“No ads” don’t mean we don’t show ads…duh
“No, ads!”
“No capes!”
They seem to be a bit stupid about punctuation. It should read “No, ads!”
Whoops, shouldn’t have that bar assocation logo here either.
Mr. Hutz we won!
We?
Damn today sucks eztv gotta work a little harder removing those ads for me now
Reminder that whatever your feelings on copyright law are, stealing from Disney is fucking cool
You can’t steal a TV show
Bet
Pirate your shows. Not just as a defense against ads, but as a defense against Disney throwing plotlines down the Memory Hole
This is what I do:
- Buy a perpetual license to the content I want (usually on Prime or Microsoft Store)
- Pirate it and load it onto my PLEX server.
This is the only way I can actually have control over the content that I fucking paid for. If that makes me a thief, then so be it.
Of course, this only works for PPV content. I generally just don’t watch content that’s available via streaming subscriptions only. I never paid for cable and I’m not paying for cable 2.0.
I just cancelled my subscription and got a refund too. Good riddance.
Ads free but with ads ! So words included in a contract don’t carry the same meaning as in the dictionary ?
‘Inflammable’ means flammable? What a country!
Free ads
Paramount Plus is the same way.
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.
Just a numbers game. More people will absorb the costs than cancel their subscriptions. So these streaming services can keep ratcheting until they hit a breaking point. There’s no disincentive to these behaviors, as long as net revenue increases quarter to quarter.
Piracy requires a certain degree of technical competence and internet savvy that the vast majority of end users don’t have.
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.
There’s several shows where it was important to production that they had those as they would have been cancelled without it. Community and Chuck were both basically saved by Subway.
They’ll be forgiven when we finally get the goddamn community movie and they make their bread not shit.
The movie is in production right now. Allison Brie posted about rewatching the series to prepare
That’s why I added the bread bit so I wouldn’t actually have to forgive subway.
Or Cervesa Cristal
“circumstances may require”
No, you just want to do that.
REQUIRE Line go up!
Numbers aren’t going up fast enough.
“Our financial circumstances (our shareholders want more money) require…”
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Jesus fucking christ.
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.
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.
People who grew up with ads were okay with it because the shows and movies were free.
In the antenna days, sure, but cable and satellite sure weren’t free.
I’m from Australia so maybe things were different there, but my parents had cable in the 1990s and 2000s and I don’t remember there being ads back then other than promotions for different shows on the same channel. I haven’t used cable since maybe 2006 so it’s definitely possible it’s changed since then.
I know the US cable channels have a lot of ads these days, but I moved to the USA in 2013 and don’t have experience of how it was like before then.
The antenna days are still here. I’ve got a HDHomeRun and use it with TiviMate and Plex. It’s great for local news/shows and gameshows. I find new restaurants through local shows that review restaurants for example.
There were ads on cable channels as far back as I remember. We got cable in '85 or '86. HBO didn’t have ads during the program, but every other channel sure did.
HBO had ads for the other content on HBO (movie trailers, show ads) which also served as filler so the next show or movie could start on the hour or half hour. Definitely a different kind of ad, and it didn’t interrupt what you were watching.
Still ads, but the least intrusive kind.
during the program
Hence the qualifier.
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.
I cancelled everything but paramount recently. Just cant quit star trek. Until I fix my DNS server at least
Have you ejecting your DNS server’s warp core?
Yarrr, matey!
Eh, they just don’t want my money. I had a Netflix account back in the day. Ad-free and most everything was there. They’ve all fallen so far. Storage is pretty damn cheap these days, and torrents are a-plenty.
I’ve got a jellyfin server but I fucked my routing and haven’t fixed it.
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.
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.
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.
They’ve been showing ads on content from certain sources on supposedly “ad-free” tiers for years.
They’re modifying a legal document, one of the most detail-focused creations enter. 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…
This is the TL;DR of what was updated. This is not the actual ToS.
Not defending, just pointing that out.
It’s… an excerpt, provided by Hulu from the full document, saying what they are allowing themselves to do with our money. It doesn’t have to be the entire EULA, word-for-word…
The Hulu logo preroll/interstitial isnt an ad but it uses the same system. I imagine they only mean ads in live TV offerings.
Yarr, matey.
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.
