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YouTube is now renting / streaming commercial movies (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 year ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/entertainment@beehaw.org
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How long has this been happening? This is the first time that I've seen it.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 18 points 1 year ago

Over a decade. They promote it constantly, too, so it's weird that you only now noticed lol

[-] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Lol I didn't know either, guess because I have ad blockers...

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

They don't advertise them in normal ads (at least, I haven't seen any because I also block ads); they do so by having one of the rows on your homepage being movies. Like Recommended or Recently Uploaded. I see it pop up daily on my feed 😩

[-] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I never saw the promotions for this but I was aware of it.

[-] yenahmik@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

For ages. Sometimes they have pretty good movies for free.

[-] bermuda@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. For a while they had The Terminator on there for free, probably around 1 or 2 years before it went back to being paid.

[-] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

Knew it had been a long time, apparently 12 years.

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