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Agreed. I'm somewhat furious at Apple for having ads for their other shows before showing me what I've selected to watch on Apple TV+. Is there any way to disable that?
On tvOS: Settings -> Accessibility -> Vision -> Motion -> Auto-Play Video Previews -> Off It actually seems to work. Amazingly well hidden, I must say. Bravo.
Agreed, no other reason other than to make it harder to find, shameful.
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The Pirate Bay
I'd add that I actually pay for Amazon Prime (mostly for the free shipping -- heavy stuff costs a fortune otherwise), but use other means to access Prime Video content because of the ads (there are a raft of Prime Video offerings that already have ads) and the spying.
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I have no problem paying for content, I pay for Spotify and video games, but I refuse to pay for video until company delivers a non-DRMed video file to my hard drive that I can watch where and how I want. Piracy is a service problem, as Gaben says so it is.
My TV provider allowes me to store up to 2000 hours high definition TV in the cloud. Combined with 6 movie channels, which show virtually every movie synchronized and in its original language[0] version without ad interruption this setup works for me. [0] Granted, the original version wasn't too helpful in watching Parasite, which I had to enjoy in the German dub.
That you are free to watch until you stop paying for their service. Those movies do not belong to you.
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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
Y'know, you seem more focused on logos and their importance than anybody else here. I would never been embarrassed for someone wearing a certain kind of shoe. I'm not judging people based on logos, since what brand of shoe someone else is wearing has absolutely no impact on my life.
For athletic shoes, I wear Mizunos. Went to a good running store once, spent an hour with the old grizzled guy there until I found a shoe I liked, and I've stuck with the brand ever since. They've got a big logo on the side, but again, I don't care about that; I care about the fact that I know the shoe will be high quality and fit well.
> No need to rely on logos, which is weakly correlated to quality.
No, that's a made up fact that is wrong. Brands tend to be pretty consistent in their quality over time, especially those that have been around a while.
> Check this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAnvil
I'm not going to check that channel because, again, the point here is that I don't want to spend a bunch of time learning about how shoes are made. I just want to buy a good quality shoe (or short, or whatever) and brand is a fine proxy for that. The amount of money I spend buying a reputable brand is well worth it given the time I save by not watching videos like whatever the one you linked is.
It’s funny how blatantly every streaming service waits for Netflix to do anything bold before doing same thing. It’s like what happens when Apple does something like removing headphone socket. Backlash from the loud minority “I’ll never buy another iPhone again”. then every competitor quietly follows. (In Australia, Binge app – the main local streamer with HBO shows etc – also started ads a few months ago, with a hig…
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…
20 years ago, Steam was the reason I stopped pirating games. Netflix et al had the same effect for TV & movies. Today, I subscribe to 5 different streaming services, and occasionally do a month of various “channels” in those apps. I want to pay for content, but the camels back is about to break. I truly don’t want to set sails again, but the bullshit has been adding up for a while. Ads is where I draw the line.
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…
Well, Amazon will include an ad-free option that you can pay more for.
I think it makes sense to think of this is a price hike for the current service, combined with a new ad subsidized service offering.
They probably realized that a price hike with no alternative would cost subscriptions, and just shoving existing customers into the new worse service at the old price point would retain them longer.
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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
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…