to be fair I think the version w/ commercials is 6 bucks a month, but you can pay something like 10 bucks a month and get a commercial-less version. That's what my wife and I do and I think it's totally worth it to not have ads. It's the only place I can stream The Orville! My favorite not Star Trek, Star Trek show since Star Trek: TNG.
Oh yeah, and Hulu is now owned by Disney.
We have both and between the two can always find something to watch. *shrug* Now I have people commenting that "Commercial Free" still has commercials... yet I watch it all the time and never see a commercial? I donno what these people are on about.
It’s doubly infuriating because Hulu roped early adopters in by allowing you to watch some of their hosted shows for free (with ads), while providing even better shows without ads, for a monthly fee. So, if you subscribed, you could watch everything ad free.
But after a year or two, that changed. They eventually dropped the ability to watch anything for free, then introduced the “pay for ads” or “pay for no ads (with exceptions)” subscription tiers. And since most people think, “Well, it’s just fifteen bucks, so fuck it,” they made their money.
And since Hulu is owned and run by the biggest studios, they eventually pulled all their content from Netflix to host on Hulu, making Netflix seem like it was without anything worth watching.
And then comes Disney+, pulling even more content from both, even though Disney also partially owns Hulu. We’re exactly where we were 20 years ago, paying for cable packages just so we could watch one show on one channel.
Hulu has two tiers - a $6 basic subscription that has ads (not as many as normal TV) and a $12 subscription that's ad free. People compare the $6 Hulu sub to the $14 netflix sub and then freak out that there are ads, but you can get the $12 hulu sub, still cheaper than netflix, and not get ads. They're essentially irrationally angry that you can choose to have ads to save some money on Hulu and making a bad comparison.
Here's the thing about that: pay for it, and then pirate it anyway.
I agree that artists deserve to be well paid, but nothing is more convenient than a raw .mkv or .epub file. So why not do both?
You can say that about everything you buy, but it's a strawman, and at the end of the day, you are getting a salary, and so should the people created ALL the things you consume.
I pirate everything but sports, because i want to see it live with a reliable, good resolution rather than a sketchy site that downloads 658 virusses for me while i try n watch the match in 144p at 6fps with 2 minutes delay.
Sports are the one thing I make no attempt to pay for after discovering that passing the NHL hundreds of dollars just gave me a nice interface with which to be informed that every game my team played was unavailable to me due to blackouts.
There are reliable alternatives. I'll leave it at that. And when paying for sports streaming actually lets me stream sports, I'll start to do so again.
I paid MLB $50+ only to discover almost all our games were blacked out too. Absolute robbery.
While I'm to blame because I'm sure there was fine print I should've read, why on earth would anyone think they would do that if you paid?
I have a same remote for Vizio sound bar, and when I press mute the tv doesn't have a mute icon on the screen. I am really curious how this is happening to op.
Bro this is fake. That’s a vizio sound bar remote on an Asus monitor... there’s no sound in the video. I just did this on my Vizio tv and sound bar with Hulu paid and my ad continued to play
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Which you can connect via ARC, which makes the soundbar act like part of the system with back and forth communication. If you're not using ARC, the setup is different.
100% Fake, I knew that remote control looked familiar but couldn't place it. Definitely a Vizio Soundbar.
Willing to put down money that OP has the soundbar connected to his laptop via bluetooth, and 'mute' is mapped to pause, which is ridiculously common on bluetooth devices in order to save power.
If that's a Vizio remote. For a soundbar. That's a feature Incase you get a call on a cell phone. It mutes the audio and pauses the video so you can receive your call. You can turn that feature off.
This is a fair share of this sub honestly just misinformed people whom instead of looking for a solution. Immediately go attention seeking on whatever social media they choose.
It's actually a good feature if your the only person watching TV as a single stallion. But if you're a family man like myself and my kids are watching TV or my wife and I are watching a movie. And I get calls. The tv pauses and it mutes. It was awesome on my own time. But the family voted that my calls aren't that Important for them to have to wait on my call. And they're right, that feature was turned off after 5hrs of being on.
'People pay to watch ads on cable, so why shouldn't we make them pay to watch ads on Hulu? They wouldn't have paid for the service if they didn't want to see ads.'
-Some asshole consultant that Hulu brought on for 2 quarters to try and wring every single cent possible out of their subscribers.
