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I did a similar offer several years ago where it ended up being $1/month for a year.
I used it maybe twice.
The ads were so obnoxious. it had the same problem as other streaming platforms where they run the same ads over and over and over again. PlutoTV suffers from this (particularly during election season) but at least they are free.
I used it maybe twice.
The ads were so obnoxious. it had the same problem as other streaming platforms where they run the same ads over and over and over again. PlutoTV suffers from this (particularly during election season) but at least they are free.
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If you present ads and charge me a monthly fee, then I don't classify you as a "streaming service". I'll just call you a Jr. cable subscription that is delivered a via the intertubes.
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Are all the seasons for Orville available to stream? Anybody with a current subscription able to chime in? I didn't see that information in the article. Would be useful to know since a few of the services only offer the later season(s), thereby making binge watching the complete series to date problematic.
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You can always pay more if you want to get rid of the ads. For us, we took advantage of the Black Friday $1 a month offer and for the few shows we watch on Hulu, saving $12 a month makes up for having to put up with some ads during Only Murders in the Building. We just mute the TV and browse the web on our phones for a few minutes while the ads play.
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I just used this deal and they do have the full first and second season
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I don't think paying for ads is a good idea in the first place. The "ad supported" tier's all need to die. If it's FREE and ad supported, I'm willing to consider that, though.
It's just if they're getting any money from me in the first place I think they should have the decency to not send any ads, too.
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...and the amount of people subscribing to cable continues to decline.
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We use Firefox with uBlock Origin on the HTPC, and it's great. Totally ad-free experience on Hulu. They used to put up a sign for two minutes, "Sorry, we were unable to load a message from our sponsors" but that was better than ads so it was fine. Now we don't even get that, just fade out/fade in where the commercial breaks would be. Not sure if that's a uBlock feature or what, but it keeps my bp down.
Side rant: Mark Manson would probably advise me not to waste my fucks on this, but I get so angry at the assumptions that marketing makes toward its targets, and at the fact that these assumptions are correct enough to be profitable. Adblocking in general makes internet usage possible for me.
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We have Hulu as part of the Disney, Hulu, ESPN bundle from Verizon and after not using it for months I turned it on this week to watch something. I got through one episode and then remembered why we never looked for shows on Hulu. It's extremely annoying having ads on a paid for streaming service. I have no problem with ads if I'm streaming a news app, but if I switched from cable to a streaming service, I did that because I don't want ads. Plus, they've messed up a number of times and duplicated the ad period because the server didn't read something properly.
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Just did my twice-a-year Hulu sub to watch Shoresy this weekend, $12 for the ad-free sub. They’d have to PAY ME to sit through their obnoxious advertisements.
I’m all for being here in the new a la cart streaming age, but I’ll be damned if I ever have to sit through ads again.
I’m all for being here in the new a la cart streaming age, but I’ll be damned if I ever have to sit through ads again.
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"This generation" doesn't pay for cable at all, unless you mean the generation that qualifies for AARP membership. And you're also wrong about ads. I think that free/ad-supported will eventually be more popular than ad-free/paid (already is, if you count social media) but what I don't get is why people are big enough suckers to pay to watch ads.
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It's been over a decade since I had cable, and when I did I only watched the ad-free premium channels.
Keep enjoying your ads, but I prefer to live without them.
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I have Hulu with ads and it doesn't bother me much. I grew up with ads on TV and cable, and this is wayy better in price and content. Gives me an opportunity to get up, put the dishes away, etc.
What does bother me is how expensive Netflix is. I'm single, live on my own, and don't have friends in the subscription-sharing business. So the full cost of those services is one person.
What does bother me is how expensive Netflix is. I'm single, live on my own, and don't have friends in the subscription-sharing business. So the full cost of those services is one person.
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Wow... where to start.
I'm a boomer. Look at my post above yours for my views about paying for ads. Back in the day, we had to deal with ads, because TV was free and that's now they got their money. I was raised on the notion that there ain't no free lunch, so I simply muted the ads once we had remote controls that weren't my little brother.
But once the cord had been cut, and content isn't free, I'll be DAMNED if I'll pay money to watch ads.
As for ads in "cable", your nomenclature is off. The Internet has ads out the ass. They're largely tamed by the judicious use of java script blockers and ad blockers like uBlock Origin. I may get a "preview" of an offering I don't want to see when starting a selection in Prime, but I don't see advertisements from ANY third parties for ANY service I pay to access. I'd rather pay a bit more for the right to not see any ads wasting what little life I have left in the world on whatever piece of shit they think is worth me buying.
