Disney+ “ad-free” plans can still show ads before and after playback - Dexerto
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Disney+ has updated its subscriber agreement to allow advertising before and after movies and shows across every subscription tier.

Disney+ has updated its subscriber agreement to allow advertising before and after movies and shows across every subscription tier. The change quietly ends completely ad-free streaming on the platform, even for those paying top dollar.

That includes the Premium plan, which costs $18.99 a month and was originally sold on the promise of an uninterrupted viewing experience.

Subscribers now face an on-screen prompt when logging in, requiring them to actively accept the updated terms before they can keep watching.

  • Soulphite@reddthat.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Guys, we live in a dystopian world. Such bullshit! Most everything about society is dystopian. I don’t think there is any redeeming quality to the fuckers that are in charge of it all.

    • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      There is one. Self destructive personalities often leads to their own demise. So most likely the rich sociopath class kills itself.

      Edit: or we do it for them. Listen Luigi isn’t just a good idea. It would force change. They don’t fear their mortality.

    • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Some republican politicians are actually trying to push a legislation to require ISPs and VPN providers and whatever to block “foreign pirating sites”. I know there will always be a way for those who know what they’re doing, but they’re squeezing people little by little into having to pay these subscriptions no matter what companies do. I’ll personally just quit watching tv altogether if I had no choice but to pay these fuckers. I have zero subscriptions and I’d like to keep it that way.

      • foodandart@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        1 month ago

        My public library still checks out DVDs. Some titles are blu-rays even. Get an optical drive and rip away. For free.

        • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          True that. I use both, Kanopy and physical from the library. I have a 42TB HPE server that has a ton of content. If it ever dies to where I can’t revive it anymore and all pirating sites are blocked, I’m fucking going back to the old days of dvd/blu-ray players. I will get me one of those portable ones like I had before and start watching. I’ll never pay them a fucking dollar.

          • Bryllyg@quokk.auEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Don’t forget thrift stores, you can get old media there super cheap and some thrift stores support good causes so you still aren’t giving money to the shitty companies but you are helping the thrift store survive and helping someone that needs it to keep a job.

            • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 month ago

              Omfg, thank you so much for bringing that up. Totally forgot about this. Definitely first on the list.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      This is why regulation paired with antitrust enforcement is important, which hasn’t existed in any meaningful sense in the US since before Reagan. Healthy competion would drastically lessen the likelihood of such anti-consumer practices.

      Businesses with high barrier to entry naturally will have fewer competitors(airlines, cell networks, etc.) and so need healthy regulation, or preferably nationalization.

    • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
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      1 month ago

      You probably agree to changes like this when you sign up. You wouldn’t purposely agree to it but they write it that way and it stands up in court.

  • Thomas_More@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Glad I have kept my 1000+ dvd/bluray movie collection, given the way streaming has become nothing but fricken ads

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    You know there are tons of terrible news stories that affect us and we can’t do anything about it.

    Then there is stuff like this that just makes me feel great about my choices, ahhhhhh, so satisfying to see.

  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Isn’t the Mouse messing with copyright where we got the term Mickey Mouse law?

    Crazy, now, to think that it was ever an anomaly.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Can’t wait to hear from the crowd that said it was fine when they introduced an ad tier because they still had a non-ad tier. Despite everyone that has seen how this always goes before telling them it was only a matter of time before legally watching Disney owned content was going to mean paying a substantial monthly fee and having to sit through ads.

    Let this be a lesson everyone that said that. Once they build the mechanism to have the ads, they will not be able to resist turning up the dial for the easy ad money.

    • zemo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      People are so normalized to ads. I have many, many friends who either use YT free and wait patiently for 2 x 1 minute apps before every video AND ad breaks. I tell them about adblockers and they laugh and say “they dont mind”. Or they play for YT premium and I tell them that adblockers exist and they say “i dont mind paying”. Genuinely blows my mind

  • DoctorWhoDMC@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I feel scammed.

    I always bought DVDs to avoid ads and that was nice, then they made streaming more affordable and convenient.

    Then they quietly dropped releasing streaming shows on physical media and now it’s more expensive and has ads.

    You tricked me!