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Hold on. Paying for ads is now normalized?
We are so fucking stupid.
It was normalized with cable television.
Yes since netflix popularized it
I believe Hulu was the original offender.
Are we forgetting cable television?
Movie theatres
No, but that was a (slightly) different kind of fuckery.
Like basically everything, that was enshittification as well, Cable TV used to not have ads. That was a big part of the marketing compared to broadcast TV.
I mean, Hulu was basically designed and owned by the cable companies. Not sure why that seems surprising for people.
I think it was cable TV.
People pay money for this shit?
I don't, my employer does though. Assisting with certain coding tasks is pretty much the only thing it's good about it.
This isn't for copilot though
ChatGPT No thank you.
Enshittification speed run 100%
Ok whatever. I'm just waiting for the 🎈📌
Good news, everyone! We discovered a new way to make up plausible sounding bullshit...now all that is left to discover is how to make it stop showing you ads.
These guys are desperate for revenue. It’s a last ditch effort cash grab so they don’t go bankrupt.
They’ve already committed to spend over a trillion dollars on infrastructure. They’re going down long before that ever happens.
How do you know the authorities won't just keep printing money for them?
The scale of their commitments is just… too big.
Too big for what? Haven't been any requirements to print money for like 55 years
Unless they make trump the chairman of the board and replace the rest with his chosen mouthpieces, he’d rather pocket the trillion in a Qatar slush fund.
If it was like 25b maybe they would do it, but 1400b is better spent erecting gold monuments in every city with a 3 year lease that has terms to drop the monuments off in maralago
I wonder if you can trick the Ai into serving you an ad and then convincing it to trash the company, and then meme on it, ruining the revenue source.