Yarr, matey.
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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.
If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't theft. ;-)
Streaming is akin to renting not buying
If the no ads and ads free version contains adds then pirating is also not immoral anymore.
Arrr matey, t’was never immoral! Subscriptions only be for landlubbers!
Prepare to make sail! Ahoy!
Call it what it is - copyright infringement. Piracy is the act of robbery on the high seas, but we've allowed media companies to take a shit in our vocabularies so we can't call things by their proper names.
"circumstances may require"
No, you just want to do that.
"Our financial circumstances (our shareholders want more money) require..."
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!)?
Reminder that whatever your feelings on copyright law are, stealing from Disney is fucking cool
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.
According to a US judge last year, "boneless chicken wings" does not mean the chicken wings don't have bones in them.
"No ads" don't mean we don't show ads....duh
"No, ads!"
They seem to be a bit stupid about punctuation. It should read "No, ads!"
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.
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.
Pirate your shows. Not just as a defense against ads, but as a defense against Disney throwing plotlines down the Memory Hole
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
Product placement is advertising, and as such saying "no ads" while not blurring out product placement would be misselling the service
Sometimes it's important to the plot to let the viewer know about the cool refreshing taste of Pißwasser German lager.
Ads free but with ads ! So words included in a contract don't carry the same meaning as in the dictionary ?
That's why I pay for hulu+++×+
It's guaranteed you'll never see an ad*
*unless Hulu determines it is justified
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?
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.
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
They're modifying a legal document, one of the most detail-focused creations *ever. If they only wanted it to apply to live TV programs, they absolutely could have. When people (or corporations) show you who they are, believe them.
edit: autocorrect
"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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