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.
WE HAVE ALTERED THE AGREEMENT
PRAY WE DO NOT ALTER IT FURTHER
[heavy breathing]
haha that’s so fitting
Bespin was the original enshittification, a long time ago and a galaxy far away
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Corporate enshittification accelerates and Disney is leading the way.
They’re really speedrunning it. Alas, I expected nothing less.
Wait didn’t Prime and Netflix do this already? After Hulu and YouTube went nuts with ads?
Disney sucks but seems like this is one of the last to ad ads.
IIRC, netflix did it only for a few plans
It was still added after initially not having any ads.
See ye on the high seas, matey! Arrr.
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.
Remember that if you sign up for Disney+, you waive the right to sue them if they kill you at one of their restaurants.
How can you sue someone from beyond the grave anyways?
Family on your behalf.
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I don’t think it’s really the fault of the economic system of capitalism exactly. There’s nothing about “private ownership of the means of production” that requires infinite growth. For that I blame Wall Street in particular.
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Fair point well argued and cited. I have no counter.
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”
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is this what you really think? im a little bit in awe of how braindead this analysis is. vegemite? the product made from brewers scraps? thats the product you use to defend capitalism??
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Cool story.
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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.
My jellyfin server doesn’t have ads
There are no ads in my paperback books either :-)
If I were a Disney+ subscriber, I would issue a chargeback every bill, stating that I am not getting the service I agreed to, until they dropped me as a customer.
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that implies having the service withput using it.c from other repliea, you are forced to accept the new terms or you dont see anything. But i like your way of thinking
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.
I am told that back in ancient times people survived somehow with very few viewing options. They listened to radio, read books, magazines and newspapers and such for entertainment and information. Sometimes they talked to each other in person or on a phone. Sounds a little crazy but I might give some of these a try. Personal media streaming is an interesting bypass I would like to explore as well.
It is not streaming and doesn’t address the advertising part of the conversation but if you are lucky enough to be able to set up a good antenna appropriately placed, over the air (OTA) may be an option for some for some television. Location is a constraining factor.
I don’t object to paying a fair price for a service but I do object to “let’s take you for as much as we can possibly get”.
The older you get the easier it gets to abandon all streaming services to be honest.
Every high production value movie is a cliche you can guess 5 minutes in. And the few outliers get so much publicity you will probably hear about them anyway and be able to get a copy through other means.
I guess it’s also why apparently CD sales have been picking up. Easier to just rip your favorite music and listen to/stream your own collection than deal with a mess of different services.
You know what? I think that Assassin’s Creed IV was the best game in the series.
Fuck all these streaming service. I want Stremio, with the ability to pay a little directly to the creators of the things I watch. We need to break this system and replace it by something fair for the artists and creators, not to a fucking corporation that will give them pennies. People are willing to pay an amount for the media they consume, we just need to redirect the money to right people.until then stremio all the way.
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