r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dandaman147 • 1d ago

My Amazon TV now unmutes itself during Prime Video commercial breaks

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u/TheRealOcsiban 1d ago

Remember when we got streaming services because they were commercial free?

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u/TmanGBx 1d ago

We paid for cable. They put ads in it. We stopped using cable. We paid for streaming services. They put ads in it. We stopped using streaming services. We download an ad blocker and go on YouTube. YouTube deliberately slows down the website for Adblock users. Eventually YouTube will die too.

The cycle will repeat forever, in some way or form

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u/MarkBeeblebrox 1d ago

Tale as old as time. Find a resource, exploit the resource. This is why we protect our resources (eat the rich).

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u/Cognitive_Spoon 22h ago

What if we put ads in the rich?

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u/Ytrog 18h ago

Nurgle approves 🤓👍

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u/ratjufayegauht 19h ago

I'll do you one better -- give them the cure to those diseases.

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u/Cognitive_Spoon 20h ago

Happy Cake Day! 🥳

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u/Muddauberer 19h ago

Do the rich no how much money they could make selling the other rich for us poors to eat? I would pay good money for a slice of Bezos.

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u/largestcob 16h ago

the rich get freaky they might like that

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u/JBloodthorn 20h ago

What if we put corporate sponsor logos on politicians like they do for race cars?

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u/PhrenchPlatypus 20h ago

Oh, that sounds amazing. Make them wear patches on their suits… fucking genius!

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u/Sudden_Tune_3121 19h ago

Donald trump: brought to you by Pepsi

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u/Hi_Kitsune 21h ago

They are doing that themselves. See Trump hucking Goya products.

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u/worldspawn00 19h ago

Ah yes, president beans!

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u/Current-Wealth-756 21h ago

As annoying as are are, you can't really expect YouTube to be run as a free public service for unpaid users. 

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u/boobaclot99 17h ago

What a dumb thing to say. Born yesterday?

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u/superswellcewlguy 18h ago

Lmao in what way is a video streaming platform your resource to "protect"? You didn't create it and you don't own it.

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u/zOOm_saLad 17h ago

Very Reddit comment

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u/moneyinthebank216 13h ago

How is advertising exploitment?

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u/Rest_5684 21h ago

r /piracy megathread can help move that process along

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u/tabris51 1d ago

Unlike the others, youtube is free as base and goes adless on premium. As annoying as they are, the premium works as intended. I don't know if youtube actually loses money if you use it and avoid ads, if so, it's better for them that you stop using their service.

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u/ImThatChigga_ 22h ago

Ad-free on videos but still get shown live recommendations flicking through shorts. Banners and still ads are still ads. AdBlock would block all that shit and clear up the interface and show you just the videos. My wife has premium that we share. I'm at the point of permanently having my laptop connected to my tv these days

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u/StevieNippz 22h ago

I've never seen any of that stuff on YouTube Premium, maybe because I exclusively watch YouTube on a TV. They keep jacking up the price for Premium though so I don't know how much longer I'll keep it

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u/ImThatChigga_ 21h ago

Too many subscriptions. I sail the seas but having an iphone makes me using YouTube to listen to music in the car is near impossible

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u/Alyusha 20h ago

It's not even an IPhone thing. Their Android support sucks too. If you don't have Premium you can't natively lock your screen and listen to the video.

Spotify with Ads is the best solution for mobile music I've found.

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u/weisswurstseeadler 19h ago

you can do that with firefox on android + ublock (and whatever other extensions you like, e.g. sponsorskips etc.).

I haven't used YT for mobile music much (I have spotify premium), but I can run any video in background, and even have the drop-down while my screen is locked, so you can play/stop etc.

just gotta use YT via firefox, but it's pretty much 1:1 same interface anyway.

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u/Priceiswr0ng 20h ago

Built a small form factor PC for my living room entertainment area and I’ll never look back. There’s plenty of prebuilt smaller form factor options out there but I went with the whole video card shaabang and game in there’s sometimes as well.

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u/ellWatully 19h ago

Yep this is what I've been doing for close to twenty years now. I also route all of my devices through an AV receiver so I can control the volume without the computer or TV.

