Mildly Infuriating

This what we would call false advertising in my country.

You can't write: "NO ADS!*"

"*actually, maybe some ads, as a treat"

That's just completely negating the headline claim

Ok. But the first one i see and im canceling

Good thing I pirate all their shit already if I want it.

I stopped paying for Amazon Prime over a year ago once they announced similar bullshit with their video service.

Once Disney dropped subscription sharing.... I started downloading their shit too.

Now i'm left with Netflix and Crunchyroll. I'm this close to axing netflix. Crunchyroll is kinda shit but at least it's cheap.

Yarr, matey.

If people would just drop their service en masse they would stop doing this shit. Everyone acts like they can be without a streaming service for a month or two so they'll just complain as they continue to hand them money.

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't theft. ;-)

If the no ads and ads free version contains adds then pirating is also not immoral anymore.

"circumstances may require"

No, you just want to do that.

What a wonderful world we live in - boneless chicken with bones, ad-free streaming with ads, unlimited plans with limits... What's next, Nestle releasing microplastics and cadmium free water (guess what's in it!)?

Reminder that whatever your feelings on copyright law are, stealing from Disney is fucking cool

I’d say “sounds like a lawsuit”. After all, you can’t advertise something as no ads, and then show ads.

But then I remember who is in charge for the next four years and realize they’ll just get away with it.

"No ads" don't mean we don't show ads....duh

I first time I see an ad on my ad-free subscription, I will cancel like I did with Prime Video.

It’s like they want us to become pirates.

Hulu has always had a clause like that. Their ad-free tier has always had a handful of shows that have an ad at the beginning and end, which is why I don't pay for the ad-free tier and just use NextDNS.

By Lemmy Social Contract that You've implicitly agreed to, you must now sail the high seas !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (blocked by lemmy.world instance btw)

Live Free on the High Seas! 🏴‍☠️

To be fair, it most likely refers to live streams, considering more steamers are offering them.

That being said, I cancelled in favour of the high seas and never looked back

🏴‍☠️

Pirate your shows. Not just as a defense against ads, but as a defense against Disney throwing plotlines down the Memory Hole

Product placement is advertising, and as such saying "no ads" while not blurring out product placement would be misselling the service

Ads free but with ads ! So words included in a contract don't carry the same meaning as in the dictionary ?

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That's why I pay for hulu+++×+

It's guaranteed you'll never see an ad*

*unless Hulu determines it is justified

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Jesus fucking christ.

There's no way that they should be allowed to advertise "no ads" when there are in fact ads. This is consumer protection so basic and obvious that it should be a slam dunk even with the current government... right?

some titles always have had ads on hulu, regardless of a viewer's plan. they frame it as being 'required' by the content provider.. which, iirc, is usually them--a disney-owned entity for these titles.

Welp, just canceled that subscription. They can fuck right off.

what the fuck are people actually paying for at this point

I assume they mean the live TV offerings, and technically the Hulu splash at the start of every episode is marked as an ad.

But it’s still scummy.