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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Just checked; this doesn’t appear on the latest version of Jellyfin with pirated media.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's what you get for paying instead of pirating.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago

Paying for the unique opportunity to see the newest, moistest, and most intrusive ads*.

*Also comes with a limited selection of movies and series.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Drink Verification Can to proceed,

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Please stand and yell "Mcdonalds" to end commercial"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'd yell "Whopper beats a Big Mac!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Isn't this patent infringement? Sony patented that, right? Hulu should be allowed to use that.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago

And I thought I couldn't feel better about Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 days ago

Oh, wow, at least in Black Mirror they only made sure your eyes were open, you didn't need to pay attention.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wrong answer, rewatch the ad and try again.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You joke but this is exactly how this specific ad works. My brother got it yesterday and he picked the wrong answer and the ad played again.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

I have no sympathy for anyone losing profits to piracy.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Fuck me sideways. We need to dismantle capitalism like yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

How is that legal, completely insane

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is how I become radicalized.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago

You're on lemmy, you're already radicalised.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, we need a new war. This time against the rich.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago

That's not a new war. It's the war behind all the other wars.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Yeah, but it's not a new war. It's an eternal war, and when those on top push too much, we push back. We call those stages revolutions, and maybe it's time to remind those on top that when a revolution happens, their heads get separated from their bodies. So either give us back some freedoms, or blood will be spilt. And it won't be our blood.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aaarrr matey, this for sure wouldn't be the reason why we pirate, would it?

Fuck all of this, I'm so sick and tired of technology advances leading to just more shit for money. I worked for only 9 months in a corporate environment that did shit like this and it nauseated me. Got fired for throwing the CTO under a freight train (figuratively) and never been happier for being fired.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

You're not sick of technology you're sick of not having real control of technology

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What happens if you dont answer "correctly"?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would expect another ad or the same one again but I don't know

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I feel like the only even remotely acceptable way to do this is to show the ad, prompt for the answer for 10 seconds. They can log the right/wrong answer or if the time expires the lack of one and must move on.

I can imagine metrics knowing if your advertising is actually reaching people is valid. But to make people answer and especially make them watch more if they answer wrong is about as dystopian as it gets.

If (and I say if, I really don't want to believe it is) that is the case, the only correct response is to uninstall Hulu immediately and put on your pirate hat.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If this was the case, I'd enter the wrong answer every time just to fuck with their metrics

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Engaging in it by thinking about it and answering is going to make it stay in your mind longer and would be a success in the eyes of the advertisers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In that case I'll enter the left answer every time

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

It plays again, but louder.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is the kind of shit that makes me want to campaign on harassing marketers and advertisers personally.

"I've a question for you, Mr.Advertiser"

"Yes! Is it about how we can shovel more commercials to you?"

"No, it's about what do you value in life and how would you feel if I took it from you, you parasite?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

How would you feel if I took it from you?

Correction: How do I take it from you?

I think it's time we move from threats to actions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

but but the shareholders 😭 they are endangered if not for these life support measures

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

New season of Black Mirror looks lit af.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I'd love to become rich, so I can keep on pirating as a statement. Or to show a rich guy how much better pirating is as a service.

Maybe then we can get their attention and prove that enshittification is the problem, and not the cost.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's the purpose of this? You have to supply a correct answer to make the ad go away?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

that's some black mirror stuff

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Bleh.

This is awful.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

man i got 3 notifications in 1 sec

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

what happens when you answer wrong?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Just a liitle electric shock.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It tells you the right answer. It then it froze up and crashed my Fire TV.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

to be fair it does not take much for my fire tv stick to freeze up and crash

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it's like captcha, the same thing as when you answer right... Start all over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Will be interesting to see where this goes. I know I have said it before and they might not think im serious but so help me satan I will read books. Do they want that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That's really stupid, but there's one (unimportant) thing I'm not understanding. When they ask the numbers of rows in the car, are they asking the number of rows of seats?