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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...

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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.

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.

cwkoss|4 years ago

They've really gone right up to the line with autoplaying trailers from the browse screen though...