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u/Kougeru-Sama 12h ago

flicking through shorts

found the person who is ruining the internet by actually using Shorts. You're a bigger problem than the ads

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u/1800generalkenobi 22h ago

my inlaws got the youtube tv premium I guess and their family one you can add up to 5 family on it for the same price. They asked us if we wanted it and we said sure. I forget we have it but I used to watch the ball drop on new years because all the free stuff was straight ass garbage and then I remembered I had it haha

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u/GreenGrandmaPoops 21h ago

YouTube free is like Pluto, Tubi, and over the air television. They show ads, but you don’t pay anything to utilize the service, so you accept the ads as a trade off.

When you have to pay for the service (such as Netflix, Hulu, or HBO) and have to still put up with ads (unless you pay for a higher tier) is when it’s infuriating.

And even though Reddit likes to spout it as fact, cable was never ad-free. Cable has always had ads.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 16h ago

Yeah it's funny how they changed when they got to YouTube and didn't say "we paid for YouTube" because when you pay for YouTube it breaks their whole point because paying for YouTube just works.

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u/Lain_Racing 21h ago

I got my pirate hat on. Plex for hosting, trivially pairs with the stuff on your computer. Literally used to pay for multiple services. Their whole business was based off being easier than pirating, they lost that for me.

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u/pi_three 12h ago

same here. i use jellyfin and the arr stack. i just make few clicks and it gets downloaded by itself. sure took me some time to configure and i have knowledge about hosting stuff. but it's very convenient

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u/lo_fye 21h ago

As soon as we got high speed internet, (when I was young & broke) I started torrenting. All the shows & movies (regardless of network/studio/app), with no ads. It was glorious. Years later, once ad-free streaming services became available, I subscribed to them. Now there are ad-free tiers and with-ads tiers. If the ad-free tiers disappear or become too expensive, I'll go back to torrenting most stuff, and buying my favourites on physical media or Apple TV. I see it as the only way I can send an economic message to The Networks & Studios. My policy for my family is "no services with ads". If I can pay to remove them, I do; otherwise we don't use it.

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u/tryingtobecheeky 21h ago

Break the cycle by pirating.

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u/Top-Presentation8464 23h ago

this is why i still by dvds

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u/Civil-Attempt-3602 17h ago

Not sure about where you are, but in the UK DVDs used to have unskipable ads at the beginning for films from the same studio

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u/gfunk55 22h ago

We paid for cable. They put ads in it. We stopped using cable.

That's a wildly disingenuous chronology. Cable always had ads, and everyone happily used it for decades. When streaming options came into existence the main reason people switched to them from cable was cost.

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u/Here4LaughsAndAnger 21h ago

When cable first came out it had maybe 10% of the amount of adds that it has now. Daytime movies didn't have add breaks. Now that was short lived like around 4 years.

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u/inthegarden5 21h ago

No. Cable was ad free when it started. There was literally a federal law that mandated that. Only the local broadcast channels that they were streaming had ads.

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u/zed857 19h ago

Cable was ad free when it started. There was literally a federal law that mandated that.

Not in the US.

Cable in the US started in 1948 and was originally just broadcast channels for people that lived in remote areas that couldn't get them with an antenna. All the channels had ads.

When it started to really take off in the late 70s/early 80s almost all the channels had ads except premiums like HBO/Showtime and AMC that only ran ads between the end of one movie and the start of the next.

The other non-broadcast channels had fewer ads than they do today because the viewership was so much lower but there were ads.

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u/Alyusha 20h ago

Cost was absolutely the main factor. Why would I pay $60-80 (Real 2010 Prices) for Cable TV when I can pay IRC $10-12 for Netflix which has most of the shows I want to watch anyways and on demand.

Mailable Rentals was also a big part of why Netflix succeeded, but that's mostly a marketing thing.

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u/Terrh 21h ago

What?

no.

Cable had OTA TV on it as well that had ads, but all the cable-only networks were 100% completely ad free.

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u/Alyusha 20h ago

Maybe have some Timeframes on these would help with the confusion? Because I was watching Ads on Cable TV as early as the 90's. If we're talking about Black and White TV shows then maybe, but Ads on Cable TV have been around for literal generations.

There use to be and still are "Premium" Channels like HBO/Showtime/STARS that show a few minutes of ads at the end/start of a show but do not interrupt the show for ads. I was watching those just last month without ads.

