Just a random rant to break the monotony:

On Hulu they take breaks from whatever it is you're watching to show you commercials, just like with regular TV. This is not what upsets me. It is perfectly fine to try and generate some ad revenue from this service. What bothers me is that the commercials you see on Hulu are the same ones (for the most part) that you can see on TV. This is ridiculous. You have the ability to know more about your demographic than with any other medium possible, and you choose to show me the same, homogenized shit that's on FOX? It is so incredibly easy to target your ads with current technology, but they aren't taking advantage of it. I mean, the information readily available to them about me is that I am using a Linux pc, using Firefox, that I am from the UTK area of Knoxville, TN, and that I am watching the episode of “It's Always Sunny In Philidelphia” where they try to figure out who pooped the bed. That is the absolute, bare minimum amount of information they could know about me.

There are probably all sorts of things they could know about me that I'm not thinking of, But still, they decide to repeat the same, heartfelt Christmas Best Buy commercial three times until the end of the episode. If this keeps up, Hulu and any other forms of legal, streaming media are bound to fail, and I don't want to see that happen.