Doesn't look like an ad. Looks like the live WWE Raw event you're watching is showing ads on other platforms and you're seeing a black screen until it resumes..

Get mad about real things yall. We don't need to fake outrage when there is actual bad things happening.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 18 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, the live event is on commercial break. Your Netflix sub doesn’t alter time itself.

Can’t believe how much blind hate in this thread when the screenshot doesn’t match the claim.

[–] lando55@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Your Netflix sub doesn't alter time

Excuse me, I upgraded to the special relativity plan for exactly this reason and I'm entitled to my rage

[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 hours ago

Lol and no one clues in despite op claiming ads but not showing an actual ad...

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

What the actual fuck? Its almost like they WANT more piracy.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 10 hours ago

My favorite thing about Netflix is how quickly their releases appear on my media server.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 22 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Remember how far the cable industry pushed? These are the same people and they've learned nothing.

[–] DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 hours ago

They've learned that most people are apathetic enough to just take it as long as they roll it slowly enough.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 80 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Now you are a product using a product

[–] morto@piefed.social 34 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

And that's why I dislike that popular saying. People don't stop being products by paying for services. You're always a product when using big tech. Only small businesses, nonprofit organizations and community services allow us not to be products, whether we pay or not for it.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"If it's January, it's cold" doesn't imply it can't be cold in other months.

[–] morto@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There are many cases where we don't pay and we're not products. The phrase is false in any way.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Fun fact: many of the sayings I grew up with are halves of themselves at best.

The ol' chestnut, "Great minds think alike", for instance, was originally followed with "but, rarely do they differ.", and that's a completely different message & tone.

"Blood is thicker than water" used to be "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb"— the absolute opposite of the common usage these days.

"Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back";

"The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese";

Idiom truncation is simply a part of diachronic morphism... though, when the cuckernutters're running things, systemic stupid reigns. 🤷🏼‍♂️😶🤦🏼‍♂️

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 26 points 10 hours ago

HBO MAX MAX CINEMAX SHOWTIMEBOX HBO MAX PLUS PLUS GO or whatever the fuck it's called now did this to me a while back when I was on their premium ad-free plan. They told me that the commercial breaks in the middle of shows advertising american football or some other sports crap weren't ads because they were showcasing HBO content or some such. They claimed that those commercial breaks only show up at the beginning of movies/shows. When I sent them video of me watching something, 10 minutes into the show, and the ad aired, they still did not back down on that claim.

So, guess who hasn't bothered with HBO MAX MAX CINEMAX SHOWTIMEBOX HBO MAX PLUS PLUS GO ever since.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 33 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm guessing this is a bug because If this is true, I'm surprised that there's no media companies reporting on it.

This sounds like a classic bait and switch, and this would be a click-haven for reporters

[–] Noja@sopuli.xyz 40 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Netflix very recently sent an email with an updated privacy policy which states that they sell the personal information of every customer to advertisers. There is a new toggle hidden in the options which is on by default and sells your data to 200+ companies.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip. It's per-profile, too, so if you have multiple profiles (family), you have to go into each profile and turn it off.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 hours ago

What you actually mean is you have to spin up sonarr, and the related apps and cancel Netflix.

[–] therewolftherecastle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 hours ago

Time to reaquaint myself with physical media. I've had enough of this shit. I only signed up to watch the new Unsolved Mysteries, anyways. I'm sure I can sail the seas to find that quite easily.

[–] CaptMurica@beehaw.org 3 points 11 hours ago

Hahaha, Netflix embraces enshittification in a big old bear hug!

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Grab uBlock Origin and enjoy! https://github.com/fmhy/FMHY/wiki/Streaming

[–] Zidane@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

They're on chrome. It's mildly their fault if they're still on there

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I know there is an argument between ublock and pihole, I prefer pihole I have worked on my pihole set up to be better than ublock but ublock for ease of use I guess.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

I’ve my pi-hole but it does not block things like YouTube ads as they’re served by the same servers as videos. Ublock works though, so both is good!

[–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Pihole is good to affect an entire network of devices without anything needed on the device. Ublock is good to affect a single device on any network, like your phone while outside the house. I use both as well as rethink which when in DNS-only mode does basically what pihole does at the device level. Of course, each has other functionality as well with various advantages and disadvantages, but at a high level they are not exactly an either/or kind of thing necessarily.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I have been having a rough day, I think I meant AdGuard I use Ublock on device as well

[–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 39 minutes ago

Yeah, definitely more similar functionality in AdGuard vs pihole, but similar significant difference. Pihole protects only when you are home and protects all devices, even ones thst can't install ad-blocking like streaming devices and such. AdGuard protects the device even outside of your home. Doesn't hurt to use both.

But I prefer rethink over adguard since it's open-source and so it's not as easy for them to go rogue for profit and start collecting personal information. Also, I've never used adguard but the website says the free version only protects browsers and not apps. Rethink protects the whole device even in DNS-only mode. And adguard seems not to offer as much detailed control of what's blocked, though I may have missed it. Rethink you can download several kinds of blocklists and either apply the whole list or select site-by-site. But that's just my preferences.

Either way pihole and adguard serve different purposes, pihole is network level and affects more than just personal devices and adguard works even when outside of your home, but only affects personal devices.