You do have to pay for your viewing. If it's not cash, it's purely wasted time. I refuse to give both at the same time. If you want to rot your brain on the mindless tripe that are ads from Hulu, well, maybe that explains the down-votable quality of your post.
Perhaps you should try paying for the no-ad tiers. It may improve your disposition.
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The ad frequency when watching TV shows in Hulu is pretty annoying (3-4 for a 30 minute program). However movies typically only have ads at the very beginning, which is nice.
I'm looking forward to more Orville and WWDITS.
I'm looking forward to more Orville and WWDITS.
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The real deal is you can add D+ for $3 on top. Having said that, I got a free month of ad-free Hulu when I re-subscribed after being gone for over a year. Two months for the price of one will probably be sufficient and I will drop it for another year.
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Since nobody asked this important question in their nee-jerk allergic reaction to advertising: what is the discount price for the ad-free plan? I did a bit of poking, and it doesn't look they're offering anything worth subscribing to - just the standard $13/month.
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This won't do you any good if you're trying to use it on Chromecast, Apple TV, etc, but uBlock Origin kills the ads. You get a brief black screen before the show and every ad break, but it makes the service usable.
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For everyone who's saying "they aren't going to pay to watch ads", it should be brought up that you still get to watch the catalog of shows and movies. It's not like the only thing you get for paying is, the ads. The better way to think of it is you're saving $6 to $12 a month by watching ads (so it's like you're getting paid to watch ads).
That said, I too loathe ads on Hulu and my experiences mirror many posted before me. Specifically, I did the Hulu Thanksgiving special from 2020 to 2021 where you get the with-ads version for $2 a month for the next 12 months. It was great at first, but the ads also wore me down. I stopped using it for a bit, but towards the end, found some shows that had reduced ads (for example, The 'L' Word only had one ad at the beginning of each episode, despite episodes being 50 to 55 minutes each! By contrast, you could expect 6.5 to 9 minutes of ads for the same duration of popular shows. *cough* *Orville*).
This is where my views on ads on SS (streaming service) differ. I don't have some "archaic formula" where...
if SS is free, then ads are acceptable
if SS is any amount greater than $0, then there cannot be any ads whatsoever
... for me, I'm against the Hulu with-ads because the ads are just downright obnoxious. I had to chuckle reading this article b/c it's kinda hard to binge with-ads Hulu (although I will acknowledge they wanted to bring the with-ads promotion to our attention along with news of the upcoming season of Orville, as packaged news). If the ads on ad-supported Hulu were only half the length it is now, then I'd be happy with that. Hell, I'd be willing to pay the regular $7/mo if that were the case. As is, it isn't even worth $1 a month
When it came time to renew the Thanksgiving deal for this year (Nov. 2021 to 2022).. I, just, couldn't. I was already dreading the ads, and I said "nope!". That's why I'm fine with ads on free version of YouTube. I'd rather not deal with them, but they're much more tolerable.
That said, I too loathe ads on Hulu and my experiences mirror many posted before me. Specifically, I did the Hulu Thanksgiving special from 2020 to 2021 where you get the with-ads version for $2 a month for the next 12 months. It was great at first, but the ads also wore me down. I stopped using it for a bit, but towards the end, found some shows that had reduced ads (for example, The 'L' Word only had one ad at the beginning of each episode, despite episodes being 50 to 55 minutes each! By contrast, you could expect 6.5 to 9 minutes of ads for the same duration of popular shows. *cough* *Orville*).
This is where my views on ads on SS (streaming service) differ. I don't have some "archaic formula" where...
if SS is free, then ads are acceptable
if SS is any amount greater than $0, then there cannot be any ads whatsoever
... for me, I'm against the Hulu with-ads because the ads are just downright obnoxious. I had to chuckle reading this article b/c it's kinda hard to binge with-ads Hulu (although I will acknowledge they wanted to bring the with-ads promotion to our attention along with news of the upcoming season of Orville, as packaged news). If the ads on ad-supported Hulu were only half the length it is now, then I'd be happy with that. Hell, I'd be willing to pay the regular $7/mo if that were the case. As is, it isn't even worth $1 a month
When it came time to renew the Thanksgiving deal for this year (Nov. 2021 to 2022).. I, just, couldn't. I was already dreading the ads, and I said "nope!". That's why I'm fine with ads on free version of YouTube. I'd rather not deal with them, but they're much more tolerable.
