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[–] [email protected] 179 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 120 points 2 weeks ago (9 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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago

crank up the DRM

Which is why so many people pirate. Non-conforming browser, OS, TV, some other missing magic? Too bad. Paid for quality 4K? Here's some low bitrate 720p.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

Streaming is akin to renting not buying

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you're ruining the catchy slogan, it's like you don't even want this to be Reddit

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago

I don't consider it immoral regardless tbh

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Arrr matey, t’was never immoral! Subscriptions only be for landlubbers!

Prepare to make sail! Ahoy!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

"circumstances may require"

No, you just want to do that.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

"Our financial circumstances (our shareholders want more money) require..."

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago (7 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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Sir this is 2025 america lol

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

According to a US judge last year, "boneless chicken wings" does not mean the chicken wings don't have bones in them.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They seem to be a bit stupid about punctuation. It should read "No, ads!"

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

By Lemmy Social Contract that You've implicitly agreed to, you must now sail the high seas [email protected] (blocked by lemmy.world instance btw)

Live Free on the High Seas! 🏴‍☠️

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Sometimes it's important to the plot to let the viewer know about the cool refreshing taste of Pißwasser German lager.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

This update brought to you by the letter ARRRR

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Jesus fucking christ.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I assume they mean the live TV offerings, and technically the Hulu splash at the start of every episode is marked as an ad.

But it’s still scummy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

what the fuck are people actually paying for at this point

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks 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...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Looks at UTorrent happily leeching away

Looks at camera

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Private Torrents

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