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United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] theotherninjaturtle@lemmus.org 90 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Can it ever just stop?

[–] Wilshire@lemmy.world 63 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Yes, for a monthly subscription!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 82 points 5 months ago (3 children)

We tried that in the 80s already. Here's how it went down.

1980s comes along, and people had been seeing commercials on tv for years. So along comes this new concept. Now you can PAY to watch tv.....without ads. GREAT!

So people started paying for this new "cable tv". Then the cable operators were like "I know they're paying to not see ads......but what if we STILL showed ads, and STILL took their money????"

So that happened.

Then after some decades Netflix came around, originally with liscensed tv shows from all over tv.......except now you could PAY to watch them, without the ads. And then they drastically lost their liscensed content, and produced their own original content.

After a few decades, Netflix said "I know they're paying not to see commercials.......but what if we STARTED showing commercials, AND raised prices every few months."

Man, I can't wait for the next guy to charge me money to not see ads. Only to inevitably show me ads a few years later....

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What if I were to buy back all my own DVDs and watch them? Would I need to voluntarily show myself ads later?

[–] krysel@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago

Don’t worry the TV you are watching it on got you covered. https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/tv/how-to-exit-samsung-tv-plus-fix-how-to-disable-samsung-ads-fix/td-p/9352840

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