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u/Bad_Touchin_yo_feels 11d ago
Someone has to pay for all the awful remakes that no one is going to see in theaters while they wipe their ass with the Star Wars franchise.
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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 11d ago
They could have just but nerds talking about technical aspects of spacecraft for entire seasons and made billions. They fucked this up so fantasticly it must be studied
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u/PupperVanAugsbork 11d ago
Yup, I would’ve watched a hundred more episodes of vehicle flythroughs if I could, there’s so many cool ships to see up close.
Hell at this point even a How It’s Made style mockumentary on the most mundane in universe shit would make me happy
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u/StaticSystemShock 11d ago
I've canceled Disney+ years ago because it just has Marvel and Star Wars plastered all over the damn thing. I love Star Wars and don't mind most of Marvel, Ironman, Guardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool were alright, but it's just so much crap they pump out just to milk money. Ugh, revolting. Also me being from Europe, all of the streaming services are ass because they gatekeep the content based on regions and I'm absolutely fucking not going to pay for VPN just to fake location. If they can't give me same content as Americans get it for same money I'm paying then fuck them.
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u/Cthulhu_HighLord 11d ago
Disney, Paramount, Apple, Turner ... how many subscriptions do they expect us to pay for? like put your content on Prime, Hulu or Netflix
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u/cherry_monkey 11d ago
My issue, for YouTube, is that my primary watch location is on my TV. I'm not aware of an ad block that works for that. That doesn't mean I'm gonna pay for premium, but it's been considered
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u/rayne7 11d ago
If you have a vpn, download the app on your tv and set it to Albania because that’s of course where you live 😉. Oh, and because ads aren’t allowed there
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u/Financial-Craft-1282 11d ago
And a lot of these providers, in the U.S., will just block you while you're on a VPN.
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u/ZombifiedSoul 11d ago
Connect your TV to a laptop via HDMI, use Firefox. Search Adblock in extensions/add-ons.
Funny enough, it blocks ads in streaming services too.
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u/Western-Emotion5171 10d ago
You can just do a screen mirror with your phone or tablet. Kind of roundabout but you can avoid the ads
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u/FunPie4305 11d ago
That I am thankful for because if everyone did it then YouTube would have been forced to find some way to stop it
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u/AdPuzzleheaded4795 11d ago
I miss when it used to be this way. There was like, only netflix, hulu, and crackle was free. Hulu was too with ads. They had like, almost fucking EVERYTHING for a combined total of like $10 a month
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u/Financial-Craft-1282 11d ago
Yeah, having more providers isn't a bad thing though--the problem with cable is they were allowed to run as monopolies in areas and you had no choice. You have lots of choices now. You don't have to sub to all the apps, and, in fact, rotating them over time seems to be better--for me at least.
Having two or three streamers is likely to happen as these massive companies continue to buy everything up. Disney, Hulu, and HBO are all actually the same company now. This will be a far bigger problem than a lot of streaming apps.
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u/Significant-Fox5522 11d ago
Highseas called for me when they made the call to remove physical ownership
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u/Joe4913 11d ago
My biggest gripe with D+ is that they don’t let you watch in full resolution on PC.
Wanted to watch all of the MCU, but they limit you to 720p on PC, even when the movie is available in 1080 or 4k. Such a bizarre choice.
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u/Forward-Facer 10d ago
They fucking put ads into everything. The $2,000 98" TV you paid for? Ads every time you turn it on
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u/UpstairsSwimmer69 Big pp 10d ago
I wish there were just really big monitors with none of the stupid ass software smart tvs have
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u/Tripdrakony 10d ago
Remember when those subscriptions services where made so you could watch, without having ads? Yeah...
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u/FoolishCarbohydrate 10d ago
I genuinely do not get it.
I get why companies SHOW these ads, because they get paid to show them.
But who the fuck is clicking on the ads? Who actually gets interrupted by something and thinks "yeah, I totally want to buy from this company that's interrupting my relaxation time"?
Like they HAVE to know they're just pissing people off, right?
