top | item 27078883 (no title) ryanhuff | 4 years ago In the early days of cable television, there were no commercials. But, we know how that ended up. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv... discuss order hn newest Judgmentality|4 years ago And that's why we have Netflix today. If Netflix started pushing commercials I'd leave immediately, and I think a lot of other people would too. Meanwhile Netflix is printing money like crazy. oehpr|4 years ago Netflix did start pushing commercials. They started testing pre-rolls in 2017. They faced huge backlash over it, but they still want to. load replies (2) banana_giraffe|4 years ago Amazon Prime Video has pre-roll ads now. Granted they're all for other Amazon Prime Videos, but they're still ads.I feel like we're in a long game of "boil the frog" till one day we're happy that our favorite service only has one or two ads. load replies (2) cwkoss|4 years ago They've really gone right up to the line with autoplaying trailers from the browse screen though... load replies (1)
Judgmentality|4 years ago And that's why we have Netflix today. If Netflix started pushing commercials I'd leave immediately, and I think a lot of other people would too. Meanwhile Netflix is printing money like crazy. oehpr|4 years ago Netflix did start pushing commercials. They started testing pre-rolls in 2017. They faced huge backlash over it, but they still want to. load replies (2) banana_giraffe|4 years ago Amazon Prime Video has pre-roll ads now. Granted they're all for other Amazon Prime Videos, but they're still ads.I feel like we're in a long game of "boil the frog" till one day we're happy that our favorite service only has one or two ads. load replies (2) cwkoss|4 years ago They've really gone right up to the line with autoplaying trailers from the browse screen though... load replies (1)
oehpr|4 years ago Netflix did start pushing commercials. They started testing pre-rolls in 2017. They faced huge backlash over it, but they still want to. load replies (2)
banana_giraffe|4 years ago Amazon Prime Video has pre-roll ads now. Granted they're all for other Amazon Prime Videos, but they're still ads.I feel like we're in a long game of "boil the frog" till one day we're happy that our favorite service only has one or two ads. load replies (2)
cwkoss|4 years ago They've really gone right up to the line with autoplaying trailers from the browse screen though... load replies (1)
Judgmentality|4 years ago
oehpr|4 years ago
banana_giraffe|4 years ago
I feel like we're in a long game of "boil the frog" till one day we're happy that our favorite service only has one or two ads.
cwkoss|4 years ago