• Limonene@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Rejecting Netflix fixes things for you and me, but the article says Netflix has 93 million ad-supported subscribers. I’m really worried about the amount of influence advertisers have on our society, and it’s only getting worse. Even if you and I can be above the direct influence of these ads, many people are not, and those people are influencing you and me. This produces a dangerous secondary influence that can reach most of society, and just fills everyone’s mind with lies, for hardly any cost.

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        10 months ago

        No different than the decades of ad supported broadcast television.

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            10 months ago

            Oh im not defending it. Just saying we’ve been well-fed geese for a very long time now. It has just changed from cramming us full of the Tootsie Pop Owl and the Doublemint Twins with a chaser of Sears Christmas Catalog to a succotash of targeted ads.

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          10 months ago

          Except I didn’t pay a monthly fee for over the air TV. The Jeffersons didn’t cost 4.99 a month