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.
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.
"Did you know you can save..."
Fuck off and die!
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 :/
These companies think ads are the best thing in the world. They can't imagine a world without them. That's evidenced by what that other person just said, them showing you a generic Paramount ad while you're watching a video on your paid Paramount subscription. Just fuck off, you clueless bitches!
It can get much worse on Paramount+. I wanted to check out the new Halo series, so I queued it up. When it got through the second commercial break, it started the video from just before the last commercial break. At first everything seemed normal because it had started showing me scenes I had not seen before, but after a time (suspiciously similar to the commercial break time), I noticed that I'd already watched this part. Once I started skipping ahead I noticed that it had rewound the video to just before where the last commercial break had cut in, played commercials (seemingly without pausing the show), and jumped back into the show. I thought it was just a one off glitch, but at the very next commercial interruption, instead of resuming the stream, it jumped to just before the last commercial break to show me another scene that it had skipped. I gave up on Paramount+ immediately, but we only signed up a trial to watch the Superbowl anyway so... Oh well I guess. Gave up on the Halo show too, what I'd seen wasn't good enough to pay for or even pirate really.
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!
You're paying for prime video? It comes free with their prime shipping service. I've never paid for their streaming. The shipping service is too valuable not to use, and the video shit is just a cherry on top. Prime shipping pays for itself within a half dozen orders.
Way I see it, it's the other way around. I would never pay for the shipping service, but since it's included in the streaming subscription I guess I'll take it. I don't order from Amazon unless there's absolutely no alternative.
Makes sense. I use their free shipping and returns constantly throughout the year, so the shipping is very much worth the expense for me.
Recently, Amazon prime made a change. Prime video was included with Prime membership, ad free, for quite a while. Now, it has ads, UNLESS you pay something like an additional $5 a month. This occurred within the last 6-12 months now.
Right, but they said they cancelled because they started including ads. I'm confused why someone would cancel their prime shipping program over ads on a video service that was included as a bonus. Just stop watching the platform and keep your free shipping.
It's not free shipping, you're paying $140/year. Worth it to some, but if you don't order much it's worth cancelling to cut costs.
True. It also covers the cost of returns too though, which can be very valuable if you order online a lot. Like you said though, it's probably not worth much to people who don't frequently order online through Amazon.
I paid Prime because Video was included. Just the shipping isn't worth the monthly fee to me.
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
In the end streaming service became like the old days when we watch TV but worse
Worse? Clearly you don't remember the days when if you got home at 6:15, you would miss half of your show. Or the days where the only option if you wanted a specific channel was to subscribe to an expensive bundle that included 8 other channels you didn't want.
Advertising has gotten so much worse, but everything being on-demand is miles better than what we used to have.
Never dealt with missing shows, as I learned how to set my VCR to timer record when I was like nine
Ah, kids and their fancy new VCRs. Back in my day you had to be on time and make the kids wiggle the rabbit ears just right.
But the good news is now we can block ads although it's hard to setup at first especially if you want routing all network in your home
For laptop, pc, or smartphone it's easy...just install ublock (for browser) or Adguard (for whole protection)
I built a DNS proxy that filters all third-party ads, but ads for the same service (e.g. Paramount advertising its own shows) are hosted by that service, meaning they get through.
Pi-hole?
Pi-Hole is a local dns proxy that filters ads. It's exactly what was described above, and doesn't work for ads hosted on the service you want the content from. If you block those ads, you lose the content.
I’m aware. I have two. I was asking if that’s what they built or if it was something else.
Yep, it was Pi-hole!
Thats not exactly good news, it's still a cat and mouse game but thankfully the ad block devs are more motivated than the streaming providers currently.
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.
The excuse was always 'but how will they make money?'
It was always a distraction. There is no such thing as enough money, for these bastards. You could pay exorbitant fees, per-show, per-minute, and they'd still drool over taking your money and selling your eyeballs.
I am not going to watch either
Yep, but ad least ad block will work on them! Can't do that w/ cable
If you aren't diligent about hitting that skip button be prepared for the worst. Not to mention the frequency increases.
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