As Amazon becomes the latest platform to push an ad-supported tier, TV writers greet this retro model with frustration and, in some cases, disdain: “I thought 'Nine Perfect Strangers' with commercials was horrible,” says David E. Kelley of his Hulu show with breaks.
  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    129·
    10 months ago

    What I want to know is how much money could insurance companies (cough, Liberty Mutual, cough) POSSIBLY be saving people when they are buying ads on every video on Youtube.

    • poayjay@lemmy.todayEnglish
      38·
      10 months ago

      I always wondered what if someone started an insurance business that didn’t spend billions on advertisements, it just offered genuinely lower rates. When you sign up you have to sign something promising you’ll tell 2 other people.

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
        36·
        10 months ago

        “We can’t lower prices! Look at how much we have to spend!!”

        Points at billions in ad slots being watched by mostly AI now

      • abysmalpoptart@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        10 months ago

        There are plenty of insurance companies that are like this. They’re significantly cheaper than the nationally advertised insurance options.

        • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Massachusetts (funny enough also where MB is popular) used to have only small car insurance companies, I think it had something to do with no-fault or something. But they opened up to the Geicos and co. A decade or so ago.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      That’s what you’re seeing. Not what I’m seeing. Welcome to the wonderful world of targeted ads.

      I only get Doctor Drew telling me stuff is a metabolism killer.

      • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        10 months ago

        You guys watch ads on YouTube? When YT gets the better of UblockO for a couple days, I just open the YT homepage, see which of the regular channels I check out have new videos or I look through my recommended and then I open piped or yewtu.be. Fuck YT. I refuse to watch ads. When I open a YT link through lemmy, I’ll close the window immediately if an ad starts playing. Fuck these companies.

        • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I went over a month with zero issues using UBO on YouTube. Coincidentally today for some reason the site started breaking so I updated the quick fixes filter list and that solved it.

        • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I have ad blocker at the router level, but I often toggle it off when it interrupts marketing experiences that I need to see for work.

        • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          10 months ago

          And I’m super skinny and don’t need to speed up my metabolism. It’s not perfect, but we both sit in a demographic cohort that seems to really buy what they’re pushing to us.

          • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            I’m always getting those crappy State Farm ads with celebrities like Ludacris, who always look slightly embarrassed to be appearing in the ads

        • QuarterSwede@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          And equally that I have had LM for decades and that’s all I see ads for … yeah, real effective targeted advertising.

      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Lol, I get eavestrough filters and fat guy t-shirts. They can tell I’m an old fucker but not that I’m skinny as hell