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They're turning streaming into regular TV again, absolute nonsense.

DarkNova6 14d ago
It's like paying for cable back in the day but you also get ads. The sheer audacity they think they can get away with because they consider themselves having a monopoly.
- WesolyKubeczek 14d ago
  Back when I had cable it was all like 15 minutes of content blocks separated by 30-minute blocks of ad. Because fuck me, I guess.
- throwaway85825 14d ago
  They have a government granted temporary monopoly.
  - mitxela 14d ago
    Permanent monopoly, because you'll always be watching what's current today, not 70 years ago
    - jl6 13d ago
      Kinda, but the back catalog has never been bigger or more valuable. There is good stuff from every era, and it only accumulates. What happens when the viewing mix is 10% new stuff, 90% classics?
      - mahboi 13d ago
        buy DVDs I guess
- ymolodtsov 14d ago
  Except you can cancel it from the next month with a few clicks.
- usef- 14d ago
  Didn't cable have ads too? The amount of ads I see in life compared to the 90s is still drastically reduced.
  - bigfishrunning 14d ago
    Basic cable had ads, premium cable (HBO, Showtime, etc) usually only advertised future programming in between programs, but nothing during a program.
    - deleted 13d ago
      [deleted]
fuzzfactor 14d ago
The joke's on them and they probably don't even know it. Remember that Disney owns the ABC TV broadcast network. With this move, the regular TV news that has been streaming from abcnews.com and local affiliates for years has finally become inaccessible from all my Windows 11 PCs. This is using clean Windows with Edge only, no 3rd party apps or ad blockers, not relying on anything but good old Windows & Edge to handle security & privacy as well as they can. Pre-recorded clips still play but not live news any more from ABC News or local station websites. The same old PCs that played abcnews just fine until recently, and still play everything else at all resolutions. The live internet streams were regular TV news with regular TV ads as always on their regular websites. No broadcast sports or entertainment programs were included, on the web those time slots were replaced by things like public interest programs from ABC studios. Including the same number of ads as the scheduled in-house news programs. This hurts the advertisers more than anybody, Disney has now abruptly cut off countless web users who have always been just fine with the traditional 24/7 ads on the ad-supported news, apparently so Disney+ fans can be made more comfortable with any ads being eased in to paid premium programming. Just because they are on the same internet, that's a lot of collateral damage. If I was an advertiser I would be hitting the ceiling and demanding far lower ad fees from Disney than there was a couple weeks ago. Now that casual random internet viewers have been kicked off the news stream in countless numbers.

It's like paying for cable back in the day but you also get ads. The sheer audacity they think they can get away with because they consider themselves having a monopoly.

WesolyKubeczek 14d ago
Back when I had cable it was all like 15 minutes of content blocks separated by 30-minute blocks of ad. Because fuck me, I guess.
throwaway85825 14d ago
They have a government granted temporary monopoly.
- mitxela 14d ago
  Permanent monopoly, because you'll always be watching what's current today, not 70 years ago
  - jl6 13d ago
    Kinda, but the back catalog has never been bigger or more valuable. There is good stuff from every era, and it only accumulates. What happens when the viewing mix is 10% new stuff, 90% classics?
    - mahboi 13d ago
      buy DVDs I guess
ymolodtsov 14d ago
Except you can cancel it from the next month with a few clicks.
usef- 14d ago
Didn't cable have ads too? The amount of ads I see in life compared to the 90s is still drastically reduced.
- bigfishrunning 14d ago
  Basic cable had ads, premium cable (HBO, Showtime, etc) usually only advertised future programming in between programs, but nothing during a program.
  - deleted 13d ago
    [deleted]

fuzzfactor 14d ago

The joke's on them and they probably don't even know it. Remember that Disney owns the ABC TV broadcast network. With this move, the regular TV news that has been streaming from abcnews.com and local affiliates for years has finally become inaccessible from all my Windows 11 PCs. This is using clean Windows with Edge only, no 3rd party apps or ad blockers, not relying on anything but good old Windows & Edge to handle security & privacy as well as they can. Pre-recorded clips still play but not live news any more from ABC News or local station websites. The same old PCs that played abcnews just fine until recently, and still play everything else at all resolutions. The live internet streams were regular TV news with regular TV ads as always on their regular websites. No broadcast sports or entertainment programs were included, on the web those time slots were replaced by things like public interest programs from ABC studios. Including the same number of ads as the scheduled in-house news programs. This hurts the advertisers more than anybody, Disney has now abruptly cut off countless web users who have always been just fine with the traditional 24/7 ads on the ad-supported news, apparently so Disney+ fans can be made more comfortable with any ads being eased in to paid premium programming. Just because they are on the same internet, that's a lot of collateral damage. If I was an advertiser I would be hitting the ceiling and demanding far lower ad fees from Disney than there was a couple weeks ago. Now that casual random internet viewers have been kicked off the news stream in countless numbers.