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Netflix Plans to Bring Ads to Even More Parts of Its Service (uk.pcmag.com)
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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 47 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Netflix plan to bring even more ads to even more parts of it's service.....and I plan to continue not being a customer.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 7 points 15 hours ago

yarrrrrrrrrr

[–] Mihies@programming.dev -1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

TBH it's just for their ad tier.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Back in the day, the "ad tier" for shit was free and you only paid money to not have ads at all.

[–] docus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Back in my days they had no ad tier, and their prices were reasonable.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social -1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, how old are you that you remember when TV didn't have ads?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think they were talking about TV :)

But yeah, I used to export shows from my Tivo, decrypt them, run them through comskip, re-encode to divx them with handbrake and store them on cds :)

Most 30m shows had at least 7-8 minutes of commercials. Some cartoons had 2 shows in a 30m timeslot, commercials up to the 1m mark, 10m of show, commercial break to the next show, 6-7m of ads, ran up to 2-3 mins before the half our and had another commercial or three shove in the outro.

[–] musicalphysics@discuss.online 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Now that cable has moved into a streaming online service not much room left for TiVo. Commercials will reign again.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, that makes my heart sad, but my tivo went out in the trash before 2010.

HDMI copy + comskip still exists, though.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You still pay money to have no ads at all 🙃

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Woosh....

Now you also pay money to have ads.