Wife and I use the same account. What do I do?
Average your ages and put "non-binary."
What if you're the same age and same gender. Damn, they got you both!
Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”
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#202Will these ads be shown in their paid product?
Yes, in the $7.99 "tier" apparently. I wasn't aware there even were tiers (not US).
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's due to contract reasons. Hulu keeps a list of shows they are required to show ads on: https://help.hulu.com/s/article/no-ads-exceptions
Contracts the wrote themselves for themselves. Disney owns Hulu and ABC and ABC owns Grey’s Anatomy. They aren't being forced to show ads. They chose too.
Grey's might have had a contract with an advertiser or other promotional partner that required them to show certain ads during the show.
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#204I'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?
You're not alone. Not at all. I'm also tired of the mentality that we need advertising or the internet would cease to exist. In my opinion, if you need invasive advertising revenue to exist, you don't need to be on the internet. Advertisements are slowing everything down. Tracking us. Serving us malware in some cases. We don't need them. Pi-hole/adguard could be standard. I'd rather pay $200 more for a TV set than ha…
Hardware like TVs are especially insidious because unlike a service you don't simply decide to stop using it one day and the ad revenue stops. Rather ad revenue continues for the lifetime of the TV and there is very little chance that a company will forgo that recurring ad revenue in exchange for an increase in up-front MSRP
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#205My birthday is always January 1st, 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC
My failed PHP date conversions look similar...
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#206Re: Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”
#207If only there were a service that: - Doesn't show ads, or steal your personal information. - Has all the content from every major streaming service. - Is scalable and efficient without a centralized single point of failure. - Can be used with 100% free and open source software. - Lets you keep your favorite shows forever without being subject to the whims of corporate licensing.
Try torrents in I2P. They don't have everything but growing.
I think it was rhetorical question subtly implying torrent.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
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. MAKE SURE to use Firefox, with "uBlock Origin" and "Privacy Badger" plugins before going to any of these links. Also if you're on Windows,…
you know you could just link r/freemediaheckyeah right?
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ...
In 1980 we had Showtime at our house. Standard VHF channels 2-13 that did have ads and one extra premium channel with no ads.
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#210Does ANYBODY EVER provide an accurate response to a question like that (except when there's reason to believe they can detect it and do something to your detriment if you lie)? If so, why? Anybody who asks deserves to be chaffed into oblivion with garbage data. Especially, who would be dumb enough to admit to being under 18, or, worse, under 13? An 8 year old should see the obvious reasons not to do that. A bright 6…
I know somebody who lost an instagram account like this. Provided fake info when signing up. Years later, get a request to post an id or get banned. Id didn't match the fake info of course, so account banned all the same.