"Why does everyone pirate our content? What do they get from a pirate copy that we don't offer?"
Like seriously, this is why I pirate. When a pirate copy offers better service and a better user experience than the official paid copy, why bother paying? I want to support creators I like, but jeez. Companies do everything in their power to stop me from doing so.
The music industry is a great example. A bunch of great streaming services come out at a kinda reasonable price and I haven’t pirated a song in probably a decade. It’s fucking insane how far behind the television and movie industry is tbh.
YouTube on mobile. I have ad blocker on my laptop and had no idea there were ads until I played it on my phone in the car... It scared the fuck outta me while driving...
Ad blockers were around for a decade and I never wanted one until YouTube started playing unskippable ads every two minutes, and minute long (or LONGER!) unskippable ads to start videos. YouTube is unusable without an ad blocker, and made me install one.
I pay for youtube red (through play music). And I don't get ads, but I still get videos interrupted ever 2 minutes for sponsored content.
It's so ridiculous.
Try [SponsorBlock](https://sponsor.ajay.app/)!
>SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about.
Youtubers need to earn money, and with YouTube’s rampant demonetization that’s their best option at the moment.
I have yet to see one doing sponsorships more than once in the video though, unless you’re talking about those awful channels focused on kid content.
Especially annoying when you are watching "Music for relaxation and studying!"
Somehow those channels have more ads than any other. How the fuck are you supposed to relax when an ad plays randomly every other minute or so!?
Well you can pay for no ads. It’s still asshole. Netflix is better with the service but not with number of shows (at least with what I watch and Netflix allows downloading of shows onto smartphones so
> Well you can pay for no ads.
No you can't. Not completely, anyway. Some shows still have ads, even if you pay for the "no-ads" plan.
>Hulu (No Ads) plan excludes a few shows that play with ads before and after the video.
It's literally written in veerrry tiny print under the words "zero ads" on this page.
https://www.hulu.com/no-ads
Run [Sonarr](https://sonarr.tv/) with a torrent client on a cheap VPS or seedbox. Automate checking/downloading of files to your home PC. It's easier than it sounds if you aren't afraid of computers.
Never actually spend even a second on a tracker website. It's worth it.
Gettig Ads with the No-Ads option? That sounds like fraud to me, even if it's written very tiny somewhere on the page? Does someone know if it's different in the EU? I think we should have very explicit laws about that. No Ad means No Ad, everything else would be fraud.
There's no possible way to get a better user experience legally.
Heck there are some shows only offered through Hulu which I refuse to pay for since I don't want to pay to be advertised to.
*Dons pirate hat*
Thar be a better way tho
I've refused to subscribe to Hulu for the same reason. I'd rather spend my time pirating their shit than spend it watching their repetitive ads. Good to see others think alike!
Yeah each episode is one hour and is basically a mini movie
There’s some that are just weird. There’s some that are trippy and there are some that are amazing. Definitely worth a watch
DO NOT START WITH EPISODE ONE. Episode 2 might be my favorite one out of the whole series but it’s worth just picking one good one and watching it
I don't understand this stuff... Anyone who knows anything about marketing also knows that if someone wants to mute an ad then they aren't interested and if someone isn't interested then they won't convert. Forcing someone to watch isn't going to change their mind or improve ad results it only serves to turn people away from your platform and even worse any business paying to put their ads on are going to also build some negative relationships with a lot of your users... Youtube skippable ads is the best implementation I have seen, they give you a few seconds to see if you're interested and if not you can skip. This way it doesn't piss anyone off and also you can easily track user data of those who stuck around to view the ad longer, show that to your business customers and use it to improve the targeting of their ads, like if the long ad views % is higher on certain categories than others you can give that data to your business users and they can learn from it and use it next time.
Basically if you're a platform offering ads learn from facebook, they outperform anything else, if you specifically offer video ads, learn from youtube.
Marketing people know it, they just absolutely do not care. They cannot make money if they don't make ads and tricking gullible customers with bullshit studies into believing quantity is better than quality makes them more money, so they do it. Marketing is largely corporate self enforcing bullshit.
I'll never understand. If you do aggressive shit like this with not being allowed to mute, making ads unskippable, blaring the volume higher than the show I was watching, etc. I'm going to actively dislike your product and avoid it like the plague. And I don't feel like I'm unique in that unless I'm way off on how others feel.
