• twinnie@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 months ago

    People should be scared, this kind of thing will likely be normal eventually. It’s amazing how quick people just become normalised to shit like this. I remember a Reddit post about Angry Birds 2 where someone had posted a picture of it requiring an internet connection to play and then had just written “Uninstalled” beneath it; now like 80% of the free games out there require an internet connection to work. We could have Netflix that’s half the price and included password sharing, we could have all games working offline, and so much more, but there’s so many people out there simping for these corporations that don’t give a fuck about them.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      that’s why i pirate everthing

      i think it’s more of ignorance, there are people out there using normal internet without adblocks

  • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I legitimately would throw away anything anything that did this. I’d throw it off the roof and link a video to their social media account.

    • Alenalda@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      am i missing something here? this is what most video streaming sites already do just in speech form rather than pressing a skip ad button.

      • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 months ago

        In any regular situation you can leave the room and come back a few minutes later to your content playing. This potentially will play the ad on repeat until you say what it is basically acknowledging you paid attention to it and know what they are advertising.

        It’s a shitty pop quiz that doesn’t go away on its own. I hate intrusive ads with a passion and would give up modern convince to avoid it.

  • pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    ill just pick up a damn book im not that desperate to watch shitty content on a screen. or this is just another reason for piracy

  • Today@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I guess I’ll hold onto that box of dvds i was planning to donate. I think there’s a vcr in the garage. Anyone want to watch Mrs.Doubtfire with me?

  • tiramichu@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    If I ever have to see this, I’m gonna end that commercial permanently with a fist through the screen.

      • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Unfortunately in this situation, where the ad requires active user engagement to resolve, a streaming service would have the ability to gate further access to content behind an authorization token they receive from the advertiser after the ad “clears”, like some dystopian Captcha prompt.

        Solutions could be to find some way to trick the ad into thinking it had been engaged with to receive the token, or to find some way to crack the algorithm and and generate tokens as if the ad was engaged with…or just skip the bullshit and pirate the content.

      • tiramichu@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Oh, I already do :)

        And I don’t let my TV connect to the Internet, and instead do everything through a separate device which I have full control of.

        So I’m already pretty committed to never having to see this.

        • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          When I was single and living in a 1 bedroom apartment, I had my gaming rig next to my TV in the corner. I ran a long HDMI cable along the baseboard, around the corner, and into the TV. It was clean. I had this keyboard/touchpad combo in addition to my regular mouse and keyboard and that was how I turned my dumb TV into a smart TV running Windows 8.1 circa 2013/2014. I had a DualShock 4 that I’d use specifically for couch gaming because I didn’t always want to play at my desk. My PC has a BD drive so I used it as a Blu-Ray player, too.

          I was real proud of that setup. I’m married and we work from home now and so we have to have an office, but I’d love to get an Ethernet cable run between our living room and our office so I can use my laptop to stream my games and couch game again. All I have for couch gaming these days is my ancient consoles (PS2 and Wii).

    • Sordid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      A perfectly understandable reaction, but the company will be happy about that. If you willfully destroy a product you bought, they already have your money, and now you need to buy another one.