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.
Sail the seas 🏴☠️
Glad I have kept my 1000+ dvd/bluray movie collection, given the way streaming has become nothing but fricken ads
So, what’s the point of paying for the premium plan? Do you get more content for it?
Can’t wait to hear from the crowd that said it was fine when they introduced an ad tier because they still had a non-ad tier. Despite everyone that has seen how this always goes before telling them it was only a matter of time before legally watching Disney owned content was going to mean paying a substantial monthly fee and having to sit through ads.
Let this be a lesson everyone that said that. Once they build the mechanism to have the ads, they will not be able to resist turning up the dial for the easy ad money.
Disney should be aware that they are a big corporation with a lot of well-known output.
Well-known enough that it will still have a lot of seeders many years after release.
Isn’t the Mouse messing with copyright where we got the term Mickey Mouse law?
Crazy, now, to think that it was ever an anomaly.
And you just know the normies will keep paying
I was only staying there for Furious. That’s probably it for me.
My jellyfin server doesn’t have ads
There are no ads in my paperback books either :-)
I think it was after the Jimmy Kimmel nonsense we decided not to resubscribe and just never went back. I’m about done with all of them at this point
If I were a Disney+ subscriber, I would issue a chargeback every bill, stating that I am not getting the service I agreed to, until they dropped me as a customer.
Also, 🏴☠️
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
In the UK we have had Sky Television for decades. Its a paid for subscription service, but ALL of its channels have adverts and has done since its inception. I don’t understand why people are so surpised that ads are now appearing in paid for subscription based TV apps, it was a matter of time. It sucks, but you know, there are ways around it…
Its because these people were paying for the ad free tier that explicitly stated no ads.
Ads have been a thing since forever in radio and cable, but when you are paying explicitly for the ad fee service and a company decides to show you ads anyways without dropping you to cheaper ad tier its understandable to be pissed.
Ok good point. I’ve never bothered to look deep enough into the terms and conditions (who does?), but there are obviously clauses that say they can do this at any time.
Ok, but the point is it’s a scummy move, not that they aren’t allowed.
who knew that streaming services aren’t the most sustainable business model… it would be real funny when Netflix roll back to disc rental.
Cancel it, you’ll be okay.
Fuck all these streaming service. I want Stremio, with the ability to pay a little directly to the creators of the things I watch. We need to break this system and replace it by something fair for the artists and creators, not to a fucking corporation that will give them pennies. People are willing to pay an amount for the media they consume, we just need to redirect the money to right people.until then stremio all the way.