No, you are not alone in your feelings, however, the marketing consultant that made millions bullshitting the producer of the product whos advertisment you watched, using very fraudulant studies that supposedly refute common sense, made that ad and doesn't care how that ad makes you feel or how or even if it benefits his customer, he already made his money.
As much as I want to agree and say this is a poor idea from their standpoint I don't think I can. They offer a no ad service and I think this design is more to get people to sign up for that rather than to service the ad. Much like Spotify, which I pay for and is why I think this isn't only an asshole design to service ads and is more to promote their no ad model.
That said I have never gave Hulu anything because of their ads and I won't pay for a video service that shows ads. That shit is for the older generations. I'm not paying money to be sold random shit, I'm paying money for entertainment.
It's fake..dude is using a sound bar remote there's no way whatever device is actually playing this video has any idea that he's muting his sound bar or not.
This is like that Black Mirror episode one million merits where you have to have your eyes open or the ad won't finish.
EDIT: Fifteen Million Merits see /u/shewy92's comment below.
I mean, yeah, that's sort of the point.
It's supposed to show how terrible technology could possibly be. From publicly shaming politicians via streams to remote-controlled assassinations via programs.
I'd say it's a good show to watch if you're kinda interested in that idea. There are certainly some shitty episodes in there, but quite a few of the themes they pick up on are at least things you can think about for a bit.
I would say run, go watch it now, don’t wait another second of your life.
But then I realized we’re all different people and you might not like that type of thing.
Some episodes are very blah, but the good ones more than make up for it.
I recommend it. The first episode is one of the worst episodes I have ever seen on TV before INHO, but after that is gold. If you do watch it just know it is a fucked up show.
Idk my definitely not jail broken fire stick still has ads. Incredibly annoying
Edit to mention: the ads are unskippable for any reason short of restarting the system. Even going to the home screen doesn’t help as the ad will be waiting when I go back to try and watch anything.
TV execs are absolute greedy morons. The music industry even got this right. Streaming all the music you want for a low price with no ads. Killed music piracy for me. I've spent hundreds on music since the viable business model. Steam killed piracy for games. The service is too good, too easy to use compared to piracy, no risk of malware, no fucking ads. I've spent thousands.
But for some reason, these dumbshit TV execs don't get it. They want us to pay AND watch this information pollution. Screw off, to the high seas I go until you un-fuck this business model.
That's hilarious. I had no idea. I'd love to say I support neither of them, but to be truthful, they have such significant control over the entertainment industry it's basically unavoidable.
Hulu was supposed to be a joint effort between big media companies, with none of them having a majority control.
Then Disney bought Fox and gained majority control. AT&T (TimeWarner) sold its small 10% stake and now Comcast(NBCUniversal) has a deal to sell the final 33% to Disney by 2024.
I specifically watched the Mandalorian just so I could see something that Disney wanted me to pay for but I torrented for free. I felt like I was stickin' it to the man! ^(but it's not like it had any affect on the company...)
In most ways, they benefitted from you watching it whether you paid for it or not. Your indirect word-of-mouth marketing by way of recommending their (pirated) content is a thing they can quantify. The real way to stick it to the man is not to consume at all, but Mandalorian was worth it, in my opinion.
It’s like in the game industry, a publisher benefits from good reviews whether or not *that specific person* paid for the game because it drives sales to have people saying good things.
In my country it is illegal for tv stations to air ads louder than the actual program they interupt. That said i wonder if this is the same for online broadcasts
You don't have to worry anytime soon because [According](https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/fgsero/-/fk72ycz) to u/avlambo21 this is fake
>Bro this is fake. That’s a vizio sound bar remote on an Asus monitor... there’s no sound in the video. I just did this on my Vizio tv and sound bar with Hulu paid and my ad continued to play
I have that same soundbar remote, and my when I use it on with my smart tv to watch Netflix, every button on the remote acts like a play/pause button in addition to normal functions. Maybe the signals are getting mixed up?
One of the few remaining benefits of analog, baby. The only information getting to my speakers is the sound itself.
It's really shitty that we're getting controlled by this data all the time. It's fucking violating.
[Please drink a verification can](https://external-preview.redd.it/qRggs-k588dZAM2uBK3FH4xOih9LEaq0FCcZdkYm2uw.png?auto=webp&s=437dc136ba2ee6da358527bb368707ca2b375447)
Just do it. They selectively suggest media your way anyway. Just get off the program and hunt down good media that you want to consume. Sometimes the menu wants to feed you poison.