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It wouldn't affect me to remove all plans with ads, but I know quite a few who like that option. Namely, couples, whole families, and otherwise roommates living together. They'll have multiple SS (streaming services) going on at once. I can afford to rotate them and have only one major SS going at once since I'm by myself, but for them, it'd be too much work to schedule something like "we have Disney+ now, but 3 months, we're switching to Netflix, and then 4 months of Paramount Plus, etc.". Plus, the savings are significant. A family of four can get Paramount Plus and HBO Max for free, courtesy of T-Mo and AT&T respectively. Then get Hulu for $1 a month. If they were limited to ad-free versions of those, that'd be $43 a month right there! That's not "bank breaking", but compared to $2 a month, that's not trivial. Especially for families that need to save all that they can. Plus, they may be willing to deal with ads (and if not.. "beggars can't be choosers")
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Would have been nice if they had an offer for the ad-free plan. Paramount Plus did that recently by having $3 for 3 months or $6 for 3 months ad-free. Going for ad-free was a no-brainer.
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I will never pay for ads. I will gladly pay for ad free though, like I do for discovery+ and Paramount+.
Hulu is at the same level as Comcast VOD when it comes to ads. When a 42 minute show has a 60+ minute runtime and you can’t skip or fast forward ads, it has more ads than what was shown on the network.
Hulu is at the same level as Comcast VOD when it comes to ads. When a 42 minute show has a 60+ minute runtime and you can’t skip or fast forward ads, it has more ads than what was shown on the network.
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Whoo-whee, thanks for the previous article where I learnt the orville is by that really unfunny fellow who somehow finds a lot of work in Hollywood. No thanks. I'd rather listen to twenty-four uninterrupted minutes of Britney Spears music, which I can do for for less than one USD, courtesy (?) of my local library.
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There is a cheaper and less ad-riddled way to access The Orville.
If I was willing to tolerate ads in my media intake, I would watch broadcast TV or listen to broadcast radio, and would end up only paying for the hardware to consume that media and the time spent listening to ads.
I already have to pay comcast for Internet access and data transmission, it seems obnoxious in the extreme that I should have to pay for the ads individual bits to be delivered as well (lest anyone attempt to draw a comparison to cable television of yore.)
If I was willing to tolerate ads in my media intake, I would watch broadcast TV or listen to broadcast radio, and would end up only paying for the hardware to consume that media and the time spent listening to ads.
I already have to pay comcast for Internet access and data transmission, it seems obnoxious in the extreme that I should have to pay for the ads individual bits to be delivered as well (lest anyone attempt to draw a comparison to cable television of yore.)
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I would probably already have (ad-free) Hulu if they offered a Disney+/Hulu bundle but as it is, since I don't want ESPN+, it is cheaper to not bundle.
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That's just it though, Hulu already has a stable base of users paying for ad-free plans, this gesture is just to get the tight-fisted people in the door in hopes that they'll either upgrade to ad-free or stick around long enough to generate ad revenue. Paramount Plus is a newcomer, so they have to try harder to get users.
The only things on Hulu of interest to me are Letterkenny and Shoresy, and only because buying the former on physical media would amount to the same price as about 2 years of Hulu ad-free (I also don't have a DVD player other than a PS4).
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They push the bundle of all three on the front page, but as the article says, you can subscribe to Hulu (ad-supported or ad-free) and there is an "add-on" of Disney+ for $3/mo on top of that. You just need to do the add-on AFTER you sign up for go through the on-boarding questions for Hulu.
Also, the add-on does not knock out the sale price as the article says. The initial rate comes out to something like $4.79/mo w/ tax (for me), and then goes up after three months if you don't cancel.
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// Hulu as part of the Disney
That right there is enough for me to not use Hulu. To hell with Disney, Walt is turning in his grave over what they've become.
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It's amazing how everyone thinks that they know what a guy who's been dead for 55 years would think about [insert unspecified issue here].
So what's your particular bugaboo that you're projecting on to him?
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FWIW I haven't had an issue with a repeated ad break on Hulu in 5+ years. It was truly awful back when it first started for a couple years. It would duplicate blocks, make you rewatch the block if you rewound, and would frequently crash (and thus require you to rewatch ads when you reloaded) if it had any sort of trouble with loading the ads. But it's been pretty seamless for a while now.
I mostly ignore the ads and just noodle around on my phone or grab a beer or whatever during the breaks. And if nothing else I appreciate how most ad supported streaming platforms these days show you the exact time the ad break will take.
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The Orville starts off a bit rough and too Seth Macfarlane, but after a few episodes when it finds its footing, I really liked it. Very much scratched the episodic Star Trek itch that wasn't being scratched until Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds.
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