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Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV
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>Yes there is. Absolutely no closed software ever. That's the rule you use. Even the modem on the phone I'm typing this on is running FOSS firmware. Don't compromise your freedom for convenience, you always end up with neither when you do. I don't think I understand fully the point you're trying to make. How does free and open source software prevent a software developer from inserting the code necessary for behavior…
Take a look at what just happened with Audacity. Open Source is no protection, unless you were aware of the situation and downloaded a fork.
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#263Speaking of this, YouTube changed recently for me and now unskippable ads are 15 seconds and if you watch them on a chromecast you can’t skip them from your phone anymore. You have to go into “remote control mode” and navigate the on-screen UI. Nothing grinds my gears worse than stuff you buy and integrate into your life unnecessarily degrading in performance/behaviour. I might actually be about done with YouTube, wh…
The correct thing to do for YouTube is to pay for the ad-free Premium version ( which also supports "content creators" more). A lot of people say they'd pay if they were given the option to remove ads, yet surprisingly few people opt to do it for YouTube ( which you can even share with friends and family up to 5 accounts, so it can be a decent deal). Why?
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Netflix is worth 10 times less. Netflix thinks a season is 10 episodes or less. Popular shows get cancelled a few get kept but seasons take years to come out. The availability of content goes down every year. I'm not sure it's worth what they are charging for compared to Prime, etc With cable you get to pick a channel and let them broadcast to you. You don't select the next episode you select a channel. The benefit o…
I think that the opinion of what streaming or cable service is the best is very much a personal preference. You've got Netflix, Hulu (still around I think?), CBC Gem and Acorn as the ones I hear about most often - the price to access any one of those services is a fraction of cable's cost - either half (if you assume you'd otherwise be without internet) or a tenth (if you're part of the vast majority of people that w…
You have plenty of choices: Netflix, prime, apple, crave, cbcgem, Paramount, acorn, mlb, nhl all access.
Add them together and it cost more than cable and cable offers more shows.
I have cable. I subscribe to a number of streaming services. I get more out of a weekly show where you wait vs having all shows available.
If you compare the circle vs big brother. Both are similiar shows equally good or bad depending on your preference. Binging all of circle at once is enjoyable but having a new big brother show to look forward to tonight offers something else.
I often tape shows and fast forward commericials if I feel ADHDish or leave them if I'm feeling lazy.
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#265Don't antagonise the customer seems like basic rule these guys are forgetting.
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#266I've had the Shield for years and set them up for a few family members. I still believe it's the best device of its kind on the market and I've recommended it every chance so I have a lot of friends with them as well. In the most recent update, the until-now ad-free homepage was defaced with an ad banner that takes up half the screen and can't be removed. This wasn't a change made by Nvidia but by Google to the Andro…
It was fucking absurd how big the ad was and that it was advertising for shit I have never and will never use!
> This wasn't a change made by Nvidia but by Google to the Android TV Launcher.
My understanding is that Google big-dicks companies that want to run android on their device and have Play Store. So in this case, my understanding is that if they remove the Android TV Launcher, they must remove all the Google-branded items, including Play Store, which basically cripples Android for normal users.
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#267Speaking of this, YouTube changed recently for me and now unskippable ads are 15 seconds and if you watch them on a chromecast you can’t skip them from your phone anymore. You have to go into “remote control mode” and navigate the on-screen UI. Nothing grinds my gears worse than stuff you buy and integrate into your life unnecessarily degrading in performance/behaviour. I might actually be about done with YouTube, wh…
The correct thing to do for YouTube is to pay for the ad-free Premium version ( which also supports "content creators" more). A lot of people say they'd pay if they were given the option to remove ads, yet surprisingly few people opt to do it for YouTube ( which you can even share with friends and family up to 5 accounts, so it can be a decent deal). Why?
Premium does not remove in-stream ads which are getting worse at the same rate as YouTube ads. I'm not paying for premium just to continue to see ads / use SponsorBlock.
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The correct thing to do for YouTube is to pay for the ad-free Premium version ( which also supports "content creators" more). A lot of people say they'd pay if they were given the option to remove ads, yet surprisingly few people opt to do it for YouTube ( which you can even share with friends and family up to 5 accounts, so it can be a decent deal). Why?
Because Youtube's kafka-esque content moderation policies frequently penalize the creators I care about, so I feel like paying them for ad free solidifies their monopoly. I hope a competitor starts taking marketshare from them soon. Ads serve as a reminder to watch less youtube.
"Ads serve as a reminder to watch less youtube."
This is actually what made me cancel my Youtube Premium. I hate ads and make every effort to eliminate them from my entertainment, but I found myself mindlessly watching hours of youtube without them. Back on the free tier I find I can't watch more than one or two short videos before I get so frustrated and move on to something more productive. Very useful.
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And where does the content you will play with Kodi come from?
There's an unofficial Netflix add-on, but I just set up a Plex server and use PlexKodiConnect (PKC) Kodi add-on.
I use the exact same solution.
But I'll be honest and admit that plenty of the content is the same content that is being advertised to me.
Even if I'm not going to buy it I still benefit from learning it exists.
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#270We're heading back to the 2000s. I fully expect YouTube to put ads into premium eventually. You are too valuable a commodity to them to do otherwise. (If you think you are a customer then lol, the advertisers are the customers)
I did a mental double-take when I once listened to a friend in ad tech describe his business. To refer to people who used ad-rich apps, he used the word “inventory”. This inventory is what they were selling to their customers, the advertisers.
I’m sure this is old news to a lot of people, but the use of that specific word neatly and fully betrays the shift in perspective that is natural and necessary in ad tech.
I feel fortunate that I can comfortably choose to never work at an ad-supported business.