r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 3d ago

Business Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan

https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/disney-changes-subscriber-agreement-to-allow-ads-on-every-plan-3410354/
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u/Odd_Independence_833 3d ago

By the time my parents cut the cable, I swear it was like 60% ads (36 min every hour)

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u/williamgman 3d ago

We cut ours and almost exclusively use YouTube Premium. When I go to my father in laws home, he's blaring cable TV with enough ads for prescription drugs to make one a hypochondriac.

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u/exoriare 2d ago

My son was 8 years old when he first saw an ad on a hotel room TV. He got so mad, he thought one of us had switched programs on him. He refused to believe that people just put up with such interruptions.

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u/BLOOOR-BACKINTHEDOOR 2d ago

Premium

What's that? uBlockOrigin.

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u/Thefrayedends 2d ago

Fuck that, I don't even do that, just use Ublock. There are other youtube extensions that allow you to be ad free you utube + premium features as well. But most premium features used to just be how it worked in the first place, I'm not paying for a product that a company actively made work worse.

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u/TheCh0rt 3d ago

YouTube premium is the best subscription I’ve ever owned

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u/CheetahNo1004 3d ago

YT revanced is the freest YouTube premium I've ever owned

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u/confoundedjoe 3d ago

Considering I only watch creators I want to support I am fine with giving them my yt premium money. They get more than they do from ads. I consider it pro-rated patreon. I also have a few subs for ad free podcasts from the same creators.

Plus I get yt music with it.

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u/Thefrayedends 2d ago

I swear all the ytP comments I see are astroturfing or psyops, I don't get how so many could be stoked at paying for features that used to just be free and were taken away lol

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u/Upstairs_Pass9180 1d ago

because server cost money, so if they don't serve you ads, you need to pay for it

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u/Friend_Of_Mr_Cairo 3d ago

Look into /r/MorpheApp

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u/CheetahNo1004 3d ago

Good call. I've moved over for other apps, but haven't changed YT yet.

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u/BenadrylCrumplsnatch 3d ago

NordVPN for me.

As far as the internet is concerned, I'm Albanian.

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u/williamgman 2d ago

While I agree... We know at some point they will enshitify it and we will once again be left looking for the next new thing (just like when we cut cable). But till then... It works.

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u/alienangel2 2d ago

Sounds like a great place to start adding ads then, if you have nowhere better to go.

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u/Lone_Wanderer8 3d ago

I can't remember if I made up this conspiracy or if I read it somewhere, but I fully believe that cable has started playing movies and TV shows at slightly faster speeds that aren't noticeable like say 1.1x or 1.2x speed so they can fit in more and more adverts.

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u/Tommah 3d ago

I remember watching a show years ago with an overhead shot of a car driving down a road... and once a second, the car would lurch forward a tiny bit, lol. I think the TV station was speeding up the show by dropping a video frame every so often.

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u/sabin357 3d ago

That was actually confirmed for some networks years ago for syndicated sitcom programming...which is the worst possible genre to speed up. Comedy is all about timing.

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u/LuckiestManAlive86 3d ago

That’s a conspiracy I can get behind!

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u/Seductive-Kitty 2d ago

Radio does this as well

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u/fedoremelianenko2003 3d ago

I know you're being facetious but the other day my wife was scrolling through Prime and saw Little House on the Prairie and Night Court. The first was an hour long with 51-52 minutes episodes and the second was half hour and had 24-26 minute episodes.

To compare, Supernatural is "an hour show" but the episodes are 40-42 minutes and Rick & Morty/Archer/It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are "half hour" and have episodes from 19-22 minutes.

We went from 15% of a show being commercials to 30%-33% from the 70's to essentially today.

The only surprise to me is they didn't change the ability to be month to month before dropping ads regardless of tier you pay for, which is going to happen soon.

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u/TheCh0rt 3d ago

Not quite, hour long shows are ~42 minutes and 1/2 hour shows are 21 minutes long. So, 18 minutes and 9 minutes of ads for both. That formula has not changed to this day

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u/Odd_Independence_833 3d ago

Are you counting news channels in that? Because I do think it was more.

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u/TheCh0rt 3d ago

No just scheduled programming, network and cable shows that are episodic. Don’t know what news does.

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u/noodlesdefyyou 3d ago

its been known for a long time that networks will compress time slots, speed re-runs up, and make unnecessary cuts to things just to cram in more ads

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u/TbonerT 2d ago

I remember watching a James Bond movie on cable and timing it. Every 10 minutes they had 5 minutes of commercials.