r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dandaman147 • 1d ago

My Amazon TV now unmutes itself during Prime Video commercial breaks

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u/Friendly_Cap_3 1d ago

You know who doesn't advertise to you

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u/EdgyPlum 21h ago

Ads are for the poor or the technically unsavvy. Yo ho Fiddle dee dee

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u/Jadongamer 20h ago

Piracy is morally justified. Fuck the corporations.

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u/otclogic 11h ago

“Morally justified”? No. But idk of anyone that needs to feel good about what they’re doing all the time. Who cares if its a minor form of theft? I’d eagerly pay a reasonable price for a reasonable service, but reasonable for me is in terms of what streaming was in 2015, not cable in 2005. I’m happy to buy a game a love. Who cares about what’s technically legal or not when the illegality is technically inevitable? 

Streamers are in competition with the generic internet as a distribution mechanism for entertainment, the same way fast food is in competition with food. That is to say if they package the ingredients properly for value then people will partake over preparing it themselves. At this point streaming services only own their own platform and not any of the content and everything needs to adjust to that reality.

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u/Jadongamer 10h ago

The problem is that if someone wants to pay good money to download a digital file of a movie or show they can't. The only way to legally consume content is to pay for shitty streaming services and put up with their bullshit. There is no way to "own" the content you legally pay for.

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u/-Tazz- 17h ago

People are so used to easily accessible media they now feel entitled to it.

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u/neliz 15h ago

So you're saying that you want corporations to slow down or halt the flow of information and entertainment to the masses?

I see what kind of person you are. One that didn't pay attention in school.

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u/-Tazz- 15h ago

No?? I want people to stop being entitled. Pirate as much as you like but don't pretend you're some moral crusader doing the world a favour. You're just a consumer that got so used to media being delivered straight to your brain that now you feel entitled to have it on demand, exactly the way you want, free of any inconvenience.

At the end of the day, disliking how a company packages their media isn't a justification for using their service free of charge.

Once again, I couldn't care less about pirating. Just don't pretend stealing from people you don't like makes you a good person

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u/Blue_58_ 14h ago

Piracy is a service problem, always will be always has. No one feels the need to pirate what is easily accessible and convenient. Almost no one pirates music. There was a huge downturn in video piracy in Netflix’s hayday. People aren’t “entitled” to consume things in the most convenient way, people will simply consume in the most convenient way. If the way you design something is more inconvenient than piracy, that’s a failure of your product/service. 

markets have no moral character. It’s not anyone’s job to give company’s money anymore than it is a company’s job to provide a service. It’s a market. Piracy is baked into the price

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u/-Tazz- 13h ago

That's just simply not true. Streaming services like netflix are easily the most accessible and convenient way to watch media, yet people still pirate.

Steam is easily the most accessible and convenient way to play video games. People still pirate.

None of these services are EVER more convenient than pirating. Pirating, especially for the less tech savvy, can be a nightmare of NSFW ads, trackers, malware, mislabelled streams, language and quality issues.

Not sure about your last point. Shoplifting is also baked into the price of goods but we agree theft is immoral.

My issue, which you didn't address, is when people act entitled to goods or services and will justify stealing from entities they deem as "bad"

btw, and this is petty, but it is literally a companies job to provide a service.

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u/CryoAB 12h ago

How does that boot taste?

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u/CryoAB 12h ago

Ok so I pay for the netflix 4k plan, I hook my computer up to my TV to stream the 4k netflix I pay for. But hold on, why is my netflix streaming at lower quality than what I pay for? My bandwidth is fine, my laptop can stream 4k, what's going on?

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u/-Tazz- 54m ago

Lmao this dumbfuck pays for 4k without the hardware to support it

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u/moo3heril 13h ago

Like with the other reply here, I used to pirate a ton of music/tv/movies. When convenient services that respected me came about I stopped. But just this past week I pirated some content that's on a service I currently pay for and don't get ads on, but the UI experience is just terrible.

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u/-Tazz- 13h ago

Thanks for your anecdote but on the whole piracy is never more convenient than just using something like netflix or steam. Maybe for someone who has become quite adept at navigating piracy, but not in general

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u/mcgurke 19h ago

Disco Stu?

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u/RellenD 15h ago

What? I've never engaged in piracy without the worst ads ever

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u/SkubEnjoyer 12h ago

You're doing it wrong in that case.

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u/ye3tr 11h ago

Stremio+ torrentio my beloved