Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 4 hours

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.

switcheroo@lemmy.world · 6 minutes

🏴‍☠️

felixwhynot@lemmy.world · 3 hours

WE HAVE ALTERED THE AGREEMENT

PRAY WE DO NOT ALTER IT FURTHER

[heavy breathing]

weps@lemmy.world · 2 hours

haha that’s so fitting

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 31 minutes

Do they still get to kill your spouse if you sign up?

Disney says man can’t sue over wife’s death because he agreed to Disney+ terms of service

Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 29 minutes

NUTS!

BeBopALouie@lemmy.ca · 2 hours

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.

Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip · 2 hours

I’m on duo for Disney and Hulu. Didn’t get any prompt when logging in just now, but ads are an instant cancel.

9point6@lemmy.world · 36 minutes

Fucking what? Well, cancel away and then Google the letters at the start of the words in this sentence:

Fucking Mouse, He’s Yucky

toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 4 hours

See ye on the high seas, matey! Arrr.

danekrae@lemmy.world · 3 hours

DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 3 hours

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.

ulkesh@piefed.social · 3 hours

Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho!

HeyJoe@lemmy.world · 2 hours

I kicked them to the curb a few years ago because the price increases wouldnt stop. If only I got pay raises as frequently as they raised them. Get fucked streaming services…

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 4 hours

Corporate enshittification accelerates and Disney is leading the way.

cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 hours

They’re really speedrunning it. Alas, I expected nothing less.

Possibly linux@lemmy.zip · 4 hours

Allows is doing a lot of heavy lifting

The are deliberately adding ads

DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 3 hours

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.

Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 4 hours

“Ad-free” has always been bullshit because every steamer runs ads for their own content at the start/end of everything and has giant “WATCH NEXT” “COMING SOON” “TRENDING NOW” banners on every screen.

nogooduser@lemmy.world · 3 hours

Yeah. All the companies seem to think that ads for their own products don’t count as ads. Same with all these ad free mobile games…. 99% of them show ads for in game purchases.

I think that the bullshit mental gymnastics that they all went through to allow them to do that was to call them promotions, not ads.

TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 3 hours

If I read the article correctly, that’s exactly what they’re talking about. Promo prerolls.

HerrVorragend@lemmy.world · 3 hours

Jesusaurus@lemmy.world · 3 hours

Sounds like a class action lawsuit based on false promises is in order

schema@lemmy.world · 2 hours

There was one when amazon did the same. In favor of amazon…

I think the dumbfuck judge said it was merely ‘modification of benefits, so it doesnt count’, or some shit along those lines. This probably the reason why more companies do it now.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/amazon-beats-ad-tier-class-action-subscription-trickery-1236318700/

pdxfed@lemmy.world · 3 hours

This is why regulation paired with antitrust enforcement is important, which hasn’t existed in any meaningful sense in the US since before Reagan. Healthy competion would drastically lessen the likelihood of such anti-consumer practices.

Businesses with high barrier to entry naturally will have fewer competitors(airlines, cell networks, etc.) and so need healthy regulation, or preferably nationalization.

frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 3 hours

You probably agree to changes like this when you sign up. You wouldn’t purposely agree to it but they write it that way and it stands up in court.

hOrni@lemmy.world · 4 hours

Did You know that today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day?

raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml · 3 hours

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