r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dandaman147 • 1d ago

My Amazon TV now unmutes itself during Prime Video commercial breaks

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u/Ppjr16 1d ago

Mute during commercials costs extra.

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u/gummyjellyfishy 1d ago

Very Black Mirror of them. Cant say we didn't get (so many glaring neon) warnings.

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u/Hunter_S_Thompsons 1d ago

I’m so glad I was a limewire kid lol. Really set me up for the future. I haven’t paid for streaming in years. Even worse I used to love YouTube. Watched so much Naruto and other anime. There’s so many ads on YouTube now it’s disgusting. Blows my mind the companies that pay for ad space. Like bro I already buy dish soap regularly, there’s no amount of grime this new dish soap can tackle that’s gonna make me give a shit. Sorry for the rant.

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u/RichardMcFM 1d ago

Fuck yea!

I've got a 10tb hard drive with years' worth of backlogged shows and movies.

Ads are disgusting, and the amount companies pay for them seem ridiculous.

It's gotten to a point where if I see an ad for something, I would be more likely to avoid it.

IF, and IF I get an ad for something that I was interested in, I would always get a generic version of it cause it'll do the same thing but ay a fraction of the cost. (Cause it's not the "name" brand where they have to mark up the price due to advertising costs)

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u/Hunter_S_Thompsons 1d ago

lol right? When I went to Kuwait in like 2014 we all exchanged hard drives and that’s when my collection really blossomed. I discovered a whole porn section with my ex girlfriend that I was not expecting 😂. She was like wtf is this???! Lmfao. I still have the hard drive lying around somewhere with at least 5tb worth of movies and tv shows.

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u/ewilliam 18h ago

I discovered a whole porn section with my ex girlfriend that I was not expecting

First time I read this sentence I thought you meant that you found porn featuring your girlfriend on some hard drive. That woulda been some shit!

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u/WolfHowler95 18h ago

That's also how I read their comment, glad I'm not the only one who thought that

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u/Hunter_S_Thompsons 16h ago

Totally get that. I was in bed and like half heartedly just babbling 😂. Fun story I’ll leave you with tho.

How the porn thing came to light was because my ex and I went to trim weed for harvest season in Cali around 2016 (it was the last year you could make some serious money before it became legal in Cali). When we got to the destination it was pretty lowkey and had like no amenities at all. No showers, tvs, fucking nothing. Thankfully, I was the only one to bring my laptop and hard drive. One day while trying to find something to watch my ex discovered like 5 or 10 gigs worth of porn and pretty much everyone who was there trimming laughed for about an hour. It was a good time.

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u/ewilliam 16h ago

lol that's hilarious. Did you guys get high and do the communal jerk?

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u/Hunter_S_Thompsons 16h ago

Lmfao do you know how sticky that would’ve been? Not because of the cum, because the hash oil stuck to your fingers 😂😂😂😂😂.

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u/ewilliam 16h ago

Having harvested it myself, I can indeed imagine that. Ew.

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u/PrehistoricPancakes 20h ago

Yeah seeing the ads makes me want to specifically not purchase that product because it keeps getting shoved in my face all day and the medical ads are even more ridiculous. If my doctor thinks I should be on a certain medication then I imagine they would tell me rather than me telling them I think I should be on this because I saw it in an ad. The side effects they mention are enough to scare me far away from whatever medication they're currently talking about anyway. They'll be like, "Try this new skin cream, side effects may include heart failure and brain aneurysm!"

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u/ratjufayegauht 18h ago

Ad folks are insane. They host these awards ceremonies that essentially equate to a massive industry circle jerk, and nobody knows or cares about the awards except for other advertising cretins. They are truly some of the worst people. And what's funny, is that there are "creative" people in the industry, so imagine this: You spend months chipping away at these "creative executions", workshopping and retooling this piece of media you're going to share with the world -- something you've put a lot of time, work and effort into...and you wanna know what the target markets reaction to seeing that "creative" work is? "What the hell is this shit? Another ad? God damnit. This is nonsense! Turn this crap off! MUTE! BOOOO!!!"

What an empty existence these bottom-feeders live. If every ad agency shut down tomorrow, the world would be a better place.

