CNN Max is likely to evolve over time. Among the features the company will try out are ways of alerting Max viewers to breaking news while they are watching something else on the service, whether it be an HBO series, a Turner Classic Movies selection or an old episode of Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”
The enshittification of our world continues unabated.
CNN is not relevant to me or my generation. It is a rage bait channel for boomers. Nothing productive is ever discussed on there. It is a giant circle jerk about Trump’s latest outrage. They beat every topic to absolute death. I’m sorry, I have other things to do besides watch a bunch of mannequins find ways to fill 12 hours of air time from a 2 minute news clip.
If you start interrupting my escape from the daily news cycle with useless breaking news alerts, not only will I kill you, I’ll also cancel my subscription to Max.
i wish they had a plan that only had hbo content, most of the time the other stuff just gets in the way and is annoying to scroll past. maybe they could call it “hbo max”
Unfortunately something like “Biden’s college ex-roomate’s best friend’s cousin was caught on camera saying a bad word!” constitutes “Breaking News” for CNN.
Honestly, I don’t care if the news is that WW3 has broken out. Don’t push notifications on me while I’m watching streaming media. I have my own ways of finding out the news.
HBO used to be my favorite streaming service, I loved it. Now it’s full of reality tv crap. RIP.
That’s why they preemptively dropped “HBO” from the old “HBO Max” moniker.
Among all the other bullshit they pulled, the CEO bragged upon purchase of choking the service with cheap to produce reality show crap.
I had HBO in some form for decades, since I was a kid. They were the best and among the last prestige content creators. I dropped HBOs corpse last year over it. Fuck this late stage capitalism race to the bottom.
Also, if somehow all the shit they pulled upon acquisition wasn’t enough to stop paying them 160 annually a year ago, this would have been.
As a reminder, CNN betrayed Americans way back in the early 1990s by selling the first Bush War, and hasn’t gotten better since.
If I get a notification that interrupts what I am watching on HBO Max I will never use it again
RSS feeds exist already.
This bullshit is going to interrupt me during my 14th rewatch of Entourage?
Well, I sure as shit won’t be subscribing.