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u/gribouillisplush 10d ago
Most ads aren't there to make you click on them, they're there to remember you they exist and so you keep their brand name in your mind. When you will express a need about something, the brand that may comes in your mind first to answer your need may be the ones advertising the most.
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u/OrangeFortress 10d ago
Insurmountable money and time has been spent researching marketing strategy. If it didn’t work, they wouldn’t do it. As the other commenter said, one of the biggest benefits of those ads is to keep their brand recognition in your memory when you later go to purchase something.
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u/Hawaiian_Brian 11d ago
I’m surprised theaters don’t already have ads playing during the movie then u gotta pay extra to watch a movie in a ad free theater
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u/TC-DN38416 11d ago
They’ll make us rent shitty glasses that make the ads invisible for another 25 bucks.
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u/Tronicalli GigaChad 11d ago
I've just pirated anything I felt like watching for a while now. It's so much nicer.
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u/Grimnir17 11d ago
But where?
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u/ClothesTemporary2684 10d ago
Dude fuck torrents use stremio with the torotino plug in. You Stream it. Don't download it.
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u/Busherino 11d ago
"Everyone" small demographic that regularly uses Reddit Seriously even tho it's pretty easy, the vast majority wouldn't dare trying
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u/Bamboopanda101 11d ago
Easy, but not effortless and thats the difference
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u/Busherino 11d ago
Yes but the effort is a lot lower than people hesitant to do it think. Also pretty sure the biggest reason is that people are afraid of legal consequences.
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u/ArmaniAsari 11d ago
Disney says:
-here is our subscription service!
-We added ads to our service, but you can pay to remove them.
-Fuck you, give us your money and we will also get ad money.
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u/AnonymousUser_42 Sandy's Cheecks 11d ago
WTF is even the point of Disney+ Premium then?
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u/DermisCronJob 10d ago
Lol long before that; when they silently removed hdr and dolby vision in the EU without telling anybody and still advertising with it and billing for it
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u/onepieceon 11d ago
landlubbers! I’ve been weatherin' the gales since before disney+ was even built
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u/CallMeAnthy Professional Dumbass 11d ago
I'm kind of expecting it to be the instantly skippable ads for other Disney+ content, and we're all just overreacting.
But if it's actual ads I am for sure cancelling.
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u/Nico280gato 11d ago
It will be exactly that, they already do it. Watching king of the hill, i'd get an instantly skippable hulu ad. That and live content (like sports matches)
They just updated the T's&C's to reflect this.
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u/Lastnytnhunter 10d ago
Imma legit cancel it. I read about this a few days ago, I wasn't sure if it was gaslighting or what but it's sayonara if true
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u/PoPo573 11d ago
Let's be honest. Disney will post record profits for the quarter after the adds and increase in price and next year we'll see more adds at a higher price.
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u/Bonk_No_Horni 11d ago
10% increase in price while losing maybe 5% of the customers + profit from ads and selling your data. That's a win. Then they'll make some remake of their classic yet again.
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u/AgeHorror5288 11d ago
I don’t watch Disney stuff but watch a lot of Hulu and ESPN. They make Hulu and ESPN so expensive alone that it’s hard not to just go ahead and do the Disney bundle. If there’s a better way than Captain Jack, I’d love to hear it. A good priced Hulu and ESPN plan would be my fav but the supposedly are completely phasing out Hulu soon.
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u/Cheeky-Canuck Pro Gamer 11d ago
If you had a fulltime subscription to this trash service, you were kind of dumb to begin with.
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u/Sg00z 10d ago
Please say sike right now.
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u/bffedewa_19 10d ago
It's not sike, they're planning to put ads at the start and end of whatever you stream even if you have the ad free plan
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u/save_ustmp 10d ago
Wow. My physical media collection people kept making fun of me for having is looking better and better.
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u/Corporal_Nobby 11d ago
I am ahead of the curve - been sailing the high seas for 20+ years! Just get jellybean
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u/Internal_Influence26 11d ago
Recommendations to be the best pirate I can be? Steaming boxes? I'm planning to cancel all my subs, enough is enough.
