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.
You’re gonna be force fed this shit everywhere all the time until you fuckin’ buy something and then it’s on to the next one
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”.
My only streaming service
Yeah, screw this. Haven’t been subscribed to Disney+ for a year now and I certainly won’t return. If you have children, I guess you’re fucked though.
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Capitalism is so old hat. Everyone knows they are being treated unfairly and we just sort of grimace and bare it. Enough already! Let’s move on to a more enlightened phase of humanities progression. What’s the next new thing? C’mon! In the words of a favourite american troubadour, “We don’t have to say goodbye if we all go!”.
Ah yes. Behold my trusty old jellyfin server with sonarr and radarr
Have you build your own server? Or did you buy a NAS?
I’m using a 2019 Dell SFF (Small Form Factor) desktop. It idles around 20 watts with max power of 80 watts, which is important. My old desktop idled at 100 watts.
This machine has no trouble doing everything I need for a media server. It’s running VMware ESXi, with multiple VM’s. One VM is for the Jellyfin server, one is the file server, one is a video conversion/DVD ripper/CD ripper, etc.
While ripping DVD’s and converting videos, that box still has no problem serving multiple video streams for Jellyfin.
It really takes so little to stream, especially if you work toward limiting transcoding. Still, even when transcoding I don’t run into performance bottlenecks.
This is what capitalism does. Its endless profit growth requirement is not possible under any real market conditions. So it inevitably starts squeezing it’s own customers and degrading it’s own service to maintain these unrealistic demands for profit. The more consolidated the market becomes, the worse the outcomes. Anti-trust was always a half measure. The problem is capitalism is inherently unsustainable and can only lead to negative outcomes for it’s products and services over time. Nothing can grow infinitely and that pursuit will always collapse bringing societal pain.
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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This is easily one of the most delusional, confused, and dumb things I’ve ever read.
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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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Never go full retard.
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Imagine paying to see ads. That has got to be the ultimate cuckoldry.
I stopped paying for D+ when they doubled their price within a year. Guess I’ll continue torrenting.
If I see an ad it’s over. I pay so I can feign being free of ad bullshit subconsciously.
People are so normalized to ads. I have many, many friends who either use YT free and wait patiently for 2 x 1 minute apps before every video AND ad breaks. I tell them about adblockers and they laugh and say “they dont mind”. Or they play for YT premium and I tell them that adblockers exist and they say “i dont mind paying”. Genuinely blows my mind
Already long gone. All streaming services are terrible value now. They all got too greedy.
I would probably get this fact checked asap because I found this posted over two hours ago when I was checking over in the Disney+ Subreddit to see if anything is being said there about this.
Not on Kodi it doesn’t :)
