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When watching over-the-air television, I mute the TV and look away when ads come on.
You can show me all the ads in the world but you sure as fuck can't force me to engage.
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God help those fuckers when I finally fall down the TV Tuner + Jellyfin + TVHeadend rabbithole. I'm gonna "Live Pause" that shit or I'm gonna straight up DVR everything I wanna watch and skip the ads.And my parents watch much more OTA TV than me so you bet your ass I'm setting up every TV in their house with a cheap trustable Android TV stick and teaching them how to Pause, Rewind and Fast Forward. Fuck ads foreverrrrrr.
Perceiving advertisements is unethical. Good job!
Start saving for a small pc and some large hard drives. It's worth it. Or pay for a VPN and use stremio and just stream torrents.
You can also buy access to other people's Plex servers, watch anything
Fuck advertisements. I've got pihole setup as my local DNS, ublock origin on all computers. Being bombarded every minute of every day to buy shit is getting real old really fast.
Oh I got a home server setup with Jellyfin and a bunch of media already, just need to figure out the Live TV stuff (for live news, some soap operas, stuff that doesn't get torrented much) for it to be 100% complete :)
Gotcha. I don't have the answer for that one unfortunately
Many news channels have free streaming options. You don't have to watch the channels with ads, you know.
Last time I actually watched the news they were basically shilling for ozembic under the guise of "OMG there's gonna be a shortage!"
I get this and I also don't engage with ads but at the end of the day they are what pays for the stuff you want to watch.
It's a shitty system and it's become amazingly predatory. Needless to say I used revanced on my phone.
It would be ok if we didn't have 5 ads on a 4 min video. They fucked their system and treated us like the bad guy. Fuck them for shooting themselves in the foot. There is a reason Google makes all their money from selling your personal data and advertising. Of course we're going to work around it.
Ads can't be permitted to pay for things, though. One has a moral obligation to make sure that that strategy does not work, because it degrades both whatever the advertisements are inserted around (which becomes optimized to get attention at the expense of anything actually useful, like entertaining or conveying information) and the people who perceive it (because it creates capital inside their minds, in the form of brands, artificially alters their culture, and deliberately creates fear, mistrust of loved ones, and feelings of inadequacy).
While I agree that ads are often necessary, I disagree with the predatory way they are presented. Google, and by extension YouTube, are the most egregious examples.
But there is no moral obligation to either engage with ads or avoid them. That notion is nonsensical