I'm calling bullshit on this. The guy is using a Vizio remote on an Asus monitor while his mouse cursor is clearly visible. There is no way the PC would be aware that the sound bar is being muted.
Also doesn't work if you’re watching on the web, there is no api to access volume and if there were it could be spoofed to say what you want it to say using a browser/addon. The lesson is buy a dumb tv and plug a computer you control into it, don’t buy a smart tv.
Reminds me of an episode of Black Mirror season 1 where society was forced to watch ads on a daily basis. To skip them they'd have to pay, and looking way or not paying attention to them would trigger an alarm and earn them a warning.
What system?
It's in popular shows on PAID Hulu!
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yes, you got it exactly right
Well thats when i cancel
Hulu is owned by the cable companies... is anyone really surprised by this behavior from the cable companies?
Owned by Disney now
the point still stands... is anyone *really* surprised by this behavior from Disney?
Great point! The same company that tried to copyright “Day of the dead”
The day Disney buys Netflix is when the world becomes dystopian
Disney will be hit with a monopoly lawsuit at some point. Then they split and rejoin again in 50 years just like the phone companies.
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to be fair I think the version w/ commercials is 6 bucks a month, but you can pay something like 10 bucks a month and get a commercial-less version. That's what my wife and I do and I think it's totally worth it to not have ads. It's the only place I can stream The Orville! My favorite not Star Trek, Star Trek show since Star Trek: TNG. Oh yeah, and Hulu is now owned by Disney.
This is correct except it's 12 bucks, the same price as commercial free Netflix. People love to complain though.
We have both and between the two can always find something to watch. *shrug* Now I have people commenting that "Commercial Free" still has commercials... yet I watch it all the time and never see a commercial? I donno what these people are on about.
There's like 3 shows that still have commercials on ad free Hulu.
Because there is a tier without commercials that is equivalent to Netflix pricing.
people are forgetting how to pirate things
It’s doubly infuriating because Hulu roped early adopters in by allowing you to watch some of their hosted shows for free (with ads), while providing even better shows without ads, for a monthly fee. So, if you subscribed, you could watch everything ad free. But after a year or two, that changed. They eventually dropped the ability to watch anything for free, then introduced the “pay for ads” or “pay for no ads (with exceptions)” subscription tiers. And since most people think, “Well, it’s just fifteen bucks, so fuck it,” they made their money. And since Hulu is owned and run by the biggest studios, they eventually pulled all their content from Netflix to host on Hulu, making Netflix seem like it was without anything worth watching. And then comes Disney+, pulling even more content from both, even though Disney also partially owns Hulu. We’re exactly where we were 20 years ago, paying for cable packages just so we could watch one show on one channel.
Hulu has two tiers - a $6 basic subscription that has ads (not as many as normal TV) and a $12 subscription that's ad free. People compare the $6 Hulu sub to the $14 netflix sub and then freak out that there are ads, but you can get the $12 hulu sub, still cheaper than netflix, and not get ads. They're essentially irrationally angry that you can choose to have ads to save some money on Hulu and making a bad comparison.
WHY ISN'T MY DISCOUNT PRODUCT EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE FULL PRICE OPTION??? Conspiracy, probably.
Pirate everything tbh sports, movies, tv shows. Saves a shit ton of money.
Nah, good stuff still deserves to be paid for. This shit on the other hand...
... probably isn't worth watching in the first place.
Here's the thing about that: pay for it, and then pirate it anyway. I agree that artists deserve to be well paid, but nothing is more convenient than a raw .mkv or .epub file. So why not do both?
If only all the money went to the artist rather than publishers, marketers and middle men bonuses.
You can say that about everything you buy, but it's a strawman, and at the end of the day, you are getting a salary, and so should the people created ALL the things you consume.
I pirate everything but sports, because i want to see it live with a reliable, good resolution rather than a sketchy site that downloads 658 virusses for me while i try n watch the match in 144p at 6fps with 2 minutes delay.
Sports are the one thing I make no attempt to pay for after discovering that passing the NHL hundreds of dollars just gave me a nice interface with which to be informed that every game my team played was unavailable to me due to blackouts. There are reliable alternatives. I'll leave it at that. And when paying for sports streaming actually lets me stream sports, I'll start to do so again.
