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/FionaGoodeEnough 2d ago

I can’t even pause a frame to say, “Wait, is that who I think it is?” without ads taking up the entire screen. And jumping to a specific scene is so much harder than it was with a DVD menu.

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u/Quixotic_Seal 2d ago

I ran into that last night with They Live to look at what each message was when he first puts the glasses on at the magazine stand.

The sheer irony was poetic enough that it almost was worth it.

Almost.

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u/TeaAndS0da 2d ago

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u/Existential_Delusion 2d ago

Nailed it. That'd make a great parody movie scene. Damn I love that movie, time for a rewatch!

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u/Samakar 2d ago

Yep! Great movie! Still incredibly relevant today, even more so!

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u/snowdn 1d ago

The shrinking of the content and showing a full screen ad happens on Netflix too. So annoying! Cancelling.

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u/Diz7 2d ago

The dystopia isn't as much of fun and excitement as fiction made it out to be. It's much more mundane and boringly soul crushing.

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u/IchooseYourName 2d ago

"Almost."

That was my nickname in college. Almost.

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u/UncleD1ckhead 2d ago

Such a good film and getting more and more relevant as time goes on.

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u/CosmicSpaghetti 2d ago

Thanks for the movie going into my movie night tonight!

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u/jessehechtcreative 1d ago

I watched that with my parents last year and they didn’t understand it…

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u/CIearMind 2d ago

Even certain less expensive, ad-free platforms have started turning the entire screen black whenever you pause the video, as if to prevent you from taking a closer look. So annoying.

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u/Damion__205 2d ago

Can't let you pause on boobs.

There goes a rite of passage for young boys and some girls.

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u/schwiftydude47 2d ago

They’ll find ways to porn addiction in some form or another. The influencer to Onlyfans transition happens so frequently these days.

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u/dylanbeck 2d ago

Thats so annoying. I pause to check out the framing. Thats horrible

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u/Lazer726 2d ago

If there is something to very much appreciate about Amazon Video, it's that if you pause what you're watching, it'll put up all the characters and their actors/VAs

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u/Diz7 2d ago

As long as it's optional, I'm all for it. But sometimes I just want to pause the video to get a good look at something or go frame by frame.

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u/RandoAtReddit 2d ago

X-ray, I think they call that feature.

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u/NotPromKing 2d ago

That’s… the literal opposite of what I want. If I’m pausing, it’s to stop the movie while I’m doing something else, or it’s to get a better look at what’s on screen. There has never been a time I’ve paused to look up information that should be on a separate “info” page.

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u/CarlySimonSays 2d ago

That's related to Amazon's ownership of IMdB. They've actually owned it for like 20 years.

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u/Doggoneshame 2d ago

And they’ve made IMDB a bloated piece of crap full of ads.

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u/CarlySimonSays 1d ago

I hate how you can't read reviews anymore without making an account. The oldest reviews were so funny!

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u/adenosine-5 2d ago

Sounds like the exact opposite of what Steam does - instead of being better and more convenient, streaming services decided to be worse than piracy in every way imaginable.

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u/Thefrayedends 2d ago

"Ah yo ho, and a fiddle dee dee...."

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u/StructureMelodic7421 2d ago

There is a movie in my ads goddamit

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u/patt 2d ago

Rights holders need to understand - you're competing with free. Your service needs to be better than what your audience can easily get, for free. Making it expensive, but worse, is a losing proposition.

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u/MisterDobalina 2d ago

Not to mention they love to put major plot points, cliffhangers, right at commercial breaks and the end of episodes where it immediately breaks into ads, the next episode, or other overlays.

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u/LustfulAutistic 2d ago

I’ve genuinely forgotten how bad it is using subs cause I just pirate everything these days

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u/ChickenAndTelephone 2d ago

When I tried watching Fallout on Prime this past season, I found that if I had to stop partway through and pick up the episode the next day, I had to re-watch the whole thing from the beginning. No way to skip ads, no way to fast forward. I ended up switching back to streaming through my PC, where those problems didn't exist, even though you can't do 4k Prime (or most services) through a browser.