495
Local Brand Realizes Customers Hate Its AI Ads, Switches to Charming Homemade Ones Instead (www.yahoo.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
74 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 18 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, even my wife who uses standard streaming services with ads, youtube with ads, etc reminded me recently that we used to have 3 5-minute commercial breaks every half hour on broadcast tv growing up. I'm all for getting rid of ads, but it was interesting to realize that even before the internet you only got about a 50% ad-to-content ratio.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    What's crazy is if you watch shows from the 60s and 70s they can have an extra 3-5 minutes of content in a 30 minute time slot.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    when re-broadcast on television or cable, those older programs are often re-edited or literally sped-up (or a little of both) so they can have the current norm of 10-12 minutes of ad time per half-hour.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I find it interesting that you and another posted see tech as a line of defence. I know I also employ that but it’s taken your comments to make me see and seperate the layers of use. It’s good we can have these rational discussions here. Sorry if I sound a bit preachy or crazy.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Tech is a tool. Those who want power over you will use it against you, and you can in turn use it to defend against them. Ultimately it's whoever puts the most effort in who gets the upper hand, and the wealthy can always motivate people with money to get a lot of effort in on their side, so, like with most things in life, it's an uphill battle to fight against them.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    But we dont have to accept it. We do have options. We have tolerated and tolerated and more gets taken. More of our money, more of our privacy, more of our time, bit by bit we sacrifice a bit of us.

    There has to be a line where we say we are more than just consumers. We don’t just go out to work to pay for stuff upon stuff. We do have our own minds, our own opinions.

    Yes it has been like that. But we have to stop perpetuating it.

    It sounds a little crazy, but we have to start somewhere and YT is a great starting point to stop. They are not interested in enriching you. They wanna keep you addicted so they can make money from advertisers. It’s interesting how many people rationalise and justify that argument. I’d call it an abusive relationship but maybe I see it too black and white. You can watch it without ads. It’s not entirely about hating the platform. More a mindset of regaining freedom.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •