At some point they are going to have ad channels with content breaks.
We’re already there, most ‘infotainment’ shows are thinly veiled ~20minute advertisements, broken up by ad breaks…
Soon the ads will have ads
Those shitty 3 second pre-ad ads on YouTube have been around for years.
And soon they will have ads! Ads about the ads.
Newpipe, Tubular, Firefox with uBlock Origin.
No one has to watch ads if one is willing to look outside the YouTube App.
With Product Placement!
Isn’t that the agreed upon consolation for free content? Was nobody alive when TV was the primary means of content consumption?
It always irked me that people are upset over YouTube running ads. Like, of course they had to start running ads, hosting/programming/daily operating millions of videos isn’t free for them. They need to make money some how, even at “break even” which prevents the idea of profit seeking would mean running ads.
Hate to sound like a “kids these days” but seriously, absolutely nothing in life is free and if there isn’t a direct cost, advertising is going to be present.
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I agree that if Google is getting the content for free they should, at least try, to keep it ad free for the consumer. But I don’t know if Google has to pay licensing for stuff like PBS. PBS does technically have ads, but they are unobtrusive, shown at the beginning or end of a show and are presented as “Brought to you by….” Less of an ad and more recognition that a company has paid to support bringing PBS to you for free.
I’ve never uses this service, so I’m not aware of how they might insert ads either. Between shows? Typical ad-breaks times every 8.5 minutes of broadcast time? More?
So, anyone know a good is/rom to flash on my shield? I use 99% Plex and jellyfin
Not for the shield, but there’s a Chinese device, Ugoos am6b+, that you can install coreelec on.
Coreelec is a linux os designed to run kodi, add a plex add on and it can play almost anything.
Any dolby vision profile, including the one that can usually only be played on bluray players. Any audio including TrueHD, dolby atmos, and DTS.
Sucks for streaming apps sadly, so you’d have to get another device like Apple TV or something.
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And Linux is limited to 720p
What do you mean?
Netflix is limited to 720p on Linux due to the DRM they use… maybe OP was confused because of that?
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I wasn’t recommending it for that?
I said that it wouldn’t be good for streaming apps, like Netflix, and the previous comment was asking about Plex specifically.
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Maybe this will be the straw the causes them to port librelec to it
I’m not sure what exactly is going on here. This is regarding their live TV service and FAST streams, which both already have ads by default. Is this just that they’re replacing the existing ads from the original stream with new ads?
Yes, we know. We’ve been alive long enough to see You Tube’s slow demise.
At least there are ways to block those ads. Sponsorblock is a godsend as well.
I have a google TV device and I didn’t even know they had a free option FROM google, but Pluto and tubi already have ads so not really surprising google would too… I just use jellyfin and smart tube, haven’t seen ads in ages.
Wait until they make a cultural phenomenon out of advertisements. It’ll be like Demolition Man, but the people will be even dumber.
I like to use Pluto TV m3u in Tivimate and my own curated content from Plex in there too with DizqueTV.
