Would you cancel a streaming subscription if it started showing paid ads?

Would you cancel a streaming subscription if it started showing paid ads?

  • Yes

    Votes: 113 93.4%

  • No

    Votes: 2 1.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 6 5.0%
  • Total voters
    121
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Walt Disney has updated its subscriber agreements in multiple countries, stating that all Disney+ plans may include promotional content, sponsorships, and advertisements.
Would you cancel a streaming subscription if it started showing paid ads?
 
AstroTurf said:
Adverts are the bane of humanity, they say prostitution is the oldest profession, I bet there was some dude putting up posters the day before.
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Dude Pompei has adverts for prossies
 
If they want to show me ads, they can setup an ad streaming channel that targets ads to me based on metadata etc but I can choose when to watch it. Like some of the old cable channels used to have home shopping channels. I do NOT want it popping up adhoc all over the place.
 
Maybe - I have ad supported streams from Hulu/Disney and the ads do get a bit much at times. I only keep them around to keep the missus happy.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
I'm a big Youtube user on the premium subscription. If Youtube tried to pull something like this I would cancel immediately and just change my consumption habits to something else.
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But that would just be taking you back to free, which you could do anyway by cancelling. YT premium exists precisely to remove ads...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
But that would just be taking you back to free, which you could do anyway by cancelling. YT premium exists precisely to remove ads...
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I'm saying if Premium did start including ads I would cancel it. Not saying this would happen but who knows what the future holds, the free tier could become so unwatchable with ads that they decide that Premium could just become something that reduces ads in stead of removing them.
 
Disney+ will do it anyway, this is how it starts.

Believe it or not DStv mostly didn't used to have ads.
 
Brian_G said:
Disney+ will do it anyway, this is how it starts.

Believe it or not DStv mostly didn't used to have ads.
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In 1995? Not really no just to show the stuff that was upcoming, M-Net did have ads though. But as streaming services start realising that licensing costs money, that content doesn't come free and subs can't cover it all the time. Ads will come
 
Lupus said:
But as streaming services start realising that licensing costs money, that content doesn't come free and subs can't cover it all the time. Ads will come
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That's what they want you to believe. Have a look at their balance sheets for starters.
 
Brian_G said:
Disney+ will do it anyway, this is how it starts.

Believe it or not DStv mostly didn't used to have ads.
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The selling point since the M-Net days were no ads during movies. That's still the case on DSTV. It only seems like more because we don't spend as much time watching movies anymore and are consuming more of the other content...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
The selling point since the M-Net days were no ads during movies. That's still the case on DSTV. It only seems like more because we don't spend as much time watching movies anymore and are consuming more of the other content...
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Also we've gotten used to having things like the PVR and catchup, I mean I got my first HD PVR back in 2008, ads became a thing of the past when I got that, cause you just recorded and fast forwarded through the ads.
Then streaming came along and ads disappeared as well, but before the PVR ads did have some benefits, quick run to the loo, quick run to get a snack.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
The selling point since the M-Net days were no ads during movies. That's still the case on DSTV. It only seems like more because we don't spend as much time watching movies anymore and are consuming more of the other content...
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Actually there's an interesting story there - they tried introducing ads interrupting movies years ago, there was a big public outcry as they originally promised never to do it. Then they tried putting them at the start of movies, same reaction, and then they tried banners, that also shot down.

Corporate greed.
 
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