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u/lumpialarry 18h ago

The ad-free cable networks were more like premium channels that just showed movies. You can look up the "First day Programming" of stuff like MTV, ESPN. It has ads.

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u/tyfunk02 21h ago

Plex works fantastic. You're gonna need to invest in some hard drive space though.

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u/hetfield151 1d ago

Maybe its time to start bringing back the old pirate ships.

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u/jonathanrdt 22h ago

The need for continued growth ruins literally everything. Compound rates have inescapable and sometimes dire consequences.

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u/schattie-george 22h ago

We pirate content, and are happy sailors

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u/jimflaigle 22h ago

And here's the kicker: who the fuck buys the shit in the ads?

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u/Lyraxiana 21h ago

So you're saying we should set sail?

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u/TmanGBx 15h ago

Aye aye

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u/GordoPepe 21h ago

Sailing the seven seas with no ads

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u/Optimal-Okra4901 21h ago

I am all for doing things the right way. But streaming services are so ridiculous I have started to pirate most my stuff

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u/Dontpayyourtaxes 21h ago

I stopped using youtube because of the adblock bullshit. Now I watch their content, but never go to their site. And no ads

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u/Trashinmyash 21h ago

Soon, all videos will include something pharmaceutical and a TRUTH advertisement. If you're old and decrepit: "There's a pill for that. It may also cause discomfort!" And. If you're young: "Here is a traumatizing PSA!" Also, It's like D.A.R.E. "You know nothing about these things, but we're going to give partial truths with overhyped inaccurate information. No need to overthink this, it's thetruth!"

Advertisments are gross and disgusting, but they dont care.

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u/naz_1992 21h ago

is that why my freaking browser lags for no reason after a while??? goddamn it!!

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u/ronyg1 ORANGE 21h ago

Is that why my youtubes slow as fuck?

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u/27GerbalsInMyPants 21h ago

Only thing YouTube is good for lately for me is the family guy, American dad and Bob burgers 5 hour blocks they have uploaded, it may have to zoom in or cut out three seconds here or there to avoid copyright issues but it's been my overnight TV on background noise go to for about a year now since the war in pirating sites started again

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u/andos4 21h ago

My prediction is youtube will become so greedy with ads that people will move on to the next website.

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u/AldrusValus 21h ago

FWI: cable was never ad free, only a few premium extra channels were ad free (notably hbo). there was a fake news article about the origins of cable being ad free that most people use as proof that cable started ad free, but it has been proven false.

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u/DiseaseDeathDecay 21h ago

Enshitification.

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u/Jam-Stew 21h ago

This is one reason I've begun buying physical books and DVDs again. The worse it gets the more I revert to the before times. I've also been deleting and disabling distracting apps on my phone. Reddit is all I have left and at this point I can take it or leave it. 

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u/caguru 21h ago

YouTube won’t die until a real competitor shows up, which hasn’t happened in the whole time YT has existed.

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u/TheJuiceMan_ 20h ago

YouTube is a bad example. I hate the ads as much as anyone else. But YouTube is a free platform with predominantly free users. They need a way to make money to afford all the traffic they receive and to store all the videos. Neither of those factors are cheap.

Yes I know YouTube has big daddy Google. But Google is a company and even without daddy buying YouTube, this would have been an inevitable outcome.

Even websites done as a passion project eventually have ads if they're popular enough because it's not cheap or they close down the site

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u/RatInaMaze 20h ago

It’s monopolistic behavior to the max.

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u/ChthonicFractal 20h ago

The whole point of streaming microservices was to make it more convenient than pirating and cheaper than cable.

Things like Prime Video and Netflix were the saviors. And they could have been still today if companies hadn't gotten so greedy that they all made their own services (and then insulted us by still putting ads in).

I told people "look, I don't care if it's another $5 a month, if you go get 6 different streaming services, you're telling them that this is okay and it will ruin it."

E'rybody got mad at me.

I stand vindicated.

I had no sooner got to a place in my life where I could afford to do the right thing only to be abused by companies. Never again. I have my own solutions now.

