Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan
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Once again proving piracy is always the best option.
Seriously. I'm letting my crunchy roll subscription expire because they constantly log me out and lately the content won't play in Firefox on Linux.
You know what always works and never has issues? Anime pirate sites with an ad blocker. Sometimes the subtitles are better as well.
I canceled mine for this log out issue too not to mention the fact its choices are getting worse. And I’ve gotten so old, I didn’t even know there were anime pirate sites with subtitles lol. Really?
Animetake and anitaku ( use search engine of your choice to find specifics ) among others but you'll def want to be using an Adblock etc
Check it out, they banned him/Rusty for even talking to you about the subject.
Looked at his post history and not seeing anything controversial enough for a permaban.
Same, unless it’s his avatar. Which would be.. pardon my French, stupid. Since that’s something that’s more fitting as a warning.
They should be able to delete that server side. My bets on Admiral Patrick/Kirk trying to “clean house”.
Amazon signed me up for CrunchyRoll against my will, charged me ten dollars for it. Don't know how many months this has been going on.
they have a lot of add-on subscription services you can tack-on to your prime, and if you're not paying attention when you're clicking you can quite easily end up with one or more of those.
A friend of mine using the account clicked a free trial, specifically checked "do not subscribe" it subscribed anyway and took me months to notice
Did they update the part where it gives them permission to kill your wife?
Oh, no. No no no, god no. Why?
Arrr score another point for me m8ys!
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Oh my god. I just realized why it’s the “arr” apps now. I feel so stupid even after setting up all this amazing automation.
YO HO!
I pay extra for no ads. If you put ads in the ad free tier, I'll find alternative methods to watch ad free.
Local media player does ad free for me 🙂
I’m willing to pay for a convenient, ad-free experience. It seems obvious to me that the company should know they will lose their customers by forcing ads. But I guess most of the population is crazy.
They always do a cost-benefit analysis for this sort of thing. It is our responsibility to prove them wrong.
They just fucking can’t get enough. Welp, I’m already sailing the seven seas. Not because of the money, it’s because I’m morally obligated to
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I'm doing my part.
You aleady can't stream disney+ content to a PC in 4k legally and now ads are mandatory. I wonder why people pirate?
The "Bait and switch" is a game playable by both sides!
Get yerr sea legs!
Sometimes I can't tell if these decisions are greed, or just rich people trying to make the world a more miserable place.
There's going to be massive 'attempts' to crack down on piracy soon, because in this economy, a lot of people are going to just stop putting up with this (and when I say a lot, I don't even mean close to the majority,but even optimistically 5% of people dropping this stuff would be huge).
The GOP is on it
Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/republican-bill-would-order-isps-dns-providers-and-vpns-to-block-piracy-sites/
it's greed. all greed. gotta keep the numbers going up. they've already sucked-up all the interested viewers so significant subscriber gains are out.. only ways that are left is to shed content (which they've done--just flat out delete their own shit and not even shop it around) and raise rates like they do whenever their cfo takes a dump.
The problem is that streaming cannot be profitable at scale. Not for a company that considers it a delivery channel instead of its own branch of tech, marketing, etc.
And once you can't offset the expenses with the constant increase of user numbers... this happens.
it never was from the get-go, they thought it would be an endless supply of subbing from covid. also hard to stay when the seasons are so short, and very long hiatuses in between.
i think cracking down on privacy is already in the works, but hasnt fully formalized by the gop yet. they will probably try to sneak it intoa bill when nobody paying attention.
the enshittification will continue until morale improves!
If I see an ad it’s over. I pay so I can feign being free of ad bullshit subconsciously.
Sorry, who still subscribes to them? They literally hand money over to the IDF.
Where are those goddamn pitchforks.
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Don't feel like I am allowed to pitchfork as I cancelled it last year or so
We could always do it for their direct financial support of Israel. 💁♂️
i guess the latest rounds of price increases wasn't causing enough cancellations.
Picked the plan I did because it was no ads and my kids like some of the shows. Lol. I will tell them they have 3 weeks so get watching. These streaming services think they are needed when they are just convenient for people like me with very little time to circumvent. I will pay 20 for a service but fuck if I’m watching ads if I’m already paying.
I’m doing my part by doing nothing.
nothing works when MBA CEOs think that is reasonable or achievable to grow at least 20% year over year forever.
It is mathematical impossibility and yet these fucking monsters keep becoming millionaires by destroying companies and making everything in life miserable to achieve it.
Keep pirating my good people.
Lasted just long enough for consoles to drop disc support.
I altered the deal right the fuck off.
Already dumped Disney+ when they doubled the subs.
Thanks for the heads up. Cancelled our subscription.
Im glad I stopped falling for the subscription trap 10 years ago.
Same, circa 2012-2014 somewhere. As soon as Netflix stopped focusing on making sure they gave you access to more and more titles and started making their own TV shows instead, I knew exactly what was up. I cancelled, ripped all my DVDs, built a Plex server and started collecting media using alternative sources. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
That was the last subscription I ever had and I cannot imagine a world in which I would ever have another. It would be like entering an abusive relationship on purpose. I've already collected more media than I could hope to watch/listen to/read.
