Mildly Infuriating

It's finally here...

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

Immediate uninstall and cancel.

Fuck that.

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I found the answer! It's https://help.hulu.com/article/hulu-cancel-hulu-subscription

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

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

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I would immediately cancel any service that does that.

I actively avoid advertising. I've cancelled Amazon prime now it has advertising.

I got Sky's Internet TV here in the UK - a supposedly premium service yet the first VOD demand show I streamed I found it had adverts and you had to pay more to be able to fast forward through them. I immediately cancelled.

These companies are greedy as fuck, and driven by the stupidity of always trying to be "growing" to grow their share prices. That just means always trying to save money and take more money from their customers. Enshittification is a result of the stupidity of the stock markets.

Please drink the verification can

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

Somewhere someone thought this was a good idea.

Fuck that individual specifically, fuck head...

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

If you are paying for this shit, you are part of the problem.

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

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

Why would anyone put up with the attack that is advertising? If it requires you to watch ads, it's not worth it. You wouldn't sit through a free movie if it meant a stranger showing up every few minutes and offering to let you rim them, (it's not that no one wants what their offering, it's that they don't care whether you're interested or not. They're still going to show you their asshole) why would you allow a similar violation of your mind?

This is a brand lift study. It's almost worthless: Hulu is paid nearly zero for it. I can't believe they've stooped this low to scrape so little incremental revenue with such a customer hostile tack. Their product and analytics people must truly suck and completely lack awareness of counter metrics.

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.

1. Ditch all paid streaming apps.
2. Research how Stremio, Torrentio, and Real-Debrid work together.
3. Never pay to see ads ever again.

They're really doing everything in their power to destroy their own business model, aren't they?

Ooh, I know the answer!

How many? Turn off TV, unsubscribe from Hulu rows.

Somebody better tell Sony about this. I'm sure they want to cash in from their patent being infringed.

:p /s

The dreaded future of advertising is here. Next step, in your face as you do your daily stuffs.

Theyre making it easier to switch back to pirating by the day

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.

"Our'research has determined that we can fill up to 90% of the visual field with advertisements before inducing seizures!"

Corporations all genuinely want to be that guy so fucking bad, just because they think that if they do become him, they might actually starry to finally feel something... anything. Or they think if they become that guy their father might say "I love you " for the first time or some other sad "this is why I'm a serial killer" shit.

THERE ARE!!!! FOUR ROWS!!!

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

If you answer wrong, what does it do? Refuse to show you any more of the program you are paying them to provide?

Oh wait, I know. It shows another ad, right? That's gotta be it. We'll keep showing you ads until you fucking pay attention!

Does it delete random pieces of your data if you give it a wrong answer?

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

All I know is that Lexus Texas (that is what TX means to me) sounds like the name of a porn star. Is that the message Lexus wanted me to take away from their advertising and branding?

Is this real? I'm pretty sure this is ilegal in my country

These companies are insufferable.

Next step: political adverts that quiz you on what you've just heard and repeat each segment if you get the answer wrong.

Just kidding though (or am I). This is truly some dystopian shit. My first reaction was what the actual fuck. And I bet you that their numbers aren't really going to hurt that much because of this. Mark my words.