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Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by freehunter »

wst_ wrote: post #278
freehunter wrote: post #261

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The Simpsons has some intros that push up to and sometimes over two minutes in length. Sure, they're often clever and do take time and money to create, but it's still time taken from the actual show. Supernatural or Lost are good examples of how an intro should be. Literally just the name of the show on the screen for a few seconds, no theme music that gets annoying halfway through the season, no montage of the chara…

Netflix is just skipping intro for you.

Really? Weird. Usually if it skips the intro it plays the entire intro the first time you play it after not playing it for a while. It never does that for me.

At any rate... the Netflix skipped intro is how it should be done. Thank god for Netflix.

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Post by nasredin »

aembleton wrote: post #179
nuclearchicken wrote: post #83

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uBlock Origin and similar other add-ons, plus some hostfile entries largely mean I don't see any ads anywhere. I also block them on my router for extra diligence. They simply don't get called. The way it's supposed to be.

How do you block them on your router? I'm using Pi-hole but I still get Youtube ads through my Chromecast.

DD-WRT firmware (done via hosts file).

You can also runs pixelserv that will return a 1 pixel image so you don't get any errors.

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Post by krallja »

scarface74 wrote: post #169
JohnTHaller wrote: post #144

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I own a television but it's never used as a 'television'. It's a screen with an Xbox connected on which I have Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, and games.

So instead of watching content provided by the major networks over Coax delivered to you by one of the major ISPs, you watch content over TCP/IP brought to you by one of the major ISPs owned by the same content providers. Hulu is 30% own by Fox, Disney, and Comcast and the other 10% is owned by Time Warner. You're still watching content on your television, over a wire, brought to you by the major content providers. W…

FWIW, Time Warner Cable is no longer owned by Time Warner; it’s owned by Charter Communications and has been renamed to Spectrum.

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Post by mmanfrin »

I have an iPhone, an Amazon Echo, and a Google Home device. I recently had to watch live TV because I was watching a sports game, and the number of ads that targeted my listening devices was obscene. Every other ad was either for the Echo or Home, or for something unrelated but mentioning 'Hey Siri, tell me about [product being sold]'.

To me, it feels like it's an effort to subvert the always-listening/always-watching tracking. If Google has now searched for some random thing being sold because of that ad, then those ads will be shown to me when I browse on my computer (since it's all part of the same profile).

It's intrusive, obnoxious, and I feel zero remorse doing anything to avoid ads (such as use an ad blocker).

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Post by scarface74 »

GuiA wrote: post #270
scarface74 wrote: post #252

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That whole 3%?

All the students/young professionals who consume their media on laptops/tablets and don’t feel the need to own a TV. There’s a lot of them.

Not according to the statistics I posted earlier....

But the larger question is "having a television" just semantics? My family was staying in an extended stay for awhile when we were having our house built. I had an external monitor I was using for work with my laptop. When I wasn't using it, my son was using it with his game console and to watch Hulu, Netflix, etc.

What's the practical difference between "not having a tv" and having a computer monitor used to watch video?

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Post by CaptSpify »

viraptor wrote: post #250
CaptSpify wrote: post #215

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> Ublock doesn't cover mobile devices though It does on FF for Android!

The context here is youtube. When you're watching a youtube video on android, it's either in the youtube app, in a webview, or in the browser. The first two are not covered by ublock and the last one is the least likely to happen. (in my experience anyway)

As JetSpiegal said, I usually just watch it in the browser and it plays fine.

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Post by nasredin »

gozur88 wrote: post #93
chc wrote: post #64

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Product placement and ads both serve the purpose of promoting something, but they're not really the same thing at all. I mean, both cars and bikes serve the purpose of transportation, but I don't think many people would argue that driving a car is basically riding a bike.

The line gets fuzzy when scenes are added to the show purely for product placement. In my mind that's an ad.

I do not recommend watching Transformers (the movies) for you.

The last (and final) one I watched (just to see how bad it was) had a 30 second (I am not shitting you) beer commercial complete with the signature Michael Bay 360 degree shot.

And not to mention the Chinese - "we must call central government" - pandering.

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Post by funnelsgun »

mmanfrin wrote: post #294

I have an iPhone, an Amazon Echo, and a Google Home device. I recently had to watch live TV because I was watching a sports game, and the number of ads that targeted my listening devices was obscene. Every other ad was either for the Echo or Home, or for something unrelated but mentioning 'Hey Siri, tell me about [product being sold]'. To me, it feels like it's an effort to subvert the always-listening/always-watchin…

A friend of mine has Google Home and it just doesn’t appeal to me in the slightest! Perhaps I just don’t know how to get the most out of it, but whenever I go to his I either just ask it dumb questions or get it to change the music - to his frustration...
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