We get Disney+ free as a promotion from a telecom provider.
Looks like its time to create a Junior Mode profile for whatever content is available there at least (G or TV-Y rated content).
No, it's time to unsubscribe dude
Whats the benefit of unsubscribing to something we get for free?
Julius Cesar, 4300 BC
I love me a good Dark Knight reference like everyone, but don't see how it applies here. Disney does not give a shit about me. The telecom provider doesn't care if use the free benefit or not. Not a single person will notice if I cancel the free sub.
Effectively, there's no one to receive the message.
Fair point. I wonder if your provider would make plans to switch to another streaming service if they got enough emails about it. I'd complain in your shoes I think. It's part of the package and it's being devalued.
Nothing will improve until people stop putting up with this crap.
incrementally, so they justify it but grumble.
There is another reason this change is terrible, and that is that their ad servers are slow as hell.
A commercial break is padded with time to load the ads, and it often just loops the same ad several times.
My dvd collection has no ads and can stream it off my network share to any screen in the house
Shocking. Absolutely shocking I say.
There is content on Hulu I have wanted to watch for about 6 months but I never do because I don't want to deal with their long commercials and volume spikes associated with their ads. The volume spikes are illegal for TV/Satellite but I guess the regulation doesn't cover streaming.
The legacy Hulu/ESPN/(ad free] Disney bundle for $25 (really only $18 with Amex) was my last streaming service. Ads on Disney is going to save me $18 a month, I guess.
Sooo why don’t we just go back to cable then
So what's the difference between the plans? I got used to the ads because I pay for the lower tier and still had the same content. Will they be changing the content based on tier? That path leads to more piracy than ads if you ask me.
I would guess the frequency and duration of ads.
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That's shitty.
what the fuck is their problem. disney+ just got into being a great service with the addition of hulu (i dont care for espn but thats there too) and the app being one of the better made ones (paramount fucking sucks STILL) now they just ruined it
Moment I see an ad I will cancel, simple as that.
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So, this sucks, but basically puts them in line with other streaming services. They aren’t showing, like, commercials from other companies. They’re showing promotional stuff, like trailers for their other movies or shows. Usually they can be skipped, although Disney apparently does say sometimes you won’t be able to.
As far as I know most streaming services do these preroll promotions at least sometimes. It’s never really bothered me, because I skip them.
This is still different from the product and service commercials you’ll see on ad-supported plans.
Please note that I am not defending the practice, just clarifying.
Edit: Again, in no way am I trying to say this is a good thing. It’s a bad thing. But as bad things go like, on a spectrum of bad, it’s not as bad as seeing commercials for Taco Bell or something. (I understand nuance is hard, but it’s important, broadly speaking, for my sanity. Not that my sanity is in any way tied to Disney’s streaming services, just that I’ve gotten a lot of practice in nuance.)
They are ads, I have been having this argument for ages. If my iphone sent me a notifcation about a new macbook that is advertising.
Spotify does similar shit, no ads premium but the launch page is a banner for a sponsored brainrot podcast
I get you, it can be helpful but it should be a tab for upcoming or something. Tbh Netflix has become awful for finding anything, its all the same rows of content under every heading.
No I agree they’re ads. And like I said, it sucks. I’m very much not defending the practice. I can’t stand that this is the world we live in.
All I’m saying is that it’s not like you’ll start seeing, like, insurance commercials or something.
I don't want to watch some promo shit, I want to watch the thing I chose. Like I'm siiting here, having carefully chosen my entertainment of the evening, and the streaming service starts out by telling me "HEY! You should watch this other thing instead!!!". If I want to watch a trailer or whatever, I'll look it up. I don't want it forced down my throat.
Right, I agree. Mostly I skip them. I’d prefer they didn’t do this.
Oh disney shows me a shit ton of commercial advertising (that fucking emu). I watch with my finger on the mute button.
Am I wrong to feel that the people that keep paying for this service, or others that do the same, deserve every awful ad they see?
I think normal people just wanting to watch a show or a movie, who pay for a service, should absolutely be getting an ad free experience. I don't think piracy can be expected to be the solution for everyone.
Yes, you are wrong because you are shifting the blame onto those who are getting screwed by no longer having the option of a plan without ads.
People who signed up for ad plans do deserve all the ads they see, because they agreed to that.
Fair enough I'll take that. My thought was if they keep paying for this Disney has no incentive to change their business model. So if enough users stop subscribing, there might be a change.
I think as long as we are going to live in a society that requires intellectual property, that rights holders shouldn’t be able do do their own distribution. Disney should have to license content out to distributors like Netflix or Hulu, and there should be safeguards in place to ensure no one distributor can corner the market either.
As long as we’re at it I should be able to order shows streaming a-la carte. Like if I wanted to check out Ted Lasso but I didn’t want to subsidize F1, I should be able to unlock it for $5 one-time viewing.
cable is still worst, it would be problematic if people are subscribed to every STREAMING service.