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Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

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Re: Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

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I went from Exodus to Covenant and then eventually gave up on tweaking kodi and slowly went the path of least resistance to streaming services. But now it just feels like a repeat of cable tv with balcanized services. What do you recommend in the high seas, and how do you manage the threat of malware?

So first, get a VPN. I go with ProtonVPN. Mullvad is also high quality VPN. You need these because the copyright wonks surveil popular torrent trackers.

Then, I stick primarily with video and audio. I stay away from software piracy because I prefer my data to be in FLOSS formats.

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Movies:

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    Nebulance (NBL) - Very good alternative to BTN and easy to join. Great for finding/requesting old, unpopular, obscure shows. NBL can be joined through MAM. You are eligible the moment you become PU, which is 1 month.

    Filelist - One of the largest general private trackers. Romanian tracker, but media content will typically include dual language audio (English and Romanian). The tracker might be smaller compared to IPT but the quality control is better, especially for movies and TV shows. You will be able to find high quality encodes from PTP and BTN which you might not find on IPT. Can be joined through MAM with a 5 months old account

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    beyond-hd.me (BHD) - Movies/TV tracker. Focuses on HD and some SD content. Originally home to the famous FRaMeSToR remux group but then many more after AHD died. Currently the best alternative to PTP and BTN. After AHD's demise, this is now the 2nd best tracker for high quality encodes too. Can be joined through RED (either be Elite user class OR power user with 6 months old account)

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    HD-Torrents (HDT) - Movies/TV tracker. Focuses on HD content only. This tracker is great for HD movies though not as good as PTP. Specialty lies in allowing of multiple untouched material of the same movie, which helps in getting those foreign languages, different audio/video quality, or even different content in audio/videos. Slightly superior to PTP in this regard. You can pay for an account through their website. (Note - Only buy the account from their own website, not a 3rd party)

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    TV Chaos UK - TV tracker. Great site for UK TV content. Best joined through requesting on /r/invites (proof of ratio from other sites required). Quality lacks a bit so use it with a TV tracker like BTN to get the most of UK content

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    TV Vault (TVV) - TV tracker. Best private tracker for old TV shows. Best way to join it is through MAM.

    More Than TV (MTV) - Movies/TV tracker. 2nd best private tracker for TV after BTN. Retention is not good but with a strong request section, this is not an issue. Can be joined through RED

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    alpharatio.cc - A general private tracker focused on scene releases. Inferior in content compared to other general trackers like IPT, TL, FL etc but has a very strong request section. Great for requests for which personalised trackers don't exist or aren't good enough. Can be joined through MAM and RED during AR's global invites period, keep an eye out
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And there's also https://thepiratebay.org .

Re: Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

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I'm so exhausted from constant advertisements. I'm so tired of my information being sold off to third parties in order to deliver ads. I'm so tired of good, useful tools and services requiring a forfeit of my privacy in order to use them. Does anyone else wish that they could just exist without being told to buy something every 15 waking minutes?

That's why I pirate; no reason to pay for these streaming companies, and have my personal info collected to be sold and receive ads. Just frak these companies, I'm tired of this.

Remember that old meme (I was not even called a meme at the time!) about the steps required to watch a genuine DVD compared with the ones required for a pirate file? We need an updated version.

Re: Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

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My simple solution I’m a 99 year old male. Good luck advertising to me.

Reverse mortgages. Walk-in tubs. Emergency call lanyards. Prearranged funerals. Rain gutter protection. Stair lifts. Arthritis liniment. Blood glucose monitors. No-medical life insurance. Prepared home-delivery meals. Assisted living domiciles. Denture cream. Believe me, there is no end to being a target market.

So daytime TV commercials?

Re: Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

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I have dim memories of lego positioning their stuff as gender-neutral when I was a kid. That went comprehensively out the window in the mid-90s or so, presumably when some lego marketer discovered the (dubious) joys of market segmentation.

Yeah I was raised during the first (second?) gender neutral parenting fad. Marketing is what killed it. Boys followed “He-Man” and girls “She-Ra”. Come to think of it, those are the most heavily gendered characters in existence. Look at their freaking names!

