• SplashJacksonEnglish
    1175·
    23 hours ago

    Is this fucking real? Get fucked, mainstream media, if this is the case. Plenty of books and old games to keep me occupied until Alzheimers hits, and then occupied again afterwards

    • towerful@programming.devEnglish
      956·
      23 hours ago

      This isn’t mainstream media.
      This is capitalism.

      This is a company making a product, selling it for a given price, then making additional money from embedded ads.
      Whether that ad revenue is additional profit, or to offset the actual cost of the item - because the sold it at a loss to beat their competitors - doesn’t really matter.
      This is the consumer paying for something, and not getting a full and complete product

      • SplashJacksonEnglish
        176·
        22 hours ago

        Mainstream media and capitalism are part of the same bullshit

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
          11·
          6 hours ago

          Mainstream media is just media consumed by the majority of people.

          It has nothing to do with money.

          But capitalism tends to rot anything it touches.

        • towerful@programming.devEnglish
          223·
          22 hours ago

          No, mainstream media is part of capitalism.
          Specifically shitty mainstream media (I’m sure there are some mainstream media providers that aren’t shitty).

          This is a shitty product.
          This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism.
          This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism which happens to show mainstream media.

          But this isn’t mainstream media.

          Mainstream media would want in on the ad revenue. Mainstream media would facilitate & encourage this.

          This is just a shitty product from a shitty company capitalising on shitty practices.

          Edit:
          I guess “part of the same bullshit” is correct.
          But it’s placing the blame on the wrong thing

          • SplashJacksonEnglish
            61·
            20 hours ago

            Yeah, I had to really masticate on my phrasing for a while and never really settled on a statement that reflected properly my true meaning. Glad you could see where I was coming from