netflix was good enough because the price was so low and EVERYTHING was on there (and it was legal). By the time he wanted to get back into it, TPB and his other go-tos were dead, so he still just pays the subscription.
Ive tried to educate him but hes still stuck in corpo hell
fishy@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Streaming killed cable though? Streaming was so good and reasonably priced I had no good reason to pirate. Now the streaming services are more jam packed with ads and as expensive as cable was, so it’s back to the high seas for me matey.
phineas1134@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Woah, woah, woah. Easy there. I don’ think the Satanists want to be associated with these corporations.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And there are plenty of ways to get a Netflix like UI.
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Plex sucks omega ass
This post sponsored by the Jellyfin gang
dil@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Stremio and it’s alternatives work alright
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Our neighborhood got a new cable operator about a year ago, and they’re great. I can go back and watch any show from the previous 4 days, and skim through all the commercials. I hardly ever watch a show when it’s being broadcast. If there’s a show on tonight, I’ll watch a show that was on last night first, then watch tonight’s show when it’s over, and I can skip all the commercials.
I can also record a ton of stuff.
SystemDisc@feddit.org 2 months ago
IPtorrents ftw
turdburglar@piefed.social 2 months ago
jellyfin doesn’t. and your shows never go to another streamer. oh and you can watch them when the internet goes out. oh and they don’t track your watching habits.
why are you watching paramount again?
starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t Jellyfin something you have to run on your own server? It’s not comparable to normal streaming services in any shape or form.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
It is comparable because they fill the same service.
It just needs more configuration on your end. Unless you can join a friend who has setup their own.
BC_viper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I remember watching TV a while ago. I think it was paramount?. But for every 5 minutes of movie they played 10 minutes of commercials. It was the most infuriating thing I ever saw. Abandoned the movie after 30 minutes.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
thats alot more annoying than MILD.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You made it a lot farther than I would have. One second into the first commercial is as far as I would have made it.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Unrealistic, you can see the show in the center.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was pretty optimistic, as far as dystopian fiction goes.
knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Link@rentadrunk.org 2 months ago
Good list but https://jellyfin.org/
knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I wanted to use jellyfin, but it’s not quite there yet.
That said emby’s live streaming of FAST streams is so bad that I keep a channels subscription active just to use as a buffer.
reddig33@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And they just raised their subscription price. 😆
ignotum@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well they need to pay their teams of engineers dedicated to adding ads everywhere, that ain’t cheap!
desmosthenes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
/uninstall & cancel
obvs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I noticed this on a relative’s YouTubeTV, that when I paused to read the screen, it threw garbage up on the screen over the text. “Mildly infuriating” is right!
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t it funny, when you visit a relative or friend and see their TV and web browser experience is full of ads and shit, while at home you see no ads and sometimes forget they even exist? I’ve noticed this many times.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
same.
mimavox@piefed.social 2 months ago
Yep. Except in podcasts. They can’t be avoided there in any other way than hammering the forward button. F-ing nuisance.
arin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wtf is this a tv thing or a youtubeTV thing? Or 3rd party YouTube app?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll take “How did this television get a bullet hole in it?” for 300
halezinflames@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Ad-shittification
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’ve never once had a commercial on Jellyfin.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I put some classics on mine like the one with ‘what are you sinking about?’
ceenote@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This seems more than mildly infuriating
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Not just peacock. Ads are invasive. I watch a game show on YouTube because I can pause it to read the lists. The same gameshow on Prime goes right into an ad when I pause. I hope this was a human dumb feature and not an evil design perk for the overlords. I amend what Shakespeare said…“First, we kill all the advertisers”.
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
VLC and mpv do not.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Friends don’t let friends subscribe. If you’re 20 something know this… We fought our way out of bunny antenna TV and cable shows. We left that for freedom to choose to watch anything we could find on the net. Dvx. But tv followed us. Its here trying to reclaim its “lost revenue”.
Cancel, don’t subscribe! Fight for your right!
cosmos8188@leminal.space 2 months ago
That is true… But the issue is more widespread than just applying to 20 something year olds. Teenagers also have these exact problems - fighting the industry takes everyone of all ages not just a select few.
PostaL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
🏴☠️🦜⚓
jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
My wife wanted to watch Obession this weekend, which is streaming on Peacock. That was the first time I’ve watched anything on there in at least a year. What a garbage ass service. Like 3 minutes of ads before the movie starts. Then ads on the pause screen.
1984@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Subscription service huh? Yup.
DementedSociety@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yarr! Matey! Maybe ye should join us on the open seas!
FluidBeef@quokk.au 2 months ago
Jellyfin
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
or you can just pirate the movie /show somewhere.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a broadcast TV corp. Of course, they’re going to lean into the commercials. They were born in commercials, molded by them.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
That’s what people don’t understand. Those networks are in the ADVERTISING business, that’s ALL they’re about. The “Content” is just to attract you to the network, let you get comfortable, and hope you’re too lazy to get up and walk away, or even change the channel, when the Advertising comes on.
In a battle between Content and Advertising, Advertising will always win.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So does HBO
pseudo@jlai.lu 2 months ago
I hate them. This kind of small interaction ads are even more intrusive than other kind.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
peacock came about during mid pandemic, trying to lure in people with old shows like house, and hosting SVU. it kinda fell off once the other streams took over.
lemmelemmy@feddit.org 2 months ago
Stremio 👍
Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought stremio died
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Got an ipTV box earlier this year and immediately cancelled everything. Saving hundreds of dollars. I strongly recommend finding someone to hook you up.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Note to self: Hi self, you’re awesome! Thanks for not spending all my money on streaming services that treat you like shit, and keep raising prices. I shall continue to not buying peacock…or hulu…or netflix.
“No commercials version, $3 extra…may contain commercials.”
Fuck the core concept of that.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I was on an airplane the other day, the ticket advertised free wifi, but in reality you have to watch ads to unlock minutes.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Which airline was this?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Tell us what airline so we know which to avoid.
That sounds fucking atrocious. Flying can already be stressful, and I usually just try to relax and chill for the whole flight. It’s one thing if a nearby passenger is being annoying. It can make a five hour flight seem like an eternity. Even worse for longer flights.
But to be forced by the airline to watch ads on the screen? Fuck that. I always turn my screen off. I don’t want that in my face.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s real cool flying with a toddler that I’m desperately trying to keep away from screens only to have them be forcibly mesmerized by bullshit on screens that can’t be shut off.
luxadazy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank God you didn’t mention the airline, I was really worried your vague post would have context in it
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It drives business people insane, that people who have enough disposable income to pay to remove ads, are exactly the high value customers that they can charge more money to advertise to.
Once you have a ‘no ads’ tier, your advertisers know that the only people they’re getting seen by are people who don’t spend money, and they won’t want to advertise with you. But if you make a special “here’s an audience who piss away money like it’s going out of fashion” tier, they’ll triple their spend.