Mildly Infuriating

I wish I was technically savy enough to do any of this.

Unfortunately I am cursed, I break shit and hate having to spend hours working out what's fucked on my computer.

TV's wifi card shit itself, problem solved pulled out replaced.

Computer wouldn't boot cause reason number 432 (actually the flash on the MB said fault reserved for future fault finding) hours of struggling.

Its honestly getting to the point now where doing these home setups are so much simpler than owning these proprietary streaming boxes which have everything locked up to serve you ads or just steal data in general.

Hooking a PC up to the TV even to watch the paid services is probably better at this point.

So I think this might be getting misrepresented. Now I don't in anyway support"interactive ads" like this, but I'm pretty sure that is all this is. I actually had this exact commercial yesterday and didn't even realize that it was actually asking the question in a non-rhetorical way. So I didn't touch the remote and the commercial just plays out and ends as it would if the text wasn't on the screen. I don't know what happens if you actually answer the question. Hulu puts an ad countdown timer on the screen when ads are playing so you know how much of the ad is left and my show resumed at the time it said it would before the commercials started.

I'd be throwing the tv inside their store window. Fuck that noise

That's really odd, I bring up piracy in conversation decently often (usually if I'm talking about a show and someone asks me if that's on Netflix/Prime/Disney+/Hulu or whatever and I have to tell them I haven't a clue)

The reaction had never been judgement, more so curiosity about how I go about my piracy.

Although I guess that's really more of an indication of the poor, anti-capitalist leftist types I tend to associate with than anything else :P

you must live in one of those real countries I've only read about.

For one you don't have to answer it or anything. Many streaming platforms have been doing this for awhile.

What country and what law?

Quick edit: you know, if Hulu doesn't include anywhere that they do this, it could be seen as additional consideration (in the legal contractual term of the word - basically, what each party provides for the other) in order for Hulu to provide its service that wasn't disclosed.

Of course, that just means we'll get yet another "We updated our terms and while we're at it we're increasing our rates $3/month. Fuck You." email and that's that.