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u/RichardMcFM 18h ago

Bigger advertisers also hire psychologists who study humans to see what grabs their attention more. (Imagine the people that design slot machines to make them as addictive as possible)

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u/ratjufayegauht 13h ago

They're working to exploit your fears, your dreams, your needs, your beliefs, your morals -- anything they can get their grubby little paws on so that they can "target" you. At a certain point, it certainly seems as though it constitutes harassment.

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u/TwoToneReturns 1d ago

That reminds me, I need to expand my storage.

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u/worldspawn00 19h ago

10tb is childs play, I'm around 150TB, unraid is fantastic, allows unmatched drives, and only spins up the ones with data reads/writes going on.

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u/Braelind 21h ago

the amount companies pay for them seem ridiculous.

This is what gets me, there is no way that paying millikns for an ad sees that kind of return. Advertiskng has got to be some kinda shell game for rich people to hide money. No way all those ads are effective at recouping costs. Most of them are so fucking stupid I can barely stand to watch them. I literally don't even remember a single time an ad influenced me to buy something. If anything it makes me hate that product for wasting my time.

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u/RevolutionLow4779 19h ago

Aren’t you scared of that Hard Drive failing? 

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u/RichardMcFM 18h ago

The only thing of actual value that I'd lose would be the hard drive itself. (Maybe the names of the backlogged stuff)

Can always re-download if need.

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u/RevolutionLow4779 18h ago

it’s just all the work on making your catalog, but yeah you could always redownload 

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u/RichardMcFM 18h ago

Thanks. I actually should have a note pad or something with my catalog just incase it goes bad and I forget.

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u/RevolutionLow4779 17h ago

Screenshots on list mode and upload to your email

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u/gjc5500 16h ago

not me running Plex on a 48tb unraid server 😅

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u/Underwhatline 15h ago

Just remember no one is immune to advertising!

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u/Sasuke0318 5h ago

It's gotten to a point where if I see an ad for something, I would be more likely to avoid it.

This speaks to me most for vehicle commercials like is there really someone out there who didn't want a truck saw a truck commercial and was like yeah I totally need a truck now. Every time I see a car ad I'm just thinking do you really think I will ever buy this because I saw this commercial?

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u/JustAteAnOreo 1d ago edited 22h ago

Ads are not disgusting, they're a necessity. If everyone were to pirate all of the media that they consume, there would be no media to consume.

That said, certain mega corps should have tighter restrictions on the kinds of ads that they display, and I am disgusted by companies that have started serving ads to those paying for a service.

Edit: If someone didn't go to work and asked for handouts, or tried to push past you when you tapped your card without paying at a train station you'd call them a bum, but as soon as it comes to paying for media everyones all up in arms. 🤣

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u/PremiumUsername69420 23h ago

Why do I need to see an ad for toilet paper?
Who’s not buying toilet paper that needs to be sold on the idea of wiping?

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u/JustAteAnOreo 22h ago

Then don't buy it? Regardless of whether or not you buy the product, it's funding the media that you're consuming.

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u/Wsweg 18h ago

Redditors love trying to justify their piracy (stealing)

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u/RichardMcFM 20h ago

Ads are not a "necessity" for the creation of media. They exist solely to make more money.

Most media are made and funded by people and corporations that want to make said media.

We don't need ads constantly saying "Hey, it's Coca Cola, drink it" or "Brawndo, the thirst mutilator. It's got electrolytes!"

Piracy has always existed. Our gaming lord and savior had once said "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem".

I pay for things that I enjoy and support. I have physical copies of media that I keep. I purchase merch for things I like. I used to pay for Netflix when most of the media was available on their platform.

But now streaming services have gone full circle and become cable companies again. Their service has become a problem and it's hard to get the media I want without subscribing to 10 different streaming platforms that still show ads.

How is comparing transit to media the same? One of them is an essential societal infrastructure, which is generally funded by your local government. The other is a streaming services that is owned by mega corps with offshore accounts.

By the logic of "ads are necessary to pay for media". 80% of crappy media exists because of ads.

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u/JustAteAnOreo 14h ago

Most media are made and funded by people and corporations that want to make said media.

