Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year • Hacker News Board

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by OkGoDoIt » Wed, May 15, 2019, 6:57 PM UTC

The last paragraph is intriguing: "We’re also curious, as children of the 90s ourselves, does a child who grew up without a continual bombardment of ads end up more susceptible to advertising later in life? Did those early days of being shown ad after ad for LIFE Cereal end up turning us all into advertising cynics? No data yet on this, but something we’ll definitely be paying close attention to in the future."

I'm really good at tuning out ads online after so long seeing ads everywhere, but if I was brand new to the medium and hadn't yet learned to tune them out, would I be more likely to be influenced by them? Is that a good/bad thing? And now that I use adblock everywhere, when I do see an ad it's more annoying. It will be interesting to see the long-term effects going forward.

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by mrec » Wed, May 15, 2019, 8:37 PM UTC

rkuykendall-com wrote: post #390

mrec wrote: post #75

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Similar thing here - the only time I now encounter video-ads-making-noise is at the cinema before a film, and it's becoming unpleasant enough there that I've largely stopped going to the cinema. It's not (or not just) that they're getting worse, it's that once the familiarity wears off you can't help but see how psychologically damaging and hostile they are.

See if you're near an Alamo Drafthouse. Their pre-roll is so good I'll try to show up early. For Endgame it was a summary of the MCU so far interspersed with old cartoons and stuff.

I'm in London, England, so probably not.

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by scottlocklin » Thu, May 16, 2019, 1:29 PM UTC

collyw wrote: post #388

scottlocklin wrote: post #378

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Could you use a concrete example? US airports are creepy as hell, especially places like Atlanta that have constant CNN blaring like the telescreen in 1984, and of course there is much disgusting advertising, but I never noticed any overt "NLP."

Shit loads of advertising and "serving those who serve you" - referring to mil arty veterans in one airport. But i guess that's the point in NLP, you arebn't supposed to notice it. It was only after reading some books on it that I noticed it as often.

Thanks, I suppose now that you mention it that is a bit creepy and Orwellian. Generally speaking, American airports are the most totalitarian and creepy and uncomfortable in the world. The telescreen blaring, the insane security line, the ads ... stuff like the insane murals in the Denver airport -I'll add that to my list of bloody awful things American flyers put up with.

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by swombat » Thu, May 16, 2019, 1:33 PM UTC

mrguyorama wrote: post #253

jon-wood wrote: post #186

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A typical show on a commercial channel here will have three ad breaks in a one hour slot, of about five minutes each, and then there’ll be a longer ad break between programs. It drives me mad now I’m used to video on demand, but not nearly as much as US TV would.

Hmm, I thought it was less than that. I still consider that to be unacceptable

I haven’t watched TV in years... when I’ve caught some movie on TV at my parents’ or my in-laws’, I’ve found the ad breaks to be a great opportunity to... leave and do something better with my time than watch this movie with stupid ad breaks.

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by ducttape12 » Fri, May 17, 2019, 1:26 AM UTC

dorgo wrote: post #297

ducttape12 wrote: post #128

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If you're not a fan of blocking ads, DuckDuckGo let's you disable ads in their search results.

what is the difference between blocking and disabling? The result is the same, right?

Yes, just without the guilt (since this means DDG is clearly okay with not making ad revenue off me)

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by jedrek » Sat, May 18, 2019, 10:22 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #360

jedrek wrote: post #341

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Ah, yes, nothing like a woman doing unpaid labor so her man doesn't have to be inconvenienced in any way.

That's a personal attack and also breaks this guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart? This comment and the two or three previous ones you posted have been breaking it.

Nah

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 24, 2019, 8:19 AM UTC

ramy_d wrote: post #146

jak92 wrote: post #76

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> child play outside by themselves is essentially illegal. No it's not.

kind of is though https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/manitoba-cfs-will-not-erase-fi... https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/arreste... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protective-services-called-on-m... https://reason.com/2015/06/11/11-year-old-boy-played-in-his-...

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Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by quickthrower2 » Fri, May 24, 2019, 8:22 AM UTC

ramy_d wrote: post #146

jak92 wrote: post #76

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> child play outside by themselves is essentially illegal. No it's not.

kind of is though https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/manitoba-cfs-will-not-erase-fi... https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/arreste... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protective-services-called-on-m... https://reason.com/2015/06/11/11-year-old-boy-played-in-his-...

First one, not treated as a crime. But there is a record, so that sucks.

Second one, leaving your 9 year old at a park all day while you are not there. I can see why that is a problem.

The third one is maybe where the is controversy. It would be nice if a 6 year old could play on the street by themselves. I think there is some discretion here and it depends what your street and suburb is like to some extent.

The last one is tragic and totally unfair to the family. Looks like another nail in the coffin for people without a lot of money in the US (who can't call a babysitter on short notice) and who use common sense. Then they get a criminal record, lose their jobs etc, can't get a new one etc. F'd.