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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes 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?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours 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] 5 points 5 hours ago

Bleh.

This is awful.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours 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] 31 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This is how I become radicalized.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 78 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Drink Verification Can to proceed,

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Wrong answer, rewatch the ad and try again.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 hours ago (2 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] 21 points 9 hours ago

I have no sympathy for anyone losing profits to piracy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

How is that legal, completely insane

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago

New season of Black Mirror looks lit af.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 hours 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] 8 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

what happens when you answer wrong?

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

Just a liitle electric shock.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] fsxylo 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours 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] 59 points 13 hours 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] 31 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

What happens if you dont answer "correctly"?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 hours 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] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] DannyBoy 5 points 6 hours 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 5 hours ago

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

[–] Enkers 13 points 11 hours ago

It plays again, but louder.

[–] RedstoneValley 16 points 11 hours 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 11 hours ago

that's some black mirror stuff

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

man i got 3 notifications in 1 sec