Quark's

1097 readers

11 users here now

Come to Quark’s, Quark’s is Fun!

General off-topic chat for the crew of startrek.website. Trek-adjacent discussions, other sci-fi television, navigating the Fediverse, server meta (within reason), selling expired cases of Yamok sauce, it’s all fair game.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

150

Amazon Will Inject Ads Into Prime Video Starting Jan. 29th (gizmodo.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

60 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cable used to have no commercials. Then they had some commercials, but less than OTA. Now there's no difference. Streaming services started out with no commercials, then it was commercials, but you can pay for no commercials. Soon it'll be pay more, for less commercials, I think there's a service already doing that? Don't reward them for this shitty behavior by throwing more money at them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

TV used to be free over the air. Commercials were in-show. Often done buy the hosts themselves talking up a product. Pretty much exactly like YouTube and podcasts do now.

Then cable was invented and they charged for it. But commercials never went away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

TV is still free over the air