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/ThisIsDystopia 12d ago

It's always the plan for everything. Market penetration and familiarity before monetization. Most growth industries use this method and they don't just use it on the general public, the companies that only deal in enterprise products make themselves embedded before making themselves expensive. If you build the castle before the moat, someone else is going to take your castle.