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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

You realize the membership explicitly states ad free? And you’re looking at a black screen where ads would otherwise be? Because this is a live broadcast.

Be pissed at Netflix for the exuberant price in contrast to lessening content, not for your lack of understanding.

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile, my Freedom Plan:

  • $0.00/eternity
  • As large a resolution and bitrate as I wanted
  • Play on my favorite media player
  • Absolutely no ads anywhere
  • Option to pay forward by seeding
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

also, any screen format and zoom you like, choice of any language subtitles...

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 15 points 1 day ago

I remember that Netflix thing, yeah. Its still around?

[–] hobovision@mander.xyz 128 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Doesn't look like an ad. Looks like the live WWE Raw event you're watching is showing ads on other platforms and you're seeing a black screen until it resumes..

Get mad about real things yall. We don't need to fake outrage when there is actual bad things happening.

[–] detren@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

And here I thought OP is cool and was watching Julie Ducournau’s 2016 film Raw…

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 56 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, the live event is on commercial break. Your Netflix sub doesn’t alter time itself.

Can’t believe how much blind hate in this thread when the screenshot doesn’t match the claim.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Maybe the wounds are still fresh from Amazon Prime Video.

[–] lando55@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Your Netflix sub doesn't alter time

Excuse me, I upgraded to the special relativity plan for exactly this reason and I'm entitled to my rage

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

ohh let us have our hate, it fuels us :)

[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago

Lol and no one clues in despite op claiming ads but not showing an actual ad...

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 91 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now you are a product using a product

[–] morto@piefed.social 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And that's why I dislike that popular saying. People don't stop being products by paying for services. You're always a product when using big tech. Only small businesses, nonprofit organizations and community services allow us not to be products, whether we pay or not for it.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"If it's January, it's cold" doesn't imply it can't be cold in other months.

[–] morto@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are many cases where we don't pay and we're not products. The phrase is false in any way.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fun fact: many of the sayings I grew up with are halves of themselves at best.

The ol' chestnut, "Great minds think alike", for instance, was originally followed with "but, rarely do they differ.", and that's a completely different message & tone.

"Blood is thicker than water" used to be "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb"— the absolute opposite of the common usage these days.

"Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back";

"The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese";

Idiom truncation is simply a part of diachronic morphism... though, when the cuckernutters're running things, systemic stupid reigns. 🤷🏼‍♂️😶🤦🏼‍♂️

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I personally like cutting them in half, and gluing disparate pieces together, like so:

"A few bad apples are right twice a day," or "a trapped rat is worth two in the bush."

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

The Boondock Saints've gotcha sorted, then.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At this point a pirated site with an adblocker is a better experience than netflix.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

My wife pays 5 eur for low tier subscription for netflix. Once I have shown her Myflixer, she began to watch it more often than netflix.

Big bonus for netflix is language audio and subtitles. Even if I did set usenet and sabnzbd to get local-language media, unfortunately it doesnt't have everything. So she still watches netflix from time to time.

Sidenote: pihole (I guess any DNS sinkhole) is able to block netflix ads both in browser and in app. She praised my selfhosted setup for that so much 😁

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What the actual fuck? Its almost like they WANT more piracy.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 2 days ago

My favorite thing about Netflix is how quickly their releases appear on my media server.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Remember how far the cable industry pushed? These are the same people and they've learned nothing.

[–] DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago

They've learned that most people are apathetic enough to just take it as long as they roll it slowly enough.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

For live video? Lol, OP would rather actually watch commercials than a black screen while everyone else watching the live event had to actually watch the commercials.

[–] stretch2m@infosec.pub 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The first ad I see on Netflix will be the last. I will not pay for ads. You can't have it both ways.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why waiting? Setup your own Jellyfin server now. It's free!

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jellyfin is also nice if you backup your DVD/VHS collection for serving rips. Or just for watching random public domain stuff. Or...y'know... legitimately obtained media...

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, of course my 12 TB movies collection is legally sourced.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

pirating time.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'm guessing this is a bug because If this is true, I'm surprised that there's no media companies reporting on it.

