Nvidia GeForce Now is putting video ads before play sessions on their free tier
Nvidia GeForce Now is putting video ads before play sessions on their free tier
This is just peak enshittification at this point.
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So much of the internet is enshittifying abuse of this moronic term enshittify.
It's fucking free. Youtube had ads before FREE videos forever ago. This isn't new. This isn't enshittifying. What an idiotic post.
I agree with everything you're saying but also fuck Nvidia.
Isn't GeForce Now only available if you buy an Nvidia graphics card? In that case I would consider it part of the product that was sold, not a free software
Ignore my comment, GeForce experience is what I was thinking of.
They did remove GameStream though, which was GFNow but for using from your PC. Or rather GFNow was GameStream but from their PC.
And they took that out, so you couldn't stream locally any more. And not enough people called them out for that.
You can replace it with Sunshine and Moonlight if you ever find yourself wondering why an nVidia Shield won't connect to your PC.
I mean sunshine is the same thing as game stream, but better. It uses the same protocol and is much more stable for me.
Yes, but it still sucks that they took out their own implementation, especially when the main selling point of the Shield was streaming games from your PC is decent quality.
It did have a major flaw though, in that it always picked the leftmost monitor, and that's not what I game on.
Steam Link is clearly a whole lot more joined up in terms of being able to browse and start games, but I've never got that to work acceptably either. Runs at about half the framerate of Sunshine, for no reason I can see. No amount of messing with the settings appears to fix it.
The enshitification discourse on lemmy is fucking nuts. Service goes from you getting a gaming PC completely free, no strings attached except your play session is limited to hour, to the same thing but you see preroll ads while you queue. Any person with more than two braincells could tell it was meant to be a trial for the paid service, but of course people on here are gonna cry because they don't get free toys anymore.
That's not the point I was making in the post. I was just showing what was happening with it. I've also been a paid subscriber to it on and off; my gripe with it is that it already takes about 5 to 10 minutes to queue into the service (Priority queue for paying ofc), but with this new system it will only start to add you to the queue after you watch the pre-rolls. If it played them while you were stuck in queue, that'd be no big issue to me.
starting March 5, 2024, members will experience up to two minutes of video sponsorship messages before each free gaming session while in queue.
I take that to mean that they are playing the ads while you're already in que waiting for your session
Ah shit, my reading literacy is terrible. Sorry about that.
Happens to the best of us 👍