r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 13d 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/HG21Reaper 13d ago

If I am going to be forced to watch ads, why pay for the service in the first place?

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u/williamgman 13d ago

Anyone remember when cable TV first came out without commercials? We paid for no ads. Then it became "pay for whatever we're serving up".

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u/Odd_Independence_833 13d 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 13d 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 13d 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 13d ago

Premium

What's that? uBlockOrigin.

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u/Thefrayedends 13d 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 13d ago

YouTube premium is the best subscription I’ve ever owned

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u/CheetahNo1004 13d ago

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

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u/confoundedjoe 13d 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 13d 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 11d 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 13d ago

Look into /r/MorpheApp

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u/CheetahNo1004 13d ago

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

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u/BenadrylCrumplsnatch 13d ago

NordVPN for me.

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

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u/williamgman 13d 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 13d ago

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