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My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

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Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

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Post by ryanianian »

arresin wrote: post #28
drawkward wrote: post #10

Advertising is a virus. It will take over all ecosystems.

If it wasn’t effective it would go away. Enough people out there are actually clicking on these things to be profitable. Who are they? I’ve literally never clicked on an ad in my life. I’m pretty sure no one I know has also (I hope) so who are these people clicking and paying.

Even if you don't click it, you still receive the message. A big part of marketing is repeating the same thing over and over again in multiple forms so it sticks with you long enough to inform a purchasing decision.

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Post by ta1243 »

deskr wrote: post #35
xattt wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same way that people refer to a house under mortgage as “their” home. Edit: How about a rental in a building with ads in the elevators?

You mortgage your TV?

in the UK people used to rent TVs, a company called "Radio Rentals", and in the days when TVs were unreliable it made sense - you paid a fixed amount per month and got a working TV in return. A service like any other.

That was more akin to renting a house though, rather than borrowing money to buy a house.

Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

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Post by ta1243 »

ryanianian wrote: post #41
arresin wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it wasn’t effective it would go away. Enough people out there are actually clicking on these things to be profitable. Who are they? I’ve literally never clicked on an ad in my life. I’m pretty sure no one I know has also (I hope) so who are these people clicking and paying.

Even if you don't click it, you still receive the message. A big part of marketing is repeating the same thing over and over again in multiple forms so it sticks with you long enough to inform a purchasing decision.

I have so many things lodged in my brain from TV adverts in the 1990s, I'm confident that I make purchasing decisions skewed by those.

Ultimately in a fight between a trillion dollar brainwasher and me, I'm going to lose.

Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

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Post by ta1243 »

linsomniac wrote: post #25

ProTip: If you download Prime video content and then watch it downloaded, it doesn't have commercials. Not sure if you can do that on their TVs, but seems to work fine on my Android phone and Fire tablet. Note: I haven't tried it for ~3 months, I just stopped watching Prime content. With as easy as this is, it's easier to use other providers that don't do this, and their user experience was already pretty bad. Search…

ProTip: If you cancel prime then you don't see any prime adverts.

I love paying for content. I'm not going to support double-dipping.

Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

ta1243 wrote: post #42
deskr wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mortgage your TV?

in the UK people used to rent TVs, a company called "Radio Rentals", and in the days when TVs were unreliable it made sense - you paid a fixed amount per month and got a working TV in return. A service like any other. That was more akin to renting a house though, rather than borrowing money to buy a house.

My stepfather did this and paid for his ancient TV many, many times over. You'll do this with a mortgage too, of course, but to a much lesser degree.

Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

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Post by ta1243 »

jsheard wrote: post #17
A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #14

Buying electronics from Amazon means getting ads -- and always in the most obnoxious way possible. I got a Kindle Oasis as a gift /w lockscreen ads, and it's unbelievable how annoying and embarrassing they are, and many are for AI-generated gibberish. And that's a Kindle. Now just imagine living with an Amazon TV...

Not to excuse the ads, but apparently it's pretty easy to scam their customer support into removing them for free. Just send a support message saying the Kindle belongs to a kid and you're concerned about them seeing inappropriate ads, or something along those lines.

Or just buy the non advert infected one.

Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

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Post by ryanianian »

mrichman wrote: post #31

Pretty soon we'll be seeing McDonald's product placement in the next shitty Lord of the Rings season.

Frodo's eating a green-screen-like blob that your TV erases to add in a Big Mac. The car Vin Diesel is driving gets automatically replaced by the 2035 Audi. The actor just mumbles a thing, and the TV replaces it with company names in the actor's voice.

Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

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Post by dialup_sounds »

foobarian wrote: post #36
omnicognate wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wouldn't, but could do as a result of a bug that has nothing to do with trying to force you to listen to adverts. My Apple TV box, AVR and TV between them sometimes seem to get into a state where the sound is muted and whenever I unmute it, it unmutes and immediately mutes again. I have to reboot the Apple TV box to get the sound to stay on again. So this sort of thing does happen.

Funny how the bug is not muting the TV during commercials, eh?

You did not read the thread.
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