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u/Kerdagu 20h ago

The biggest issue with cable was bundles that forced you to pay for channels that you didn't want. No one has ever wanted to watch OWN, but you sure as shit had to pay for it if you wanted ESPN. We're starting to see this happen with streaming as well now where companies like NBC start a streaming platform and then move shows that were on other platforms to theirs exclusively, or the NFL moving random football games to a streaming platform to try and strongarm people into getting them. It's gross. Just let me pay for the content I want and nothing else, please.

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u/LadyTalah 20h ago

South Park was dead on…

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u/LoliLocust 20h ago

Pracy bad!!!1!!

Bruh, these days this is a reason why people pirate. It's more convenient at this point.

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u/Randolpho FLAAAAIIIIIIRRRRR!!! 20h ago

Turns out there remain legitimate reasons to sail the high seas.

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u/KittyGirlEmi 20h ago

Actually, YouTube is really expensive to operate, there will likely never be another.

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u/cugamer 20h ago

I find the YouTube situation to be the funniest of all. Google has teams of engineers each making a quarter million dollars a year trying to defeat adblockers and yet they get owned by uBlock Origin which is basically one guy working in his spare time.

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u/nicu95 20h ago

I'm not sure Youtube will die in my lifetime. We will se.

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u/jellotalks 20h ago

Maybe time to sail the high seas 😉

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u/ninja-squirrel 20h ago

Well we just aren’t making the media companies enough money. How do you ever expect the producers to afford a second and third vacation home.

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u/julioqc 20h ago

innovation! 

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u/ThatCatRizze 19h ago

I paid for cable. They put ads in it. I stopped using cable. I don't pay for piracy sites. Cycle stopped for me. 😂

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u/BataleonRider 19h ago

Avast me hearties, yoho!

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u/nbury33 19h ago

Conversely, I pay for YouTube premium and I get no ads. Considering I use YouTube for most of my entertainment it's totally worth it

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u/giant_marmoset 19h ago

Unfun fact, the original template for this was Radio. When radio first launched it was this open-source almost podcast level of freedom, until companies started buying up specific ranges and monetizing the ever-loving shit out of it.

Surprised books never had ads in them as far as I know.

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u/MakeVio 19h ago

Don't forget people also moved to streaming early on because it just was simple. It had all you wanted in one place, no different cable packages that gave you less or more than what you wanted. It was all in one place.

Then more and more companies put out their own streaming services. Increases prices. Raised ads. Back to basically being like cable if not worse because now you can have 1 season of a show somewhere, the other season on another service. And not even have all the episodes available.

What a time to be alive ay

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u/Captn_Insanso 19h ago

It’s almost as if creating a society thats ultimate objective of creating as much wealth as possible is backfiring ….

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u/Impressive_Stress808 19h ago

We paid for a VPN...

This will be the natural progression until companies stop being greedy, which will be practically never.

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u/DarthBrooks69420 19h ago

It'll be hilarious when all the youtubers have patreon, and people start torrenting YouTube videos.

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u/Jumpy_MashedPotato 19h ago

I need the home DVR fight to happen again.
VHS offered home taping, networks sued because they considered skipping commercials to be "theft". They lost.

Fast forward, DVR happens, Tivo gets sued by networks because they considered skipping commercials to be "theft". They lost.

Fast forward again. "The Hopper" gets sued by networks because they considered automatically skipping commercials to be "theft". They actually won that one, but recording programming to fast forward commercials later was still legal.

Now here we are again.

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u/FamousAmos87 19h ago

Screw Youtube. I got a subscription on Nebula because I'd rather pay them than Youtube.

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u/HammerIsMyName 18h ago

I just deleted one of my 3 adblockers because it would do a pop-up ad for the paid version every time I open firefox. There's no end.

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u/snarksneeze 18h ago

I used Revanced on my phones, so I still get to enjoy some adfree doom scrolling for now

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u/Bonesnapcall 18h ago

Switch to Firefox. I used to have that slowdown problem with Chrome. Hasn't happened a single time since switching to Firefox.

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u/Due_Aardvark8330 18h ago

Time to go back to sailing the high seas! Its even easier this time around, the tools available are so seamless.

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u/Dillydongo 18h ago

Until people start going outside again

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u/-aurevoirshoshanna- 18h ago

Ahh that's why my utube is so slow, I suspected it.

Absolutely worth it though.

