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It’s finally here…
And the example they use is a guy shooting another guy on TV.
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Its the second comercial
Cyberpunk 2077 call out
As long as it’s not a breast
Yeah imagine someone shooting a q breast.
Imagine a guy breasting another guy.
America, Fuck Yeah
You don’t have to answer the question you know. It’s shitty, yes, but it’s not forcing anything to happen.
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Classic
Not yet…
The problem will not continue without answering
I found the answer! It’s https://help.hulu.com/article/hulu-cancel-hulu-subscription
And while you’re at it, you should also try this:
Okay, let’s not go mad. This is a streaming service. They are greedy assholes but they aren’t actively killing people.
Meh, I like this better.
I’d cancel any service that did this to me.
Right? We don’t have nice things because we put up with bull crap.
Is this fucking real? Get fucked, mainstream media, if this is the case. Plenty of books and old games to keep me occupied until Alzheimers hits, and then occupied again afterwards
This isn’t mainstream media.
This is capitalism.This is a company making a product, selling it for a given price, then making additional money from embedded ads.
Whether that ad revenue is additional profit, or to offset the actual cost of the item - because the sold it at a loss to beat their competitors - doesn’t really matter.
This is the consumer paying for something, and not getting a full and complete productMainstream media and capitalism are part of the same bullshit
No, mainstream media is part of capitalism.
Specifically shitty mainstream media (I’m sure there are some mainstream media providers that aren’t shitty).This is a shitty product.
This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism.
This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism which happens to show mainstream media.But this isn’t mainstream media.
Mainstream media would want in on the ad revenue. Mainstream media would facilitate & encourage this.
This is just a shitty product from a shitty company capitalising on shitty practices.
Edit:
I guess “part of the same bullshit” is correct.
But it’s placing the blame on the wrong thingYeah, I had to really masticate on my phrasing for a while and never really settled on a statement that reflected properly my true meaning. Glad you could see where I was coming from
Mainstream media is just media consumed by the majority of people.
It has nothing to do with money.
But capitalism tends to rot anything it touches.
Lol.
EVERYTHING BAD IS CAPITALISM!
Aiight, Lemmy.
This Hulu thing literally can only happen in a capitalist system.
Immediate uninstall and cancel.
Fuck that.
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I already don’t subscribe to Hulu, but I want to do my part to fight this.
Is there something I can do actively to cost them money?
Help teach other people to pirate
It was a pretty good few years, but unfortunately the enshitification was a slow and painful burn at the end there…
How many? Turn off TV, unsubscribe from Hulu rows.
I love when instagram goes: “have you heard about …?” Presumably asking this as they just showed me an ad about it that i completely ignored and i just go “no i haven’t”.
The only use of showing me ads is them getting paid and wasting my time. I don’t pay attention to them because i either don’t need/want it, just bought it or can’t afford it.
It’s been a long time since i bought something as a result of watching an ad.
The effect of ads is usually not directly linked to a specific product.
If, for example, you need a new box of laundry detergent, you’ll go to the supermarket. There you might find brand A, which you’ve never heard of, or brand B, which had an ad you’ve seen or heard somewhere. Studies have shown you’ll be more likely to buy brand B, because you’ll find it more trustworthy, which is because you’ve heard about it somewhere.
So, a lot of ads aren’t solely about a specific product, but also about making their brand perform better in the long run. Therefore, even if an ad is just making noise on the background, it may still have an effect on you. And, since it’s a subliminal process, it’s extremely difficult to make a concious decision to not buy products you’ve seen or heard ads of.
Yeah i’m too weird for ads it seems.
I just buy whichever has the best price per kg. I make a normale mortal wage i can’t afford to get used to such luxuries like paying double to get the Nutella that actually says Nutella on it.
I feel for everyone who makes an equal wage and doesn’t have the ability to see food as fuel.
On one hand I wish I could just see food as fuel. That’s how my dad is and it can certainly make things cheaper when needed. But he also doesn’t really seem to appreciate the better foods as much when it’s available.
Yeah, that’s all true, but I’ve still got 500 things I need to spend money on before buying a Lexus. Ads for luxury cars are wasted on us poors.
Which is why it is targeted. If it is not targeted enough, share more data, peasant.
And, since it’s a subliminal process, it’s extremely difficult to make a concious decision to not buy products you’ve seen or heard ads of.
Instead, I make a conscious decision to not buy products I remember seeing or hearing ads of. If you’re using subtle product placement to subliminally manipulate me in a way I don’t notice, good for you. If it’s obvious enough I remember you doing it then I will not buy your product unless it is already the best deal available (aka the cheapest per unit or best quality per price, excepting products I have had a bad experience with).
Full refund.
They went full ret*rd, I want full refund.