He-Man wasn't any more targeted at boys than Transformers was. She-Ra was the most overtly gendered (being a "girl version" of an existing show) but it wasn't any more targeted at girls than My Little Pony was. Many cartoons in the 80s were just ads selling toys that were intended to be sold in either the blue aisle or the pink aisle.

Growing up I watched both He-man and She-Ra, in fact I thought She-Ra was the better show since it had a somewhat darker tone than He-Man did, but I didn't know any boys who owned She-Ra toys.

Jem and the Holograms was supposed to sell fashion dolls sold in the pink aisle (competing with Barbie), but the show itself was specifically written with lots of action to keep boys interested so they wouldn't change the channel and prevent their sisters from watching.

Re: Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

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I'm so exhausted from constant advertisements. I'm so tired of my information being sold off to third parties in order to deliver ads. I'm so tired of good, useful tools and services requiring a forfeit of my privacy in order to use them. Does anyone else wish that they could just exist without being told to buy something every 15 waking minutes?

That's why I pirate; no reason to pay for these streaming companies, and have my personal info collected to be sold and receive ads. Just frak these companies, I'm tired of this. Remember that old meme (I was not even called a meme at the time!) about the steps required to watch a genuine DVD compared with the ones required for a pirate file? We need an updated version.

https://i0.wp.com/farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4369403959_fe...

found here in case they hate the hotlink: https://www.techdirt.com/2010/02/19/reminder-you-dont-compet...

Re: Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

#176

I'm so exhausted from constant advertisements. I'm so tired of my information being sold off to third parties in order to deliver ads. I'm so tired of good, useful tools and services requiring a forfeit of my privacy in order to use them. Does anyone else wish that they could just exist without being told to buy something every 15 waking minutes?

Have you considered supporting an alternative system to capitalism? I don’t see this changing anytime soon because it is so profitable in our current system.

A capitalist economy isn't the problem, the problem is that we have a capitalist government. Laws could be written to keep the amoral monsters who value increased profit over everything else (including human life) in check, but "our" representatives have been bought and paid for by companies who want to push ads and since money = votes oppressive multinational corporations have more power over our government than any of us do.

Re: Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

#177

I'm so exhausted from constant advertisements. I'm so tired of my information being sold off to third parties in order to deliver ads. I'm so tired of good, useful tools and services requiring a forfeit of my privacy in order to use them. Does anyone else wish that they could just exist without being told to buy something every 15 waking minutes?

Just pay for the ad free tier of Disney+?

Re: Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

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Money is also a social construct, yet I suspect it has a decent impact on their bottom line.

How do you mean? The thing you are measuring affects your measurement?

Your assumption is the data is meaningless, yet the data shows that excluding self-reported gender from ad targeting leads to worse ad performance...

Re: Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

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I think he's talking about the 70s or sometime back then

I looked into this and it’s not true that cable existed without ads. From a 1981 NYT article > Although cable television was never conceived of as television without commercial interruption, there has been a widespread impression - among the public, at least -that cable would be supported largely by viewers' monthly subscription fees. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv ...

Cable television may not have been conceived of as television without commercial interruption, but it was heavily advertised as being ad free and for a time it really was. I remember the ad creep. It started with channels adverting themselves or shows/movies that would air or replay later on their channel, then came ads for shows airing on other channels, then came the commercials for cars and dish soap.

Re: Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

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Why does Disney really need this information for advertising purposes when they already know what shows somebody is watching? I realize that any age/gender can watch any show, and of course a lot of Disney's catalogue is pretty universal to age/gender, but there's going to be some kind of a signal in anybody's viewing history. If some profile is routinely watching a show about makeup or horses or ballet dances, you h…

Because watching Starwars doesn’t equate to buying Ziplock bags. Playing video games, of any kind as an adult is such a norm today that it’s not entirely accurate to say “well this person plays Mario, let’s advertise crayola”,

> Because watching Starwars doesn’t equate to buying Ziplock bags.

Sometimes it does.

https://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Sandwich-Featuring-Different-D...

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