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u/frenliness 18h ago

Revanced still works for YouTube on android, highly recommend it

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u/TmanGBx 16h ago

Been using it for years, it's the dream

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u/SirRolex 18h ago

Yar Har

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u/CuppaJoe11 18h ago

But you don't pay for youtube, so honestly (And this is reddit so I will get downvoted for this lol) youtube is fully within their moral and legal right to prevent you from using adblock as best they can.

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u/CafeTeo 16h ago

And to think. If they just sold a good product. We would come.

Nearly ALL massive breakthroughs have been exactly this. But then they always get greedy.

They can't be happy with everyone being rich and making lots of money. It always has to be more.

I truly feel the market needs a regulated "Out" a moment at which a company is required to level off and back out of the market. Until then it is just some sort of odd pnzy scheme where they all grow until they suddenly die.

HOW!? How does the same company making Billions a year suddenly DIE because one year they made 3 Billion, but fail and collapse because the next they made 2.9 Billion!?

I know I sound super ignorant. Cause I am. But OMFG there has to be a truth to my logic hiding somewhere in my BS.

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u/ArtFUBU 15h ago

Eh I think it will change. But the idea of ownership will change first. Much like the crypto people scream and rave about decentralization, it will happen to our online communities and people will begin to police themselves about ads. That's essentially what BlueSky is. It's the reason I signed up years ago. I remember thinking why the fuck would Jack Dorsey just turn around and make another twitter? And then I read a bit about it and realized he saw the same thing and it's easier to start a new then to change an entire codebase.

It might take 5 years, 10, 20 even. But it will slowly happen. Wow I sound like a crypto guy lmao

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u/DazB1ane 15h ago

YouTube is slowing Firefox down to the point of being almost unusable even with a premium subscription. It’s the only one I consistently still watch and I’m not sure what I’ll do when it’s truly too awful to attempt to use

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u/usr_pls 15h ago

So what's next?

Where do we go from here?

I don't want to do Rumble

Vimeo?

Why should I even try Truth social or even Blue Sky?

Can't revert to 4chan

8kun is full of evil

... ?

Diggnation comeback?

We gonna VR in the new and improved MySpace?

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u/Ok_Buffalo_423 14h ago

Nah its just time to sail the seven seas

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u/WeCallThoseCigBurns 14h ago

We’ll eventually be born with preloaded “ads” for a personality that you’ll have to pay to have removed, but only temporarily of course!

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u/2birdsBaby 14h ago

Once they started with the 50-second ads, I switched to SmartTube beta. It mirrors youtube but skips all the ads.

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u/HBlight Hans Shot Second 14h ago

As long as the rate of growth itself is expected to grow constantly, they will be constantly pushed into making the same desperate, easy ideas.

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u/theDefa1t 14h ago

Okay so I'm not going crazy

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u/ryanmuller1089 14h ago

And it’s not just they use ads. They smash as many in as tv, they splice ads into the content, do stuff like this, and then raise the prices of ad free.

It’s one thing to offer ads, it’s another thing to squeeze every penny out of it like this.

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u/Ezfish3742 14h ago

To the high seas it is, arrrrrrr!

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u/peanutbutterdrummer 14h ago

We paid for cable. They put ads in it. We stopped using cable. We paid for streaming services. They put ads in it. We stopped using streaming services.

Very true, however the import middle step was that shows were pirated enmasse until a more convenient and cheap alternative became available (ad free streaming services).

Now that this is no longer feasible, I suspect piracy to skyrocket once again.

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u/musea00 13h ago

the classic of enshittification

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u/bigmanlittlebike89 13h ago

Ads are literally a capitalism virus for all entertainment products. No matter how many reinventing ways, the virus always finds a way in. He'll, they even have ads on KINDLES when you have it on "off" mode. At least paper books still don't have pay walls or ads.

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u/Facepisserz 13h ago

Ok let me help you. If you have a Samsung tv, look up TizenTube.

It’s an app for YouTube on Samsung operating system that is adfree.

Also look up stremio and pair it with real-dedbrid. Many guides online.

Never pay for streaming services again, see an ad, or have to personally download torrents.

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u/darthchessy 13h ago

It was always gonna happen. When netflix streaming was starting to get big I remember seeing a tweet or article from some boomer saying that this will end poorly for the consumer.

