• mtchristo@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

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

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    Pirate your shows. Not just as a defense against ads, but as a defense against Disney throwing plotlines down the Memory Hole

    • Merlin@lemm.ee
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      7 days ago

      This is what I do:

      1. Buy a perpetual license to the content I want (usually on Prime or Microsoft Store)
      2. Pirate it and load it onto my PLEX server.

      This is the only way I can actually have control over the content that I fucking paid for. If that makes me a thief, then so be it.

      Of course, this only works for PPV content. I generally just don’t watch content that’s available via streaming subscriptions only. I never paid for cable and I’m not paying for cable 2.0.

  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    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

  • Carl@lemm.ee
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    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?

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      There’s no way this should be a profitable course of action. If I was paying for no Ads and started getting Ads I would immediately cancel my subscription and go somewhere else.

      Unfortunately too many people are good little consumers who just don’t care and it doesn’t even occur to them to stop paying and demand better.

  • Merlin@lemm.ee
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    Welp, just canceled that subscription. They can fuck right off.