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: 93 93.0%

  • No

    Votes: 1 1.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 6 6.0%
  • Total voters
    100
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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Same but I would just switch to brave instead of the youtube app.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
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.
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The free tier is unwatchable as it is.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
99% of my Youtube watching is on TV.
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Yea watch quite a bit myself on tv and if they do all go advert crazy I have a ds218 loaned out to someone I'll just bring home and back to news hosts and providers. The fire tv cube will be sold off and I will use the Raspberry PI already attached to the tv for youtube and other streaming.

I really have no idea why the world is going full retard on adverts again, I suppose there is a big part of the planetary population that do not block these things or even know that they can be blocked?

Is there any consumer on the planet that actually appreciates adverts in any form?
 
AstroTurf said:
Yea watch quite a bit myself on tv and if they do all go advert crazy I have a ds218 loaned out to someone I'll just bring home and back to news hosts and providers. The fire tv cube will be sold off and I will use the Raspberry PI already attached to the tv for youtube and other streaming.

I really have no idea why the world is going full retard on adverts again, I suppose there is a big part of the planetary population that do not block these things or even know that they can be blocked?

Is there any consumer on the planet that actually appreciates adverts in any form?
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There is obviously a place for ad-supported content (this partially pays my salary) but it shouldn't exist as the only option and there should always be a paid tier which doesn't have ads.
 
Depends whether its at the start and I can skip it or not. If I can't skip it straight away its a cancel.
 
Would depend on when/where for the ad. Middle of a show or stream, bye bye. Also whats the benefit to me? Low sub fees? Same fees with ads?

Likely would cancel, not a fan of paying for a service with ads if it interrupts the service.
 
Right now as we discuss this...out there in boardrooms are lots of p0e$e in suits rubbing their hands thinking up new ways to leech more money from you whether it be via adds or new more expensive ad free top tiers or some sly bullocks.... Corporate greed. Something you can count on.
 
Adverts are so boring and to the point these days. Toothpaste, tampons, sinus problems, etc etc

Wouldn't mind watching classic South African ads if they re-ran them if the company still existed.

e.g

 
Yes, because it erodes value. Having to pay to watch ads is an anti-consumer crime. Ads also have a wide scope. I am not against relevant product placement. Ads are already annoying; being nagging and disruptive is bad practice. I haven't received an ad that is tailored to my needs in a long time. Either the algorithms don't understand my patterns at all, or the services are milking the advertisers, though I would say both.

The more we move into cloud-based services, where subscriptions will have a threshold, as in something like OOB, the more we will have to look at a billboard at every glance. It is crazy.

For someone who uses a service like Adsense among various others. The push to plaster your content with ad space is insane, but you can't do without it; otherwise you risk running, whatever, at a loss. This is the sad part. You have to advertise more FOR less. It is expensive per head to host content and to make it available and accessible.

Building a paid subscription base is hard work; monetizing those users is abusive.

Digitisation was supposed to bring down costs... Now with the AI age, not so much. Far too many ripples.
 
If a cheaper tier was introduced with ads, sure. Just don't go messing with or increasing the price of the current ad-free tiers.
 
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