• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Cable TV needed to fill timeslots…

    Streaming has to put out enough to not lose subscribers, and they know most people aren’t going to ever bother canceling.

    It’s this weird market where a streamers best customer: is someone that never launches the app. Too much content and they have to pay for the bandwidth.

    Not even getting into how monopolization is limiting competition.

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      4 hours ago

      I have this theory that the streaming platforms hire UI and UX researchers to design their apps and websites in a way that makes it as hard as possible to find the good content you actually want to watch. An hour spent scrolling their app is an hour of 4K content they didn’t need to stream.

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        7 minutes ago

        Search something on the YouTube TV app and it tops out at like 20 results without even a filter for age…

        That’s just insane considering how much is YouTube, they definitely make decisions to limit how much people will watch.