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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 104 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Still better than dealing with ads. That's my red line.

I absolutely refuse to watch programming with ads, free or paid. I won't do it. My time is limited and I'm not every going to willingly hand over a portion of my life to advertisements.

I'm never going back. If ad-free options go away or become too expensive, I'll simply stop watching shit. There isn't a price at which ad-supported programming becomes attractive.

I'd love to see the Weird Al movie. I won't, however, because Roku won't let me pay to watch it.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

So watch it pirated. They get $0 either way.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I love how he DAREs TO BE STUPID about it. I guess it could get EVEN WORSE if he went OFF THE DEEP END.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Ha! Weird Al is bad ass.

[–] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

This is one of the greatest replies I've ever seen. Rats off to ya Al!

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There isn't a price at which ad-supported programming becomes attractive.

Even free isn't good enough for ads. Ads are horrendous. They don't even try to make them good anymore. It's just "but our shit, dummies!". Remember the milk commercials? That was probably the height of advertising. It's all been shit since then.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Corpos kicked the artists out

[–] ZodiacSF1969@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

What were the milk commercials?

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago