[saiya-jin]

Well, you get the crappy channel subsidized with adverts, otherwise it would either be too pricey or server just utter cheap worthless unwatchable trash (mostly).

Would you like to pay say 1 dollar per movie and watch significant amount of ads during it?

[eurasiantiger]

If the ads appeared in-world instead of replacing the program material, I would have no problem with this.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

Advertising in movies and tv series is huge. I hadn't really noticed smoking on screen much at all in a decade or so until I got Netflix.

Netflix has a massive cigarette addiction.

The other two things I notice a lot are cars and phones / computers.

It has been projected that 11.44 billion U.S. dollars would be spent on product placement in the United States in 2019, up from 4.75 billion in 2012 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/261454/global-product-pl...

[billytetrud]

> Would you like to pay say 1 dollar per movie and watch significant amount of ads during it?

No I wouldn't.