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In the old days, people paid for cable TV so they could avoid ads. Now you pay for cable and get ads too. I pay for Skype, but they think they can bombard me w
by panarky 11y ago
In the old days, people paid for cable TV so they could avoid ads. Now you pay for cable and get ads too.
I pay for Skype, but they think they can bombard me with annoying, irrelevant ads anyway. And now the ads actually break Skype itself. Unacceptable.
I'm now blocking Skype ads by editing the hosts file. More info here: https://gist.github.com/eyecatchup/ba7dc7a50d90cbf6377d https://gist.github.com/eyecatchup/ba7dc7a50d90cbf6377d
- mschulze 11y agoAfter I bought some Skype credit and still had the ads I thought it was a joke. Some of the ads are really shady, the "earn 3000 Euro in one day!" kind. Then after half a year where I didn't use my Skype credit I got a mail that my credit will be "deactivated" and I had to log in on the Skype website to "activate" it again which I consider scamming. They want me to think my credit is empty when I need it and to buy more. It's almost as bad as the prepaid SIM cards where the credit expires. This was already forbidden in Germany. I'm really not sure what Microsoft is thinking here.
- AjithAntony 11y ago> In the old days, people paid for cable TV so they could avoid ads. Now you pay for cable and get ads too. Cable TV was invented to distribute tv to areas where antenna reception was not possible. It was just regular channels rebroadcast with the same commercials. Superstaions emerged like TBS that were once local channels but now became regional and then national cable channels. Still with commercials. Premium channels like HBO and showtime were the only commercial free stations and you paid extra for them.
- hliyan 11y agoBy paying a premium, we're indicating to advertisers that we have buying power. Which is exactly who they want to target. So in a way, paying tends to attract ads?