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Does it delete random pieces of your data if you give it a wrong answer?
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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Hulu does this thing sometimes where you can choose which ad you want if two videos. Usually there is a timer to pick a default for you. I don't see a timer on the screen, but I'm still wondering if Lexus is using that feature for this ad. Did it not progress until you selected something?
Why would anyone put up with the attack that is advertising? If it requires you to watch ads, it's not worth it. You wouldn't sit through a free movie if it meant a stranger showing up every few minutes and offering to let you rim them, (it's not that no one wants what their offering, it's that they don't care whether you're interested or not. They're still going to show you their asshole) why would you allow a similar violation of your mind?
Please drink the verification can
I would immediately cancel any service that does that.
I actively avoid advertising. I've cancelled Amazon prime now it has advertising.
I got Sky's Internet TV here in the UK - a supposedly premium service yet the first VOD demand show I streamed I found it had adverts and you had to pay more to be able to fast forward through them. I immediately cancelled.
These companies are greedy as fuck, and driven by the stupidity of always trying to be "growing" to grow their share prices. That just means always trying to save money and take more money from their customers. Enshittification is a result of the stupidity of the stock markets.
I was on Amazon Prime for years.
Then in the space of one year they decided that listening to an album in order was now a "premium" feature, and that ads would be shovelled into everything.
Sure, I lost the "free" shipping, so now I hardly buy anything from Amazon either. I see this as an absolute win.
I cancelled Prime over a year ago and for some reason I still get "Prime" delivery. I don't get the games, movies, or Twitch stuff but if I order something it shows up faster than when my partner does.
So, I don't hate that about Amazon... Everything else keeps me from ordering there unless there's no other options.
same i was really buying a lot of pointless shit it turns out lol
It's as if they want you to torrent stuff again.
And funnily I feel less worse than the last time (before netflix arose)..
I cancelled Amazon Prime the second they sent me that email.
My GF then got her own subscription within less than a month so it nets out as 0 loss to Bezos in the end...
Sometimes i imagine him pointing and laughing at me
Sky really pisses me off. They have exclusive rights to the F1 in the UK, but you need to pay a fortune for it, as you have to have the base sky package plus sky sports (I think) plus sky sports F1.
Probably comes to over £50/month for something that's on every other weekend on average, and they still show ads! If there's a subscription, there shouldn't be any ads.
If all you want is F1, and you kniw someone who lives ina country where F1TV is available, try booking F1TV through them. It's 50€/year.
Yep and its never going to get better if you stay, only worse
Ooh, I know the answer!
🏴☠️
What happens if you answer wrong?
You get sent to ad prison for re-education.
Re-aducation
you do reset if you failed after that, you have to rewatch the film from start
If i ever am forced to answer a quiz like this, I will make a youtube video lambasting that product or service.
They're really doing everything in their power to destroy their own business model, aren't they?
I'm always a bit dumbfounded how many people are apparently fine with this sort of thing. I wish this was obviously a death sentence or pr nightmare for the service but in practice it must not be for a lot of people, enough to make it worth attempting.
Theyre making it easier to switch back to pirating by the day
I love when instagram goes: "have you heard about ...?" Presumably asking this as they just showed me an ad about it that i completely ignored and i just go "no i haven't".
The only use of showing me ads is them getting paid and wasting my time. I don't pay attention to them because i either don't need/want it, just bought it or can't afford it.
It's been a long time since i bought something as a result of watching an ad.
The effect of ads is usually not directly linked to a specific product.
If, for example, you need a new box of laundry detergent, you'll go to the supermarket. There you might find brand A, which you've never heard of, or brand B, which had an ad you've seen or heard somewhere. Studies have shown you'll be more likely to buy brand B, because you'll find it more trustworthy, which is because you've heard about it somewhere.
So, a lot of ads aren't solely about a specific product, but also about making their brand perform better in the long run. Therefore, even if an ad is just making noise on the background, it may still have an effect on you. And, since it's a subliminal process, it's extremely difficult to make a concious decision to not buy products you've seen or heard ads of.
And, since it’s a subliminal process, it’s extremely difficult to make a concious decision to not buy products you’ve seen or heard ads of.
Instead, I make a conscious decision to not buy products I remember seeing or hearing ads of. If you're using subtle product placement to subliminally manipulate me in a way I don't notice, good for you. If it's obvious enough I remember you doing it then I will not buy your product unless it is already the best deal available (aka the cheapest per unit or best quality per price, excepting products I have had a bad experience with).
Yeah, that’s all true, but I’ve still got 500 things I need to spend money on before buying a Lexus. Ads for luxury cars are wasted on us poors.
Yeah i'm too weird for ads it seems.
I just buy whichever has the best price per kg. I make a normale mortal wage i can't afford to get used to such luxuries like paying double to get the Nutella that actually says Nutella on it.
I feel for everyone who makes an equal wage and doesn't have the ability to see food as fuel.
On one hand I wish I could just see food as fuel. That's how my dad is and it can certainly make things cheaper when needed. But he also doesn't really seem to appreciate the better foods as much when it's available.
Next step: political adverts that quiz you on what you've just heard and repeat each segment if you get the answer wrong.
Just kidding though (or am I). This is truly some dystopian shit. My first reaction was what the actual fuck. And I bet you that their numbers aren't really going to hurt that much because of this. Mark my words.
What really grinds my gears, is for every shitty "feature" like this, for every denial of policy or piece of spyware... someone thought it up.
I wonder does anyone ever, in the meeting where this is decided, bring up what a horrible idea it is? I'm sure that person won't have the best career, but has anyone ever seen someone take the bullet?
Seen from abroad, US companies have always kind of been anti-consumer, but lately they've been super turbo pedal to the metal implementing that shit.
I guess they want to quickly make as much money as possible in the few years left before everything goes to hell.
Man, I've been to these meetings.
Shitty MBAs have a shitty idea, and when you go "that's impossible to do / directly against any sane set of values / clearly and plainly very, very illegal", they just go "don't worry about it" and have you do the stupid shit. When it comes crashing down, responsibility is usually distributed like when you take a turd and throw it in a high speed industrial fan, everyone gets a little.
Then you have a choice between either becoming so jaded and cynical that it's not even funny anymore, or switch jobs. I've had too many jobs.
Somebody better tell Sony about this. I'm sure they want to cash in from their patent being infringed.
:p /s
The dreaded future of advertising is here. Next step, in your face as you do your daily stuffs.
McDonald’s!
This is a brand lift study. It's almost worthless: Hulu is paid nearly zero for it. I can't believe they've stooped this low to scrape so little incremental revenue with such a customer hostile tack. Their product and analytics people must truly suck and completely lack awareness of counter metrics.
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Somewhere someone thought this was a good idea.
Fuck that individual specifically, fuck head...
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When Hulu still had ads when you bought a subscription, I swore I would never pay them ever again. That was around 2014. I have stuck to it, and every year I am reminded why. Fuck Hulu.
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