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[-] hunter2@sh.itjust.works 182 points 11 months ago

If I learned one thing, when talking with people about stuff like that: Most people unfortunately don't care. Many don't even have an ad blocker to begin with.

[-] Perroboc@lemmy.world 159 points 11 months ago
[-] fusio@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

ah, time for a re-watch I guess

[-] tux7350@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago
[-] Baizey@feddit.dk 25 points 11 months ago

The it crowd

Have a good binge

[-] LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch 11 points 11 months ago

It's one of the last of the laugh track comedies. Wondering what kids of the future are going to think about shows like that.

[-] Marduk73@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

they had a live audience. at least for the basement/office scenes

[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 7 points 11 months ago

Laugh tracks and audiences are the worst.

If your show requires prompting on when to laugh, it's probably not as funny as you think.

Many shows just aren't that funny when you take out the laughing, and if you were to cut all the awkward pauses the show would be 7 minutes shorter.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

"rolling laughter" is a technique you have to learn as a live performer for a reason. TV shows at the time had to bridge the gap as the 80s/90s invention of stand up as an art form set the tone for how comedy should be.

It's not that it was always bad, it's just that culture changed. Same as how a Jacobite audient would find it real weird we watch theatre inside(!), sitting down(!!) and not talking during the show(!!!).

[-] fusio@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

there are shows where it works (Frasier) and shows where it's horrible (Frasier 2023)

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

The IT Crowd is objectively hilarious without the laugh track. It's a British thing. They have laugh tracks or studio audiences on most programs.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 3 points 11 months ago

I know you are right about all of this, and yet I will still watch shows like the old Addams Family while I'm doing something else just to have a distraction

[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago

I still have a couple shows I enjoy despite the laugh track... Just in general I would prefer not to watch them, and I'm unlikely to give a new show half a chance if it has one.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

Just maybe avoid watching it in a way that the creator profits from.

[-] ugh@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

It doesn't seem to be streaming anywhere, so anyone who doesn't have an excessive amount to spend on a TV series won't be giving any profits to the creators.

[-] ElJefe@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago
[-] Perfide@reddthat.com 7 points 11 months ago

An episode of the IT Crowd had a B story that was kinda transphobic. It was minor enough and the show was popular enough he probably could've easily just apologized and that would've been that. But instead, in 2013 after said episode was brought up and criticized for being transphobic to the creator, said creator tripled down and became a full on anti-trans "activist" who makes even JK Rowling seem benign by comparison.

[-] ElJefe@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Ohh dang. Thanks for the explain. I’ve never seen IT Crowd, and now I have a good reason not to. Fuck that guy.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Graham Linehan is a prolific transphobe

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

He's also actively picking fights with supporters of trans and non-binary people, such as recently David Tennant of all people.

[-] joneskind@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Look, I was among the glorious warriors who installed Firefox on his parents/grandparents PC and replaced its shortcut’s image with IE’s one (because old people hate changes and won’t accept it easily)

  • Oh again! They keep changing my Google internet!
  • Yes grandma, it’s Windows… (« It wasn’t Windows » says the narrator in a deep and mysterious voice) Do you want me to install Linux? It’s free and open source and…
  • Keep that commie thing away from me, I like that meadow picture…
  • You know you can change th…
  • Don’t you dare!

Anyway. We did it. We killed IE hegemony. It’s up to the new generation to take the baton and fight against the tyranny of Google.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago

The idea of installing Linux on a grandparent's computer is just asking for trouble. I convinced my father in law to give a Chromebook a try since he mostly just uses his computer to get online and boy, was that tricky. The average person has no idea what an Operating System is and will call you the minute they can't install a new program for some reason.

[-] explodicle@local106.com 6 points 11 months ago

I had a very successful experience! My grandmother had no idea how computers worked at all, so I set up a very stripped-down Ubuntu that didn't even allow multiple windows open. I could easily remote in whenever she had an issue.

She used it to check her email, read the news, and watch Obama's weekly address until the week she died. (Unrelated to the computer)

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

I feel like there's a curve of where this could work. For the extremely technically illiterate or technically literate, you'd be ok. But for the middle chunk of the population, it'd be more confusing than it's worth.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

It can be very good for folk who are too tech illiterate to install any program by themselves.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The people who don't care and don't have an adblocker aren't and weren't ever the target. The people who are being targeted have an adblocker, and they're all moving to FireFox.

What Google is getting out of this most of all is future compliance as new users coming to Chrome will never know a world in which ad blockers were freely available on Chrome, as well as dog whistling this to other corporate browser vendors.

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago

Don't forget they're pushing chrome on the whole internet. Websites are already telling Firefox users to fuck off if we aren't spoofing chromium and it's only going to get worse after this.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Firefox is my daily and I very rarely encounter a site that specifically rejects it. Do you have some examples?

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Seriously it's opposite for me actually. I find that websites tend to have issues on chromium but they don't on Firefox

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I'd tell you but it'd dox me. I can't pay my utilities on Firefox.

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 11 points 11 months ago

Long term they will move to Firefox also.

Because people like us will continue to suggest they use Firefox as their "tech person".

It's just a little slower for the people that don't care.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

That is exactly how Chrome took over internet explorer back in the day.

[-] RTRedreovic@feddit.ch 8 points 11 months ago

And many people also do use an adblocker https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users

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