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Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by collyw »

cwkoss wrote: post #356
HNLurker2 wrote: post #338

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Advertising just works. Don't doubt it on consumers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

Inoculate yourself and others from the effects of advertising by saying something negative about the brand whenever you see the ad. Ex. I saw a Mazda ad. "Mazdas are the perfect car for when you want to look like a complete idiot while burning to death in your poorly manufactured deathtrap."

Or live in a country where you don't speak the language well.

On a side note whenever I am in an airport in the states its amazing how much NLP (neuro linguistic programming) you guys are bombarded by.

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by _v7gu »

HNLurker2 wrote: post #339
antepodius wrote: post #158

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Get an adblocker!

Can't get one on chrome mobile. I know know...

Mobile Firefox has (almost?) full add-on parity with the desktop version. I don't know what I'd do without uBlock0 everywhere

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by apexalpha »

ramy_d wrote: post #146
jak92 wrote: post #76

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> child play outside by themselves is essentially illegal. No it's not.

kind of is though https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/manitoba-cfs-will-not-erase-fi... https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/arreste... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protective-services-called-on-m... https://reason.com/2015/06/11/11-year-old-boy-played-in-his-...

Aren't these stories newsworthy because it is ridiculous to not let kids play outside?

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by effingwewt »

cwkoss wrote: post #356
HNLurker2 wrote: post #338

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Advertising just works. Don't doubt it on consumers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

Inoculate yourself and others from the effects of advertising by saying something negative about the brand whenever you see the ad. Ex. I saw a Mazda ad. "Mazdas are the perfect car for when you want to look like a complete idiot while burning to death in your poorly manufactured deathtrap."

I find I do this automatically now. Whenever I see an ad the only thing I remember is not to buy whatever they are selling. For shows, I won't watch them. I even cancelled Netflix over their automatic trailers playing. Hulu is next with their unskippable commercials even on the 'ad free' plan

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by richjdsmith »

warent wrote: post #199
vincnetas wrote: post #179

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São Paulo is the city without outdoor advertisements. Random link: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...

That link is awesome and could be its own HN submission altogether

Submit it. I wholeheartedly agree!

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by Kiro »

Scottopherson wrote: post #89
anoncow wrote: post #65

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After subscribing to YouTube Premium, I had a similar revelation. Now if only we could have a google ad-free subscription which would turn off all google search and display network ads, our lives would be so much better! What if we could have cities outlaw advertising on billboards and instead collect a small tax to make up for the lost revenue, how much would our quality of life increase? That makes me wonder, if we…

I've been enjoying YouTube Red/Premium for about a year and a half but I'm kind of considering cancelling it to go back to using an adblocker for YouTube's embedded ads and supporting specific creators via Patreon or something. The majority of the channels I watch embed their own ad-reads into their videos now so the ad-free value proposition for Premium is getting much weaker for me.

As someone who only uses YouTube for music I'm glad that embedded ads are not a thing for music channels. YouTube Premium is worth a thousand times more than any Spotify subscription.

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by [deleted] »

effingwewt wrote: post #364
cwkoss wrote: post #356

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Inoculate yourself and others from the effects of advertising by saying something negative about the brand whenever you see the ad. Ex. I saw a Mazda ad. "Mazdas are the perfect car for when you want to look like a complete idiot while burning to death in your poorly manufactured deathtrap."

I find I do this automatically now. Whenever I see an ad the only thing I remember is not to buy whatever they are selling. For shows, I won't watch them. I even cancelled Netflix over their automatic trailers playing. Hulu is next with their unskippable commercials even on the 'ad free' plan

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Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by Fnoord »

bargl wrote: post #10

Worth. Every. Penny. I went to my parents house with my son. He was 4. They turned on cartoons. Then he said, "Dad why'd you change the show? I don't want to watch this." It was a commercial. I had to explain commercials to my son. It was at that moment I realized how much of my tv watching as a kid was commercials.

One of the reasons I got Netflix, and one of the reasons why I want to get rid of cable TV (I can't get internet without cable TV). However I am getting tired of the autoplay functions in Netflix. They. Are. Annoying.

Commercials for children are a cancer to society. They're a distraction and a waste of our precious time. Parents don't want it (they got enough on their hands as it is), children don't want it (it isn't content, they get manipulated).

While I will protect my children (and myself) from any commercials, its also good to teach them that not everything they notice is truth or can be achieved/bought.

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

danielfoster wrote: post #206

This is great but if your child is watching so much Netflix that 400 hours worth of commercials are avoided, maybe your child is watching too much? Go play with Legos or do something interactive...

> Go play with Legos or do something interactive...

Maybe they're watching Bandersnatch? ;)

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