ALL Disney+ tiers now have ads

[PartySick 174,632]

3 minutes ago, AsleepOnTheCeiling said:

I'm hoping there comes a day when advertising gets much more regulated. The moment I realize any content is an ad anywhere I tune out because everything you do has ads nowadays. 10 years ago I would have been hard pressed to not justify ad free tiers. Nowadays I'm not even consuming enough of any media to justify paying for it, much less pay to watch ads. 

The only one I pay for is YouTube 'cause I'm always watching or playing something and I like being able to turn my screen off and have the video play still.

What drives me up the wall is all the content creators that have "a word from our sponsors" segment in their videos. It's so goddamn irritating to literally pay to avoid ads then be listening to a podcast only to have to stop what I'm doing and skip anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes of the video  

And when you double tap the video to skip ahead 10 seconds it'll give you the option to skip the ad entirely. Like...WHY NOT SKIP IT AUTOMATICALLY  

First world problems but one that annoys me several times a day.

[gagzus 25,206]

15 minutes ago, Whigney Houstan said:

Buy physical media, y'all!

To be fair it’s getting harder because it’s being phased out, a lot of Disney+ content doesn’t get proper releases anymore and thanks to DCMA you can’t record the shows anymore and burn ROMs because it’s illegal to have them even if you paid for the service.

Edited yesterday at 07:56 PM by gagzus

[Whigney Houstan 1,265]

10 minutes ago, AsleepOnTheCeiling said:

You say this while the optical disk drive market is collapsing with signalling that Xbox and Playstation plan to move away from disk drives. They're the main customers of optical drives. And Sony is also signalling a move away from Blu Ray production. 

Yeah, the gaming space is definitely bleak rn, but DVD/CD sales are actually on the rise. People are getting fed up with the games these corporations are playing. Vote with your wallet.

[Hadrian 2,751]

The corporate "we need to have constant growth all the time" mentality needs to die.

[gagzus 25,206]

8 minutes ago, PartySick said:

The only one I pay for is YouTube 'cause I'm always watching or playing something and I like being able to turn my screen off and have the video play still.

What drives me up the wall is all the content creators that have "a word from our sponsors" segment in their videos. It's so goddamn irritating to literally pay to avoid ads then be listening to a podcast only to have to stop what I'm doing and skip anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes of the video  

And when you double tap the video to skip ahead 10 seconds it'll give you the option to skip the ad entirely. Like...WHY NOT SKIP IT AUTOMATICALLY  

First world problems but one that annoys me several times a day.

It’s two-fold, one of them is down to the rules of monetisation on YouTube, since about 2021 YouTube updates it’s monetisation content rules so that you can’t properly monetise your content if you do things like say profanity, promote political ideology or are covering a controversial topic like murder or crimes. You also can’t use clips you don’t own the right to either.  The other is that YouTube monetisation amount has increased its threshold. Now you need about 1m views on your videos to get only a few hundred dollars.

Normally the ads you get on those videos with those topics; the money goes to YouTube itself (else you’d have to pay to use it in general by now) that’s why people take sponsorships. But also the sponsorships are because the sponsors know that person’s videos get views. So it’s a two-way street.

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 7,017]

21 minutes ago, PartySick said:

The only one I pay for is YouTube 'cause I'm always watching or playing something and I like being able to turn my screen off and have the video play still.

What drives me up the wall is all the content creators that have "a word from our sponsors" segment in their videos. It's so goddamn irritating to literally pay to avoid ads then be listening to a podcast only to have to stop what I'm doing and skip anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes of the video  

And when you double tap the video to skip ahead 10 seconds it'll give you the option to skip the ad entirely. Like...WHY NOT SKIP IT AUTOMATICALLY  

First world problems but one that annoys me several times a day.

Yeah YouTube would be the only one I would even possibly consider at this point. I don't like videos playing in the background for whatever reason so I'm always near. Normally if an ad plays I just get up and do something real quick and finish up to rewind the actual video a few seconds. Luckily most creators I end up watching put timestamps on their ads so I can quickly skip them. It irks me too but at least they're getting the money for the sponorships and not having to split with YouTube. 

12 minutes ago, Whigney Houstan said:

Yeah, the gaming space is definitely bleak rn, but DVD/CD sales are actually on the rise. People are getting fed up with the games these corporations are playing. Vote with your wallet.

What I was getting at was that the DVD players are going to likely not be made for much longer because console makers aren't ordering optical drives for the next console generation. So the supply chain to make DVD players is collapsing. 

[River 128,884]

51 minutes ago, gagzus said:

Higher tiers allow you to stream in 4K and stream on multiple devices. The lowest tier now doesn’t support 4K or more than one device at a time. 

