The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad.

Yarr, matey.

If people would just drop their service en masse they would stop doing this shit. Everyone acts like they can be without a streaming service for a month or two so they'll just complain as they continue to hand them money.

If the no ads and ads free version contains adds then pirating is also not immoral anymore.

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't theft. ;-)

"circumstances may require"

No, you just want to do that.

What a wonderful world we live in - boneless chicken with bones, ad-free streaming with ads, unlimited plans with limits... What's next, Nestle releasing microplastics and cadmium free water (guess what's in it!)?

Reminder that whatever your feelings on copyright law are, stealing from Disney is fucking cool

I’d say “sounds like a lawsuit”. After all, you can’t advertise something as no ads, and then show ads.

But then I remember who is in charge for the next four years and realize they’ll just get away with it.

"No ads" don't mean we don't show ads....duh

I first time I see an ad on my ad-free subscription, I will cancel like I did with Prime Video.

It’s like they want us to become pirates.

Hulu has always had a clause like that. Their ad-free tier has always had a handful of shows that have an ad at the beginning and end, which is why I don't pay for the ad-free tier and just use NextDNS.

To be fair, it most likely refers to live streams, considering more steamers are offering them.

That being said, I cancelled in favour of the high seas and never looked back

Pirate your shows. Not just as a defense against ads, but as a defense against Disney throwing plotlines down the Memory Hole

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Ads free but with ads ! So words included in a contract don't carry the same meaning as in the dictionary ?

Product placement is advertising, and as such saying "no ads" while not blurring out product placement would be misselling the service

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I assume they mean the live TV offerings, and technically the Hulu splash at the start of every episode is marked as an ad.

But it’s still scummy.

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what the fuck are people actually paying for at this point

There's no way that they should be allowed to advertise "no ads" when there are in fact ads. This is consumer protection so basic and obvious that it should be a slam dunk even with the current government... right?

some titles always have had ads on hulu, regardless of a viewer's plan. they frame it as being 'required' by the content provider.. which, iirc, is usually them--a disney-owned entity for these titles.

This what we would call false advertising in my country.

You can't write: "NO ADS!*"

"*actually, maybe some ads, as a treat"

That's just completely negating the headline claim

Welp, just canceled that subscription. They can fuck right off.

Jesus fucking christ.

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"No ads" and "ad-free" apparently mean whatever they want it to! Man, I'm so tired of these giant, greedy corporations and modern enshittification...

I just assumed this disclaimer was for live sports, which include ads whether you want them to or not. It’s not like you can just leave out the commercial breaks in a live broadcast.

The biggest enabler of these are those bundles you get with cable / Internet providers. Do yourself a favor and buy these individually if at all so you can stop the subscriptions at any time without worries.

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Damn today sucks eztv gotta work a little harder removing those ads for me now

Beating will continue until morale improves

Ok. But the first one i see and im canceling

I just cancelled my subscription and got a refund too. Good riddance.

This isn’t new. They’ve been doing that since Agents of SHIELD was on the air. They would start with “this is not included in the no ads plan.”

Someone get Louis on the phone. There is another article for the Consumer Action Taskforce database waiting to be written.

If those titles require ads, don't include them in my feed. I don't want to know they exist.

Hulu was my Netflix alternative. If they start showing me ads I'm done with them too. Hopefully this was added for live events, sports, etc, but I don't know if they deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Surely the FTC will have some to say about this oh wait

Good thing I pirate all their shit already if I want it.

I stopped paying for Amazon Prime over a year ago once they announced similar bullshit with their video service.

Once Disney dropped subscription sharing.... I started downloading their shit too.

Now i'm left with Netflix and Crunchyroll. I'm this close to axing netflix. Crunchyroll is kinda shit but at least it's cheap.

So happy I can exist with no subscriptions!

Paramount Plus is the same way.

This is some "boneless wings may contain bones" bullshit, fuck Hulu.

Yup, just another reason to sail the seas, which is sad because I liked streaming while it lasted.

But become your own streaming service:

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I want to believe that all this is really saying is that if Hulu ever does a live event there will be ads but only time will tell

Often times the ads are included in live streamed content like sports. Sports that don’t have ads like older MLB streams just show a weird “we will be back soon” title card because they are just simulcasting the cable broadcast.

Yet another example of how paying for something doesn't prevent enshitification.

muh series

I love my torrent subscription

Hasn't Hulu had ads on their paid tiers for a long time now? I remember that being a big deal way back, so I never bothered with a subscription.

This might be meant to cover things like paid sponsorships.