This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I'm all for services making a reasonable profit and being able to fund new shows and such endeavors...
But we're rapidly getting into an environment of "soaking viewers for all we can get out of them" simply to feed the fucking shareholders ever larger payouts.
Thank you Milton Friedman. π
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Implying there's anything worth pirating on Netflix these days.
β[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,β Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, per the publication.
Amy, I want you to be honest with me, are you an alien.
Because on planet Earth we do not, if fact, pay as much attention to the ads as to the things we're actually interested in. Famously our brains even produce this fascinating effect to spare us from the bullshit you're shoving into our eyeballs.
I'm just waiting for it to be like that Black Mirror episode where ads came on, the guy closed his eyes, and alarms went off until he opened them again.
The bad thing about those kind of shows, is that while most people see that as a warning, and something to avoid.
Some people immediately start charting a path to how to make it a reality, and sometimes those people are very very smart and can chart a path that might take decades.
I say this while on the toilet, writing on a device that has cameras both front and back, always on microphones and location sensors, and facial recognition and 3D scanning equipment.
When the personalized condom ads start popping up, I will only be slightly annoyed.
They show me an ad, and they are out. It is that simple. Luckily, my life does not depend on streaming.
Netflix will what now? Sorry, I was busy canceling my netflix account.
Kidding, I canceled it ages ago when the $10 version became SD-only with ads.}
Why do we keep paying people like this to enshittify everything?
i just subscribe to the netflix tier that serves all streams as torrents
Between that, price hike, and some weirdly low quality content because you don't use this or that browser, netflix really wants people to stop their subscriptions it seems.
High seas baby!
There is surely a recognisable pattern here in which people leave because of this shit and to keep the flow of money going up they then have to further reduce quality by increasing ads.
I deleted my facebook a few weeks ago and signing in for the first time in years gave a look at what it became and it was unrecognisable.
If I pay for a service and get ads, that service is dead to me forever.
94 million people decided $10 a month savings was worth watching ads rather than doing without. Fuck em. They are the reason many things only have an ad supported tier. Pay for stuff or pirate it, but don't use ad supported tiers when you have a choice.
β[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,β Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, per the publication.
In terms of attention, she's either lying or admitting that members barely pay attention to their content.
They have told writers to dumb things down and have the characters speak aloud what theyβre doing because so many people doom scroll while itβs on in the background.
There not making quality. Theyβre making elevator music for your home.
Either they have great technology, or they have great entertainment,β she said. βOur superpower has always been the fact that we have both.
Please. Your software is an image carousel and a video player.
"Millions of former subscribers will cancel their accounts in 2026"
FTFY
The sooner people realize that the subscribers are nothing more than super-slow-boiled frogs to them, the better.
Pirating has never felt so good. Normally I'm indifferent to it but now I'm enjoying it.
So the dead Internet extends to streaming.
Also anyone else interested in just crazy an ai add what will be.
I was looking to cut down on subscriptions and picked Netflix as an experimental one. I haven't missed it at all. Things like this make me less likely to occasionally reactivate for a couple of months as I was originally planning.
I wonder when they'll see a big enough effect to break their current run of fucking over their customers.
Soo... the ad income is higher than the energy costs of gen. AI? They lied about the pennies per visit? π’
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I'm sorry, did you say Netflix is going to be pirated aggressively for the few shows that aren't complete slop?
Well piracy is the only way then.
