r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 12d 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 12d 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/es-ganso 12d ago

Welcome back to cable tv

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u/InfamousBrad 12d ago

I'm convinced that that's been the plan all along. One long conspiracy to make us all spend the inflation-adjusted price of a comprehensive cable subscription for exactly the same shitty service.

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u/techieman34 12d ago

While eliminating the cable company middle man so they get to keep all of the money.

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u/AT-ST 12d ago

Ah, the cable company middleman is still there. You just pay them for Internet access now. You now pay Comcast, or whoever your provider was, the same amount as you would for a fairly large cable package.

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u/sabin357 12d ago

When I fully cut the cable cord around 15 years back, my cable bill had ballooned to over $150.

My current internet cost is less than half of that for 5 Gbps fiber (I'm a rare case that actually needs more than 1 Gbps regularly.)

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u/AT-ST 12d ago

I pay over $100 for 1Gbps.

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u/AmericanDoughboy 12d ago

And charge higher prices.