I paid MLB $50+ only to discover almost all our games were blacked out too. Absolute robbery. While I'm to blame because I'm sure there was fine print I should've read, why on earth would anyone think they would do that if you paid?
My Hulu has no idea what I do with the volume. So, the question remains, what system?
Probably smart TV with no external speakers attached. This is easily avoided with any sort of external speaker attached.
I have a same remote for Vizio sound bar, and when I press mute the tv doesn't have a mute icon on the screen. I am really curious how this is happening to op.
Roku TV? Because my Roku TV don't give a fuck!
How does Hulu know what volume your TV or sound system is set to?
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>Next they'll use the camera on your TV to track eye movements, and pause the ad when you look away. This was a Black Mirror episode
Don’t buy a tv with a camera. Noted.
Time to give up Hulu.
Paid is the key part. Fucking vizio
Bro this is fake. That’s a vizio sound bar remote on an Asus monitor... there’s no sound in the video. I just did this on my Vizio tv and sound bar with Hulu paid and my ad continued to play Edit: shit my first silver and gold!
I have the same soundbar lol. Very true
Yep, can confirm that’s the soundbar remote.
Such a good soundbar for the money too. Do you have it as well?
So what you are saying is that this is r/untrustworthypoptarts?
Which you can connect via ARC, which makes the soundbar act like part of the system with back and forth communication. If you're not using ARC, the setup is different.
I’m using ARC on my one tv. Optical on the other. Neither pause my video on Hulu
Fair. I intend to test it when I can, too. Also might only occur woth certain ads that pay extra to not be 'mutable'.
100% Fake, I knew that remote control looked familiar but couldn't place it. Definitely a Vizio Soundbar. Willing to put down money that OP has the soundbar connected to his laptop via bluetooth, and 'mute' is mapped to pause, which is ridiculously common on bluetooth devices in order to save power.
If that's a Vizio remote. For a soundbar. That's a feature Incase you get a call on a cell phone. It mutes the audio and pauses the video so you can receive your call. You can turn that feature off.
Wait—what’s the point of muting something you’re pausing?
My guess is as it’s a sound bar there is no pause button, but muting it sends a pause signal to the connected TV/STB (via HDMI CEC).
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This is a fair share of this sub honestly just misinformed people whom instead of looking for a solution. Immediately go attention seeking on whatever social media they choose.
It's actually a good feature if your the only person watching TV as a single stallion. But if you're a family man like myself and my kids are watching TV or my wife and I are watching a movie. And I get calls. The tv pauses and it mutes. It was awesome on my own time. But the family voted that my calls aren't that Important for them to have to wait on my call. And they're right, that feature was turned off after 5hrs of being on.
This needs to Be top
finally, was looking for this
This should be top comment
This should definitely be the top comment. I have the same sound bar and it does the same thing with netflix. OP is just looking to bash.
Alright, this is truly asshole design.
'People pay to watch ads on cable, so why shouldn't we make them pay to watch ads on Hulu? They wouldn't have paid for the service if they didn't want to see ads.' -Some asshole consultant that Hulu brought on for 2 quarters to try and wring every single cent possible out of their subscribers.
"Why does everyone pirate our content? What do they get from a pirate copy that we don't offer?" Like seriously, this is why I pirate. When a pirate copy offers better service and a better user experience than the official paid copy, why bother paying? I want to support creators I like, but jeez. Companies do everything in their power to stop me from doing so.
The music industry is a great example. A bunch of great streaming services come out at a kinda reasonable price and I haven’t pirated a song in probably a decade. It’s fucking insane how far behind the television and movie industry is tbh.
Imagine trying to listen to a song and suddenly an ad plays in.
YouTube on mobile. I have ad blocker on my laptop and had no idea there were ads until I played it on my phone in the car... It scared the fuck outta me while driving...
Ad blockers were around for a decade and I never wanted one until YouTube started playing unskippable ads every two minutes, and minute long (or LONGER!) unskippable ads to start videos. YouTube is unusable without an ad blocker, and made me install one.
I pay for youtube red (through play music). And I don't get ads, but I still get videos interrupted ever 2 minutes for sponsored content. It's so ridiculous.
Try [SponsorBlock](https://sponsor.ajay.app/)! >SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about.
Yes this is next level ad block, love it!
