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Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

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Post by FrankoDelMar »

rendall wrote: post #104
distcs wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question. Where you buy your clothes from? As much as I would like to buy clothes without logos, they are not easy to find where I live.

I live in Finland. My favorite place to get sportswear and just daily wear is H&M. No logos. My favorite design house is Makia. Really amazing stuff. https://makia.com/ but if it has a big-assed Makia logo I don't buy it. When I lived in New York there were so many options it was hard to choose, but I'd check out used clothing boutiques for fun things.

You may be interested -- Karhu is from Finland and makes minimally branded sneakers

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Post by rendall »

idopmstuff wrote: post #128
rendall wrote: post #96

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This is a false dichotomy. Your choice is to pay extra for a logo, or pay less for equivalent quality but no logo. You choose logo. Why?

Even if this were the case (it's not), there's still a time cost - I have to find the brand without the logo that's the same quality. I buy athletic shorts maybe once every 2-3 years almost always on Black Friday. I know Nike shorts will be high quality, and I know they'll fit. Wading through the many non-logo brands, trying them on, returning the ones that are bad, etc. might take me several hours to save tens of do…

Learn to recognize quality by sight, particularly by stitching and materials, not logo.

Logos are not emblematic of quality, but of good marketing (shoes aside - Nike makes good sneakers).

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Post by [deleted] »

transcriptase wrote: post #83
rendall wrote: post #48

I flat out do not watch ads. If a platform has ads, I do not watch it full stop. I pay YouTube for no ads. If I lost that option, I would not watch YouTube. Same with all of the other streaming services. Netflix pushed it last year with preview rolls. It was barely acceptable/tolerable. But I will eagerly jettison any service that makes me pay for ads. Heck, I even look askance at people who willingly pay money to un…

Find me an unbranded pair of basketball shorts that will last 10 years, have consistent sizing, and cost less than $20 at an outlet and I’ll gladly buy them. I could gamble on “YAWHOHOMELIFE Men's Running Workout Shorts Training Gym Athletic Joggers Sweat Short Pants Quick Dry Breathable with Zip Pockets”, or pay like $5 more for a little white embroidered check mark and the aforementioned benefits without needing to…

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Re: Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

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Post by rendall »

idopmstuff wrote: post #128
rendall wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a false dichotomy. Your choice is to pay extra for a logo, or pay less for equivalent quality but no logo. You choose logo. Why?

Even if this were the case (it's not), there's still a time cost - I have to find the brand without the logo that's the same quality. I buy athletic shorts maybe once every 2-3 years almost always on Black Friday. I know Nike shorts will be high quality, and I know they'll fit. Wading through the many non-logo brands, trying them on, returning the ones that are bad, etc. might take me several hours to save tens of do…

If you take the time to understand what makes a quality shoe, it will save you time and money and embarrassment (like, you wouldn't be caught dead wearing Common Projects and would be embarrassed for someone wearing them). No need to rely on logos, which is weakly correlated to quality.

Check this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAnvil

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Post by lisper »

isoprophlex wrote: post #61
rendall wrote: post #48

I flat out do not watch ads. If a platform has ads, I do not watch it full stop. I pay YouTube for no ads. If I lost that option, I would not watch YouTube. Same with all of the other streaming services. Netflix pushed it last year with preview rolls. It was barely acceptable/tolerable. But I will eagerly jettison any service that makes me pay for ads. Heck, I even look askance at people who willingly pay money to un…

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

-- G.K. Chesterton

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Post by lisper »

rendall wrote: post #85
mumblemumble wrote: post #75

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It's signaling. Wearing prominent logos sends yourself and others a message that you have the disposable income to pay twice as much for a version of the thing that has a special picture on it.

Yes, agreed. It still does not explain the practice in a way that makes sense to me. There are so many and much better ways to signal disposable wealth. To me it immediately signals "more money than sense".

> There are so many and much better ways to signal disposable wealth.

These are not mutually-exclusive options.

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Post by mcpackieh »

passwordoops wrote: post #5

So we all cut the cord to get away from restrictive, over-priced packages riddled with ads so we can end up with restrictive, over-priced packages riddled with ads. Say hello to the new boss, I guess

If you dropped cable/satellite only to resume watching TV daily on streaming services, are you really a cord cutter, truly? If watching a television for hours a day is still how you burn your free time, if television shows are still your go-to topic for smalltalk, if this television programming still preoccupies so much of your mind that cancelling your streaming services and not replacing them with another kind of television service seems inconceivable, then have you truly cut the cord? The real cord is that ethereal tether between you and the tube, cut that if you want to be free.

It took me a few years to realize this, but cancelling your cable subscription only to spend just as much time staring at the same television mindlessly 'consuming content' on netflix or prime is fundamentally the same lifestyle.

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Post by epups »

NickC25 wrote: post #69

Imagine a world where a guy worth over 150 billion dollars who owns a company worth over a trillion dollars and has a quasi-monopoly over the internet is in such desperate need of more money to the point where he's going to put advertising on his video platform, even though people already pay for the platform. Instead of raising prices moderately, or putting better content on the platform, they decide to instead put…

If Jeff Bezos said "I've got enough", perhaps Prime Video wouldn't exist, which would be a net loss to their employees and their consumers who pay for that. It would also mean that Netflix and Disney would very likely be charging more, due to less competition.

Now, if you meant he should just be running this kind of stuff pro bono, consider that Prime Video cost about $16 billion USD per year just for content last year. Even if he puts all his wealth into it, Prime Video would last less than 10 years as a free service before it had to shut down.

I think we should tax the hell out of billionaires by the way, but that's an unrelated issue.

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