Once again proving piracy is always the best option.

Did they update the part where it gives them permission to kill your wife?

Arrr score another point for me m8ys!

I pay extra for no ads. If you put ads in the ad free tier, I'll find alternative methods to watch ad free.

They just fucking can’t get enough. Welp, I’m already sailing the seven seas. Not because of the money, it’s because I’m morally obligated to

You aleady can't stream disney+ content to a PC in 4k legally and now ads are mandatory. I wonder why people pirate?

The "Bait and switch" is a game playable by both sides!
Get yerr sea legs!

the enshittification will continue until morale improves!

Sometimes I can't tell if these decisions are greed, or just rich people trying to make the world a more miserable place.

There's going to be massive 'attempts' to crack down on piracy soon, because in this economy, a lot of people are going to just stop putting up with this (and when I say a lot, I don't even mean close to the majority,but even optimistically 5% of people dropping this stuff would be huge).

If I see an ad it’s over. I pay so I can feign being free of ad bullshit subconsciously.

i guess the latest rounds of price increases wasn't causing enough cancellations.

Picked the plan I did because it was no ads and my kids like some of the shows. Lol. I will tell them they have 3 weeks so get watching. These streaming services think they are needed when they are just convenient for people like me with very little time to circumvent. I will pay 20 for a service but fuck if I’m watching ads if I’m already paying.

I’m doing my part by doing nothing.

I altered the deal right the fuck off.

Lasted just long enough for consoles to drop disc support.

nothing works when MBA CEOs think that is reasonable or achievable to grow at least 20% year over year forever.

It is mathematical impossibility and yet these fucking monsters keep becoming millionaires by destroying companies and making everything in life miserable to achieve it.

Keep pirating my good people.

Already dumped Disney+ when they doubled the subs.

We get Disney+ free as a promotion from a telecom provider.

The only exception to the rule is Junior Mode profiles, which will remain completely free of commercial advertising and sponsor placements.

Looks like its time to create a Junior Mode profile for whatever content is available there at least (G or TV-Y rated content).

Im glad I stopped falling for the subscription trap 10 years ago.

Thanks for the heads up. Cancelled our subscription.

Theeere Oncewasaship that sailed to sea The name of the ship was a belly o' tea

Nothing will improve until people stop putting up with this crap.

There is another reason this change is terrible, and that is that their ad servers are slow as hell.

A commercial break is padded with time to load the ads, and it often just loops the same ad several times.

Shocking. Absolutely shocking I say.

There is content on Hulu I have wanted to watch for about 6 months but I never do because I don't want to deal with their long commercials and volume spikes associated with their ads. The volume spikes are illegal for TV/Satellite but I guess the regulation doesn't cover streaming.

My dvd collection has no ads and can stream it off my network share to any screen in the house

Sooo why don’t we just go back to cable then

The legacy Hulu/ESPN/(ad free] Disney bundle for $25 (really only $18 with Amex) was my last streaming service. Ads on Disney is going to save me $18 a month, I guess.

So what's the difference between the plans? I got used to the ads because I pay for the lower tier and still had the same content. Will they be changing the content based on tier? That path leads to more piracy than ads if you ask me.

Yo ho me harties yo ho

That's shitty.

what the fuck is their problem. disney+ just got into being a great service with the addition of hulu (i dont care for espn but thats there too) and the app being one of the better made ones (paramount fucking sucks STILL) now they just ruined it

Moment I see an ad I will cancel, simple as that.

So, this sucks, but basically puts them in line with other streaming services. They aren’t showing, like, commercials from other companies. They’re showing promotional stuff, like trailers for their other movies or shows. Usually they can be skipped, although Disney apparently does say sometimes you won’t be able to.

As far as I know most streaming services do these preroll promotions at least sometimes. It’s never really bothered me, because I skip them.

This is still different from the product and service commercials you’ll see on ad-supported plans.

Please note that I am not defending the practice, just clarifying.

Edit: Again, in no way am I trying to say this is a good thing. It’s a bad thing. But as bad things go like, on a spectrum of bad, it’s not as bad as seeing commercials for Taco Bell or something. (I understand nuance is hard, but it’s important, broadly speaking, for my sanity. Not that my sanity is in any way tied to Disney’s streaming services, just that I’ve gotten a lot of practice in nuance.)