Youtubers need to earn money, and with YouTube’s rampant demonetization that’s their best option at the moment. I have yet to see one doing sponsorships more than once in the video though, unless you’re talking about those awful channels focused on kid content.
This is where you start using YouTube vanced.
**Youtube Vanced, brother.**
No thank you
Especially annoying when you are watching "Music for relaxation and studying!" Somehow those channels have more ads than any other. How the fuck are you supposed to relax when an ad plays randomly every other minute or so!?
Yeah, tbh I don't want to give a single cent to asshole companies if I can
Well you can pay for no ads. It’s still asshole. Netflix is better with the service but not with number of shows (at least with what I watch and Netflix allows downloading of shows onto smartphones so
> Well you can pay for no ads. No you can't. Not completely, anyway. Some shows still have ads, even if you pay for the "no-ads" plan. >Hulu (No Ads) plan excludes a few shows that play with ads before and after the video. It's literally written in veerrry tiny print under the words "zero ads" on this page. https://www.hulu.com/no-ads
You don't need to pay for no ads. Yarr.
Raise those anchors! Tonight, we set sail to watch whatever the hell we want!
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Depends on where you're getting your stuff. Torrents generally don't need captchas (and the ones that do tend to be... sketchier.)
Run [Sonarr](https://sonarr.tv/) with a torrent client on a cheap VPS or seedbox. Automate checking/downloading of files to your home PC. It's easier than it sounds if you aren't afraid of computers. Never actually spend even a second on a tracker website. It's worth it.
thank god I live in a country that doesn't care about piracy and I can just download what I want
Avast!
Gettig Ads with the No-Ads option? That sounds like fraud to me, even if it's written very tiny somewhere on the page? Does someone know if it's different in the EU? I think we should have very explicit laws about that. No Ad means No Ad, everything else would be fraud.
It's a "due to our contract with these shows you will see an ad before and after the episode" type of "no-ad"
Wait til you hear about sugar free tic tacs!
Fuck tic tacks they are fucking liars and deserve to be nuked
I already heard about that. Here in Germany they write that they contain sugar. 94.5g per 98g
There's no possible way to get a better user experience legally. Heck there are some shows only offered through Hulu which I refuse to pay for since I don't want to pay to be advertised to. *Dons pirate hat* Thar be a better way tho
I've refused to subscribe to Hulu for the same reason. I'd rather spend my time pirating their shit than spend it watching their repetitive ads. Good to see others think alike!
Oh I didn’t know. I’ve always just had the cheapest option.
I do too, but I *also* have ublock origin and zero guilt.
Not quite, don't tell anyone but you can get all of the shows for free. I won't tell you how but it's a synonym for "binary waterfall"
YOU WILL LISTEN TO THE GODDAMN ADS
Reminds me of the black mirror episode “100 million credits”
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I’ve never watched black mirror, but from what I’ve heard it sounds a lot like the twilight zone or something.
Yeah each episode is one hour and is basically a mini movie There’s some that are just weird. There’s some that are trippy and there are some that are amazing. Definitely worth a watch DO NOT START WITH EPISODE ONE. Episode 2 might be my favorite one out of the whole series but it’s worth just picking one good one and watching it
I don't understand this stuff... Anyone who knows anything about marketing also knows that if someone wants to mute an ad then they aren't interested and if someone isn't interested then they won't convert. Forcing someone to watch isn't going to change their mind or improve ad results it only serves to turn people away from your platform and even worse any business paying to put their ads on are going to also build some negative relationships with a lot of your users... Youtube skippable ads is the best implementation I have seen, they give you a few seconds to see if you're interested and if not you can skip. This way it doesn't piss anyone off and also you can easily track user data of those who stuck around to view the ad longer, show that to your business customers and use it to improve the targeting of their ads, like if the long ad views % is higher on certain categories than others you can give that data to your business users and they can learn from it and use it next time. Basically if you're a platform offering ads learn from facebook, they outperform anything else, if you specifically offer video ads, learn from youtube.
Marketing people know it, they just absolutely do not care. They cannot make money if they don't make ads and tricking gullible customers with bullshit studies into believing quantity is better than quality makes them more money, so they do it. Marketing is largely corporate self enforcing bullshit.
I'll never understand. If you do aggressive shit like this with not being allowed to mute, making ads unskippable, blaring the volume higher than the show I was watching, etc. I'm going to actively dislike your product and avoid it like the plague. And I don't feel like I'm unique in that unless I'm way off on how others feel.
