alt Hacker NewsDisney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
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Time to sail the seas.
I would be more up in arms if this wasn't mainly for sports events for the premium tier.
Delicious irony that the site this is being reported on pops up a dialog over the content as you scroll down, with the following disclaimer:
> We use your personal data for interest-based advertising, as outlined in our Privacy Notice.
Sigh, this isn't the timeline I was hoping to end up in.
It’s a sign of the universe you should stop wasting your time on these moronic endeavors (and paying for them on top of it).
(September 19, 2026)?
Corporatism is running rampant. It's almost a full-blown punishment model. Soon the entertainment platforms will be demanding a fee for NOT subscribing to their service.
back to the pirate bay
Why exactly does making a show or a movie cost millions of dollars where is that money going? Youtubers have been able to pull off insane full length documentary and movies and stuff with very little capital.
Settings->Cancel
As easy as drinking water.
They choose piracy, then. Ok!
mumble mumble usenet mumble mumble
Story from September OP;
Lots of discussion then:
Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49784336
Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits
Advertising is money laundering.
The news is a front for the wealthy to control the political narrative so they can pass laws to benefit themselves. Home improvement networks are fronts for real estate developers. Sports channels are fronts for bookies and merchandisers. And so on and so forth.
Web-based services like streaming are now a front for oligopolies. Or more accurately, maybe they always have been, at least since the Dot Bomb around 2000. But who are we kidding, the 1950s were literally a false narrative about the nuclear family vs the rabble, used to create the Cold War and skim trillions of dollars from the working poor on both sides of the conflict.
This stuff used to be the cynical conspiratorial view. But now I don't see how kids will be able to navigate the modern world without someone admitting what they already know: that it's all a lie.
...And I still can't buy Andor Season 2 on blu-ray. coincidence?
Didn't cable TV have ads? And if so, why would anone expect this to not have them?
The US executive branch should look into Disney for their part in bringing back piracy.
Not only you'll be paying for low quality Disney slop, but you'll also be paying to be advertised to. I now think even less of people that keep paying for subscriptions like Disney+.
Corporations are yet again making piracy look very appealing.
They were actually doing this already. When you bought the premium plan, they just lied and pretended their in-house ads weren't ads and served you those instead. You still didn't get to just watch the content you wanted.
I have YouTube premium and it now shoves a "products" panel in my face that I have to swipe down before a video starts if the video references a product.
The enshittification knows no bounds.
I just want a company to tell me truly what it is worth to them from me to not show me ads. Maybe the cost is truly so much higher than I expect that I wouldn't pay it, but for fuck's sake give me the option! Is it $15/month extra instead of $5? $30/month extra? Somewhere, that line exists where the company would financially benefit, I just wish they'd actually define it.
When I was getting married, I engaged a baker to make pies for our wedding. Two weeks before the wedding they cancelled, saying very apologetically they had not catered many weddings with only pies and couldn't do it at the price they quoted. I had to practically beg them to just give me a price that was profitable for them (20% higher, in the end), and then let me decide. This feels just like that.
I set up a server with the radarr/sonarr/requestrr/jellyfin suite and haven't looked back. basically only pay for YouTube premium at the moment.
Fund the amazing things they respectfully do to your favourite franchises!
what do people with these subscriptions even watch? why can these services make any money at all when there's youtube and tiktok with infinite content for every niche interest in existence? what compels people to still consume mass produced slop?
can anyone else see the AI-writing in this article? It's so unpleasant...
It really does amaze me how much people are willing to put up with from streaming apps.
Like I get it if your kid wants to watch Disney shows and it buys you some peace and quiet. Otherwise, it's a firehose of content, everything's ultimately just a part of a franchise structure that's built more as a business plan than a piece of art, and there's no way to consume it all.
where are all the "just because they put it in their terms doesn't mean they'll do it everywhere" people from the original story
Time to hit the high seasons