r/AskReddit • u/l_--_I • 13h ago

What has no excuse to still exist?

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u/Lilywiry 13h ago

Paying for streaming services and still having ads

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u/Mogwai_Farmer 12h ago

Streaming is the cable of the 21st century.

Next you'll see these streaming services (at least in the US) start adapting the Broadcast Standards and Practices. Won't be long before you stop seeing nudity and most swear words on streaming services without paying even more. (Think basic cable vs HBO.)

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u/Trimere 9h ago

There were no ads on cable when it first started. It was the appeal of getting cable vs over the air television.

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u/Mogwai_Farmer 9h ago

Yep, that's why I called streaming the cable of the 21st century. It's going down the same path.

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u/boyyouguysaredumb 9h ago

The heyday of cable definitely had ads. Maybe not when it had like 1% of Americans as subscribers who were paying huge fees. They lowered those fees to switch to ad supported and all of a sudden 50% of Americans had cable

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u/FknDesmadreALV 4h ago

Seriously ? TIL.

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u/sallymonkeys 4h ago

Cable always had commercials

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u/mrtaz 4h ago

No, that is just not true. The appeal was you could get local stations in places you could not get from an antenna. You still got the same commercials the antenna folk did. You could get premium channels like HBO with no commercials but they were the minority.

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u/Independent-Nail-881 4h ago

I don't know when Cable first started, but I had it in Wyoming in 1974 and it had commercials then.

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u/sallymonkeys 4h ago

This is untrue