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The major reason I don't subscribe to sky TV is the adverts. It's only about 15% of their revenue, so clearly not everyone thinks like me, but life is too short

The major reason I don't subscribe to sky TV is the adverts. It's only about 15% of their revenue, so clearly not everyone thinks like me, but life is too short for adverts. I don't understand people that listen to non-premium spotify either.

gerbilly 8y ago
> life is too short for adverts Agree 100%. In north america you typically pay your cable bill and still get adverts. Better off just ignoring the whole thing, or stick to public stations.
- isostatic 8y ago
  My leisure time is worth on the order of £1/minute pre tax (given that's what I charge for overtime or consultancy jobs) Call it 50p a minute after tax. A typical hour long TV program will have 18 minutes of adverts, or £9. The cost of watching the 40 minute program about £20. The question then is is this TV program worth £20 to me If no, I won't watch it. is this TV program worth more than £20 but less than £30 to me If yes, I'll watch, but not with adverts. If it's worth £25, I'll pay upto £5 for the episode. is this TV program worth more than £30 If yes, I'll watch with adverts, but only if it costs more than £9 to buy the episode. Typically the cost of buying a TV episode is very small - on the order of £2, so it rarely makes sense to watch with adverts. Back in the 90s I paid the equivalent of £10 an episode for tapes of DS9 season 6 and 7
cr0sh 8y ago
> I don't understand people that listen to non-premium spotify either. When I listen to Spotify (non-premium), I usually only listen to albums and music in my lists, and not anything random. I am not sure if that plays into things. But what I have on my browser is uBlock Origin, which seems to block the majority of "interstitial" adverts they stick sometimes in-between tracks. Occasionally one or two sneak thru; many times they are ads for Spotify Premium (kinda hard to block those). I just don't listen to enough music or anything to justify spending money on the premium offering; the $10.00 a month isn't an issue for me, but I've maybe have listened to the music I have on Spotify a total of 1-2 hours for the entire month of October, and that was kinda random for me - prior to that I hadn't listened to it for months. I have the majority of the music anyhow as MP3s on my phone; I don't really like non-premium Spotify on my phone because I haven't found any easy way to block the adverts, plus the player in non-premium mode doesn't support "play the album in track order" - it's stuck on "random", which isn't something I like for all of my music (I prefer to listen to albums, rather than songs).
TeMPOraL 8y ago
Spotify's ads work. When I first started to use their service, ~2011, they had maybe 5 ads localized for UK (where I was working at the time). That meant every 3 songs I would get the same ad. The ad sometimes would change the next day. After couple of days of this seriously fucking up my brain, I decided to pay them money just to shut them up. I don't understand how people cope with free Spotify either, but maybe with large enough collection of ads, it just isn't that annoying.
- isostatic 8y ago
  > Spotify's ads work In services where you can avoid adverts by paying, yes. Pay the protection money and you're sorted. It works. Whether it should be legal to give free sandwiches which has a 1% chance of poisoning you, while charging $5 for a sandwich that's poison free is another argument.

gerbilly 8y ago

> life is too short for adverts Agree 100%. In north america you typically pay your cable bill and still get adverts. Better off just ignoring the whole thing, or stick to public stations.

isostatic 8y ago
My leisure time is worth on the order of £1/minute pre tax (given that's what I charge for overtime or consultancy jobs) Call it 50p a minute after tax. A typical hour long TV program will have 18 minutes of adverts, or £9. The cost of watching the 40 minute program about £20. The question then is is this TV program worth £20 to me If no, I won't watch it. is this TV program worth more than £20 but less than £30 to me If yes, I'll watch, but not with adverts. If it's worth £25, I'll pay upto £5 for the episode. is this TV program worth more than £30 If yes, I'll watch with adverts, but only if it costs more than £9 to buy the episode. Typically the cost of buying a TV episode is very small - on the order of £2, so it rarely makes sense to watch with adverts. Back in the 90s I paid the equivalent of £10 an episode for tapes of DS9 season 6 and 7

cr0sh 8y ago

> I don't understand people that listen to non-premium spotify either. When I listen to Spotify (non-premium), I usually only listen to albums and music in my lists, and not anything random. I am not sure if that plays into things. But what I have on my browser is uBlock Origin, which seems to block the majority of "interstitial" adverts they stick sometimes in-between tracks. Occasionally one or two sneak thru; many times they are ads for Spotify Premium (kinda hard to block those). I just don't listen to enough music or anything to justify spending money on the premium offering; the $10.00 a month isn't an issue for me, but I've maybe have listened to the music I have on Spotify a total of 1-2 hours for the entire month of October, and that was kinda random for me - prior to that I hadn't listened to it for months. I have the majority of the music anyhow as MP3s on my phone; I don't really like non-premium Spotify on my phone because I haven't found any easy way to block the adverts, plus the player in non-premium mode doesn't support "play the album in track order" - it's stuck on "random", which isn't something I like for all of my music (I prefer to listen to albums, rather than songs).

TeMPOraL 8y ago

Spotify's ads work. When I first started to use their service, ~2011, they had maybe 5 ads localized for UK (where I was working at the time). That meant every 3 songs I would get the same ad. The ad sometimes would change the next day. After couple of days of this seriously fucking up my brain, I decided to pay them money just to shut them up. I don't understand how people cope with free Spotify either, but maybe with large enough collection of ads, it just isn't that annoying.

isostatic 8y ago
> Spotify's ads work In services where you can avoid adverts by paying, yes. Pay the protection money and you're sorted. It works. Whether it should be legal to give free sandwiches which has a 1% chance of poisoning you, while charging $5 for a sandwich that's poison free is another argument.