Disney+ has updated its subscriber agreement to allow advertising before and after movies and shows across every subscription tier. The change quietly ends completely ad-free streaming on the platform, even for those paying top dollar.
That includes the Premium plan, which costs $18.99 a month and was originally sold on the promise of an uninterrupted viewing experience.
Subscribers now face an on-screen prompt when logging in, requiring them to actively accept the updated terms before they can keep watching.
How did you make it this far with Hulu? I noped out of that shit probably around 2014.
Yep, they were one of the first ones to start doing this. You want me to pay and you’re going to show me ads? Fuck no. You either get one or the other.
It’s $2 more than just Disney and family likes it.
they were one of the first that tried to get you to pay and have ads. I went no fucking way, never will they get my business.
As I recall, that was back when they were transitioning from having only a free ad-supported service to having a paid ad-free tier. Some of their contracts with a very small, specific set of shows didn’t allow them to be ad-free. Everything else was ad-free. And eventually they renegotiated those contracts and got everything ad-free. But people made a huuuuuge deal about how you’d be paying and still watch ads. It was like, four or five shows? And this was when Hulu was pretty much everything from current seasons on broadcast television, so they had a shitload of shows. I never saw an ad when I paid for it back then.