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  • raman_klogius@ani.social
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    40 minutes ago

    Meanwhile, my Freedom Plan:

    • $0.00/eternity
    • As large a resolution and bitrate as I wanted
    • Play on my favorite media player
    • Absolutely no ads anywhere
    • Option to pay forward by seeding
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    8 hours ago

    The first ad I see on Netflix will be the last. I will not pay for ads. You can’t have it both ways.

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    11 hours ago

    Doesn’t look like an ad. Looks like the live WWE Raw event you’re watching is showing ads on other platforms and you’re seeing a black screen until it resumes…

    Get mad about real things yall. We don’t need to fake outrage when there is actual bad things happening.

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      9 hours ago

      Yeah, the live event is on commercial break. Your Netflix sub doesn’t alter time itself.

      Can’t believe how much blind hate in this thread when the screenshot doesn’t match the claim.

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        7 hours ago

        Your Netflix sub doesn’t alter time

        Excuse me, I upgraded to the special relativity plan for exactly this reason and I’m entitled to my rage

    • Malyca@lemmy.zip
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      13 hours ago

      Remember how far the cable industry pushed? These are the same people and they’ve learned nothing.

      • DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca
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        11 hours ago

        They’ve learned that most people are apathetic enough to just take it as long as they roll it slowly enough.

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      14 hours ago

      And that’s why I dislike that popular saying. People don’t stop being products by paying for services. You’re always a product when using big tech. Only small businesses, nonprofit organizations and community services allow us not to be products, whether we pay or not for it.

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          6 hours ago

          There are many cases where we don’t pay and we’re not products. The phrase is false in any way.

          • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            5 hours ago

            Fun fact: many of the sayings I grew up with are halves of themselves at best.

            The ol’ chestnut, “Great minds think alike”, for instance, was originally followed with “but, rarely do they differ.”, and that’s a completely different message & tone.

            “Blood is thicker than water” used to be “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”— the absolute opposite of the common usage these days.

            “Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back”;

            “The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese”;

            Idiom truncation is simply a part of diachronic morphism… though, when the cuckernutters’re running things, systemic stupid reigns. 🤷🏼‍♂️😶🤦🏼‍♂️

  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    HBO MAX MAX CINEMAX SHOWTIMEBOX HBO MAX PLUS PLUS GO or whatever the fuck it’s called now did this to me a while back when I was on their premium ad-free plan. They told me that the commercial breaks in the middle of shows advertising american football or some other sports crap weren’t ads because they were showcasing HBO content or some such. They claimed that those commercial breaks only show up at the beginning of movies/shows. When I sent them video of me watching something, 10 minutes into the show, and the ad aired, they still did not back down on that claim.

    So, guess who hasn’t bothered with HBO MAX MAX CINEMAX SHOWTIMEBOX HBO MAX PLUS PLUS GO ever since.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    I’m guessing this is a bug because If this is true, I’m surprised that there’s no media companies reporting on it.

    This sounds like a classic bait and switch, and this would be a click-haven for reporters

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      14 hours ago

      Netflix very recently sent an email with an updated privacy policy which states that they sell the personal information of every customer to advertisers. There is a new toggle hidden in the options which is on by default and sells your data to 200+ companies.

      • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        14 hours ago

        Thanks for the tip. It’s per-profile, too, so if you have multiple profiles (family), you have to go into each profile and turn it off.

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          13 hours ago

          What you actually mean is you have to spin up sonarr, and the related apps and cancel Netflix.

  • therewolftherecastle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    Time to reaquaint myself with physical media. I’ve had enough of this shit. I only signed up to watch the new Unsolved Mysteries, anyways. I’m sure I can sail the seas to find that quite easily.

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      12 hours ago

      They’re on chrome. It’s mildly their fault if they’re still on there

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        1 hour ago

        If any Chrome users are reading this: You can just use Helium which includes uBlock Origin (not lite) and is based on Chromium.

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      13 hours ago

      I know there is an argument between ublock and pihole, I prefer pihole I have worked on my pihole set up to be better than ublock but ublock for ease of use I guess.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 hours ago

        I’ve my pi-hole but it does not block things like YouTube ads as they’re served by the same servers as videos. Ublock works though, so both is good!

      • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        11 hours ago

        Pihole is good to affect an entire network of devices without anything needed on the device. Ublock is good to affect a single device on any network, like your phone while outside the house. I use both as well as rethink which when in DNS-only mode does basically what pihole does at the device level. Of course, each has other functionality as well with various advantages and disadvantages, but at a high level they are not exactly an either/or kind of thing necessarily.

        • Reannlegge@lemmy.ca
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          7 hours ago

          I have been having a rough day, I think I meant AdGuard I use Ublock on device as well

          • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zone
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            4 hours ago

            Yeah, definitely more similar functionality in AdGuard vs pihole, but similar significant difference. Pihole protects only when you are home and protects all devices, even ones thst can’t install ad-blocking like streaming devices and such. AdGuard protects the device even outside of your home. Doesn’t hurt to use both.

            But I prefer rethink over adguard since it’s open-source and so it’s not as easy for them to go rogue for profit and start collecting personal information. Also, I’ve never used adguard but the website says the free version only protects browsers and not apps. Rethink protects the whole device even in DNS-only mode. And adguard seems not to offer as much detailed control of what’s blocked, though I may have missed it. Rethink you can download several kinds of blocklists and either apply the whole list or select site-by-site. But that’s just my preferences.

            Either way pihole and adguard serve different purposes, pihole is network level and affects more than just personal devices and adguard works even when outside of your home, but only affects personal devices.