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Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games (www.techspot.com)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apparently when cable first came to be, there were no ads

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably the same case for newspapers, radio, the internet, movies in theatres, gas station pumps etc. Though each new medium we create has a shorter and shorter Time-To-Ad-Platform runway it seems

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The first cable TV system in the U.S. was built in the late 1940s and had ads from day one since it was created to bring network television to communities with poor reception. Cable has always had ads.