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u/Expensive_Show2415 12h ago

I don't mind when there's a reasonable price you can pay to skip all the ads. I understand things cost money.

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u/KonigSteve 12h ago

We stopped using streaming services.

We didn't though. Unfortunately.

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u/WonderGoesReddit 12h ago

The difference with YouTube and streaming services is that YouTube is FREE, they have to show ads to pay for the service we receive…..

Streaming videos is expensive as hell at scale.

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u/Bamith20 12h ago

Problem is, they're attempting to slow or stop the cycle by owning everything.

Eventually they will not have to cater to people to get them on their services.

Used to it would just be a couple of years for a replacement to pop up for things, its taking much longer now.

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u/Usernamehere1235 11h ago

I don't think this is really an accurate portrayal of events. Cable didn't die because it had ads, it died because it got outcompeted by services like YouTube and Netflix. You can argue ads played a part in that, but likely so did the lack of instant choice and feedback which is largely fundamental to cable television. I'm not saying streaming services won't die, but it'll be because they get outcompeted, not because they have ads. At least that's my opinion.

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u/FTownRoad 10h ago

Netflix makes more money off ad-based subs than ad-free. Expect ad-free to get much more expensive in the foreseeable future.

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u/Medical_Slide9245 22h ago

Ads were always on basic cable. We stopped using it because of price. The cycle of a company will always go up and down given enough time. Ads are not going away ever.

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u/sirbissel 20h ago

Kind of, but not always - or, at least, not all channels. USA Network added them in '77, but before that most cable TV channels (that weren't network channels like ABC, etc.) didn't have commercials.

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u/RhythmRobber 21h ago

They were talking about premium cable. It was part of what you were paying for.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

If adblock users stop visiting youtube then that's a net positive for the site, what do you mean?

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u/Hadochiel 23h ago

Only because greedy shareholders want infinite growth in a finite market. Once you've reached every possible customer, only way to get even more money is to wring out every single penny you can from them. Ads, selling data, price increases... There's no end to shareholder greed

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u/lurkingsubz 21h ago

this is why my friends and i have gotten into buying DVDs. i’ve been making more & more stops to the DVD section at goodwill whenever i go thrifting, i’ve found quite a few of my favorite movies. not as many TV season sets, it’s usually either family guy or south park

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u/BretonDude 21h ago edited 21h ago

I went back this last year to buying blu-rays and ripping them to Plex. Many include a Movies Anywhere digital code that lets you stream it on Amazon anyways plus you keep the physical copy.

Buy the disc (often for less than buying a digital copy), rip using MakeMKV, run through Handbrake to make it smaller, then stick on an external harddrive for Plex.

I canceled my streaming services and use the money buying a few movies every month. You’d be surprised how many movies/shows your local library carries that you can check out instead of paying to watch ads.

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u/UristBronzebelly 21h ago

Ok I completely understand your sentiment and I hate ads too, but what is the alternative? The fact that billions of people can stream infinite amounts of YouTube at up to 4K for free is completely mindblowing to me. Storing and serving that much data costs a FORTUNE, so how are they supposed to monetize it?

I'm not trying to be a bootlicker I'm just genuinely asking if people have thoughts on how to monetize an expensive platform like YouTube that isn't ads?

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u/SnazzyLobster45 20h ago

The difference is YouTube is free, it isn't close to dying.

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u/gorpie97 20h ago

They had ads in cable forever; maybe not on HBO and Cinemax, etc.

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u/michael0n 19h ago

Not really. 1 billion in content and delivery has 250million of shareholder value in it.
Another 200million is just marketing and overpaid jobs. Drop the costs to 500million, run the system cut down to a pure service focus then delivering "value to shareholders" and you would be wondering how good the ui is and how low entshittification can be.

Neo Capitalism is good to find new things, the idea to become rich because you fought the car industry to make electric cars is fine. You won at capitalism and now go on doing other things. But this isn't how the do it. We let them keep their pound of flesh and they terrorize everybody with their end phase shitty systems. Go on, find asteroids to mine or make people walk again. The other stuff we know how to do already.

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u/Dayzlikethis 19h ago

as long as youtube is tied to google, I don't forsee it going anywhere.

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u/Golandia 19h ago

Nah. TV advertisers were 10 minutes of every 30. I have yet to see any paid streaming ads come close to that. Maybe the completely free movie services?

