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Remember all those time they told you something and you said "Oh that will never happen"? Well remember this (lemmy.world)
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[–] pro3757@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

* Calls 911 *

"Name your drink, McDonald's has it. For the special..."

* 30 seconds later *

"Thank you for calling 911.
For reporting a burglary, press 1.
If you are being chased by an armed person, press 2.
....
For an ambulance, press 14.
If you want to talk to an operator, press 0."

* Presses 0 *

This call is being recorded for training and monitoring purposes. You will be connected to an operator after the beep.

* Beep *

"Hello I'm Haley 9000, an AI powered voice operator. How can I help you?"

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I had this terrible dream that I went to a movie theater and had to watch ads in the middle and more right before the end of the film. And they told me if I wanted to skip the ads I would have to pay 50% more for my already $20 ticket.

Remember when movies were $5 for matinee or sometimes one day in the week was $5. ? Anyone ?

It wasn't that long ago.

I used to go to the movies like 1x or 2x a month. Now it's literally been years. I think last time was the first new dune movie.

Sad.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

Sometimes all i feel when i read this shit is!

“HELL YEAH, ENSHITIFACATE ME HARDER DADDY”

“Make me hate you even more, make everyone else hate you like i have always done you sick pattern of economic misaligned”

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We're not far off really. I'd wager more people are using things like WhatsApp or Discord for calls, and there are ads baked into those.

[–] eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

There are ads in those?! Why the fuck are people putting up with that?

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's like youtube. If you wanna watch a video of something, it is most likely on there. Same as discord, if you wanna chat with your mates in a game or join any kind of geek topic centric community they are very likely to have a only a discord for that.

Granted there are options to fight the power such as freetube or vesktop on linux that allow you to use the services while exposing as little as possible of yourself, but you still have to in order to participate in most places.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I haven’t watched a YouTube ad in years. Ublock origin is the way.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Me neither, i go to almost any length to avoid ads in general. The point was that i still have to use youtube and jump through all those hoops to do it in an acceptable way, because that's where the content is.

Same as discord, they are less obnoxious with ads than youtube but they are data thirsty mfers. Using a plugin supporting client allows to disable some of that and otherwise obfuscate yourself/getting at premium features, but again i would rather not use it except i have to because everyone is on there.

[–] eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

I am just not interested in engaging with projects that exclusively use discord for their community, so I don't.

Doesn't feel like I'm missing out.

(Guter Nutzername BTW)

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Network effect. And most people's tolerance for ads is crazy high.

So those people can chat with me through a Matrix bridge while I wear my hazmat suit.

[–] eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah but it's exactly that tolerance that I don't understand – on an emotional level.

Sure I can rationally construct reasons for why this has developed in this way and why people got used to it, but I can't get entirely get rid of this initial "how can the third ad in 20 minutes of video not make you furious?" reaction.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 1 day ago

I can only assume it's a frog in a pot of boiling water type situation for people that haven't just used ad-blockers since their creation.

Also a lot of people just pay for premium to remove them instead.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I disabled auto-update on Discord for Android right after the announcement that ads were coming. They haven't broken anything for the old version yet, so I'm gonna keep using it until it breaks. Unfortunately not so lucky on the desktop version.

[–] ttyybb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you use vesktop, you can add custom CSS to block their adds.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

TIL. Thanks!

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yall still talking on the phone

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah. It's not my favorite. Still, most people can talk and listen faster than than a stenographer can type. There's also the added layer of nonverbal information in oral communication that isn't in text. Calls are still more effective for most matters that are both urgent and important. I don't like them, but I'll resort to them if I need to.

[–] Trihilis@ani.social 2 points 1 day ago

Thats why you sail the high seas OP.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm really fucking tired of cleaning up after people who told me I was overreacting.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Answer this quick survey to read your SMS.

[–] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

... or the voice call feature will be deprecated due to the universal use of text messaging and advertisers will refuse to buy ads for a defunct technology.

[–] Glen_McHardt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ist that even a meme?

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

It's already mostly scammers that call me

[–] sparkles@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Life was pretty peaceful when I only had a landline..

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 1 points 1 day ago

Voice calls sponsored by Mountain Dew. Drink a verification can to continue.