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[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 131 points 2 years ago

That's what you get for paying instead of pirating.

[-] ekky@sopuli.xyz 55 points 2 years ago

Paying for the unique opportunity to see the newest, moistest, and most intrusive ads*.

*Also comes with a limited selection of movies and series.

[-] Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com 111 points 2 years ago

Drink Verification Can to proceed,

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 81 points 2 years ago

Oh, wow, at least in Black Mirror they only made sure your eyes were open, you didn't need to pay attention.

[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 67 points 2 years ago

Wrong answer, rewatch the ad and try again.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 73 points 2 years ago

You joke but this is exactly how this specific ad works. My brother got it yesterday and he picked the wrong answer and the ad played again.

[-] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 2 years ago

I have no sympathy for anyone losing profits to piracy.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 22 points 2 years ago

Fuck me sideways. We need to dismantle capitalism like yesterday.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

How is that legal, completely insane

[-] FPSXpert@discuss.online 54 points 2 years ago

"Please stand and yell "Mcdonalds" to end commercial"

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'd yell "Whopper beats a Big Mac!"

[-] aiden@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Isn't this patent infringement? Sony patented that, right? Hulu should be allowed to use that.

And I thought I couldn't feel better about Jellyfin.

[-] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 50 points 2 years ago

This is how I become radicalized.

[-] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 2 years ago

You're on lemmy, you're already radicalised.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 44 points 2 years ago

Yeah, we need a new war. This time against the rich.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 43 points 2 years ago

That's not a new war. It's the war behind all the other wars.

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 13 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but it's not a new war. It's an eternal war, and when those on top push too much, we push back. We call those stages revolutions, and maybe it's time to remind those on top that when a revolution happens, their heads get separated from their bodies. So either give us back some freedoms, or blood will be spilt. And it won't be our blood.

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 years ago

What happens if you dont answer "correctly"?

[-] Micromot@feddit.org 32 points 2 years ago

I would expect another ad or the same one again but I don't know

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 26 points 2 years ago

I feel like the only even remotely acceptable way to do this is to show the ad, prompt for the answer for 10 seconds. They can log the right/wrong answer or if the time expires the lack of one and must move on.

I can imagine metrics knowing if your advertising is actually reaching people is valid. But to make people answer and especially make them watch more if they answer wrong is about as dystopian as it gets.

If (and I say if, I really don't want to believe it is) that is the case, the only correct response is to uninstall Hulu immediately and put on your pirate hat.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

If this was the case, I'd enter the wrong answer every time just to fuck with their metrics

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

Engaging in it by thinking about it and answering is going to make it stay in your mind longer and would be a success in the eyes of the advertisers.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

In that case I'll enter the left answer every time

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago

It plays again, but louder.

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 years ago

Just checked; this doesn’t appear on the latest version of Jellyfin with pirated media.

[-] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago

New season of Black Mirror looks lit af.

[-] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago

What's the purpose of this? You have to supply a correct answer to make the ad go away?

[-] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 years ago

that's some black mirror stuff

[-] ryan213@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago
[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

man i got 3 notifications in 1 sec

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 15 points 2 years ago

I'd love to become rich, so I can keep on pirating as a statement. Or to show a rich guy how much better pirating is as a service.

Maybe then we can get their attention and prove that enshittification is the problem, and not the cost.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago

Aaarrr matey, this for sure wouldn't be the reason why we pirate, would it?

Fuck all of this, I'm so sick and tired of technology advances leading to just more shit for money. I worked for only 9 months in a corporate environment that did shit like this and it nauseated me. Got fired for throwing the CTO under a freight train (figuratively) and never been happier for being fired.

[-] max_dryzen@mander.xyz 8 points 2 years ago

You're not sick of technology you're sick of not having real control of technology

[-] EonNShadow@pawb.social 9 points 2 years ago

Bleh.

This is awful.

[-] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

That's really stupid, but there's one (unimportant) thing I'm not understanding. When they ask the numbers of rows in the car, are they asking the number of rows of seats?

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