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    I just want to go back to a time when shows built in pause moments for commercial breaks. Watching a video get cut off mid sentence in the middle of an intense scene to be told about how I can send money worldwide just kinda kills the mood.

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    The most noxious ones are the ads for the platform you are served by the platform when using the platform.

    Paramount+ plays almost 90s of ads, sometimes ads for the exact show you are about to watch, any time you hit go. That’s just heinous.

    Still better than the Peacock app though, for which the sound randomly cuts out for a few seconds every minute or two on a device as uncommon and odd as… a Chromecast.

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      Paramount used to show no ads whatsoever for their no-ads plan, but now they show an ad at the beginning for another show. For the longest time it was unskippable, but at least now these can be skipped.

      Hulu does the same thing. No ads should mean NO ads!

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        That was when I dropped Hulu. If I’m already paying, I’m not going to sit through ads as well.

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        YouTube does this on paid content. I bought It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia but it has ads for other FX shows (Mayans, Cake, Sons of Anarchy) baked in to the first 30 seconds and last 60 seconds of some episodes.

        It also has a teaser that is the last item in each season’s playlist, which is an ad for the season you just watched :/

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        These companies think ads are the best thing in the world. They can’t imagine a world without them. That’s evidenced by what that other person just said, them showing you a generic Paramount ad while you’re watching a video on your paid Paramount subscription. Just fuck off, you clueless bitches!

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    I just canceled Prime because they started with the ads. It was the last streaming service I was paying for. Now I am sharing Disney+ until they crack down on that and then I’m done with their shit. I already read 12 books this year, so there’s that. And if I get bored, I guess I’ll pick up sailing again, like in the olden days. 🏴‍☠️

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      You’re paying for prime video? It comes free with their prime shipping service. I’ve never paid for their streaming. The shipping service is too valuable not to use, and the video shit is just a cherry on top. Prime shipping pays for itself within a half dozen orders.

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        Way I see it, it’s the other way around. I would never pay for the shipping service, but since it’s included in the streaming subscription I guess I’ll take it. I don’t order from Amazon unless there’s absolutely no alternative.

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      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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        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.

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    The excuse was always ‘but how will they make money?’

    It was always a distraction. There is no such thing as enough money, for these bastards. You could pay exorbitant fees, per-show, per-minute, and they’d still drool over taking your money and selling your eyeballs.

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    It’s everywhere now, that word. “Content.” Even some artists have surrendered and now use the language of the oppressor.

    It’s something I’ve noticed a while ago, it’s just so awful. It degenerates pieces of art into monetary value. It’s depressing.

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    Yep, but ad least ad block will work on them! Can’t do that w/ cable

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    Jellyseerr

    Jellyfin Sonarr Radarr Jackett Transmission

    There’s your streaming service

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    This guy’s first problem is watching movies on his cable provider’s on-demand service. On-demand has been crap since its inception.

    And then:

    We are now at the point in the history of show business where a bad experience is free and a decent one costs extra.

    This is literally how it’s always been. And this the crux of this dude’s issues. He’s not willing to pay for content and is using freeware and crapware to watch movies. You can’t complain about a bad service if you’re not paying for it.

    He wants the solution? Ditch cable, buy movies and TV shows or pay for streaming services without ads. It’s really that simple.

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      I would say streaming services are worse then sailing these days, shitty quality, unusable offline play,… And buying movies isn’t easy too, unless you want to buy BluRay discs most of online places will only lend you a licence to watch the content until they decide to remove it, viz Sony.

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    If you aren’t diligent about hitting that skip button be prepared for the worst. Not to mention the frequency increases.