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m463yesterday at 8:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

this just reminds me of...

- watching "normal" cable tv

- listening to "normal" fm radio

- shopping on amazon (sponsored... everything)


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MBCookyesterday at 8:49 PM

This is why I pay to get rid of ads in things I like. Podcasts and TV are the big ones.

I just started watching season 2 of Jury Duty on Amazon. I had deleted the app when they announced that as a paying subscriber I would be getting ads.

Oh my God the ads are so horrible. So much worse than I remember.

Also, extra kudos to Amazon for nearly doubling the price of removing the ads the week before the show came out. How nice of them.

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add-sub-mul-divyesterday at 8:26 PM

A difference between cable and streaming is that cable has DVRs that let you skip commercials if you want, while streaming tech introduced unskippable ads.

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