Microsoft Has Begun Testing Ad-Supported Free Xbox Game Streaming

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It turns out that, after months of rumors and hints from leadership, Xbox is indeed going to test the waters by introducing ads to cloud game streaming. Rather than begin with a new tier for Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft is experimenting with adding ads for users streaming their own games from the cloud. Similar to […]

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Ads , ive learned to accept, but dang, what is it with the obssesion, feels this is beyond money.
Also, the one thing that should have switched to free " ad suported" is cable at least a decade ago, and yet.
 
Uvilla said:
Ads , ive learned to accept, but dang, what is it with the obssesion, feels this is beyond money.
Also, the one thing that should have switched to free " ad suported" is cable at least a decade ago, and yet.
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Yeah kind of wild that OTA channels have always been free, but with "ads" aka commercials. Yet cable never figured that out. You would have thought that once they started competing with streaming services they would have at least tried it. I'd probably have "cable" if it was free, but instead if just spent money on a network tuner card to get the free OTA channels to compliment my streaming.
 
Skillz said:
Yeah kind of wild that OTA channels have always been free, but with "ads" aka commercials. Yet cable never figured that out. You would have thought that once they started competing with streaming services they would have at least tried it. I'd probably have "cable" if it was free, but instead if just spent money on a network tuner card to get the free OTA channels to compliment my streaming.
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Yeah that was the biggest reason I stopped paying for Cable

OTA was free, with ads. Cable/Satellite - you pay (a lot) for, and still have the ads anyway (maybe even more ads). There are entire channels dedicated to just being ads on Cable... it got to be rediculous.
 
Grimlakin said:
Hi we see that you're in your 50's and playing Dead or Alive beach volleyball. Here is your add for blue Chew mostly with AI talent to get you to buy your boner gum.
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Eh, thats sounds about what will happen
 
Brian_B said:
Yeah that was the biggest reason I stopped paying for Cable

OTA was free, with ads. Cable/Satellite - you pay (a lot) for, and still have the ads anyway (maybe even more ads). There are entire channels dedicated to just being ads on Cable... it got to be rediculous.
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Youtube is starting to get this way. The amount of ads they're delivering to view videos is getting to be unbearable. In some cases the ads are like 50% the length of the dang video. really makes me want to figure out the "youtube ad blocking" stuff

either that or pitch to the creators to move to a new platform that doesn't shove so many ads down one's throat.
 
Skillz said:
Youtube is starting to get this way. The amount of ads they're delivering to view videos is getting to be unbearable. In some cases the ads are like 50% the length of the dang video. really makes me want to figure out the "youtube ad blocking" stuff
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Brave browser.... that is all.
 
Grimlakin said:
Brave browser.... that is all.
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This is the way.

Full disclosure though; I pay for the YT family plan now. We use YT and YT music everywhere e.g. in the cars, out in the yard, BBQ on the breeze way, PCs. I pay about $100 a month for Amazon, YT, and 1Gb internet. That is less than my old cable package with internet early in the century. And that's before adjusting for inflation.

Latency with game streaming sucks every time I try it. I suppose in near future, the exterior home data centers could solve that?
 
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Grimlakin said:
Brave browser.... that is all.
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Suggestions on an Nvidia shield then since that's where I watch most the content. I'll give brave browser a try on the desktop though. thanks
 
Skillz said:
Youtube is starting to get this way. The amount of ads they're delivering to view videos is getting to be unbearable. In some cases the ads are like 50% the length of the dang video.
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Man I forgot that YT even has ads. Haven't seen ads on YT in many years, on either PC or mobile.

Skillz said:
Suggestions on an Nvidia shield then since that's where I watch most the content.
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Oh that's why, cuz you're not watching PC.
 
Skillz said:
Youtube is starting to get this way. The amount of ads they're delivering to view videos is getting to be unbearable. In some cases the ads are like 50% the length of the dang video. really makes me want to figure out the "youtube ad blocking" stuff

either that or pitch to the creators to move to a new platform that doesn't shove so many ads down one's throat.
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I solved that by avoiding Youtube all together. I can't think of the last thing I watched over there. Every now and then it's almost unavoidable if you are looking for directions on something (many companies are releasing "manuals" as Youtube videos now, which... is another thing that points to me getting old), but really not much there that I'm too interested in.
 
Brian_B said:
I solved that by avoiding Youtube all together. I can't think of the last thing I watched over there. Every now and then it's almost unavoidable if you are looking for directions on something (many companies are releasing "manuals" as Youtube videos now, which... is another thing that points to me getting old), but really not much there that I'm too interested in.
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Do you watch creators or content on another platform or are you too old for that, too? 😂
 
Skillz said:
Do you watch creators or content on another platform or are you too old for that, too? 😂
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You guessed correctly - I am too old for that too. I don't watch much screen content at all honestly - occasionally a show on HBO or Netflix, and then games on the PC. Forums and newsfeeds when I'm just stuck with just the phone... and ... apart from what is required for work, I try to find things to do outdoors or travel apart from that. I haven't been to the movies in many years, and I don't watch anything on television any longer (except the Superbowl)
 
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