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Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

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

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Post by malaya_zemlya »

6D794163636F756 wrote: post #219
vladvasiliu wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I've found is that "serious" equipment tends to have subdued branding, or at least has some options like that. I have a pair of basketball shorts that are still going strong after something like 12 years. They're Nike, but the logo is black on black, so barely visible if you don't look for it. Ditto for the basketball shoes. The logo is barely visible since it's the same color as the shoe. The shoes are somewhat…

Similarly high end consumer brands like Gucci don't blast their labels on their high end products. The cheap stuff is cheap because you become a walking billboard. The expensive stuff is expensive because you just paid for quality. That's even within one company so your point is even more extreme across an industry.

Dior and Louis Vuitton love putting their logos all over their products, especially accessories. I think it cheapens the brand, but i'm not their marketing person.

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Post by rendall »

dpkirchner wrote: post #166
rendall wrote: post #104

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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.

FWIW, in the US, H&M is known for fast-fashion, garbage-tier clothing. I've heard the brand is better outside the US, though.

Hmm. You may be right. Here is the men's pants section on the Finnish site https://www2.hm.com/fi_fi/miesten/osta-tuotteen-mukaan/housu...

Equivalent items do generally look better, to me at least, compared to the US

https://www2.hm.com/en_us/men/products/pants.html

Equivalent prices, too.

For example, compare the "cargo joggers" Finland https://www2.hm.com/fi_fi/productpage.1002227020.html

to the equivalent item from the US store https://www2.hm.com/en_us/productpage.1002227011.html

To me the one available from the Finnish store has a better cut and seems to be made of a thicker material.

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Post by danaris »

mumblemumble wrote: post #67
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

My public library has thousands of DVD. More than I could watch in a lifetime, I think. There's even a bit of streaming. And, outside of the Disney stuff, none of it has ads I can't skip. All free. I mention this and someone always complains that that Game of Mad Men is Breaking the New Black isn't at the library. Which gets me thinking that the real boss might be our own consumerism.

I am absolutely and wholeheartedly in favor of public libraries. They're fantastic places, and deserve and need much more support than they've got.

But the idea that just because some crappy knock-offs and overdone franchises exist, every piece of entertainment media is just interchangeable with every other one, and no one should ever be upset that they can't easily access the specific piece of media they want to see, is just absurd on the face of it.

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Post by SergeAx »

Haul me under keel, I still root for torrents. Moreover, there's so little good content is produced nowadays, that more than a half of movies I am watching recently are 10-20 years old.

I also have IMAX theater conveniently nearby for AAA titles. Ads there are inevitable, though.

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Post by rendall »

idopmstuff wrote: post #154
rendall wrote: post #135

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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

> you wouldn't be caught dead wearing Common Projects and would be embarrassed for someone wearing them 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 Mizun…

> 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

You said you use logos as a proxy for quality because you don't have time to understand how to evaluate quality, nor learn what brands have quality but no logos. There is an inconsistency there. How would you know quality if "does it have a logo?" is how you evaluate it?

> The amount of money I spend buying a reputable brand is well worth it given the time I save

Do you save time and money though, for real? Clothing is literally the thing that touches your body the overwhelming majority of your time and clothed is the only way the vast majority of people will ever see you. Isn't it worth taking an afternoon or a weekend and learning the fundamentals of how to look good? I mean if you want to spend a lot of money on a reputable brand and be sure of quality, try https://www.jcrew.com or if you want to be adventurous https://makia.com/

Alright, internet stranger, I'm sorry to have upset you. If you genuinely love Adidas track suits and the Nike swoop on your hat and the LV on your bag, then fly that flag high and proud! No one can stop you.

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Post by anakaine »

This is the point where I will stop paying for Prime membership. I was sucked in via dark patterns (which they are now being taken to task over by federal gov) and I've just idly maintained it because I occasionally watch stuff. Once they inject ads, I disconnect the service because I'm not paying to be served intrusive advertising.

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Post by anakaine »

keernan wrote: post #216
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…

For 50 years of my life, my dad always finalized a deal for a new car with one last requirement: the car must be free of all dealership logos (back then the dealership glued - or in some instances screwed - the dealership placard/logo onto the back trunk of the car). He was nasty about it and it always made me cringe. But they also always complied.

We still do this today. It's not that uncommon an ask. Get it added as a sales note on the contract, and don't accept delivery unless they have complied. We tend to have heavily branded number plate holders and window stickers.
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