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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap. (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Honestly once you've experienced living ad-free you can't go back. I have been pirating for years, using ad blockers for years, and now whenever an ad comes on I get jumpy lol. I even use spicetify on Spotify (I mostly listen to it on PC anyway) to block ads. I haven't watched cable in over a decade. You forget how it actually is pretty quickly. Whenever I see people watching TV and the ad break comes on it feels absolutely endless, and so loud too.

And it's even worse in the US where they have 3 ad breaks during a show. In europe they only do one in the middle of the show. Actually as a kid I was wondering why they had a black screen sometimes in shows and figured it was a 5 second intermission lol.

[–] darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Exactly, once you've experienced it I just don't get how anyone could go back except kicking and screaming but people want their slop I guess?

Cable is garbage. Just straight ad-infested low quality slop that has its production values slashed year over year. Goodness I sound old now but I do think back in the early 2000s when I was growing up that there was better quality and shorter commercials too.

Compare to ad-free service from two streaming services at $20/month each and you're only paying $40 and getting no commercials, no interruptions, no wastes of your time and tons of content on demand on your schedule.

Add to that some sailing knowledge and you don't have to worry about rotating services either.

The only thing I miss as a film nerd is TCM (also commercial free). Oh and PBS sometimes had good stuff though that's not technically a cable channel.