• SIGSEGV@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      11 months ago

      No, not everybody hates ads. Everybody hates today’s ads, because they’re literally as intrusive and annoying as the designers can make them. I didn’t have a problem with ads 15 years ago, but because I have to pay for my bandwidth, and because ads like to literally block what I’m reading with a giant, 100MB, unskippable video, I use an ad blocker.

      Advertising shot itself in the foot, and it isn’t our fault for being pushed so far that we’re fed up with it.

    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      11 months ago

      I do pay for my local paper, cable, spotify, disney+, Netflix…

      Only so much blood in this here stone.

      • Trekman10@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        11 months ago

        With so many shows getting canceled, or even un-confirmed and then obliterated from existence all for tax write offs, I’m kinda soured on Streaming these days.

        Hopefully the WGA and SAG strikes are successful and result in streaming improving again, back to how it felt during the mid 2010s.

  • jet@hackertalks.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    11 months ago

    “democracy dies in darkness…”

    Is my favorite ironic walled garden gate keeping paywall byline… I think the Washington post uses it.

    It wouldn’t be so dark if the paywall wasn’t blocking the light…

  • biofaust@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 months ago

    News, and I would argue journalism in general, is not what the term knowledge is referring to in that sentence.