Net Neutrality

Hi Colt,

Please accept our apology. This pop up comes indeed from us. It will show up only once.
The popup is about a subject that impacts our service in a negative way. And we think it's something worth sharing.

However we didn't take into account that Premium users might not appreciate the decision we made. We will take this into account for next time and exclude Premium users from receiving this kind of message.

If there are other Premium users who found this a step too far please let us know.

best,

Jan

While I don't mind the popup or the message in it I do find it rather useless as I'm not in the US.
Do a geo ip check first maybe ?

Aidan wrote:
While I don't mind the popup or the message in it I do find it rather useless as I'm not in the US.
Do a geo ip check first maybe ?

As Aidan said :)

I'm also not from the US :)

Colt45UK wrote:
As Aidan said :)

I'm also not from the US :)

You guys are right and we should of filtered this thing instead of making it globally visible. We'll be more careful next time. (hopefully there won't be one)

As Jan said, that's fair enough, thanks for your feedback! The message will now no longer be displayed to premium users.

As for the rest, if you are from the US, don't take the message too lightly. If these plans aren't stopped it'll be the end of the internet as you know it - and that could very well include TVmaze.

I don't think TVmaze should be a place for political activism.

Well, if it's political activism that affects TVMaze's viable existence...

A better question is how many users does it affect? Does anyone outside of the U.S. care about the FCC's and Congress' decision?

Gadfly wrote:
Well, if it's political activism that affects TVMaze's viable existence...

A better question is how many users does it affect? Does anyone outside of the U.S. care about the FCC's and Congress' decision?

Outside of the US it won't affect anyone and it will probably take years to even affect the US, but still it is not a good thing and should be prevented.

dpratt wrote:
I don't think TVmaze should be a place for political activism.

And I don't think net neutrality is something to take lightly

Gadfly wrote:
A better question is how many users does it affect? Does anyone outside of the U.S. care about the FCC's and Congress' decision?

I'm outside of the US, I care. Net neutrality is critical regardless of what country you're in and whether it affects you directly (right now) or not, Eventually, if these sorts of decision start to pass, it's highly likely it will spiral outwards and start impacting everybody.

Sure, it would be kind of odd if TVmaze started to run a campaign for something as generic as, say, Trump's impeachment. But since the topic of net neutrality would directly affect us I don't think it hurts to help create awareness, even to people outside of the United States.

Delenn wrote:
I'm outside of the US, I care. Net neutrality is critical regardless of what country you're in and whether it affects you directly (right now) or not, Eventually, if these sorts of decision start to pass, it's highly likely it will spiral outwards and start impacting everybody.

Well said and i couldn't agree more. I'm also outside the US

david wrote:
As Jan said, that's fair enough, thanks for your feedback! The message will now no longer be displayed to premium users.

As for the rest, if you are from the US, don't take the message too lightly. If these plans aren't stopped it'll be the end of the internet as you know it - and that could very well include TVmaze.

Politicians are trying to destroy the internet as you know it - yes, again. Today July 5th, the European Parliament will vote on a comprehensive copyright reform, including the controversial articles 11 and 13. These laws would make it illegal linking to other websites without acquiring a license first, or allowing users to post or upload content without implementing a complicated automated copyright filtering system first.

As a small and independent publisher, we don't have the means to abide by these requirements. If this law passes in its current form, TVmaze and many other websites that you love would become illegal in the European Union and would eventually disappear. There's only one chance to stop this from happening: contact your representatives right now and explain to them that this law should not be passed. To tweet, call or email your local representative with just a few clicks, please use: https://www.saveyourinternet.eu/.

I'm a premium user. I was hoping you have fixed that "The message will now no longer be displayed to premium users."? Maybe I should stop paying TVMaze until this is fixed?

Yesterday's message regarding article 11 and 13 was a personal message from our end, not an external script/widget, so it wasn't affected by the premium code. (As listed on the premium page: Enhanced privacy, no tracking: all external services such as google analytics are disabled).

david wrote:
Yesterday's message regarding article 11 and 13 was a personal message from our end, not an external script/widget, so it wasn't affected by the premium code. (As listed on the premium page: Enhanced privacy, no tracking: all external services such as google analytics are disabled).

As promised: We also performed Geo targeting in order to only target the people who will be most impacted by the issue. (In this case you were part of that demographic)
If I may be honest, I was not expecting that a notification highlighting an issue that can potentially cause TVmaze to be shut down to be that big of a nuisance.

I'm assuming by your response that you'd like a checkbox as to not get ANY notifications from us whatsoever related to our services?

best,

Jan

I'm assuming by your response that you'd like a checkbox as to not get ANY notifications from us whatsoever related to our services?

That would be nice idea :)