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Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Either they have great technology, or they have great entertainment,” she said. “Our superpower has always been the fact that we have both.

Please. Your software is an image carousel and a video player.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Jellyfin does all that and more.

    We're no longer in the days of competing with a USB stick and hoping the TV will play whatever format it's in, or using VLC and a laptop.

    They don't even show you ratings for the stuff, because they want you to waste your time watching the junk tier shit they can still afford.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Eh to Netflix's credit, both their backend and frontend are much better than their competition. Much better ux, and streams much more consistently. We pick up a sub for a month here and there. But AI ads will make me never go back.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Lemmy is the king of the disingenuous argument, as though somehow admitting that yes, Netflix is the gold standard for pay-to-stream, it somehow dilutes the argument against AI ads.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah, I was agreeing with the person I responded to, and my comment related to the person they were responding to. Obviously this format can leave that a little unclear. Basically, two comments up from mine was this disingenuous argument that Netflix is trash, and that's just wrong, but it's an argument I see used about any number of things here on Lemmy, and to me, it dilutes the argument, because you're clearly coming from this place of bias right out of the gate.

    I just think it's okay to say a product itself provides a good service, but that they're fucking it all up by injecting shit into it, to the point that, regardless of how quality the product may be, the injected shit is so repugnant that I would abandon this quality product for it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Their software is the best in the industry. Even on a gigabit connection I've had issues with both Amazon Prime video and Disney plus.

    Both of those platforms have issues where their servers just seem to get bored and stops sending data, like they just forgot about you And you have to refresh the page to play any more of the video. As soon as you do that it starts playing again so it's definitely not a network issue. I've had this problem on both the website and the smart TV app.

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