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.
Sail the seas 🏴☠️
Glad I have kept my 1000+ dvd/bluray movie collection, given the way streaming has become nothing but fricken ads
So, what’s the point of paying for the premium plan? Do you get more content for it?
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.
Sounds like a class action lawsuit based on false promises is in order
There was one when amazon did the same. In favor of amazon…
I think the dumbfuck judge said it was merely ‘modification of benefits, so it doesnt count’, or some shit along those lines. This probably the reason why more companies do it now.
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.
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.
WE HAVE ALTERED THE AGREEMENT
PRAY WE DO NOT ALTER IT FURTHER
[heavy breathing]
Bespin was the original enshittification, a long time ago and a galaxy far away
haha that’s so fitting
Fucking what? Well, cancel away and then Google the letters at the start of this sentence
Fucking Mouse, He’s Yucky
People are such sheeple
“Ad-free” has always been bullshit because every steamer runs ads for their own content at the start/end of everything and has giant “WATCH NEXT” “COMING SOON” “TRENDING NOW” banners on every screen.
Yeah. All the companies seem to think that ads for their own products don’t count as ads. Same with all these ad free mobile games…. 99% of them show ads for in game purchases.
I think that the bullshit mental gymnastics that they all went through to allow them to do that was to call them promotions, not ads.
Promotions are less annoying but still annoying.
“Hey heres a show thats popular with people who also watched what you watched, maybe you will too IDK.” Isnt as grating as “Have you considered going into 70k of debt for an oversized truck you dont need?” Every 10 minutes.
If I read the article correctly, that’s exactly what they’re talking about. Promo prerolls.
Was only using Disney and pirated the rest. Now we will be pirating every damn thing just like I did 20 years ago. Fuck any service that will not give you the option to pay for ad free.
See ye on the high seas, matey! Arrr.
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho!
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.
My public library still checks out DVDs. Some titles are blu-rays even. Get an optical drive and rip away. For free.
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.
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.
Omfg, thank you so much for bringing that up. Totally forgot about this. Definitely first on the list.
This in particular makes me miss rental stores. Should have gotten into ripping twenty years ago.
My owned library is thousands of libraries. I’m with you, I’m checking out of current media if they want me to watch ads.
Imagine if people just stopped paying these companies. I guarantee you that most people have more entertainment than they can consume in their lifetime. They just want to have everything and these companies know it.
Also they could just pirate it if they wanted something new.
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.
I kicked them to the curb a few years ago because the price increases wouldnt stop. If only I got pay raises as frequently as they raised them. Get fucked streaming services…
