Back to piracy it is. I mean I gave you all the money you asked for and it wasn’t enough was it? You also demanded to shove your ads in my face. Even though I said no, and that I would pay to avoid this, but you said no, I don’t love your money as much as I love their money AND violating you.

Crunchyroll is skating very close to this line.

For paid accounts they don't show ads during an episode, but they're injecting their own little things before some episodes.

My policy now is that every time they do this, I suspend my membership for 2 months. So basically I pay them for 4 months of the year.

That lets me binge each complete season of anime, while still punishing their misbehavior.

It's trivial for them, but it feels like a small win for justice for me.

I am quite happy with my premium Netflix account (even though I don't use it much) but if they started showing ads I'd cancel in a heartbeat.

People my generation won't go back. But the children of today who grow up in the Advertising Jugend are the future.

I’m paying top dollar for what I thought is an ad-free tier. First ad I see and that will be the end of that.

Thats a weird way for Disney to announce the end of Disney+.

Just like in elections, you can vote with your wallet, too. They will never stop squeezing. Amazon Prime had a no-ads tier then just decided to put ads in it. Did they drop the price of prime? Hell no. They said, Hey that's a nice ad-free tier you had there, shame what happened. I can fix that for you for a mere $36 more a year. And consumers let that happen. That was when I went amazon-free and never looked back.

Full circle, streaming is just OTT cable TV now. Actually this is worse than cable I think because previously I could buy HBO or Starz and actually get an ad-free premium channel.

ehh I pay for netflix and hbo but dont even bother with them, I just use stremio with real debrid. I cant deal with all this shit of trying to find out which streaming service has a movie I want to see. And now I will be also forced to watch ads? i’d rather touch grass

Right after hiring the CEO of character.ai as its new CTO.

I don’t get it - what does paying for the premium tier buy you then? I’ve always been willing to pay for content, and happy to pay to not see ads. But this is bizarre - pay less, see ads; pay more see ads?

Disney+ is probably the least valuable streaming subscription I have but I keep it for the backbook of star wars and marvel content. They keep trying to package it with random crap, and I assume they’re going to wave hands at some garbage package as the benefit. But I for one absolutely refuse to be marketed to, especially during my rare moments of free time.

Yarr, there be no ads on the high seas.

Can I also u literally change my subscribers agreement with them after the deal has been made?