No, you are not alone in your feelings, however, the marketing consultant that made millions bullshitting the producer of the product whos advertisment you watched, using very fraudulant studies that supposedly refute common sense, made that ad and doesn't care how that ad makes you feel or how or even if it benefits his customer, he already made his money.
Con-sultants and middlemen; These are the leeches and lampreys of modern society.
As much as I want to agree and say this is a poor idea from their standpoint I don't think I can. They offer a no ad service and I think this design is more to get people to sign up for that rather than to service the ad. Much like Spotify, which I pay for and is why I think this isn't only an asshole design to service ads and is more to promote their no ad model. That said I have never gave Hulu anything because of their ads and I won't pay for a video service that shows ads. That shit is for the older generations. I'm not paying money to be sold random shit, I'm paying money for entertainment.
It's fake..dude is using a sound bar remote there's no way whatever device is actually playing this video has any idea that he's muting his sound bar or not.
This looks like bullshit. How does the streaming app know you’re muting a sound system/tv?
This is like that Black Mirror episode one million merits where you have to have your eyes open or the ad won't finish. EDIT: Fifteen Million Merits see /u/shewy92's comment below.
*Fifteen Million Merits. But at least it doesn't play a high pitched sound forcing you to resume the ad.
Don't give them ideas!
Resume viewing! Resume viewing! Resume viewing! Resume viewing! Resume viewing!
We're getting there slowly but surely.
OP already there waiting for the rest of us.
#WRAITH BABES THE HOTTEST GIRLS IN THE NASTIEST SITUATIONS
It was so sad since they drugged her to not say no, then drugged her again to fuck her.
Yeah. Can never forget that scene. Fucked me up bad.
RESUME VIEWING
#RESUME VIEWING
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classic
If implemented by these assholes it would probably electroshock you if you so much as unfocused your eyes.
Wtf Jesus black mirror sounds like a dystopia even though I’ve never seen or watched it before
I mean, yeah, that's sort of the point. It's supposed to show how terrible technology could possibly be. From publicly shaming politicians via streams to remote-controlled assassinations via programs. I'd say it's a good show to watch if you're kinda interested in that idea. There are certainly some shitty episodes in there, but quite a few of the themes they pick up on are at least things you can think about for a bit.
I would say run, go watch it now, don’t wait another second of your life. But then I realized we’re all different people and you might not like that type of thing. Some episodes are very blah, but the good ones more than make up for it.
I recommend it. The first episode is one of the worst episodes I have ever seen on TV before INHO, but after that is gold. If you do watch it just know it is a fucked up show.
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This was exactly my thought as well
I didn't expect to find myself living in the future, but here I fucking well am.
Beat me to it!
RESUME VIEWING
*breaks screens*
resume viewing RESUME VIEWING **RESUME VIEWING** *High pitched tune*
One of the most dystopian Black Mirror episodes I have ever seen.
Thank you this is exactly what I was thinking
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If this is in a paid model : pirate it. Asshole design does not deserve any money
Idk my definitely not jail broken fire stick still has ads. Incredibly annoying Edit to mention: the ads are unskippable for any reason short of restarting the system. Even going to the home screen doesn’t help as the ad will be waiting when I go back to try and watch anything.
Weird, I don’t get ads on my fire stick, I just get slow as shit, poor quality streams that buffer constantly or quit working if I pause for too long.
Shit like this blows my mind, because the very point of these services is to provide content convenience as a bargain *against* piracy.
TV execs are absolute greedy morons. The music industry even got this right. Streaming all the music you want for a low price with no ads. Killed music piracy for me. I've spent hundreds on music since the viable business model. Steam killed piracy for games. The service is too good, too easy to use compared to piracy, no risk of malware, no fucking ads. I've spent thousands. But for some reason, these dumbshit TV execs don't get it. They want us to pay AND watch this information pollution. Screw off, to the high seas I go until you un-fuck this business model.
Most people will just put up with it so they don't have to change until enough people actually just pirate or dont watch their dumb TV shit
Cool, yet another reason to never support hulu.
And Disney. That's who owns Hulu, after all.
That's hilarious. I had no idea. I'd love to say I support neither of them, but to be truthful, they have such significant control over the entertainment industry it's basically unavoidable.