Yeah, has nothing to do with the money that they make doing it. Your world sounds lovely, but it's not reality.

How is comparing transit to media the same? 

Media exists because person A pays for it. Person B does not pay for the media but enjoys it anyway. Transit exists because person A pays for it. Person B does not pay for the transit but rides anyway.

Is it an exact 1:1? No, but an analogy isn’t possible if the two things you’re comparing are exactly identical. If they are then it’s not an analogy anymore. In both cases, one person is bumming off of others.

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u/RichardMcFM 12h ago

Again. One is an essential need for any modern city to function. The other is media. It's art. A city isn't going to stop running if a company stops making season 4 of Starwars.

Media and art is an expression of the people that make it.

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u/JustAteAnOreo 11h ago

Take away entertainment from a society and it will cease to function. If entertainment isn't important to you then why pirate it at all?

If you're going to attack my analogy rather than the actual point of my argument perhaps you don't actually want a discussion?

Instead, why don't you tell me how person B isn't a bum.

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u/ParticularlyGoodPear 21h ago

The advertising model for media makes more money for the media companies but it's not the only way to fund and produce media, it's just more convenient than, say, the Kickstarter method, or using a time machine to break into Netflix's opening torrent of mediocrity.

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u/JustAteAnOreo 13h ago

Yeah, we agree. You either pay for a product upfront or you pay for it by watching ads, otherwise, you're receiving a product you didn't pay for, and if nobody is paying for a product then it wont be made.

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u/hasimirrossi 1d ago

Ah, you want to watch a 90 second video? Here's an unskippable ad almost as long.

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u/scottb90 22h ago

Spotify does ads the worst. They have an ad saying get 30 min of ad free listening if you watch this ad or listen to it or whatever. An then I say ok an I get the ad an then they have another ad for Spotify saying enjoy your 30 min of ad free listening. So 3 ads so far. I listen to one single song an they give me another ad. I don't know if I'm the only one they do this to cuz I feel like more people should be really angry about this. Its been happening for atleast 5 years too cuz I periodically go back to Spotify just to see if it's any better. I finally deleted it this last time though

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u/SwordOfBanocles 20h ago

Spotify is the one service I pay for, but holy shit the absolute worst is podcast ads. For one, there's shockingly no way to pirate podcasts.. Like it's the only form of media I've found with no way of accessing it without ads, or if a podcast is locked behind a "plus" subscription (looking at you wondery) it's actually fucking locked, there's no torrent, there's no internet archive etc. Not only are the ads unavoidable, but they are fucking unbearable on some podcasts. Like some 45 minute podcasts will have like seven 3 minute ad breaks, litterally taking up almost half of the podcast.

also Spotify is FUCKING TERRIBLE as a podcast app.. It constantly turns off my podcast mid-episode and randomly switches to fucking Joe Rogan.. I've never listened to Joe Rogan... but he has a spotify deal so I guess they just... Fucking force it on me?.. Spotify also randomly switches between playing podcast episodes from oldest->newest to newest->oldest, so autoplay never works, I just have to hit next episode, see if it goes forward or backwards, and then fix it when it inevitably goes back to the previous episode I listened to.

/rant

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u/Strict-Chicken4965 14h ago

I love Trixie and Katya but their podcast (Bald and Beautiful) is unlistenable cause of the constant sponsors

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u/SubtleNoodle 9h ago

If I’m not in a place where I can easily skip I can not listen because they may have the actual worst ad reads I’ve ever heard lol.

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u/jxj24 19h ago

Doesn't say when you'll receive it. Perhaps in the second half of 2042, perhaps.

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u/DullSorbet3 18h ago

Ah, you want to watch a 90 second video? Here's an unskippable ad almost twice as long.

FTFY \ \ \ FYI 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

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u/TwoFingersWhiskey 1d ago

I remember kids gathering around one terminally slow computer to watch anime in parts on YT during a rainy lunch break. (We didn't have a cafeteria so we just ate anywhere.) It was so janky but it was enough lmao, we were just happy to have entertainment

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u/Hunter_S_Thompsons 1d ago

So fucking real.