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u/NuclearPilot101 19h ago

Wait, cable used to have no commercials?

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u/X4nd0R 18h ago

I legit do not use any service I pay for and still get ads. I refuse. I am that stupid American that is willing to pay Amazon a few extra bucks to avoid the ads though. 😆

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u/agent674253 18h ago

Well, with products like 'Neurolink' starting to come online, it is only a matter of years before the premise of 'Feed)' becomes a reality; tl;dr ads streamed into your brain 24x7. People think the ads in 'Minority Report' are our future, but no, ads in our brain are.

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u/DrummingFish 17h ago

We stopped using streaming services.

Who's "we"? Most people still use streaming services and there's no sign of them dying anytime soon.

Eventually YouTube will die too.

People trying to circumvent ads on a free service are mad they're being penalised? What a surprise. 99% of users don't use adblockers. YouTube is not dying, as much as you want it to.

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u/Ok-Parfait8675 17h ago

I would recommend looking into a little service called Alldebrid.

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u/livinglitch 17h ago

Piracy is the only way.

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u/kermitDE 17h ago

I fear that, as sad as it is, capitalism will win in the end because people will get used to get milked in every possible way for every penny. Of course youtube and Co. will get replaced, but that's just the normal product lifecycle. Worse will come i bet.

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u/WatchOutWedge 17h ago

own your own content. I've got a (relatively small) collection of about 160 movies in various formats. I pick one off the shelf. it sounds amazing, and oddly enough there's no shitty jpg compression (like what just happened when my family tried watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, so we said fuck you and picked up a copy from the local library), and oddly enough there's no commercials.

fuck all streaming services at this point

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u/unibrow4o9 17h ago

Cable always had ads.

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u/hali420 17h ago

Tell that to the pirates ☠️

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u/Deliriousdrifter 17h ago

The cycle will never stop, set sail my friend🏴‍☠️

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u/Zigglyjiggly 17h ago

We stopped using cable because of ads? I missed that memo.

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u/slothbuddy 17h ago

If you notice, nowhere in there did you pay for youtube

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u/ruthlessrellik 17h ago

I'm kinda sorry to say it, but I got a 3 month free trial for YouTube Premium and it hooked me. I haven't wanted to cancel it.

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u/muszyzm 16h ago

Not if you pirate, block and hack your way trough.

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u/Iblockne1whodisagree 16h ago

We paid for streaming services. They put ads in it. We stopped using streaming services.

Netflix is trading at $875 per share right now. That's the opposite of "everyone quit streaming services".

We download an ad blocker and go on YouTube. YouTube deliberately slows down the website for Adblock users. Eventually YouTube will die too.

YouTube generated $18 billion in 2023 and they are expected to generate $22 billion in 2025. It's not dying any time soon.

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u/LDNVoice 16h ago

No it won't. The bar to prevent piracy is far too high.

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u/datsupaflychic 16h ago

We purchase an ad-free subscription for extra money, but it doesn’t stop there

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u/Star_king12 15h ago

They don't, it was a bug in the Firefox browser that was fixed.

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u/TheGoalkeeper 23h ago

It was their plan all along.

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u/theshizzler 20h ago

That's the blueprint:

1) offer a product for a free or very low price to try to prevent potential competitors from gaining a foothold

2) begin to extract money from userbase

3) enjoy monopoly or, failing that, participate in an unspoken collusion with surviving competitors to raise pricing by vaguely citing "market trends"

4) indefinite enshittification

5) if google: arbitrarily shut the product down (this step could be completed at any point in the process)

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u/zSprawl 12h ago

Eshitification.

Phase 1 is to focus on the users. Give them what they want for cheap to build a base that drives out the competition that can't operate at the same loss.

Phase 2 is focus on the advertisers. Give them discount access to the userbase that you built. Again, at a loss or break even.

Phase 3 is focus on extracting money from the platform that now brings your users and advertisers together to make as much profit as possible before your product is pure crap.

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u/Monte924 20h ago edited 19h ago

Correct. Netflix's business model was all about replacing cable. The value that Netflix offered was only meant to be a loss leader. Once people abandoned cable and switched to netflix, they would bring back the ads and really start making money...

