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Oooh. Wait.
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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Buying massive amounts of primetime commercial time to sell useless products by screaming their name over and over in the ad.
HEADON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR FORHEAD!
Man, those obnoxious TV advertisements can all fuck right on. It was even worse that it was a homeopathic (aka placebo effect) topical product.
But you remember it, and repeat it...
They turned their advertising into a meme before memes were a thing. I'm sure someone has purchased the product based solely on the memeness, so successful ad?
Call JG Wentworth! 877-CASH-NOW!!!
The amount of brain power I have used to memorize stupid advertising is insane... It hits me sometimes like, BOOM! Tough actin' Tinactin!
Buying rights to provide telecom service to an area and not actually providing service.
Wait that's a thing? In TV broadcasting?
I've heard of how Comcast Did New York state dirty many years ago. IIRC, they walked away with nearly half a billion dollars, which I believe was about 2/3 of all the money the state had given them to connect small towns and clusters of rural communities to DSL internet.>
Linktree. It's just links on a page. How do you get people to pay a monthly subscription for that?
Folks literally have no conept anymore that you can just slap HTML on a page. & with the advent of needing TLS, it starts to become more technical than a lot of folks want to bother learning & maintain versus the days of raw FTP uploads.
Yeah but a basic Wordpress.com site could do exactly the same thing for free. Or for super cheap if you want your own domain.
There’s also a jillion places to host static sites with less complexity of the code albeit more complexity to get started for many non-developers. The thing is there was a time when high schools everywhere were teaching basic HTML so you could be a part of this new internet thing, but now folks don’t think they can have their own chunk anymore separate from the corporations. You still can but the knowledge seems lost & certain technically hurdles like TLS which I mentioned make it just one step more difficult.
Yeah I learnt static HTML and CSS circa 2007, but even then it felt like what we were being taught was very out of date.
I've never actually used any form of hosting for my own pages. I've run the LAMP stack on my own local server, and I've used services similar to WordPress, but never dealt with static web sites hosted by someone else. Do they not make TLS really easy for you in that circumstance?
Many of these will handle the TLS for you, but that supposes you need a specific service. Then & even now you can still host your own website / services at home without any specialized gear (I do). If IPv6 were more common, it would be even easier.
even now you can still host your own website / services at home without any specialized gear
Yes, as I said, that's the only thing I've done myself—in particular, at times I've run it off of my main desktop, and at other times on a Raspberry Pi with an external hard drive attached—but that's specifically not what I was asking about because the previous comment was specifically talking about non-developers who might have that basic HTML understanding and just want a server where they can throw up an HTML file and have it served up. A goal that's more technically involved than a wordpress.com site, but less involved than self-hosting a LAMP stack and running the Let's Encrypt certbot.
(Plus, of course, the growing prevalence of cgNAT making self-hosting impossible for many people necessitates the use of a hosting company or user-friendly web service.)
Self-hosting & other content producing has been pushed against for ages. Look at the cost to get symmetric internet speeds in many places like it is somehow more expensive to upload the bits. I am pretty sure this is a part of a conspiracy to make sure everyone is a consumer for more $$$ & not expressing their own ideas except on platforms they don’t control.
Most people wouldn't have the slightest idea how to use Wordpress, nor even what a domain is, let alone how to do anything with one.
I'm not talking about WordPress.org, but WordPress.com. The basic blogging service. It's all WYSIWYG.
Netflix killing password sharing despite how easy piracy is. Massive increase in subscriptions
I suspected Netflix to lose sub counts for two years after they enacted their 'No Account Sharing (outside the household).' policy. But it seems that they have been able to bounce back quite quickly, compared to my guess.
Piracy is not as nice for average people. It requires effort many won't want to put in to discover what they want (and not in a shitty quality), and then managing and accessing that which you found takes a lot of effort as well to set up in a manner as easily accessed as a Netflix app.
Most people can't/won't bother wasting their time and effort. They'll just pay for a service for the convenience. And before people interject with their anecdotes, convenience is subjective.
Honestly in my younger years I had the time to hunt around for the right streams, rips, subtitle files etc, but it does take time and effort. For the price of a few sandwiches or a handful of coffees I don't have to spend the time doing that anymore.
What's annoying is that it's not a single subscription anymore, it's 4-5 subscriptions which really adds up over the month.
Younger people don't know how to use computers...
Keep 'em dumb.
I brought an DSLR to my office which caught the attention of some of my younger peers. They complained that the screen was not working. I was like "What did you guys do in 2 min? How did you mess it up?"
Then they said "no no, the touch screen isn't working". I'm like "this isn't a touch screen device. You have to press buttons". They were mildly annoyed by that. I suspect this is the fault of iPhones and Android.
Dumb down technology as much as possible but make people dependent on your ecosystem. Don't let users repair it. Keep it closed-source. No one-time-fee. Everything should be a subscription.
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