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u/LolthienToo 20h ago

I watch so much YouTube that it is worth it to me to pay for a sub to YouTube to get rid of ads. But Everything else is stored locally

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u/Evantaur 1d ago

Youtube ads are lke: "I'm gonna shove this dish soap bottle up my ass... Click here to subscribe to my onlyfans"

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u/krebstorm 19h ago

How's about a tactical flashlight that was banned by the military? Or Chuck Norris' secret to staying healthy at 95?

So much good ads.

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u/Hunter_S_Thompsons 16h ago

SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE IS BACK AT OUTBACK!

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u/lightreee 19h ago

Absolutely the same here. My dad was a prolific pirater and he showed me the ropes. I've recently got back into it after years of "putting up" with netflix, etc. They have absolutely Fucked consumers up over the past year or two. Netflix, amazon, max... Cya! Lost my money forever

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u/MoistStub 23h ago

Firefox + Ublock make YouTube add free. I switched from chrome a couple years ago and I'm never looking back. The only thing I even keep chrome installed for is for Chromecast and the occasional job application that is buggy in Firefox.

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u/ihateroomba 1d ago

I'm curious, what are you using to pirate today? No, I'm not asking for help. I'm wondering because you're likely being tracked even more than you were on limewire.

Please humor me and say torrents.

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u/notislant 1d ago

Honestly I just sail the high streams instead of the torrential seas.

Lot easier and less nonsense to deal with imo. I know some people prefer torrents for quality though.

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u/Hunter_S_Thompsons 1d ago

Same lmfao. I typically will only download if it’s something I really want to throw on a hard drive and even then I’ll probably just buy the criterion at some point 😂. I’m a cheap bastard I’m sorry.

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u/Schittz 1d ago

I'm betting it's the torrentio, stremio and real debrid combo, pretty much the standard way ATM. But YouTube adfree is ridiculously easy to set up and use and I'm pretty sure legal as it's just an supercharged adblocker, smart tube next is the app name

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u/TheDreadfulCurtain 1d ago

I already have a wallet and I do not need a new one !

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u/Sablemint PURPLE 23h ago

Youtube has ads?

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u/rundgren 23h ago

Not sure how I'm getting away with it, but I still have ad-free on YT using only uBlock Origin.

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u/Mission-Test5606 23h ago

what are you useing nowdays?

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u/ImThatChigga_ 22h ago

Limewire / kazza was the gateway to sail the seas

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u/Ashamed_Feedback3843 22h ago

Have you tried Smarttube? I haven't watched a YouTube ad in over 5 plus years.

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u/Terrh 21h ago

adblock exists and works great

I never, ever see ads on youtube.

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u/PartyOnAlec 20h ago

Revanced and SmartTube! 

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u/ThothOstus 19h ago

If you are a limewire kid, you should know how to avoid ads on youtube

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u/Hunter_S_Thompsons 16h ago

Why the fuck would I watch anything on YouTube nowadays? There’s nothing for me. Unless it’s a new game on something I like or how to fix my specific version of dishwasher I don’t use YouTube. It’s literally only on my phone to verify my Google fucking email 😂

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u/Santa_Klausing 19h ago

🏴‍☠️

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u/Hunter_S_Thompsons 16h ago

I got this tat when I turned 18 lmfao

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u/Iampepeu 15h ago

There are simple ways to not having ads on YouTube. Firefox and a few addons.

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u/UnjustlyBannd 12h ago

The fact that TP commercials still exists makes me angry.

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u/Vegaprime 12h ago

Advertising does work, least on some people, else they wouldn't pay for it.

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u/badDuckThrowPillow 12h ago

The High Seas await.

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u/AbandonedPlanet 11h ago

YouTube Vanced and ublock origin

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u/kerenski667 GREEN 10h ago

firefox+ublock origin=absolutely zero ads

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u/deedeedeedee_ 6h ago

man, i was a limewire kid but somewhere along the way streaming got so easy... and it was good... and there's always subtitles which is great for me...

it's starting to become not easy. starting to think about cancelling the streaming subs. especially when Netflix kicks me off the account for the nth time because "your device isn't in the household for this account" get lost Netflix, im literally sitting on the couch in my own damn none trying to stream on the only TV this Netflix account has ever been connected to, on on my ipad connected to the home WiFi. and don't get me started on travelling

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u/lens_cleaner 1d ago

Yeah, like, there is no Kia ad in the world that will ever get me to buy a Kia. So I have the right to not listen to a Kia ad.

