If I see one ad, I guarantee I cancel and download elsewhere.
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#42I'm already on the verge of cancelling Netflix because frankly, their library sucks. I cannot even remember the last time I saw a remotely entertaining original movie, of the hundreds they have. Their shows are a little better, but too few and far between. Seems they've been hedging a lot on poorly dubbed foreign films, again, don't watch. So yeah, showing even a single ad is just the fire I need to remember to cance…
I agree and I wonder if this is a problem that is Netflix's creation, or the movie/tv studies creation. Of course it's probably both.
But I just don't think the way culture is moving in the US is that compelling to the rest of the world (and for many in the US). And in that way both netflix and most TV shows are based on cultural values of california.
I'm not in the US and the way almost any US movie/show has to bring the race question into it is super annoying. And I don't even mean the character make up, like fine, I don't give a shit what race actors are, if they are great actors. But literally every story always has to go into race somehow, every film somehow has references to who's black and who's white. Frankly it's racist but reverse racist really, it's pretending to be culturally sensitive but in the end you are still making everything about race, i.e. racism.
I don't care. Stop it. I don't care about racism or about the colour of people. Leave me alone and show me a good story.
Streaming services aren't social networks with lots of user generated content, that probably matches to the country where people use it. At least it's much less that. You can't force people to like California culture if they don't.
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#43If I see one ad, I guarantee I cancel and download elsewhere.
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#44I'm already on the verge of cancelling Netflix because frankly, their library sucks. I cannot even remember the last time I saw a remotely entertaining original movie, of the hundreds they have. Their shows are a little better, but too few and far between. Seems they've been hedging a lot on poorly dubbed foreign films, again, don't watch. So yeah, showing even a single ad is just the fire I need to remember to cance…
The library for every streaming service sucks now due to fragmentation. A Usenet and indexer subscription are way cheaper and have a full selection and no ads.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
They’re just targeting people who think the ads aren’t a big deal. I know people making massive money who sit through Youtube and Hulu ads. I’m the only person I know who subscribed to Youtube premium it seems. So, plenty of people to target with ads. Even HNers making big bucks.
Ads are their own form of entertainment.
My old housemate use to complain when I switched from watching a movie on free-to-air tv, to a streaming service. Mainly because he liked the ad breaks as they allowed him to get snacks / water / toilet break etc.etc. I would say when you want something i will pause, but he wouldnt say its the same.
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#46I'm already on the verge of cancelling Netflix because frankly, their library sucks. I cannot even remember the last time I saw a remotely entertaining original movie, of the hundreds they have. Their shows are a little better, but too few and far between. Seems they've been hedging a lot on poorly dubbed foreign films, again, don't watch. So yeah, showing even a single ad is just the fire I need to remember to cance…
I agree and I wonder if this is a problem that is Netflix's creation, or the movie/tv studies creation. Of course it's probably both. But I just don't think the way culture is moving in the US is that compelling to the rest of the world (and for many in the US). And in that way both netflix and most TV shows are based on cultural values of california. I'm not in the US and the way almost any US movie/show has to brin…
I think the problem is that certainly as of late, it's always so on the nose, and about as subtle as an airhorn. It's like on Friday afternoon they thought "oh fuck, we need to do something about race! [feverish typing] Done! Off to beer!" By inserting these things so forcibly I don't think you're really doing anyone any favours really, least of all Black people.
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#47 This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
......
This is the end...Re: Netflix Officially Adding Commercials
#48At this point I don't get why you wouldn't just pirate the movies / series. It's cheaper [0], you have a bigger library, you don't have to pay extra for 4k and, overall, you get a better service.
[0] You can easily find a seedbox ~5€ with 2TiB of storage and upload bandwidth
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they do they are going to lose massively subscribers.
It may depend on how the whole ecosystem evolves: if the competition starts doing similar stuff, then you would have no alternative but to stick with one of them and accept the introduction of ads. That's the funny thing about oligopoly, you know...
P2P doesn't have ads and doesn't look like it's going away.
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#50If I see one ad, I guarantee I cancel and download elsewhere.
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