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[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 77 points 10 months ago

Cable shifted to low information viewers across the board decades ago. Dumb people watch commercials I guess.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 58 points 10 months ago

They're making people watch commercials on the streaming services now too. There's really only one solution left, matey.

[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No sir, I am a good Christian Man, raised right.

Whats my favorite Veggie Tales song, you ask?

We are the piiiiirates

Who dont do anything

We just staaaay here

And lie around

Er um. Yes. Just a catchy tune! Nothing relevant about my online activities here sir, nope ;)

[-] LetThereBeR0ck@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Look, I'm just asking you to do anything

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

And I'm just telling you, we don't do anything

[-] WordBox@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

And I've never been to Boston in the fall.

[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago

Fine.

bathes in yogurt while licking a sparkplug

[-] dingus@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago
[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean Larry is a cucumber, and I have heard that country gals make do with what theyve got.

[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago
[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

My popup blocker works on streaming so no commercials there.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

That doesn't stop, for example, Amazon showing you commercials for other Prime shows before showing you what you want to watch.

[-] aard@kyu.de 9 points 10 months ago

That was one of the reasons why I was watching pirated versions of the Amazon shows even when I was paying for prime.

[-] Smeagol666@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Worse, Hulu advertises the fucking show I'm currently watching.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

There's a skip button and at least it's for their own content. If they remove the skip button and start advertising unrelated products then fuck em

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Paramount+ doesn't have a skip button, but I already gave them up.

[-] TheHolyChecksum@infosec.pub 4 points 10 months ago

Your popup blocker?! What year is this, 1999?

[-] Dethedrus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

This chair be high, says I!

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

All the people watch commercials, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was a correlation between the kind of person that can watch stupid reality shows for hours on end and the kind of person who watches those ads and it actually translates into them spending money on the things in the ads.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Probably so. I don't know if home shopping channels are still on the air, but there were people who watched those religiously. I remember when TV switched over to digital broadcast, there was a big to-do in the town I lived in because a bunch of people watched a low-power broadcast station that broadcast a home shopping channel 24/7 and they wouldn't be able to watch it anymore since it couldn't afford the upgrade.

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