vithigar

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

Using ad blockers is piracy, insofar as you're avoiding paying the price the content provider has set for that content. The price is watching the ads, rather than being something directly monetary, and you're not paying it.

That said, neither that nor piracy are theft, and in both cases I gladly pirate because the prices in most instances have gotten away too high for what you get. Either in terms of subscription cost, or the time and quantity of ads delivered.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I don't mind the prefixed punctuation at all and don't think it hurts readability in the slightest.

Your inexplicable decision to capitalize the final letters is awful though, and definitely makes it less readable.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Have done this several times for content on Disney+. I have an ultrawide, HDR1000 display. The movie I'm trying to watch is in 21:9 and available in HDR. Why in God's name are you delivering it in SDR and in a letterboxed 16:9 which is in turn pillarboxed on my display?!

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm fine with a woman choosing not to change her name, but banning the practice altogether seems a bit weird.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is good, if the competing products/services are interchangeable and they need to compete on factors such as price, convenience, or reliability. For example, competing grocery stores, all of which offer by and large the same products. Or competing mechanics, all of which can perform service on your car.

Streaming services don't do this. They have carved up the market and "compete" by making you choose which products you want more.

Imagine two grocery stores, one of which had all the ice cream, and the other had all the chocolate, and neither could carry things that the other stocked. That is what streaming services are doing.

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