My favorite new clown world antic is when a streaming service interrupts the show for 10 seconds with
"ENJOY THIS COMMERCIAL-FREE BREAK BROUGHT TO YOU BY DINGUSCO"
Bruh, just because it's a short commercial doesn't make it commercial-free!
Discussion
It's sort of like when people say "Taxation is theft" and then complain their money doesn't go where they want it to. lolz
But if not for the break…I never woulda purchased my very own dingus
Ditch streaming services, use torrents.
Enshitification
Idea for a podcast-player: Advertising/sponsoring is annoying, but it has to be unless you do v4v. What's missing is an AI-controlled player that recognizes that you've already heard an ad from Swan or River three times and now it's good. For the next 200 episodes, the player skips the commercials you've already "endured" three times. Thank me later.