This what we would call false advertising in my country.
You can't write: "NO ADS!*"
"*actually, maybe some ads, as a treat"
That's just completely negating the headline claim
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Good thing I pirate all their shit already if I want it.
I stopped paying for Amazon Prime over a year ago once they announced similar bullshit with their video service.
Once Disney dropped subscription sharing.... I started downloading their shit too.
Now i'm left with Netflix and Crunchyroll. I'm this close to axing netflix. Crunchyroll is kinda shit but at least it's cheap.
"No ads" don't mean we don't show ads....duh
They seem to be a bit stupid about punctuation. It should read "No, ads!"
Whoops, shouldn't have that bar assocation logo here either.
Mr. Hutz we won!
We?
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Ok. But the first one i see and im canceling
If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't theft. ;-)
Streaming is akin to renting not buying
Even with renting we didn't had ads in between.
Wasn’t saying streaming was good
you're ruining the catchy slogan, it's like you don't even want this to be Reddit
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That's the point of what they're saying. If you're only buying a subscription to the content then it's not theft to get access to that content by other means.
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Ads free but with ads ! So words included in a contract don't carry the same meaning as in the dictionary ?
Free ads
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"circumstances may require"
No, you just want to do that.
"Our financial circumstances (our shareholders want more money) require..."
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Pirate your shows. Not just as a defense against ads, but as a defense against Disney throwing plotlines down the Memory Hole
This is what I do:
- Buy a perpetual license to the content I want (usually on Prime or Microsoft Store)
- Pirate it and load it onto my PLEX server.
This is the only way I can actually have control over the content that I fucking paid for. If that makes me a thief, then so be it.
Of course, this only works for PPV content. I generally just don't watch content that's available via streaming subscriptions only. I never paid for cable and I'm not paying for cable 2.0.
This update brought to you by the letter ARRRR
Welp, just canceled that subscription. They can fuck right off.
There's no way that they should be allowed to advertise "no ads" when there are in fact ads. This is consumer protection so basic and obvious that it should be a slam dunk even with the current government... right?
There's no way this should be a profitable course of action. If I was paying for no Ads and started getting Ads I would immediately cancel my subscription and go somewhere else.
Unfortunately too many people are good little consumers who just don't care and it doesn't even occur to them to stop paying and demand better.
Yo ho yo ho
If people would just drop their service en masse they would stop doing this shit. Everyone acts like they can be without a streaming service for a month or two so they'll just complain as they continue to hand them money.
I’m interested to know if Hulu is under pressure from content owners here. The way this is worded makes it sound like ads are a negotiated part of some of their content licensing deals that they cannot avoid. I’m just curious if that’s in part because of the content owners. Maybe those owners don’t want to give content for a flat fee and instead want a % cut of the business, or something?
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That's why I pay for hulu+++×+
It's guaranteed you'll never see an ad*
*unless Hulu determines it is justified
Well, it's ad-free as long as you consume at least one verification can every 10 minutes
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The biggest enabler of these are those bundles you get with cable / Internet providers. Do yourself a favor and buy these individually if at all so you can stop the subscriptions at any time without worries.
in Greece at least nobody gives you the option - unless it's a very pricey service that you can pay as a package
If the no ads and ads free version contains adds then pirating is also not immoral anymore.
I don't consider it immoral regardless tbh
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Hulu has always had a clause like that. Their ad-free tier has always had a handful of shows that have an ad at the beginning and end, which is why I don't pay for the ad-free tier and just use NextDNS.
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Reminder that whatever your feelings on copyright law are, stealing from Disney is fucking cool
What a wonderful world we live in - boneless chicken with bones, ad-free streaming with ads, unlimited plans with limits... What's next, Nestle releasing microplastics and cadmium free water (guess what's in it!)?
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Hulu did this shit in 2014. Never used them again. Hulu is crap, you are kinda getting what you deserve.
I would argue all streaming services have gone to shit. I'm not saying I encourage anyone to pirate that doesn't want to. But I am saying i don't blame a single soul that does.
As far as I'm concerned all those companies can go fuck themselves. They know that the less technical people will willingly keep paying so the ones they lose won't matter.
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I first time I see an ad on my ad-free subscription, I will cancel like I did with Prime Video.
It’s like they want us to become pirates.
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Private Torrents
I’d say “sounds like a lawsuit”. After all, you can’t advertise something as no ads, and then show ads.
But then I remember who is in charge for the next four years and realize they’ll just get away with it.
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And I am clarifying that as I continue to subscribe to this service, circumstances may require that my payments will exclude currency, and include regular visits to The Pir[REDACTED]te Bay.
Edit: sorry, Rule 2.
Product placement is advertising, and as such saying "no ads" while not blurring out product placement would be misselling the service
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If those titles require ads, don't include them in my feed. I don't want to know they exist.
Damn today sucks eztv gotta work a little harder removing those ads for me now
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