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Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games (www.techspot.com)
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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 180 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have a hard unbreakable rule:

Free, you can serve me ads, I'll try to avoid them but ok. But the minute I pay for something and you try to give me ads on top, we're gonna have a problem.

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Newspapers. You paid for it, and it still got ads.

I know, digital and printed ads are different.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cable TV, same thing. This is just old media execs trying to “bring back the magic” or new media execs thinking that old media techniques will work

[–] Hoomod@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apparently when cable first came to be, there were no ads

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably the same case for newspapers, radio, the internet, movies in theatres, gas station pumps etc. Though each new medium we create has a shorter and shorter Time-To-Ad-Platform runway it seems

[–] ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The first cable TV system in the U.S. was built in the late 1940s and had ads from day one since it was created to bring network television to communities with poor reception. Cable has always had ads.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Newspapers. You paid for it, and it still got ads.

I have never done this and I doubt I ever will.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How old are you?

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

30

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Same, and I have bought some before, for different reasons that I don't even remember lol, but yeah, I wouldn't buy one just to read it now lol.

[–] Ethos_logos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I mean sure, but it’s also been literally a decade since I bought a newspaper.

I bought it for the coupons.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why Amazon Prime was an instant cancel.

[–] interceder270@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you still want to watch amazon video content, you can stream pretty much anything for free here: https://fmoviesz.to/

Just make sure you have Adnauseam or uBlock Origin installed.

I just started watching the 2nd season of Invincible :)

[–] sock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

look up cloudstream and thank me later

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That’s cable TV in a nutshell. Pay to watch ads.