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Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games (www.techspot.com)
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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 183 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I have a hard unbreakable rule:

Free, you can serve me ads, I'll try to avoid them but ok. But the minute I pay for something and you try to give me ads on top, we're gonna have a problem.

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Newspapers. You paid for it, and it still got ads.

I know, digital and printed ads are different.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Newspapers. You paid for it, and it still got ads.

I have never done this and I doubt I ever will.

[–] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm in my 40s. The last time I can remember buying a newspaper, was when I did it for my parents as a kid 🤷

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

My parents might have handed me some change to operate the box of newspapers outside the grocery store when I was three or four so I could try opening it. But I'm not even sure if I got to do that.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Newspapers are a long metro ride thing for me. Just never got the hang of smartphones, not in that way that is. Also the interaction is different, and I don't mean the physical aspects but the way you browse through something with a) a finite amount of information and b) with very few (if any) links. A physical paper comes with an included progress bar. You know, sense of pride and accomplishment and all.

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I'd love to buy and read newspaper. Really do. And I don't even have to commute. But newspaper here are just trash. It's all about which celebrity cheated who with whom, political propaganda, garbage about crime and some other things. Rarely anything interesting. So I just skip.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How old are you?

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

30

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Same, and I have bought some before, for different reasons that I don't even remember lol, but yeah, I wouldn't buy one just to read it now lol.

[–] Ethos_logos@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I mean sure, but it’s also been literally a decade since I bought a newspaper.

I bought it for the coupons.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is why Amazon Prime was an instant cancel.

[–] interceder270@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you still want to watch amazon video content, you can stream pretty much anything for free here: https://fmoviesz.to/

Just make sure you have Adnauseam or uBlock Origin installed.

I just started watching the 2nd season of Invincible :)

[–] sock@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

look up cloudstream and thank me later

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

That’s cable TV in a nutshell. Pay to watch ads.