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sat in the rain between orders watching an advert for a car i will never own, on an app i pay nine quid a month for. nine quid. the whole reason i paid was to not watch adverts, that was the deal when i signed up, and then one month the deal changed and the price didnt go down, it went up and the adverts came too. if im paying im the customer. if im watching adverts im the product. you dont get to make me both

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my dad pays for 5 of these and i genuinely cannot tell you which one has ads anymore, they all do? at some point it's just tv again with extra steps

— SunnyKoala419

our connection buffers so bad that the advert loads fine and the actual show doesnt. so i pay to watch adverts in HD and the film in potato. not a joke, thats just what it does

— wes_offgrid

It's a standards thing. If the box says "premium" the product shouldn't have an advert in it. Simple as that. Call the cheap one "basic", put ads in it, fine. Don't call the paid one premium and then sell the middle of my film to a car company.

as a father the problem is not the advert it is that the advert is not for me, we are watching a cartoon with the kids on the paid plan and the advert in the middle is for a betting app, a betting app, in the middle of a cartoon, and i pay for this, and i called to complain and the lady said i could upgrade, so now i understand the advert is not a mistake, it is the reason to upgrade, and i did not upgrade, i cancelled

— david.figueroa

The adverts are the visible part. The invisible part is that the ad tier tracks what you watch, when you pause, what you skip, and sells the profile. The ad-free tier does the same but doesn't need to show you the result. You are not paying to remove the advertisement. You are paying to not see the evidence.

— kein_tracking

I paid the BBC licence fee for sixty years and never once saw an advert, and that was the deal: you pay, you're left alone. Commercial telly was free and had adverts, and nobody minded, because that was its deal. What these people have done is take both deals and keep the worst half of each.

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my family shares 1 account across like 6 people and we still get ads. if ur gonna make me watch ads at least let me pirate in peace lol

— brodyy

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first time posting here, but I'm on the ad tier by choice? it's £5 and the ads are like 90 seconds an episode and I genuinely don't mind. I think I'm the person this thread thinks doesn't exist

— MistyFawn231

small streamer here and I run ads on my channel and I feel weird about it every single time. but it's the ads or no channel. I think the big services are in the same spot, just with more zeros. doesn't make it less annoying, just makes it less evil

Let me defend the ad tier on its own terms: it's the only reason millions of people can afford the service at all. The ad-free purists are, in effect, asking that the poorer subscribers pay full price or leave. "If I pay, no ads" sounds like a consumer right. It functions as a velvet rope.

— steelman_sam

I run ads on the socials and I'll tell you why they put them in the paid tier: because the paid people are the ones with money, and the people with money are the only ones worth advertising to. The free tier is for show. Nobody is buying the car from the free tier. It's not nice but it's not a mystery.

— bakery.tran

Nobody here has worked on the other side of this, so: the ad tier is what keeps the price of the ad-free tier where it is. Pull the ads and the ad-free tier goes to £25, because someone has to pay for the shows, and the shows got expensive because you all wanted the shows. The ads are subsidising the people who refuse to watch them.

The numbers: the ad tiers make the services more money per viewer than the ad-free ones do. Not slightly more; in the public filings it's the most profitable tier. So the honest version of this proposition is "I'd like the service to give up its most profitable product because I find it annoying." You can want that. Just know what you're asking.

You can be both, that's literally the business model of every newspaper that ever existed! Subscribers and advertisers, two revenue lines, since 1850. The ad tier is cheaper. The ad-free tier exists. You chose the cheap one and you're angry it's cheap!

— rohan.builds