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[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 117 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 53 points 2 days 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 104 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Drink Verification Can to proceed,

[–] FPSXpert@discuss.online 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] aiden@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 72 points 2 days 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 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wrong answer, rewatch the ad and try again.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 61 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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 34 points 2 days ago

I have no sympathy for anyone losing profits to piracy.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 18 points 1 day ago

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

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

How is that legal, completely insane

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is how I become radicalized.

[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 2 days ago

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

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 40 points 2 days ago

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

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day 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 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What happens if you dont answer "correctly"?

[–] Micromot@feddit.org 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago

It plays again, but louder.

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 22 points 2 days ago

New season of Black Mirror looks lit af.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day 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.

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 days ago

that's some black mirror stuff

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 8 points 1 day ago

Bleh.

This is awful.

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

man i got 3 notifications in 1 sec

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

what happens when you answer wrong?

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 day ago

Just a liitle electric shock.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It tells you the right answer. It then it froze up and crashed my Fire TV.

to be fair it does not take much for my fire tv stick to freeze up and crash

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it's like captcha, the same thing as when you answer right... Start all over.

Will be interesting to see where this goes. I know I have said it before and they might not think im serious but so help me satan I will read books. Do they want that!

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day 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?