• daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    17 hours ago

    I had this terrible dream that I went to a movie theater and had to watch ads in the middle and more right before the end of the film. And they told me if I wanted to skip the ads I would have to pay 50% more for my already $20 ticket.

    Remember when movies were $5 for matinee or sometimes one day in the week was $5. ? Anyone ?

    It wasn’t that long ago.

    I used to go to the movies like 1x or 2x a month. Now it’s literally been years. I think last time was the first new dune movie.

    Sad.

  • pro3757@programming.dev
    191·
    23 hours ago

    * Calls 911 *

    “Name your drink, McDonald’s has it. For the special…”

    * 30 seconds later *

    “Thank you for calling 911.
    For reporting a burglary, press 1.
    If you are being chased by an armed person, press 2.
    …
    For an ambulance, press 14.
    If you want to talk to an operator, press 0.”

    * Presses 0 *

    This call is being recorded for training and monitoring purposes. You will be connected to an operator after the beep.

    * Beep *

    “Hello I’m Haley 9000, an AI powered voice operator. How can I help you?”

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
    10·
    23 hours ago

    Sometimes all i feel when i read this shit is!

    “HELL YEAH, ENSHITIFACATE ME HARDER DADDY”

    “Make me hate you even more, make everyone else hate you like i have always done you sick pattern of economic misaligned. Make us hate you till we make you no longer exist!”

  • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    We’re not far off really. I’d wager more people are using things like WhatsApp or Discord for calls, and there are ads baked into those.

      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
        5·
        24 hours ago

        It’s like youtube. If you wanna watch a video of something, it is most likely on there. Same as discord, if you wanna chat with your mates in a game or join any kind of geek topic centric community they are very likely to have a only a discord for that.

        Granted there are options to fight the power such as freetube or vesktop on linux that allow you to use the services while exposing as little as possible of yourself, but you still have to in order to participate in most places.

          • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
            2·
            23 hours ago

            Me neither, i go to almost any length to avoid ads in general. The point was that i still have to use youtube and jump through all those hoops to do it in an acceptable way, because that’s where the content is.

            Same as discord, they are less obnoxious with ads than youtube but they are data thirsty mfers. Using a plugin supporting client allows to disable some of that and otherwise obfuscate yourself/getting at premium features, but again i would rather not use it except i have to because everyone is on there.

        • eneff@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          22 hours ago

          I am just not interested in engaging with projects that exclusively use discord for their community, so I don’t.

          Doesn’t feel like I’m missing out.

          (Guter Nutzername BTW)

      • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Network effect. And most people’s tolerance for ads is crazy high.

        So those people can chat with me through a Matrix bridge while I wear my hazmat suit.

        • eneff@discuss.tchncs.de
          2·
          22 hours ago

          Yeah but it’s exactly that tolerance that I don’t understand – on an emotional level.

          Sure I can rationally construct reasons for why this has developed in this way and why people got used to it, but I can’t get entirely get rid of this initial “how can the third ad in 20 minutes of video not make you furious?” reaction.

          • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
            1·
            22 hours ago

            I can only assume it’s a frog in a pot of boiling water type situation for people that haven’t just used ad-blockers since their creation.

            Also a lot of people just pay for premium to remove them instead.

    • officermike@lemmy.world
      1·
      24 hours ago

      I disabled auto-update on Discord for Android right after the announcement that ads were coming. They haven’t broken anything for the old version yet, so I’m gonna keep using it until it breaks. Unfortunately not so lucky on the desktop version.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
      2·
      22 hours ago

      Yeah. It’s not my favorite. Still, most people can talk and listen faster than than a stenographer can type. There’s also the added layer of nonverbal information in oral communication that isn’t in text. Calls are still more effective for most matters that are both urgent and important. I don’t like them, but I’ll resort to them if I need to.

  • jdnewmil@lemmy.ca
    2·
    1 day ago

    … or the voice call feature will be deprecated due to the universal use of text messaging and advertisers will refuse to buy ads for a defunct technology.