I hope the european union will step in a stop this nonsense, no one should pay extra for 4k, in today's standards it's the minimum.. who buys a 4k tv just to watch 1080p 

[SleepingSun 1,636]

Offering a paid service and then taking away one of, if not the main selling point(s) of said service is stupidity in its purest form. Even more troubling is the fact, that people will still pay for this pointless sh*t, because people are also stupid.

Edited 23 hours ago by SleepingSun

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31 minutes ago, PartySick said:

The only one I pay for is YouTube 'cause I'm always watching or playing something and I like being able to turn my screen off and have the video play still.

What drives me up the wall is all the content creators that have "a word from our sponsors" segment in their videos. It's so goddamn irritating to literally pay to avoid ads then be listening to a podcast only to have to stop what I'm doing and skip anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes of the video  

And when you double tap the video to skip ahead 10 seconds it'll give you the option to skip the ad entirely. Like...WHY NOT SKIP IT AUTOMATICALLY  

First world problems but one that annoys me several times a day.

Not sure if they‘re of any help, but for ad blocks, maybe Firefox browser with uBlock, DuckDuckGo browser (built-in Duck Player for YouTube links), or Brave browser … ?

38 minutes ago, AsleepOnTheCeiling said:

I'm hoping there comes a day when advertising gets much more regulated. The moment I realize any content is an ad anywhere I tune out because everything you do has ads nowadays. 10 years ago I would have been hard pressed to not justify ad free tiers. Nowadays I'm not even consuming enough of any media to justify paying for it, much less pay to watch ads. 

That the Ad Sales / Media Buying dynamic at the Fortune 500 level is effectually just a glorified racket where tycoons trade money between each other as “advertisers” and “publishers” … and that Advertising is a business expense tax deduction … why wouldn‘t corporate advertisers give corporate media partners millions of dollars on “ads” to block their competitors from airtime / prime media presence and deduct the spend as an expense from their taxable income … and that the majority of the spend is for the “space” alone, and comparative peanuts goes to the creative team (and that was before the AI boom)

But, again, new and novice here so I never really know how business works … just riffing on references 

[gagzus 25,206]

29 minutes ago, River said:

I hope the european union will step in a stop this nonsense, no one should pay extra for 4k, in today's standards it's the minimum.. who buys a 4k tv just to watch 1080p 

To be fair they can do it because of consumer choice, which is why people oppose the Paramount & Warner merger. 4k isn’t the standard yet, 1080p still is. it’ll probably be the standard come 2035 though.

Also, tech analysts have confirmed 4K doesn’t really work on household TVs, you need a cinema size screen to actually see the difference

Edited 23 hours ago by gagzus

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14 minutes ago, bxr said:

Not sure if they‘re of any help, but for ad blocks, maybe Firefox browser with uBlock, DuckDuckGo browser (built-in Duck Player for YouTube links), or Brave browser … ?

The thing they’re on about is built-in sponsors where the hosts of a podcast/show take a “break” to promote something. All you have to do is fast forward through the video though I guess. But I explained above why that happens in videos now on YouTube.

[gagzus 25,206]

31 minutes ago, SleepingSun said:

Offering a paid service and then taking away one of, if not the main selling point(s) of said service is stupidity in its purest form. Even more troubling is the fact, that people will still pay for this pointless sh*t, because people are also stupid.

The purpose of streaming being a library of ad-free content has long since been a dead idea since just before the pandemic. Now corporations have split up to have their own services because they make more money doing that.

[River 128,884]

1 hour ago, gagzus said:

To be fair they can do it because of consumer choice, which is why people oppose the Paramount & Warner merger. 4k isn’t the standard yet, 1080p still is. it’ll probably be the standard come 2035 though.

Also, tech analysts have confirmed 4K doesn’t really work on household TVs, you need a cinema size screen to actually see the difference

That's false, all new tvs now are 4k as a standard, it's actually pretty rare to find a 1080p screen these days, maybe a computer screen but if you're lucky,
and 4k  doesn't work on small screen like 44 inch if you sit far from the tv but if you sit closer, you can see 4k very good, and on 65 inch+, you really see a big difference between 1080p and 4k in an instant.. with 1080p you see visible pixels, blur and grain. also the 4k on household tvs has HDR and a wider color spectrum, so either way, u see a big difference between 1080p and 4k, by color, brightness, smoothness and so on.

[CatelynnMarie 4,563]

lmao trash. they are fools. a lot of people are going to cancel their subs and they will lose money from that. people pay for the sub to get AWAY from the ads. 

LMAO imagine being ceo of a company as big as disney and making this decision. guess you don't really have to be educated or intelligent whatsoever for that position ! then again, look at our "president". 

the jokes write themselves 

Edited 21 hours ago by CatelynnMarie

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4 hours ago, Earthling said:

Can we just start pirating again please?

why did you ever stop  (says me with my hayu, disney and netflix subscriptions)

the PB never fails tho