I just want to go back to a time when shows built in pause moments for commercial breaks. Watching a video get cut off mid sentence in the middle of an intense scene to be told about how I can send money worldwide just kinda kills the mood.
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Or when you're watching an old show that has those pause moments... but they don't use them and just break whenever
Now that you mention it...Very noticeable with older animation content.
There is an ad free solution for those brave enough to sail the high seas...
These idiots seem to forget that media is not a shelter or food so their extraction tactics have natural limits... ARR
The most noxious ones are the ads for the platform you are served by the platform when using the platform.
Paramount+ plays almost 90s of ads, sometimes ads for the exact show you are about to watch, any time you hit go. That's just heinous.
Still better than the Peacock app though, for which the sound randomly cuts out for a few seconds every minute or two on a device as uncommon and odd as... a Chromecast.
Paramount used to show no ads whatsoever for their no-ads plan, but now they show an ad at the beginning for another show. For the longest time it was unskippable, but at least now these can be skipped.
Hulu does the same thing. No ads should mean NO ads!
That was when I dropped Hulu. If I'm already paying, I'm not going to sit through ads as well.
YouTube does this on paid content. I bought It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia but it has ads for other FX shows (Mayans, Cake, Sons of Anarchy) baked in to the first 30 seconds and last 60 seconds of some episodes.
It also has a teaser that is the last item in each season's playlist, which is an ad for the season you just watched :/
I just canceled Prime because they started with the ads. It was the last streaming service I was paying for. Now I am sharing Disney+ until they crack down on that and then I'm done with their shit. I already read 12 books this year, so there's that. And if I get bored, I guess I'll pick up sailing again, like in the olden days. 🏴☠️
Sailing has honestly never been easier. Welcome back to the seas!
It’s everywhere now, that word. “Content.” Even some artists have surrendered and now use the language of the oppressor.
It's something I've noticed a while ago, it's just so awful. It degenerates pieces of art into monetary value. It's depressing.
Yep, but ad least ad block will work on them! Can't do that w/ cable
I am not going to watch either
This guy's first problem is watching movies on his cable provider's on-demand service. On-demand has been crap since its inception.
And then:
We are now at the point in the history of show business where a bad experience is free and a decent one costs extra.
This is literally how it's always been. And this the crux of this dude's issues. He's not willing to pay for content and is using freeware and crapware to watch movies. You can't complain about a bad service if you're not paying for it.
He wants the solution? Ditch cable, buy movies and TV shows or pay for streaming services without ads. It's really that simple.
I would say streaming services are worse then sailing these days, shitty quality, unusable offline play,... And buying movies isn't easy too, unless you want to buy BluRay discs most of online places will only lend you a licence to watch the content until they decide to remove it, viz Sony.
Yo ho ho
Or yes, sail the high seas
We are now at the point in the history of show business where a bad experience is free and a decent one costs extra.
Except that's not the case. *arrs and plex(probably jellyfin as well, haven't tried it) is a vastly superior user experience than most of the streaming apps. So the good experience is free and the bad experience costs money.