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wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

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[-] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Don’t come at me with a toxic Reddit attitude. The issue is not about paying for a service. For example, people are willing to donate to the fediverse to keep servers running. The problem is that the current state of the internet is dominated by paywalls, tracking and ads. Even if I paid for YouTube they’d still track me, feed me garbage from an algorithm and try to sell things to me (relentlessly).

When hulu put unskippable ads on my premium subscription, I switched to pirating.

[-] Phillaholic@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Are you talking about pre-roll ads for other shows on the platform? That was the norm before Netflix. HBO has done it for most of their existence.

whatever it was, it became unskippable.

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