• MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    7 days 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

  • Merlin@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

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

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    6 days ago

    Good thing I pirate all their shit already if I want it.

    I stopped paying for Amazon Prime over a year ago once they announced similar bullshit with their video service.

    Once Disney dropped subscription sharing… I started downloading their shit too.

    Now i’m left with Netflix and Crunchyroll. I’m this close to axing netflix. Crunchyroll is kinda shit but at least it’s cheap.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
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    The biggest enabler of these are those bundles you get with cable / Internet providers. Do yourself a favor and buy these individually if at all so you can stop the subscriptions at any time without worries.

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      6 days ago

      in Greece at least nobody gives you the option - unless it’s a very pricey service that you can pay as a package

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    And I am clarifying that as I continue to subscribe to this service, circumstances may require that my payments will exclude currency, and include regular visits to The Pir[REDACTED]te Bay.

    Edit: sorry, Rule 2.

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    Hasn’t Hulu had ads on their paid tiers for a long time now? I remember that being a big deal way back, so I never bothered with a subscription.

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      Yes! Hulu originally was 100% free because it had ads. The it became a monthly sub but never removed the ads. Then it split into what it is today with an ad option and an ad free option.

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    I want to believe that all this is really saying is that if Hulu ever does a live event there will be ads but only time will tell

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      I’ve been using RD + Stremio for 2 years now, has worked great (except when RD shut down, then switched to Debrid-Link, which was as easy as RD). It costs about 3€ per month, though I think it has been worth it.

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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.

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      I’m interested to know if Hulu is under pressure from content owners here. The way this is worded makes it sound like ads are a negotiated part of some of their content licensing deals that they cannot avoid. I’m just curious if that’s in part because of the content owners. Maybe those owners don’t want to give content for a flat fee and instead want a % cut of the business, or something?

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      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.

    • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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      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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        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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        People who grew up with ads were okay with it because the shows and movies were free.