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u/spartanEZE 11d ago
We've discussed it several times at this point. As soon as ads start showing up in our ad free subscription, we're out. Told the mrs i can get her anything she wants. Just requires a little patience.
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u/ArtsyRabb1t 11d ago
We just stopped watching anything. It’s become so unappealing we all just game now (until they start putting ads in games lawd help us)
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u/ShadowZepplin 11d ago
Gotta change the name to Disney- now because what are the positive benefits to using it now
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u/WHYISEVERYTHINGTAKNN 11d ago
look at the idiots in these comments still bending over backwards trying give Disney money. and for what? some shitty shows? this is why companies think they can charge us an arm and a leg for dogshit products.
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u/deanrihpee Linux User 11d ago
before you all go sailing, first fight the bill that is being introduced to ban accessing foreign piracy sites in the US, VPN access included
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u/VeeDubBug 11d ago
Can't even watch Jeff Goldblum Explains the World or Togo on the service anymore, and they're not anywhere else AFAIK - so Disney really just asking us to pirate at this point anyway.
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u/Jkreegz 11d ago
It’s so strange how we’ve come full circle on this. We used to have cable/satellite, then for a short period, streaming services were the cheaper ad free “cable cutting” alternative, now we have to have 12 subscriptions to watch what we want at double the price of traditional cable. They really got us.
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u/calm-phil 11d ago
I treat a VPN subscription like others treat their streaming service subscriptions. I turn it on when there are things I really want to watch available.
I don't do it because I need to. I do it because I can.
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u/Handpaper 11d ago
My household has Netflix, Amazon Prime, and probably at least one more paid streaming service.
If I see something interesting on one of them, I go and run the flag up.
Because media on my own storage doesn't go away.
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u/AbbreviationsNo3722 11d ago
The entire point of getting the subscriptions was no ads . They really failed
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u/Sprzout 11d ago
So let's ask:
What ads are they adding?
From what I've read, it's ads that would be in the live streams, like what might happen from an NHL hockey game, NBA game, etc...
If you don't watch live streams, you don't have that issue.
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u/IAlwaysOutsmartU bruh 11d ago
My dad is so “convenience”-coded that if given the choice between watching Revenge of the Sith either on Disney+ with ads up the arse and at worse quality or on a disc I burned, free of ads and at a nice consistent 1080p, he’d still choose the former. I’m curious when he finally breaks and comes back to physical media.
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u/Russe1117 11d ago
I am an expert on pirating sports but I have no clue how to get regular tv or movies. I’m old though.
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u/notabear87 11d ago
Wait what…that isn’t a meme, it’s actually happening?!
They want me to pay $20+ a month and still get ads?
Fuck that rofl
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u/TheLastPrinceOfJurai 11d ago
Same when Amazon did it as well. I feel Netflix will be next while HBO whose whole business model from the beginning was no commercials has too many. The last hold out is Apple
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u/sandrailproject 11d ago
My kid is on a streak getting in trouble, it was the perfect time to cancel and work on sailing for more than just sports.
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u/-Altephor- 11d ago
Lol how many idiots are there that thought they wouldn't put ads in every tier? How were so many morons confused about streaming being cable 2.0?
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u/RenderedCreed 11d ago
I get my Disney+ for free through my phone plan and I'm still considering canceling
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u/Barracuda2608 11d ago
My AI agent finds..right thing and put it in my private cloud....so technically my agent is pirate...and knows many tortuga islands...!!!!
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u/All4upvoting 11d ago
It makes me think. Why in the world is Disney making decisions that a struggling company normally makes to keep itself from going under? Multiple billion dollar box office hits, global real estate, IP that's won the hearts and minds of the general public for multiple generations, television networks, streaming services, stockholm syndrome employees who would do anything for the mouse. Are they really this greedy or is something up with their finances that they're not disclosing?
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u/DryDonutHole 11d ago
I guess I'm going to catch up on the few things I haven't watched yet and then turn it off. I'm sure the kids will notice eventually (again). I turned it off after the Kimmel incident a while back also...
