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Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ... by throwaway66666 on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @01:39PM (#19911718)
I am not saying cable is better. I am saying that netflix has a lot of hidden marketing in their shows (for adults, I don't have kids and I don' watch kids shows) that praising them for being ad-free is kinda disgenious.

In the end of the day I 'd rather get a big blinking "this is an ad" banner on my ads, rather than the characters smirking on camera while drinking from a nescafe cup while waiting for an uber to arrive. Maybe those are not actual ads and the show writers just added uber and nescafe for narrative purposes, I don't know, because it doesn't tell us.

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Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ... by jimcsharp on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:28PM (#19912369)
>netflix has a lot of hidden marketing in their shows

I really believe there's hidden cigarette marketing. Maybe directors are just taking artistic license that they can't on cable, but it just really feels like there's a noticeable increase of on-screen smoking in a lot of their originals.

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Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ... by filoleg on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @04:57PM (#19913828)
Maybe, but I honestly feel like it just coincides with the whole neo-noir and lazy-noir genre coming back, where smoking/drinking at very regular intervals throughout the day is a staple. Part of the reason I feel this way is the fact that I was never able to tell or even notice the brand of cigarettes the characters were smoking.
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