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[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 43 points 1 day ago

When Hulu still had ads when you bought a subscription, I swore I would never pay them ever again. That was around 2014. I have stuck to it, and every year I am reminded why. Fuck Hulu.

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 24 points 23 hours ago

You seem to be hurt by modern subscriptions, take this, it will give you strength.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 245 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd cancel any service that did this to me.

Right? We don't have nice things because we put up with bull crap.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 100 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can’t be quizzed over ads if you pirate everything.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Piracy is a hassle, the convenience of streaming made the cost worthwhile. They've forgotten this. Once the cost outweighs the convenience, the hassle won't seem like such a hassle anymore.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Kodi, Seren add-on and a debrid provider like Premiumize gets me better service than any streaming provider. Multiple source streams on any show in the last couple decades and every movie way earlier than is available from any source I've ever seen. If its not available as a cached stream, I can queue a torrent file at their end and stack them up until I'm ready to watch it, but I've rarely had to do that.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, the last time I flew the jolly Roger was over a decade ago. Finding a stream/torrent that:

  1. Wasn't potato quality
  2. Had seeders
  3. Wasn't shut down since last time
  4. Wouldn't give you a virus
  5. Was actually the thing you were looking for (I did not have sexual relations with that woman)

was a much more time consuming process.

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[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago

It’s not a hassle at all. I use my phone to tell my computer what I’m interested in watching. It automatically downloads that, and when I’m ready to watch something it streams to my TV. After I’m done with it, my computer removes it.

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[–] udon@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can pirate the ads and quizzes

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A friend of mine in college pirated a japanese show which included the ads. The first episode seemed to have subs with legitimate translations. The rest of the season the subtitle author had fun and changed them to make fun of the ads. It was pretty funny.

There were no quizzes though...

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[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

I love when instagram goes: "have you heard about ...?" Presumably asking this as they just showed me an ad about it that i completely ignored and i just go "no i haven't".

The only use of showing me ads is them getting paid and wasting my time. I don't pay attention to them because i either don't need/want it, just bought it or can't afford it.

It's been a long time since i bought something as a result of watching an ad.

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 177 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Immediate uninstall and cancel.

Fuck that.

🏴‍☠️

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I already don’t subscribe to Hulu, but I want to do my part to fight this.

Is there something I can do actively to cost them money?

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[–] ech@lemm.ee 53 points 1 day ago

Aaaannnnd this just resolidifies my decision to not engage with streaming services. What a load of shit.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 115 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this fucking real? Get fucked, mainstream media, if this is the case. Plenty of books and old games to keep me occupied until Alzheimers hits, and then occupied again afterwards

[–] towerful@programming.dev 91 points 1 day ago (6 children)

This isn't mainstream media.
This is capitalism.

This is a company making a product, selling it for a given price, then making additional money from embedded ads.
Whether that ad revenue is additional profit, or to offset the actual cost of the item - because the sold it at a loss to beat their competitors - doesn't really matter.
This is the consumer paying for something, and not getting a full and complete product

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[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 95 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Drink verification can to continue

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[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago

hulu is owned by disney. encourage canceling disney+ too just for good measure

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Extremely infuriating. Fuck that, pirate hat stays firmly in place.

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[–] ye_olde_noob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago

do they make you keep watching the ad until you get it right?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] cramola@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you. Came to see if anyone had done this, was not disappointed

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I have one TV for my PC monitor and one for, well, TV. Both hardwired to the network, no external network access. Wrote a quick PS script to switch from one to the other or both, made it into an EXE with buttons, très chic. Everything streams off a crappy USB drive "RAID" array. OpenVPN server with Digital Ocean, hosted in Amsterdam, $6/month. DONE.

I'm not on some crusade against capitalism, I simply choose not to participate in bullshit like this.

tl;dr: STEAL YO SHIT.

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)
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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

These companies are insufferable.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 16 points 1 day ago

Arrr, what dickery be this "Hulu"?

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