A few days ago I watched a few music clips on YouTube to remind me of my MTV youth. There was an ad between every song, sometimes 60 seconds ad for pickup trucks or makeup, each promising happiness with their products. I felt like I was in this scene in idiocracy https://youtu.be/hj7c0J_V1L8. It's now clear that ads are legal brain malware.
If you were able to do so would the result not be the same. We dont accept your terms update so we and terminating your subscription. Essentially the same that you can do.
Not the same though. A lot of people are just too lazy to cancel. If Disney had to terminate all the subscriptions that would probably have prevented this type of behavior
Back to piracy it is. I mean I gave you all the money you asked for and it wasn’t enough was it? You also demanded to shove your ads in my face. Even though I said no, and that I would pay to avoid this, but you said no, I don’t love your money as much as I love their money AND violating you.
Full circle, streaming is just OTT cable TV now. Actually this is worse than cable I think because previously I could buy HBO or Starz and actually get an ad-free premium channel.
I got tired of the price hikes of the ad free netflix and finally canceled. Since they added the ad tiers it got too expensive for what it was worth to me and I won't pay someone to watch their ads.
Yarr, there be no ads on the high seas.
A few days ago I watched a few music clips on YouTube to remind me of my MTV youth. There was an ad between every song, sometimes 60 seconds ad for pickup trucks or makeup, each promising happiness with their products. I felt like I was in this scene in idiocracy https://youtu.be/hj7c0J_V1L8. It's now clear that ads are legal brain malware.
Can I also u literally change my subscribers agreement with them after the deal has been made?
If you were able to do so would the result not be the same. We dont accept your terms update so we and terminating your subscription. Essentially the same that you can do.
Not the same though. A lot of people are just too lazy to cancel. If Disney had to terminate all the subscriptions that would probably have prevented this type of behavior
Thats a weird way for Disney to announce the end of Disney+.
Back to piracy it is. I mean I gave you all the money you asked for and it wasn’t enough was it? You also demanded to shove your ads in my face. Even though I said no, and that I would pay to avoid this, but you said no, I don’t love your money as much as I love their money AND violating you.
I’m paying top dollar for what I thought is an ad-free tier. First ad I see and that will be the end of that.
Full circle, streaming is just OTT cable TV now. Actually this is worse than cable I think because previously I could buy HBO or Starz and actually get an ad-free premium channel.
It's much worse, because streaming introduced unskippable ads and surveillance to deliver hypertargeted ads.
I am quite happy with my premium Netflix account (even though I don't use it much) but if they started showing ads I'd cancel in a heartbeat.
People my generation won't go back. But the children of today who grow up in the Advertising Jugend are the future.
I got tired of the price hikes of the ad free netflix and finally canceled. Since they added the ad tiers it got too expensive for what it was worth to me and I won't pay someone to watch their ads.
Crunchyroll is skating very close to this line.
For paid accounts they don't show ads during an episode, but they're injecting their own little things before some episodes.
My policy now is that every time they do this, I suspend my membership for 2 months. So basically I pay them for 4 months of the year.
That still lets me binge each complete season of anime, while still punishing their misbehavior.
It's trivial for them, but it feels like a small win for justice for me.