• @JiveTurkey@lemmy.world
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    903 months ago

    If people would just drop their service en masse they would stop doing this shit. Everyone acts like they can be without a streaming service for a month or two so they’ll just complain as they continue to hand them money.

    • @Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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      143 months ago

      The reality is there aren’t enough people that care about ads to do that.

      You either grew up with TV commercials or you grew up with ads, the conditioning is already there. There is a narrow band of people who don’t watch much or any TV and got on the internet for most content that remember when ads weren’t a thing. They have done studies and reviewed user data to determine how much ads they can play.

      They might push users to leave by tickling the ad tolerance while increasing subscription fees, but that is unlikely to happen as the frog is already boiled.

    • Chris
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      73 months ago

      I cancelled everything but paramount recently. Just cant quit star trek. Until I fix my DNS server at least

    • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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      13 months ago

      I’m interested to know if Hulu is under pressure from content owners here. The way this is worded makes it sound like ads are a negotiated part of some of their content licensing deals that they cannot avoid. I’m just curious if that’s in part because of the content owners. Maybe those owners don’t want to give content for a flat fee and instead want a % cut of the business, or something?