haha that's so fitting

Bespin was the original enshittification, a long time ago and a galaxy far away

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

Wait didn’t Prime and Netflix do this already? After Hulu and YouTube went nuts with ads?

Disney sucks but seems like this is one of the last to ad ads.

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.

Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho!

My only streaming service

I've been a Transmission person for decades, what's the reason to switch?

What the actual hell. I am going to be a revenge pirate now

How can you sue someone from beyond the grave anyways?

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

Also they could just pirate it if they wanted something new.

There are no ads in my paperback books either :-)

NUTS!

that implies having the service withput using it.c from other repliea, you are forced to accept the new terms or you dont see anything. But i like your way of thinking

You know what? I think that Assassin's Creed IV was the best game in the series.

It’s promos at the end and beginning of programs, not in the middle.

Not excusing it, just clarifying it.

How did you make it this far with Hulu? I noped out of that shit probably around 2014.

Over the last year I lived with my parents to take care of them and occasionally I had to entertain myself with their cable TV. I used to spend hours channel surfing and there was almost always lots of stuff to choose from. Now I just end up watching Beat Bobby Flay because there's absolutely nothing else to watch. And I don't really want to watch Beat Bobby Flay either.

I've been holding out a long time. I will pay what it takes to access content I want to see and avoid ads. I want money to make it to the artists. But if there is no option to avoid ads, then I will not pay for your service anymore. I would imagine many others feel the same way. Seems like a very foolish decision.

Where did the frugal pirate get his hook?

(on a completely unrelated note)

Welcome to capitalism.

There is one. Self destructive personalities often leads to their own demise. So most likely the rich sociopath class kills itself.

Edit: or we do it for them. Listen Luigi isn't just a good idea. It would force change. They don't fear their mortality.

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.

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