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Re:YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the S... by const_cast on Sunday June 01, 2025 @05:48PM (#44153982)
Paying for streaming services used to result in zero ads too, and now lots of services either don't offer ad-free or charge double for it.

I think ads are extremely valuable to brands, more than we realize. It's basically allowed propaganda for consumerist behavior. I don't think we can set a pricetag on ads, which is why I don't think they'll ever go away. This is just temporary, don't get used to it.

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Re:YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the S... by mvdtnz on Sunday June 01, 2025 @07:02PM (#44154400)
Which streaming services added ads to their paid ad-free plan? I don't know of any, although many of them are not offered in my country.
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Re:YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the S... by const_cast on Sunday June 01, 2025 @07:35PM (#44154575)
HBO Max, Disney plus, netflix. So... you know, all the big ones. The only one that stands out really is Hulu, which always had ads.
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Re:YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the S... by mvdtnz on Monday June 02, 2025 @02:50PM (#44161815)
Netflix most certainly didn't. They added a cheaper ad-supported plan. I don't know for sure about the other two.
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Re:YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the S... by const_cast on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @04:43PM (#44174508)
Well but then they also raised their prices repeatedly so the cheaper plan isn't actually cheaper, it's what the ad-free plan used to cost.
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