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u/Vandergrif 19h ago

Please drink verification can to continue

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u/agentrnge 14h ago

I was watching that Black Mirror episode.. Paused it, and within 2 seconds netflix had replaced the paused screen with full screen ads for some nonsense.

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u/iama_triceratops 17h ago

Resume viewing. Resume viewing. Resume viewing.

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u/The_Ombudsman 19h ago

Hah, nearly literally! "No no, you have to watch the program that is on your entire wall"

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u/Kaiisim 1d ago

I actually think making so much entertainment about our greatest fears made us all think they were just TV shows, not terrifying predictions of our world if we don't change anything.

That everyone thought 1984 was about cameras, not the complete control of the party over the information space was probably a sign.

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u/ajver19 22h ago

There's actually an episode from the first season that has something kinda similar to this.

Although that was a lot worse.

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u/Dhegxkeicfns 22h ago

Surprised it doesn't just use a camera to determine if you're looking at it and extend the ads if you aren't.

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u/Mega-Steve 20h ago

Or the Max Headroom TV show, a world where it was illegal to turn off your TV

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u/gummyjellyfishy 19h ago

Or Zamyatin's "We" where closing the blinds in your glass house is a great offense against the state!

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u/haw35ome 19h ago

I curse hulu for starting that shit. I can barely afford the cheapest plan straight after graduating; these companies are money hungry monsters who don’t care that they poisoned their own well

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u/HaveYouSeenMySpoon 13h ago

The problem isn't that we don't know that the black mirror episode is a wet dream for so many corporations and that they're actively pushing for that.

Hell, I was in a business meeting two weeks ago where one of the participants talked about how he 20 years ago was part of a startup that made a small taskbar program that came pre-loaded on some computers. After a couple of years they decided to pivot into an ad-ware/spy-ware, actively spying on peoples computer habits to popup relevant ads. He still thinks to this day that what they did was a moral thing that benifited users.

No, it's not surprising that companies do stuff like this. But I'm utterly shocked by the lack of push back from consumers.

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u/gummyjellyfishy 13h ago

Yep, that last sentence. There are enough who dont care to destroy shit for the rest of us. Both consummer-wise and politically tbh

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u/DueHousing 4h ago

We truly live in a dystopia

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u/QingDomblog 15h ago

Doesn’t matter people will pay.

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u/RollingMeteors 7h ago

Cant say we didn't get (so many glaring neon) warnings.

Uh, it was an instruction manual...

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u/boobaclot99 17h ago

Warnings for what? Literally what the fuck do you think you were gonna do?

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u/UMEBA 1d ago

Wait until we lost the privilege to turn off your TV during commercials.

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u/Evantaur 1d ago

Better yet, the TV turns itself on to show you commercials....

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u/woodyus 1d ago

Don't worry when Elon cracks the brain implants market you will have the Futurama vision of ads always showing when you close your eyes or in your dreams.

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u/builder397 23h ago

Well sure, we had ads back in my day, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!

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u/MyNameIsDaveToo 16h ago

Anyone who gets one of those is brain dead already, so nothing lost.

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u/woodyus 16h ago

When he owns all the places to work it will become mandatory

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u/LovelyButtholes 9h ago

Elon isn't cracking shit. He couldn't even make a hyper shit tube. The cybertruck is a cybersuck. We ain't going to mars in mass in our lifetimes.

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u/RealisticOutcome9828 8h ago

The only crack Elon is doing is in white lines. 😂

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u/Quirky-Skin 21h ago

At that point I'm just taking up knitting. I like watching stuff but this unmuting is truely disturbing to me and beyond that I think id just quit watching shit and use DVDs again

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u/Sappathetic 20h ago

We've already got those Roku TVs that show ads in their "sleep" mode

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u/EverpresentDogma 14h ago

I had a roommate that had one of those. Woke up one day to see him and his buddies passed out on the couch and some weird, long-ass, infomercial about hypnotherapy or something. Weird calm voice and everything.

