InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days agoNetflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1108arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldarstechnica_index@rss.ponder.cat
arrow-up1108arrow-down1external-linkNetflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026arstechnica.comInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square53fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldarstechnica_index@rss.ponder.cat
minus-squareEvilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·3 days agoKeep jacking the price up and shittifying the service. Do streaming services understand why we dumped cable…like at all?
minus-squaresexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·3 days agoNever underestimate the mental gymnastics that your average failson / HR dweeb / professional managerial class dork is capable of.
minus-squareBobDole [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·3 days agoMBA motherfuckers are capable of the most incredible idiocy
minus-squarejackmaoist [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·3 days agoPiracy is just easier at this point man.
minus-squareThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoWasn’t this the whole reason Netflix even exists? People would pay for it because it was more convenient than
minus-squarejackmaoist [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoThe good boy liberal types will sub to Netflix because “Piracy is wrong”
minus-squareTabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agothey’ll lose 10% of subs, raise their prices 20%, it’ll break even.
minus-squareThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoThis logic is probably what’s causing them to raise their prices at every opportunity and thus creating the problem in the first place
minus-squareTabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days ago you dumped cable because you had somewhere to go
Keep jacking the price up and shittifying the service.
Do streaming services understand why we dumped cable…like at all?
Never underestimate the mental gymnastics that your average failson / HR dweeb / professional managerial class dork is capable of.
MBA motherfuckers are capable of the most incredible idiocy
Piracy is just easier at this point man.
Wasn’t this the whole reason Netflix even exists? People would pay for it because it was more convenient than
The good boy liberal types will sub to Netflix because “Piracy is wrong”
they’ll lose 10% of subs, raise their prices 20%, it’ll break even.
This logic is probably what’s causing them to raise their prices at every opportunity and thus creating the problem in the first place