As Amazon becomes the latest platform to push an ad-supported tier, TV writers greet this retro model with frustration and, in some cases, disdain: “I thought 'Nine Perfect Strangers' with commercials was horrible,” says David E. Kelley of his Hulu show with breaks.
  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    That’s what you’re seeing. Not what I’m seeing. Welcome to the wonderful world of targeted ads.

    I only get Doctor Drew telling me stuff is a metabolism killer.

      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        And I’m super skinny and don’t need to speed up my metabolism. It’s not perfect, but we both sit in a demographic cohort that seems to really buy what they’re pushing to us.

        • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          I’m always getting those crappy State Farm ads with celebrities like Ludacris, who always look slightly embarrassed to be appearing in the ads

      • QuarterSwede@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        And equally that I have had LM for decades and that’s all I see ads for … yeah, real effective targeted advertising.

    • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      I get douche bros peddling instant meal powder crap. Which I have never, ever, looked for or researched, but my wife’s shopping habits tend to dictate my ads, even though we’re on completely different devices.

      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, if you’re going through the same router, it’s going to be one IP. My guess is that I get the metabolism stuff because of my spouse.

    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Lol, I get eavestrough filters and fat guy t-shirts. They can tell I’m an old fucker but not that I’m skinny as hell

    • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      You guys watch ads on YouTube? When YT gets the better of UblockO for a couple days, I just open the YT homepage, see which of the regular channels I check out have new videos or I look through my recommended and then I open piped or yewtu.be. Fuck YT. I refuse to watch ads. When I open a YT link through lemmy, I’ll close the window immediately if an ad starts playing. Fuck these companies.

      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I have ad blocker at the router level, but I often toggle it off when it interrupts marketing experiences that I need to see for work.

      • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I went over a month with zero issues using UBO on YouTube. Coincidentally today for some reason the site started breaking so I updated the quick fixes filter list and that solved it.