Technology

no ads on blockbuster movies!

Netflix showed time and time again that they are shit at counting money. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out they're losing money on those ads but will do them anyway because managers eat the worst possible hype for breakfast.

I higly doubt they generate a custom ad per viewer, it's probably per show which can be re-used.

Spent waaay too much on a single volume illustrated edition of the all Earthsea books. My weekend is going to be lit.

... or Terminator, or Mad Max. Dredd with Robocop are on the list too.

It is intresting to see if we go that way, or if our future will be more Orwellian in its nature. Might go ine way or another.

Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMuookENY90&t=137s

Haha, already there. I canceled my Netflix a year ago or so after the amount of cheap self produced stuff got too much and they removed more and more older quality content.

Now, whenever I want to stream I sign up for a single streaming service for a month or two - but the time where I was just subscribed all the time is over.

Ah one reason also was the sharing crackdown, I had kept the subscription long term as my kids used it when they were at my place or my ex-wife's. Nowadays it doesn't work anymore as (for example) the TV my son has at the ex-wife's place never is connected via my internet.

With added commercials, less quality etc streaming got less attractive. Hey, nowadays I regularly go to movie theaters, again.

And if things get worse, somewhere I still have my captain's hat and the wooden leg for sailing the seven seas...

Some people who use Ersatz (software to turn your media into tv channels) actually ADD ads to it. I don't get it.

I won't watch even streaming when it comes to films, series... It's oh so nice to play back that video all by myself.

That absolutely won't happen.

Everybody on Lemmy and Reddit were saying the same when they banned account sharing and price increases. In reality their subscriber numbers went through the roof and so did their profits.

Nah, my cousins are normies. Every time I'm at their place and the TV is on, you almost can't tell if the ads get more play than the content they actually wanted to see. Their TV is treated like an old FM radio where ads are just a part of it. They complain, but they'll never actually do anything about it.

Sadly I think you're a optimistic with those numbers. It's probably gonna be a few thousand. The numbers can feel skewed if you only look at Lemmy.

Same here. Best part is that they even have non-Netflix media in that tier. Love it.

I'm kinda proud of myself, that I skipped Netflix and never took off my pirate hat.

They have told writers to dumb things down and have the characters speak aloud what they’re doing because so many people doom scroll while it’s on in the background.

There not making quality. They’re making elevator music for your home.