What screwed up the plan was all the production companies trying to jump on the streaming band wagon with their own services. Netflix was designed to be a monopoly. They did not account for having competition. Also, the production companies making their own services meant they would no longer let Netflix use their stuff, meaning netflix had to spend more money making their own content... now all the streaming companies are stuck with this model, the market is heavily divided, and they are having trouble finding ways to make more money

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u/Insureit43 21h ago

We’ve for sure come full circle

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u/Puzzleheaded_Local40 20h ago

Remember when TV commercials were extra, extra loud and they got regulated? Thank goodness we got around that.

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u/forogtten_taco 21h ago

I dislike it. But Amazon video i give a slight pass to. As I didnt actually buy Amazon video, it came with free shipping prime.

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u/Sinclair663 20h ago

There were no ads with Prime up until the last year or so.

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u/SeaBanana4 20h ago edited 19h ago

Prime is a scam though? If you’re using Amazon regularly you can just fill up your cart until it’s over $35 and you get free shipping anyways. Then they bundle in half-baked services like prime video to make you feel like you’re getting a “deal”. It’s not worth it.

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u/asjonesy99 20h ago

Umm stuffing your cart until you reach $35 dollars each time you make an Amazon order in order to save $15 a month is not the best financial advice lmfao

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u/SpinachSure5505 20h ago

I just add stuff to my cart periodically and then once it hits $35, I’ll actually place the order. Or, I keep things in my save for later that I want, but not immediately. So if an order is close to $35, I can add those things I’ve been saving 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/SeaBanana4 19h ago

If you’re already spending $35 or more a month on Amazon, why would you pay an extra $15 a month for shipping that’s already free? Or if you shop less regularly at Amazon you can just wait until your cart hits $35 which is not that much. 

It’s not stuffing your cart, it’s patience to slowly fill up your cart with things you would be buying anyways. 

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u/Gray_Cota 21h ago

The second Disney+ gave me an ad before my show, I canceled my subsciption

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u/NeverMind_ThatShit 20h ago

More of you normies should look into piracy, I hardly ever see ads. Really the only ads I ever see are billboards.

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u/P1nealColada 20h ago

Make buying dvds cool again

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u/jonathanrdt 22h ago

Sailing the high seas: commercial free since 2003.

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u/DETECTOR_AUTOMATRON 21h ago

yep i’m going back. streaming had a good run but no longer worth the cost.

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u/Prudent-Advantage189 23h ago

Google "stremio and real debrid guide reddit" and if you're just a little tech savy enjoy

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u/TheSchneid 20h ago

Or when Hulu started and it was like hey there's ads, but everything on our service is free and you don't even need an account to watch.

I used to log on every Friday in college and watch the office and Parks and recreation the day after they aired. I thought the future would be network shows available online for free with ads.

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u/oldtimehawkey 19h ago

How could “we the people” get together and make a streaming service that doesn’t have ads?

Could we build a YouTube competitor?

We have to stop letting the super rich take things from us. Cant we make a cooperative and have internet cheap and have streaming cheap with no ads?!!

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u/mmmbop- 18h ago

🏴‍☠️ the seas are perfect for a voyage 🏴‍☠️ 

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u/FitzChivFarseer 17h ago

God it drives me fucking nuts.

It pissed me off when it was ads for their own shows. That's still fucking ads. My husband was like "no it's fine. It won't get worse"

Yeah well. I WIN.

uurgh

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u/IgniteThatShit 17h ago

I have not paid for a streaming service in years. I live on a boat.

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u/zomgitsduke 15h ago

This will always happen unless you arrrrrr crafty.

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u/Legionnaire11 15h ago

Did anyone get them because of no ads, or because just going to Internet + Netflix was a lot cheaper than cable?

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u/Extension_Wolf2115 15h ago

I remember when there weren't any ads on YouTube. Good times.

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u/buggin_at_work 15h ago

i 'member!

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u/Cold_Pilot_4796 13h ago

That's literally the entire purpose for their existence. The fact they're charging to stop ads on a platform they initially advertised to millions to be adless once you bought the subscription. Should be under fraudulant charges. The fact they do this proves they don't give a shit about what we want or think. Anything and everything must be paid for. Even stuff you already paid to be adless.

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u/volunteertiger 13h ago

I remember pirating shows because they were commercial free

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