This sounds like a classic bait and switch, and this would be a click-haven for reporters

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if you looked at some of the other replies in the thread, but in this instance it was a live broadcast which has ad breaks. OP is paying for the ad-free tier, so instead of ads they had a black screen during the break. To describe this as Netflix "adding unskippable ads on premium plan" is just wrong, there are literally no ads being displayed.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

that makes sense thank you!

[–] Noja@sopuli.xyz 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Netflix very recently sent an email with an updated privacy policy which states that they sell the personal information of every customer to advertisers. There is a new toggle hidden in the options which is on by default and sells your data to 200+ companies.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip. It's per-profile, too, so if you have multiple profiles (family), you have to go into each profile and turn it off.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What you actually mean is you have to spin up sonarr, and the related apps and cancel Netflix.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Yes. But unfortunately, kids have wildly varying tastes and I just can't keep up with the limited space (8TB) on my NAS.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 27 points 2 days ago

HBO MAX MAX CINEMAX SHOWTIMEBOX HBO MAX PLUS PLUS GO or whatever the fuck it's called now did this to me a while back when I was on their premium ad-free plan. They told me that the commercial breaks in the middle of shows advertising american football or some other sports crap weren't ads because they were showcasing HBO content or some such. They claimed that those commercial breaks only show up at the beginning of movies/shows. When I sent them video of me watching something, 10 minutes into the show, and the ad aired, they still did not back down on that claim.

So, guess who hasn't bothered with HBO MAX MAX CINEMAX SHOWTIMEBOX HBO MAX PLUS PLUS GO ever since.

Time to reaquaint myself with physical media. I've had enough of this shit. I only signed up to watch the new Unsolved Mysteries, anyways. I'm sure I can sail the seas to find that quite easily.

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Zidane@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're on chrome. It's mildly their fault if they're still on there

[–] dreamy@quokk.au 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If any Chrome users are reading this: You can just use Helium which includes uBlock Origin (not lite) and is based on Chromium.

[–] newton@feddit.online 1 points 1 day ago

Iam user of vanadium , no need for adblocker

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I know there is an argument between ublock and pihole, I prefer pihole I have worked on my pihole set up to be better than ublock but ublock for ease of use I guess.

[–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pihole is good to affect an entire network of devices without anything needed on the device. Ublock is good to affect a single device on any network, like your phone while outside the house. I use both as well as rethink which when in DNS-only mode does basically what pihole does at the device level. Of course, each has other functionality as well with various advantages and disadvantages, but at a high level they are not exactly an either/or kind of thing necessarily.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have been having a rough day, I think I meant AdGuard I use Ublock on device as well

[–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, definitely more similar functionality in AdGuard vs pihole, but similar significant difference. Pihole protects only when you are home and protects all devices, even ones thst can't install ad-blocking like streaming devices and such. AdGuard protects the device even outside of your home. Doesn't hurt to use both.

But I prefer rethink over adguard since it's open-source and so it's not as easy for them to go rogue for profit and start collecting personal information. Also, I've never used adguard but the website says the free version only protects browsers and not apps. Rethink protects the whole device even in DNS-only mode. And adguard seems not to offer as much detailed control of what's blocked, though I may have missed it. Rethink you can download several kinds of blocklists and either apply the whole list or select site-by-site. But that's just my preferences.

Either way pihole and adguard serve different purposes, pihole is network level and affects more than just personal devices and adguard works even when outside of your home, but only affects personal devices.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I use wireguard to VPN into my LAN and access the DNS. I have wireguard running on a pizero 2 so the DNS is all it can do. In the not to distant future I plan on using a pi 5 for Wireguard so I will be able to access the LAN away from my LAN. Maybe I will look into rethink as well?

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

I’ve my pi-hole but it does not block things like YouTube ads as they’re served by the same servers as videos. Ublock works though, so both is good!

[–] CaptMurica@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

Hahaha, Netflix embraces enshittification in a big old bear hug!