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

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Post by bradknowles »

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…

I don't watch any video content with ads. Every time I try Hulu again, I quickly get so fed up that I quit whatever that show is before that episode is over. Or movie, or whatever.

I'm happy to pay a premium price for not having ads on Prime, or AppleTV, or Disney+, YouTube, etc.... And if there's stuff out there that is not available ad-free, then I just don't watch it.

I also run my browsers with all ad-blocking features and add-ons turned up as high as possible.

And I don't wear branded clothing. At least, not obviously branded clothing -- there might be small tags or logos discreetly displayed, but nothing that is readable by anyone who isn't standing close enough to me to shake my hand.

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Post by bradknowles »

tpmx wrote: post #92
m_eiman wrote: post #70

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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.

Awesome! Thank you!

I don't suppose that there's a way to do something comparable for Netflix auto-previews? I'm about to give up on them permanently because of that....

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

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Post by rendall »

lisper wrote: post #137
rendall wrote: post #85

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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.

I mean, for clothing it is. I do not associate logos with wealth. I've seen plenty of people who have very little money wearing logos, but none wearing Loro Piana.

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Post by ilyt »

swexbe wrote: post #314
ilyt wrote: post #84

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> Streaming doesn’t make things any cheaper than traditional tv Streaming is oodles cheaper than owning traditional TV station.

It really isn't cheaper. Netflix pays $1bil/yr to aws. The only advantage streaming providers have is that you're already paying for an internet connection. But TV over internet solutions have been a thing for a long time so even this doesn't really matter. At the end of the day it's just bits going through a plastic tube from one computer to another. If anything, the 1 to 1 on-demand aspect of streaming would make t…

> Netflix pays $1bil/yr to aws

So actual hardware would cost them like 1/4 of that.

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

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Post by lisper »

rendall wrote: post #323
lisper wrote: post #137

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> There are so many and much better ways to signal disposable wealth. These are not mutually-exclusive options.

I mean, for clothing it is. I do not associate logos with wealth. I've seen plenty of people who have very little money wearing logos, but none wearing Loro Piana.

That's because Loro Piana T-shirts don't have the logo on them. They do, however, cost many hundreds of dollars [1] so if your eye is discerning enough to spot one you can be sure the person wearing it comes from serious money. It's similar for other high-end lines like Hermes. To spot them you have to be in the know. Indeed, the ability to spot these well-disguised high-end products is itself social signalling among the extreme high end of wealth. (The same phenomenon exists in other Veblen goods, like wine.)

Louis Vuitton, on the other hand, famously has its logo all over its products [2]. But even there you kind of have to know what you're looking for. It doesn't jump out at you the way a Nike logo does.

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[1] https://us.loropiana.com/en/p/man/polo-and-t-shirts/soft-t-s...

[2] https://us.louisvuitton.com/eng-us/products/monogram-gradien...

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

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Post by rendall »

lisper wrote: post #325
rendall wrote: post #323

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I mean, for clothing it is. I do not associate logos with wealth. I've seen plenty of people who have very little money wearing logos, but none wearing Loro Piana.

That's because Loro Piana T-shirts don't have the logo on them. They do, however, cost many hundreds of dollars [1] so if your eye is discerning enough to spot one you can be sure the person wearing it comes from serious money. It's similar for other high-end lines like Hermes. To spot them you have to be in the know. Indeed, the ability to spot these well-disguised high-end products is itself social signalling among…

I think we're talking past / agreeing with each other? Anyway, there are such amazing clothes out there in all price ranges, and people can look so good in them that I feel if people are wearing logos they haven't "read the user's manual". Just aren't even trying.

I know my attitude puts some people off, and I really do understand why, but it's not out of class snobbery, it's that I find advertising so visually repulsive.

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Post by sneak »

flandish wrote: post #320
sneak wrote: post #317

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Who is being exploited and how?

The workers who are worked to the bone, while the profit goes to the shareholders. Don’t pretend to not know how terrible Amazon treats its labor.

There are more employers in most towns than just Amazon; everyone who works there thinks it's a better option for them than the other jobs available to them.

The workers are also free to become shareholders; Amazon is of course publicly traded.

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Post by netipulk »

rendall wrote: post #236
idopmstuff wrote: post #154

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> 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 evalu…

Why are you so angry about clothes? You seem to have huge empathy troubles.

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Post by flandish »

sneak wrote: post #327
flandish wrote: post #320

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The workers who are worked to the bone, while the profit goes to the shareholders. Don’t pretend to not know how terrible Amazon treats its labor.

There are more employers in most towns than just Amazon; everyone who works there thinks it's a better option for them than the other jobs available to them. The workers are also free to become shareholders; Amazon is of course publicly traded.

When you’re done licking Bezo’s boots, go talk to those people you think are “free to become shareholders” (when they live paycheck to paycheck) or free to work elsewhere (when amazon or walmart have shut down the shops that used to be on Main St.).

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Post by dang »

netipulk wrote: post #328
rendall wrote: post #236

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> 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 evalu…

Why are you so angry about clothes? You seem to have huge empathy troubles.

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