▲ 1328 ▼ Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games (www.techspot.com) submitted 2 years ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world 336 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Hoomod@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children) Apparently when cable first came to be, there were no ads permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kautau@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Probably the same case for newspapers, radio, the internet, movies in theatres, gas station pumps etc. Though each new medium we create has a shorter and shorter Time-To-Ad-Platform runway it seems permalink fedilink source parent [–] ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago The first cable TV system in the U.S. was built in the late 1940s and had ads from day one since it was created to bring network television to communities with poor reception. Cable has always had ads. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kautau@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Probably the same case for newspapers, radio, the internet, movies in theatres, gas station pumps etc. Though each new medium we create has a shorter and shorter Time-To-Ad-Platform runway it seems permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago The first cable TV system in the U.S. was built in the late 1940s and had ads from day one since it was created to bring network television to communities with poor reception. Cable has always had ads. permalink fedilink source parent