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[–] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 10 points 5 days ago (4 children)

This is why I never gave up on DVDs, even though people would laugh. As soon as Prime shoehorned ads in the middle of a show or movie, that's when I cancelled. I'll have to do the same with music and get my iPod battery fixed up if I can.

[–] derry@midwest.social 4 points 5 days ago

It's not that they're inserting themselves everywhere it's this right here: "shoehorned ads". On top of extracting as much data from you that they know more about you than almost you do yourself. dystopia authors couldn't have written it better.

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

I’ll have to do the same with music and get my iPod battery fixed up if I can.

In the meantime you can just load music files onto your phone and play them that way.

[–] mang0@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It was a long time ago I watched an DVD, but I very clearly remember some of them having unskippable ads.

[–] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 2 points 5 days ago

Right at the start, there were sometimes the "you wouldn't steal a car" warning about pirating movies but there never has been ads in the middle of whatever you were watching.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

I gave up on DVDs long ago, but I replaced them with files stored on a local NAS. Dealing with discs is just too clunky.

I do sometimes miss the extras they'd have on DVDs though. I ripped some DVDs and kept some of that stuff, but I haven't found a good system that indexes and organizes the extras.