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[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 121 points 1 week ago

That's what you get for paying instead of pirating.

[-] ekky@sopuli.xyz 51 points 1 week ago

Paying for the unique opportunity to see the newest, moistest, and most intrusive ads*.

*Also comes with a limited selection of movies and series.

[-] Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com 108 points 1 week ago

Drink Verification Can to proceed,

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 73 points 1 week ago

Oh, wow, at least in Black Mirror they only made sure your eyes were open, you didn't need to pay attention.

[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 62 points 1 week ago

Wrong answer, rewatch the ad and try again.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 68 points 1 week ago

You joke but this is exactly how this specific ad works. My brother got it yesterday and he picked the wrong answer and the ad played again.

[-] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 week ago

I have no sympathy for anyone losing profits to piracy.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 23 points 1 week ago

Fuck me sideways. We need to dismantle capitalism like yesterday.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago

How is that legal, completely insane

[-] FPSXpert@discuss.online 49 points 1 week ago

"Please stand and yell "Mcdonalds" to end commercial"

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'd yell "Whopper beats a Big Mac!"

[-] aiden@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Isn't this patent infringement? Sony patented that, right? Hulu should be allowed to use that.

And I thought I couldn't feel better about Jellyfin.

[-] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 46 points 1 week ago

This is how I become radicalized.

[-] krimsonbun 45 points 1 week ago

You're on lemmy, you're already radicalised.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 41 points 1 week ago

Yeah, we need a new war. This time against the rich.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 42 points 1 week ago

That's not a new war. It's the war behind all the other wars.

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but it's not a new war. It's an eternal war, and when those on top push too much, we push back. We call those stages revolutions, and maybe it's time to remind those on top that when a revolution happens, their heads get separated from their bodies. So either give us back some freedoms, or blood will be spilt. And it won't be our blood.

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 week ago

What happens if you dont answer "correctly"?

[-] Micromot@feddit.org 29 points 1 week ago

I would expect another ad or the same one again but I don't know

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 25 points 1 week ago

I feel like the only even remotely acceptable way to do this is to show the ad, prompt for the answer for 10 seconds. They can log the right/wrong answer or if the time expires the lack of one and must move on.

I can imagine metrics knowing if your advertising is actually reaching people is valid. But to make people answer and especially make them watch more if they answer wrong is about as dystopian as it gets.

If (and I say if, I really don't want to believe it is) that is the case, the only correct response is to uninstall Hulu immediately and put on your pirate hat.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

If this was the case, I'd enter the wrong answer every time just to fuck with their metrics

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Engaging in it by thinking about it and answering is going to make it stay in your mind longer and would be a success in the eyes of the advertisers.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

In that case I'll enter the left answer every time

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

It plays again, but louder.

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago

Just checked; this doesn’t appear on the latest version of Jellyfin with pirated media.

[-] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago

New season of Black Mirror looks lit af.

[-] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

What's the purpose of this? You have to supply a correct answer to make the ad go away?

[-] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

that's some black mirror stuff

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 14 points 1 week ago

I'd love to become rich, so I can keep on pirating as a statement. Or to show a rich guy how much better pirating is as a service.

Maybe then we can get their attention and prove that enshittification is the problem, and not the cost.

[-] ryan213@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago
[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

man i got 3 notifications in 1 sec

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 10 points 1 week ago

what happens when you answer wrong?

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago

It tells you the right answer. It then it froze up and crashed my Fire TV.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 1 week ago

to be fair it does not take much for my fire tv stick to freeze up and crash

[-] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 week ago

Just a liitle electric shock.

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

If it's like captcha, the same thing as when you answer right... Start all over.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 1 week ago

Will be interesting to see where this goes. I know I have said it before and they might not think im serious but so help me satan I will read books. Do they want that!

[-] EonNShadow@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago

Bleh.

This is awful.

[-] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

That's really stupid, but there's one (unimportant) thing I'm not understanding. When they ask the numbers of rows in the car, are they asking the number of rows of seats?

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 points 1 week ago

It's a free service, right? It's not a paid service, right?

[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 14 points 1 week ago

Nope, you pay either way. I think it's $10/mo for the ad supported tier, and $20/mo fke the ad free tier.

You pay to see ads.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 5 points 1 week ago

My limited brain can't understand the concept of pay+ads

People actually do that?

[-] Grostleton@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Funny enough, Hulu has been doing a paid+ads tier from the get-go, long before other services started jumping on this bandwagon.

Never made sense to me why anyone would want it then, and it still doesn't make sense even now that all the services are offering similar plans. People pining for that cable TV experience maybe?

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