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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 127 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's what you get for paying instead of pirating.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 55 points 1 week ago

Paying for the unique opportunity to see the newest, moistest, and most intrusive ads*.

*Also comes with a limited selection of movies and series.

[–] Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com 111 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Drink Verification Can to proceed,

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 78 points 1 week ago

Oh, wow, at least in Black Mirror they only made sure your eyes were open, you didn't need to pay attention.

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wrong answer, rewatch the ad and try again.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 70 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You joke but this is exactly how this specific ad works. My brother got it yesterday and he picked the wrong answer and the ad played again.

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 week ago

I have no sympathy for anyone losing profits to piracy.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 22 points 1 week ago

Fuck me sideways. We need to dismantle capitalism like yesterday.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

How is that legal, completely insane

[–] FPSXpert@discuss.online 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Please stand and yell "Mcdonalds" to end commercial"

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'd yell "Whopper beats a Big Mac!"

[–] aiden@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Isn't this patent infringement? Sony patented that, right? Hulu should be allowed to use that.

And I thought I couldn't feel better about Jellyfin.

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is how I become radicalized.

[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 week ago

You're on lemmy, you're already radicalised.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, we need a new war. This time against the rich.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 43 points 1 week ago

That's not a new war. It's the war behind all the other wars.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but it's not a new war. It's an eternal war, and when those on top push too much, we push back. We call those stages revolutions, and maybe it's time to remind those on top that when a revolution happens, their heads get separated from their bodies. So either give us back some freedoms, or blood will be spilt. And it won't be our blood.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What happens if you dont answer "correctly"?

[–] Micromot@feddit.org 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would expect another ad or the same one again but I don't know

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like the only even remotely acceptable way to do this is to show the ad, prompt for the answer for 10 seconds. They can log the right/wrong answer or if the time expires the lack of one and must move on.

I can imagine metrics knowing if your advertising is actually reaching people is valid. But to make people answer and especially make them watch more if they answer wrong is about as dystopian as it gets.

If (and I say if, I really don't want to believe it is) that is the case, the only correct response is to uninstall Hulu immediately and put on your pirate hat.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If this was the case, I'd enter the wrong answer every time just to fuck with their metrics

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Engaging in it by thinking about it and answering is going to make it stay in your mind longer and would be a success in the eyes of the advertisers.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In that case I'll enter the left answer every time

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

It plays again, but louder.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago

Just checked; this doesn’t appear on the latest version of Jellyfin with pirated media.

[–] Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is the kind of shit that makes me want to campaign on harassing marketers and advertisers personally.

"I've a question for you, Mr.Advertiser"

"Yes! Is it about how we can shovel more commercials to you?"

"No, it's about what do you value in life and how would you feel if I took it from you, you parasite?"

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

How would you feel if I took it from you?

Correction: How do I take it from you?

I think it's time we move from threats to actions.

[–] SitD@lemy.lol 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

but but the shareholders 😭 they are endangered if not for these life support measures

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago

New season of Black Mirror looks lit af.

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's the purpose of this? You have to supply a correct answer to make the ad go away?

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

that's some black mirror stuff

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

man i got 3 notifications in 1 sec

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 14 points 1 week ago

I'd love to become rich, so I can keep on pirating as a statement. Or to show a rich guy how much better pirating is as a service.

Maybe then we can get their attention and prove that enshittification is the problem, and not the cost.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aaarrr matey, this for sure wouldn't be the reason why we pirate, would it?

Fuck all of this, I'm so sick and tired of technology advances leading to just more shit for money. I worked for only 9 months in a corporate environment that did shit like this and it nauseated me. Got fired for throwing the CTO under a freight train (figuratively) and never been happier for being fired.

[–] max_dryzen@mander.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

You're not sick of technology you're sick of not having real control of technology

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

what happens when you answer wrong?

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It tells you the right answer. It then it froze up and crashed my Fire TV.

to be fair it does not take much for my fire tv stick to freeze up and crash

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 1 week ago

Just a liitle electric shock.

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it's like captcha, the same thing as when you answer right... Start all over.

Will be interesting to see where this goes. I know I have said it before and they might not think im serious but so help me satan I will read books. Do they want that!

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago

Bleh.

This is awful.

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

That's really stupid, but there's one (unimportant) thing I'm not understanding. When they ask the numbers of rows in the car, are they asking the number of rows of seats?