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Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026(arstechnica.com)

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shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works
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They want the old cable tv days back, but worse

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fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Yeah, to this day all commercials are skippable on a DVR. It was stupid for anyone to think things with streaming would settle any differently.

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Libra00@lemmy.ml
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Streaming was different for years and years. But then people got greedy.

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acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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For ages the four nations lived in harmony…

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fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Greed isn’t new, streaming companies aren’t more or less greedy than cable companies. But internet companies innovated surveillance capitalism which cable companies couldn’t do with their infrastructure. Streaming just waited to roll out unskippable ads so they could win customers early on with an artificially, temporarily better service.

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chaosCruiser@futurology.today
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Youtube is also trying to be more like TV. Apparently, TV wasn’t bad enough.

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Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
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It’s quite something how they’re trying to force the Internet to work as an artificial version of things we already have, instead of using it for the unique purposes which it can actually fulfill.

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Libra00@lemmy.ml
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They want the old cable TV days, but worse, and filling their pockets instead.

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