My concern from the headline was addressed in the article. Still hope they’re starting to look at something else.
DuckDuckGo uses Bing to power its search engine, and it has confirmed that it will still have access.
“[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,” Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, according to the publication
I believe her. I’m just interpreting her statement slightly differently than you are.
Boy i guess i’m glad i’ve largely stopped watching content on Netflix and similar sites. Bulk of me watching content is typically youtube, and occasionally crunchyroll.
Coming up next: Blipverts™!
Looks like they’ve clarified it a bunch.
There’s still a little bit of a loophole on training gen AI in the future, but this is a whole lot better than it was.
I only recently started watching shows again, but through alternate sources. This proposal from Netflix is not making me reconsider how I’m acquiring content.
Honestly, the more ads I see, the more annoyed I get and the less likely I am to patronize anything being advertised. So the bombardment of ads I’ve been getting via YouTube (too many lately) and mobile games are largely counterproductive, at least for me.
I’m repeating myself, but …
That’s a lot of money to require people to pay for features they don’t want and won’t use.
Apparently the vendor of our QA department’s software testing suite is pulling the same thing… a bunch of previously optional features that we have never needed is now part of the basic package, and the price is getting jacked way up.