(I know you can cuss on the internet, but that word has some baggage…)
That baggage still exists even if you leave out one of the letters.
It was my best effort of using the word in a joke and trying not to offend anybody.
There’s no such thing as a joke that doesn’t offend anybody. If you want to tell a joke, tell the joke. If you want to be universally inoffensive you would probably need to become a lurker.
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Should have gotten up earlier
do they make you keep watching the ad until you get it right?
Dropped Hulu so very long ago.
Why would anyone put up with the attack that is advertising? If it requires you to watch ads, it’s not worth it. You wouldn’t sit through a free movie if it meant a stranger showing up every few minutes and offering to let you rim them, (it’s not that no one wants what their offering, it’s that they don’t care whether you’re interested or not. They’re still going to show you their asshole) why would you allow a similar violation of your mind?
I’m, that’s how over the air broadcasting is funded. You watch commercials. It’s been this way since television started.
Similar violation? How in the actual fuck is watching a few ads in anyway whatsoever even close to what you described?
Why would anyone put up with the attack that is advertising?
It’s quite simple because not think the exact way you do and have the same priorities.
you’re right. at least, depending on the person, there’s a chance rimming could be enjoyable. not so with ads that quiz you.
I never claimed that ads aren’t annoying just that it’s bizarre to compare it to sexual harassment.
It’s pretty close tbh
Ads are annoying I give you that.
a free movie
That’s the point. The movie isn’t free. You pay for the admission by rimming that guy. If you don’t want to do that, go to a different cinema and pay with money.
How old are you? The reason I ask is because it was very common to watch movies with ads via free-to-air TV in the 90s, at least in families that didn’t have cable TV. Not all families could afford to buy more and more movies on VHS.
Yeah, there’s a history here. That being said, newspapers have included ads and purchase fees for a long time AFAIK.
Is this real? I’m pretty sure this is ilegal in my country
you must live in one of those real countries I’ve only read about.
Imagine not living on a super mega gatorade plantation
I bet, like, they don’t even have freedom or whatever.
Fucking losers amirite?
I heard their women don’t work after giving birth. Sometimes up to a year!
How disgusting is that?! Think of all that lost productivity, lost profit to day care, no lunches at local fast slop, no wear and tear pm the vehicles. Like really hurting the system but not participating. Very problematic behaviour.
Thank god, not in my America!
Sounds like they should be in jail for communism to me!
But it’s got electrolytes! It’s what plants crave.
For one you don’t have to answer it or anything. Many streaming platforms have been doing this for awhile.
Not what OP said over on the (now deleted) Reddit post:
So the ad was supposed to play in that black box and this is a bug?
I had Bob’s Burgers on in the background but was playing a game with my kid. The silence caught my attention, but not at first. At first I assumed it was a, “choose your commercial” thing.
After some more time I thought maybe it was asking if I was still watching, that’s when I looked up to see this
I waited, nothing. I made a verbal comment and the whole family started looking. We waited, nothing.
I grabbed my phone, snapped the pic, made the post (but didn’t actually post it), and it was still sitting there.
I guessed an answer, got it right, and the show came back
Then I hit “post” to actually make the post.
Some people say it went away on its own. Others say, like me, they had to answer, and others said even after answering it didn’t go away
I’ve had Bob’s Burgers on all morning and I’ve yet to see this again
What country and what law?
Quick edit: you know, if Hulu doesn’t include anywhere that they do this, it could be seen as additional consideration (in the legal contractual term of the word - basically, what each party provides for the other) in order for Hulu to provide its service that wasn’t disclosed.
Of course, that just means we’ll get yet another “We updated our terms and while we’re at it we’re increasing our rates $3/month. Fuck You.” email and that’s that.
People say stuff like that and I’m like, what’s the actual law? “It feels bad so it’s probably illegal.”
This particular brand of bullshit is so new I doubt there’s any legislation out there. Maybe an existing consumer protection law could be bent to fit?
holy fucking shit and people give me the “you’re a bad person” side-eye when i tell them there is such an easy way to never deal with that bullshit ever
That’s really odd, I bring up piracy in conversation decently often (usually if I’m talking about a show and someone asks me if that’s on Netflix/Prime/Disney+/Hulu or whatever and I have to tell them I haven’t a clue)
The reaction had never been judgement, more so curiosity about how I go about my piracy.
Although I guess that’s really more of an indication of the poor, anti-capitalist leftist types I tend to associate with than anything else :P
This is a brand lift study. It’s almost worthless: Hulu is paid nearly zero for it. I can’t believe they’ve stooped this low to scrape so little incremental revenue with such a customer hostile tack. Their product and analytics people must truly suck and completely lack awareness of counter metrics.
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
These companies are insufferable.