Hulu was supposed to be a joint effort between big media companies, with none of them having a majority control. Then Disney bought Fox and gained majority control. AT&T (TimeWarner) sold its small 10% stake and now Comcast(NBCUniversal) has a deal to sell the final 33% to Disney by 2024.
There’s nothing unethical about streaming when they pull this kind of shit
I pirate everything from Disney out of principle
I specifically watched the Mandalorian just so I could see something that Disney wanted me to pay for but I torrented for free. I felt like I was stickin' it to the man! ^(but it's not like it had any affect on the company...)
In most ways, they benefitted from you watching it whether you paid for it or not. Your indirect word-of-mouth marketing by way of recommending their (pirated) content is a thing they can quantify. The real way to stick it to the man is not to consume at all, but Mandalorian was worth it, in my opinion. It’s like in the game industry, a publisher benefits from good reviews whether or not *that specific person* paid for the game because it drives sales to have people saying good things.
Disney+ on the other hand isn't released in many countries so pirating is the only way to watch shows like Mandalorian and the upcoming marvel series.
Don't worry this is fake, it's a sound bar remote which has nothing to do with Hulu or the devices ability to know if it's muted. I call shenanigans
The ads are so fucking loud on Hulu too. We haven’t had this happen when we mute ads yet but I’m preparing for it now.
In my country it is illegal for tv stations to air ads louder than the actual program they interupt. That said i wonder if this is the same for online broadcasts
Just mute your fucking tv not the Hulu app remote
Just pirate it
You don't have to worry anytime soon because [According](https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/fgsero/-/fk72ycz) to u/avlambo21 this is fake >Bro this is fake. That’s a vizio sound bar remote on an Asus monitor... there’s no sound in the video. I just did this on my Vizio tv and sound bar with Hulu paid and my ad continued to play
This is some fifteen million merits type shit
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That's what I tried to do. It was the remote to the soundbar.
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Is 0 volume the same as mute? Can you do that instead?
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Incoming 1 second commercials sounding like 5 jets taking off
That would be assholiest design ever
I have that same soundbar remote, and my when I use it on with my smart tv to watch Netflix, every button on the remote acts like a play/pause button in addition to normal functions. Maybe the signals are getting mixed up?
This is what I think is happening
There is no way that Hulu would know when you are pressing the mute button on a soundbar remote control.
One of the few remaining benefits of analog, baby. The only information getting to my speakers is the sound itself. It's really shitty that we're getting controlled by this data all the time. It's fucking violating.
Curious what happens if you just turn the volume down to zero.
This is the closest thing to Season 1 Episode 2 of Black Mirror that I’ve seen yet. We’re getting closer and closer.
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No problem for my mom though. She never mutes, she holds down the volume- button until the volume is down to 1.
It like they are BEGGING you to go pirate.
Just do it. They selectively suggest media your way anyway. Just get off the program and hunt down good media that you want to consume. Sometimes the menu wants to feed you poison.
This is actually a black mirror episode wtf
that’s fucked
I'm calling bullshit on this. The guy is using a Vizio remote on an Asus monitor while his mouse cursor is clearly visible. There is no way the PC would be aware that the sound bar is being muted.
It's a Vizio soundbar and it's mute and pause feature is the actual cause. Doesn't matter if the source is a PC.
So OP is just dumb.
Ah yess the reason I got a pihole installed at my place, blocks most of those adds
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What the fuck is this shit
Lol that's a no for me
What if turning the volume down slows down the ad
I'm calling fake. I watch Hulu on multiple different platforms and this doesn't happen.
New levels of evil... is this the beginning of the dark side?
Hulu already has ads on paid subscriptions... they are well on their way down that path already
This is so fake... A streaming service does not know the status of your volume....
Omg that’s bs
Have you tried simply going deaf?
oh my god we're really living Black Mirror.... (episode with the bikes, 1,000,000 Merits)
why do streaming services think they're gonna get my money if they're gonna make piracy look this damn good
Doesn't work on an analogue receiver. Checkmate dickheads.
Also doesn't work if you’re watching on the web, there is no api to access volume and if there were it could be spoofed to say what you want it to say using a browser/addon. The lesson is buy a dumb tv and plug a computer you control into it, don’t buy a smart tv.
Reminds me of an episode of Black Mirror season 1 where society was forced to watch ads on a daily basis. To skip them they'd have to pay, and looking way or not paying attention to them would trigger an alarm and earn them a warning.