• moody@lemmings.world
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      8 months ago

      Worse? Clearly you don’t remember the days when if you got home at 6:15, you would miss half of your show. Or the days where the only option if you wanted a specific channel was to subscribe to an expensive bundle that included 8 other channels you didn’t want.

      Advertising has gotten so much worse, but everything being on-demand is miles better than what we used to have.

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        8 months ago

        Never dealt with missing shows, as I learned how to set my VCR to timer record when I was like nine

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      But the good news is now we can block ads although it’s hard to setup at first especially if you want routing all network in your home
      For laptop, pc, or smartphone it’s easy…just install ublock (for browser) or Adguard (for whole protection)

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        I built a DNS proxy that filters all third-party ads, but ads for the same service (e.g. Paramount advertising its own shows) are hosted by that service, meaning they get through.

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        Thats not exactly good news, it’s still a cat and mouse game but thankfully the ad block devs are more motivated than the streaming providers currently.