I'm not paying for ads. Fuck this.
Guess I'll go pirating again.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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Free, cheap or otherwise, I'm not watching ads. The only streaming service I have is Prime, and that only because of the bundling with Amazon Prime for the shipping.
Honestly, I miss the golden age of streaming. But now that it's gone and we are basically stuck with cable, I'm cancelling all my accounts, I cancelled Netflix last year, prime early this year. Never had crave, it was basically garbage since it was introduced.
The best part of crave now, is they are losing content to Paramount +. So yet another service you need to subscribe too. I think I am going to cancel them all as well. Then rotate through each one once a month.
Great idea, it would be nice if there was a place that knew what I liked to watch and could make recommendations across all services.
Ill wait 12 months for a bunch of movies to come out and watch them all for $15 and cancel again. That sure as fuck isn’t profitable for them.
I've been planning to do that for Netflix. Cancelled a long time ago because I was getting sick of everything from successful series being inexplicably cancelled (turns out it was literally to get out of paying actors or writers their negotiated minimum wage!) to the continual loss of features with continual price increases. I have at least one show on there that I haven't seen two seasons of, and a few other things to catch up on. All in one month, then I'll drop it again.
I got Disney free through some kind of shady Shaw deal I signed up for but the billisecond I see an ad it's gone.
Not sure if it's just a typo or a fun play on words, but just in case, a billionth of a second is is a nanosecond.
Ad-backed being otherwise free?
but it plans to offer a cheaper version supported by advertising in Canada starting in November.
Not free it seems.
Woo paying for ads! We’re back to cable.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Disney is raising the price of its streaming service Disney+ around the world, but it plans to offer a cheaper version supported by advertising in Canada starting in November.
Disney CEO Bob Iger acknowledged that the price hikes are intended to steer consumers toward cheaper ad-supported versions of these services, in order to keep them as customers.
Disney's announcement of new pricing plans for its streaming service comes as the company reported financial results showing it's losing customers and money in its legacy businesses.
Paul Verna, an analyst with Insider Intelligence, said in a note that its moves aren't likely to calm investors "anxious for clarity on the company's strategy for its streaming services and TV networks."
Higher sports programming production costs and lower revenue due to cord cutting dragged down the performance of its cable channels.
Iger, who returned in November to take over the CEO post from Bob Chapek, has worked over the past several months to turn around Disney's streaming business while making sure that the financial might of its theme parks doesn't waver.
I'm a bot and I'm open source!
LOL. This kind of business model destroys business. Enjoy not getting any money from me, Disney+. 😘