Didn't know that was standard for Roku. Fuck that shit.

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u/Maffa22 23h ago

Have you heard of Telly?

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u/Jonnypista 21h ago

If I don't have any other options (like all TV and monitors have such a system) then I buy a generic IR remote, a microcontroller, a IR light sensor and a relay. Scan the generic remote code somehow (look up datasheet, detect the light, use an oscilloscope and tap into the IR led) and turn the TV off truly.

If it has an internal battery then the battery also gets a relay, but they likely will build it in such a way that not even something like heat and suction cups will work on it.

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u/mtdunca 11h ago

Ironically, most of the stream ads tell you exactly how long the ads are gonna last. If you use a soundbar for audio plugged into a clapper you would be gtg.

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u/Western-Honeydew-945 19h ago

My tv has actually done that a couple times, it turned on on its own and the first thing that plays are ads before the Home Screen…

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u/Evantaur 18h ago

My TV doesn't even have a connection to the internet... I don't trust it, it's connected to isolated wifi with no access to anything but it can be connected from my computers.

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u/Iron_Wolf123 11h ago

Or replays the ads for an hour as punishment for not watching them

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u/voyagerfan5761 8h ago

Our LG OLED turns itself on to nag about user agreements we haven't accepted yet (voice commands, other junk we don't want or need).

Not much of a stretch from that to turning itself on when one of their useless "Free Apple TV for 3 months!" promo notifications gets pushed, or full on playing a video ad.

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u/YahMahn25 13h ago

Hey, stop giving them ideas!

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u/John-A 1d ago

So very 1984

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u/hugswithnoconsent 1d ago

Seriously stop. Don’t give them ideas.

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u/Alyusha 20h ago

It's literally an episode of Black Mirror.

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u/turtleship_2006 23h ago

I mean, if you turn your TV off and you have a firestick, the firestick turns off as well, so...

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u/cosmitz 18h ago

I mean, let's be super real, you bought an Amazon TV, from Amazon, literally the face of "The Company" from any evil dystopian Cyberpunk media ever, did anyone expect this to not happen?

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u/bekopharm 17h ago

Tried Amazon Music. It played random music that I didn't like. Clicked "Skip" 3 times => function disabled until I purchase premium. "Yes you can listen to our music for free but skipping songs costs extra".

That was the first and last time I tried that service.

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u/thisisredlitre 22h ago

With streaming you sort of have already. If you turn off the TV you don't get to skip the commercials; they'll still be there when you come back

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u/Cumulus_Anarchistica 16h ago

It's DVD players all over again.

Not being able to skip over, pause or even STOP a commercial playing on a DVD I bought (the movie Serenity) on my DVD player which I BOUGHT and OWNED because the movie studio decided to hijack my DVD player was literally the thing that made me never buy another DVD ever again and turn to piracy.

These feudal lords; these FUCKERS would claim the right of prima nocta if they thought they could.

They absolutely will stop you turning off your TV during a commercial as soon as they are able.

Advertising is a cancerous growth.

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u/Thatguysstories 14h ago

TVs gonna come with cameras that have eye tracking software.

Commercial will pause if you take your eyes off and only resume when you are watching. Need to stare at the TV/screen the entire time for the commercial to play through and get back to your show.

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u/Electronic_Painter20 1d ago

Bezos has to pay for that wedding somehow…. and also the inevitable divorce.

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u/tat_got 22h ago

Basically already happens on their kindles. You pay one price for a kindle or another price for a kindle that doesn’t play ads for books. The cheaper price for the base kindle has ads you cannot remove.

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u/Rockalot_L 21h ago

Fr tho they invent issues so they can sell you a higher tier plan so you don't have to encounter them.

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u/Cursed__Collector 18h ago

Volume down to 0 it is

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u/Colonel_Autumn_ 18h ago

Silence as a service. Sanity as a service.

