this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
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Rejecting Netflix fixes things for you and me, but the article says Netflix has 93 million ad-supported subscribers. I'm really worried about the amount of influence advertisers have on our society, and it's only getting worse. Even if you and I can be above the direct influence of these ads, many people are not, and those people are influencing you and me. This produces a dangerous secondary influence that can reach most of society, and just fills everyone's mind with lies, for hardly any cost.
No different than the decades of ad supported broadcast television.
Except I didn't pay a monthly fee for over the air TV. The Jeffersons didn't cost 4.99 a month
Yeah this part is truly infuriating