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Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wow what a dumb way to basically gatekeep me from even moving to the ad tier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The ads are added in the app. If you cast, the Chromecast can't add apps (yet) so they'd have to make ad streams instead, and switch between the streams show-ad-show which would take several seconds of loading screen each way and so on. Which is a level of fuckery even they shied away from.

TLDR they can't (easily) show ads during casting.