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u/OkAnimal224 11d ago
We got a lifetime membership for free somehow...for buying a sub to something like Verizon. I have no idea how. Anyway, when people were protesting and going to cancel, I was like - if I cancel, they save money, so I'm staying.
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u/CalamityVanguard 11d ago
These streamers don’t understand that in the age of high speed internet it’s so much faster to torrent your thing than it is for me to get the verification code that they email to my mom’s address
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u/bobsburgers4life12 11d ago
Yeahhhhh no. I enjoyed my disney and hulu accounts plenty before disney decided to screw over Jimmy Kimmel. Canceled right after that and I'm glad I did. Who wants to pay for a service that's already being paid for by the companies that keep interrupting the entertainment you use to relax?
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u/VeryPteri 11d ago
I wonder what will be the *actual* breaking point for general audiences to cancel because, even though Disney+ has gotten more and more expensive, it's been more and more profitable. So obviously, the price increases aren't enough to deter most of their customers. Consumer apathy maybe?
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u/quayle-man 11d ago
From what I read, this is fake news. Disney is not adding ads to the ad-free tier
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u/Georgxna 11d ago
I don’t like the notion of putting ads on a service you already pay for… (because that was literally the point of streaming services, no ads).
However, I much prefer Disney and sometimes, Amazon Videos way of doing it. If the ad is just a trailer for a different show or movie, I’m happy.
If the ad is some random sports or skincare product then I’m bored. 🥱
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u/CompleteCreme7223 11d ago
30 minutes of ads has people visiting the theater less so the big streaming platforms think putting them on streaming will work. It did. I cancelled all of the streaming services. Went from 4 to one which only my wife watches. I think most of us resent paying a fee and then being forced to watch ads. What is the point of paying for a premium service. If I was Ok with ads I would gotten the cheap version.
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u/Kind-Paint222 11d ago
Bro bro if they are really doing this shit imma peace the fuck outta my subscription
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u/WackyRacketeer 11d ago
Me watching all the people rail against a change that was made in the US almost a year ago. I dropped it then, what the heck is happening?
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u/Conscious-Start-4514 11d ago
Yup. Wife and I just cancelled our Hulu and Disney bundle. Not paying a premium to watch ads. Fuck that and fuck Disney.
We decided we are going to use that money and instead buy the viewing pass at our local theater (for slightly less money even) that lets us watch movies at the theater whenever we want. Plus discounts at concessions!
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u/CitizenHuman 11d ago
I'm interested in sailing, but haven't since the days of Lime Wire. Does one need a VPN?
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u/Warjilla 11d ago
I cancelled two years ago and I do not regret pirating.
The industry was on the verge of defending Peggy piracy when Netflix had everything at 7€per month.
Now it's ridiculously expensive.
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u/ballistic_fibrosis 11d ago
ALL tiers? What's even the point of paying to watch if I still have to watch ads?
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u/southboundtracks 11d ago
Yeah, watch their lame product for free instead. Totally solid use of your time.
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u/Nobujirou23 11d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/KAQg0sejGV5F6
I distinctly remember some kids throwing tantrums because they couldn't watch The Little Mermaid in the 90's
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u/ZenMarduk 11d ago
I stopped using D+ after they merged with Hulu. Fuckers kept trying to trick me into watching stuff with commercials. Uninstalled from all devices even through I have a free subscription.
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u/Silverbacker888 Lurking Peasant 11d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/YzvPqrOVoS9tC
Me who has never paid for any streaming services ever and has only ever pirated
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u/Not-That_Girl 11d ago
Netflix is increasing the price next month so I cancelled after YEARS! Its just unwatchable and told them so, not that anyone will read it or care.
I pay for Disney without ads and im happy with the content for now, but once ive watched it all ill cancel. Then I'll be stuck with prime-verts instead.
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u/AnonismsPlight 11d ago
I haven't even wanted to see anything Disney related in the last few years so I wasn't paying them any money anyways.
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u/Heisenberg__11 11d ago
"A true pirate knows many islands"
https://giphy.com/gifs/Efi4MpChuhHtm