What a sweet deal! Thanks Hello Fresh!

They really said
🙅 “Disney+, with ads on us”
👉 “Disney+ with ads, on us”

  • Worx@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    33·
    3 months ago

    “endless entertainment” “7 days”…

    It sure sounds like the entertainment has an end… at the first advert break

  • renzev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    3 months ago

    There’s something so on-the-nose about having “with ads” as part of a subscription tier’s official name. For decades companies have been coming up with euphemisms for their low-cost services (e.g. “economy class” on airlines, “community edition” for freemium software). But now here we are with Disney pretty much saying “Go watch ads you poor bitch”. It’s the death of a euphemism. They’re selling a crappy service, and they aren’t afraid to say it.

    • Kairos@lemmy.today
      5·
      3 months ago

      Its provably an advertising regulation thing where they have to put it up front to not get sued?

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    18·
    3 months ago

    ‘disney+ standard with ads’ is the full name of the subscription item. this was procedural and yep, tone def and silly.

    i would say; thanks for the warning… matey

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
        151·
        3 months ago

        I have really, really mixed feelings about this. On one hand I understand that YouTube is a business and Google needs it to at least approach profitability. If nobody watches ads and nobody pays for premium, there’s no profit. No profit means the adpocalypse gets worse to make up costs, or else the service gets shut down.

        On the other hand YouTube is such trash compared to what it was even just a couple years ago that I also use an alternate front-end.

        I don’t want it to disappear because I really don’t think anyone else has the resources to do what Google has done with YouTube. If we lose YouTube, especially if we lose it and aren’t left with access to the data store of existing videos, we’ve lost an incredible amount of information. Millions of hours of tutorials and good information will be taken away from the world, not to even mention the billions of hours of entertainment. I don’t want to lose YouTube and what it means for international informational accessibility. But I’m also not going to sit through twice as many ads as I have video.

        I foresee YouTube going to a cable-TV-like subscription only model in the future. I don’t like it. But I don’t see how else they actually lift themselves out of this hole they’ve dug.

        • MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          3 months ago

          I would have almost no problem with paying for YouTube Premium if it wasn’t so goddamned expensive (and was ad-free). Like, seriously, I don’t need all this extra crap. All I want is the same old YouTube I’m currently using but with zero ads. And I can’t afford it anyway, but even I could I wouldn’t pay 15–20 USD for just no ads (the only feature I’d actually use).

        • KingJalopy @lemm.ee
          5·
          3 months ago

          You make a very valid point and I actually agree with that. Kind of damned if we do and damned if we don’t, I guess. I’ve had this Convo before for someone who argued I’m only hurting the YouTubers I watch because they receiving my revenue, but I argued if we simply gave money directly to the creators they might do even better. Even if only a small percentage actually paid through Patreon or whatever, but your point remains. Where would they host their content of YouTube went away? I suppose there’s no easy solution to this problem and it is awesome to have all that info/entertainment in one centralized place. We need a billionaire who actually wants to do good to step up and just be like, “here world, here’s a free server farm for whatever you need it for” but that’s a pipe dream at best.

  • Eheran@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 months ago

    So the ads are “on them”? What does that mean? I have honestly no idea. Why is there a “on us”?

    • renzev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      3 months ago

      The name of the subscription tier is “Disney+ Standard with Ads”. So what is says is “Subscribe and get 7 days of [subscription] on us”. “On us” in English slang means “we pay for it”. So what the sentence means is “You will get to use a service called ‘Disney+ Standard with Ads’ for free for 7 days”

      But yeah this is total word salad. It’s like they’re deliberately trying to weed out people with common sense and critical thinking abilities.

  • dab@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    The first ad that autoplays after subscribing is the cursed videotape from The Ring. Then 7 days later Samara’s ghost crawls out of your tv.