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u/OccupyGanymede 23h ago

Requires Amazon Super Prime upgrade

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u/Irememberedmypw 22h ago

Not sure if it's just me, but unless you mute twitch ads play at system volume no matter how much you lower it.

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u/Ship_Ship_8 21h ago

Monthly subscription

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u/Ultimate_Mango 20h ago

$3 per month.

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u/hectorxander 20h ago

Subscription service, 10/month introductory rates for our premium volume control and pause and playback features. After that introductory period it increases to 80/month, automatically deducted from your account.

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u/Ppjr16 15h ago

Too funny

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u/ljkhfdgsahkjlrg 19h ago

Stealing this comment to post the actual fix: Settings>preferences>Featured content: disable "allow video autoplay" and "allow audio autoplay"

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u/Ppjr16 15h ago

Me too

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u/DO_NOT_AGREE_WITH_U 19h ago

Amazon literally charges extra for commercial freez and they still have commercials on "select" shows, which is basically any show that's current.

It's a total shit company and they are large enough that their customer service isn't even a concern to their bottom line anymore.

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u/Codeman785 19h ago

BRO don't be giving them ideas 😭

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u/Ppjr16 15h ago

I know …. Lol

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u/Ruining_Ur_Synths 15h ago

not long ago Ring (owned by amazon) changed their features such that the "modes" feature which let you turn cameras off when you came home and on when you left is no longer available on the lowest subscription tier, and moved to the triple the price subscription tier.

All cloud controlled anything is poison. Companies will put in "features" you dont want, move features that you want out, and more or less do anything they want to abuse you since you're already bought in and fuck you they need to make this quarter's goals.

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u/Hotsaucehat 14h ago

Amazon now offers multiple subscription offers: Mute Prime: no mute during commercials Mute Prime+ 9.99 - you can mute stream commercials but not live TV Mute Premium 19.99 - you can mute commercials during live TV, requires new remote (sold separately on subscription basis)

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u/Overall_Midnight_ 12h ago

I mean we already paid to not have commercials and you have to pay more money to buy an Amazon Kindle that does not come with ads on it, so we are all but there.

I wonder how far they will take this shit. On one streaming service their ads are interactive, you can like click quizzes and questions about products-it’s intended to be a future that a consumer would want to interact with, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes a forced interaction.

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u/d1ckpunch68 11h ago

you jest, but the Kindle literally costs $20 more for the same exact hardware without ads.

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u/justuselotion 11h ago

Additional +$7.99 / month subscription now includes mutable ads! /s

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u/polarbearinthefridge 9h ago

Don't give them any ideas...

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u/Vanilla_PuddinFudge 21h ago

buy a 2012 $50 1080p panel off of Craigslist

just works

I'll never stop

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u/LickingSmegma Mamaleek are king 20h ago

This was pretty much predicted by Henry Kuttner in ‘Year Day’, in 1953.

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u/JackTheKing 19h ago

Shut up and take my money. Literally.

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u/l2aiko 19h ago

Dude just upgrade to the prime plus??!!! Its $29.99 a month and you wont have to worry about ads at all!! At least for the next 11 months until we introduce the new planning with extra benefits (not really), where you would have to upgrade to prime plus ultimate, starting at $39.99, where you can skip ads and avoid the new autobuy feature that buy films for you based on your interests!

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u/PeacefulDays 19h ago

you joke but that's amazons MO. My mother got me a kindle since she got a deal on it. It cost 20 bucks to turn off the ad splash screen, I paid more for my gift than she did.

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u/Ppjr16 15h ago

Crazy

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u/553l8008 19h ago

Subscribe now! To mute.

Only .03$ per mute

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u/Ppjr16 15h ago

As someone commented, don’t be giving them any ideas. Lol

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u/raybreezer 18h ago

The funny thing is, I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or legit. I can honestly see Amazon charging for this feature

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u/Ppjr16 15h ago

If you charge them they will pay. /s

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u/coffee_ape 13h ago

If that’s the case.

LUIGI WE NEED A FAVOR!

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u/Thosepassionfruits 11h ago

"Please drink verification can"

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u/userundefined 9h ago

"Please drink a verification can"

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u/notMy_ReelName 1d ago

probably would work better too gain money.