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[–] 180 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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[–] 119 points 2 years ago (18 children)

If people would just drop their service en masse they would stop doing this shit. Everyone acts like they can be without a streaming service for a month or two so they'll just complain as they continue to hand them money.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In other areas, yeah, probably.

    But with music, movies, and TV, they'll just blame piracy, crank up the DRM and bullshit on their own platforms, pat themselves on the back, and raise prices.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    The reality is there aren't enough people that care about ads to do that.

    You either grew up with TV commercials or you grew up with ads, the conditioning is already there. There is a narrow band of people who don't watch much or any TV and got on the internet for most content that remember when ads weren't a thing. They have done studies and reviewed user data to determine how much ads they can play.

    They might push users to leave by tickling the ad tolerance while increasing subscription fees, but that is unlikely to happen as the frog is already boiled.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    I grew up with ads but I still don't tolerate them, I'm practically allergic to ads.

    Even back then I would just switch the Chanel when ads would start and then so many times just forget what I was watching and watch something else. And even as a kid I already would preference shows running on the public television in Germany because they didn't have ads, they were played in a different way.

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    [–] 91 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't theft. ;-)

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    [–] 90 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    If the no ads and ads free version contains adds then pirating is also not immoral anymore.

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    [–] 80 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    "circumstances may require"

    No, you just want to do that.

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    [–] 53 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    What a wonderful world we live in - boneless chicken with bones, ad-free streaming with ads, unlimited plans with limits... What's next, Nestle releasing microplastics and cadmium free water (guess what's in it!)?

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    [–] 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Reminder that whatever your feelings on copyright law are, stealing from Disney is fucking cool

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    [–] 49 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I’d say “sounds like a lawsuit”. After all, you can’t advertise something as no ads, and then show ads.

    But then I remember who is in charge for the next four years and realize they’ll just get away with it.

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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    "No ads" don't mean we don't show ads....duh

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I first time I see an ad on my ad-free subscription, I will cancel like I did with Prime Video.

    It’s like they want us to become pirates.

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hulu has always had a clause like that. Their ad-free tier has always had a handful of shows that have an ad at the beginning and end, which is why I don't pay for the ad-free tier and just use NextDNS.

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    [+] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Pirate your shows. Not just as a defense against ads, but as a defense against Disney throwing plotlines down the Memory Hole

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    🏴‍☠️

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    To be fair, it most likely refers to live streams, considering more steamers are offering them.

    That being said, I cancelled in favour of the high seas and never looked back

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Product placement is advertising, and as such saying "no ads" while not blurring out product placement would be misselling the service

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ads free but with ads ! So words included in a contract don't carry the same meaning as in the dictionary ?

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    This update brought to you by the letter ARRRR

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's why I pay for hulu+++×+

    It's guaranteed you'll never see an ad*

    *unless Hulu determines it is justified

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    Jesus fucking christ.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There's no way that they should be allowed to advertise "no ads" when there are in fact ads. This is consumer protection so basic and obvious that it should be a slam dunk even with the current government... right?

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    some titles always have had ads on hulu, regardless of a viewer's plan. they frame it as being 'required' by the content provider.. which, iirc, is usually them--a disney-owned entity for these titles.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    This what we would call false advertising in my country.

    You can't write: "NO ADS!*"

    "*actually, maybe some ads, as a treat"

    That's just completely negating the headline claim

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Welp, just canceled that subscription. They can fuck right off.

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  • [+] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [+] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)
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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago*

    Looks at UTorrent happily leeching away

    Looks at camera

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    "No ads" and "ad-free" apparently mean whatever they want it to! Man, I'm so tired of these giant, greedy corporations and modern enshittification...

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Private Torrents

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