It’s Morphe ing time
all the people that paid FOR youtube red or prenium, are all suddenly quiet now in the subs.
I had premium as part of a family plan with like 6-7 friends from 2017-2022 while I was basically ignorant of the enshitification, then when I got a secondhand pc I stopped paying since I had adblock. Had a few years of bliss and then the pc bricked up so I went back to premium for about six months and during that brief period it just got worse and worse so rapidly that I jumped ship. Very glad I did now. I pay for a nebula subscription which is nice to have for throwing up on the tv while I do stuff but it doesnt have a ton of content
See an “No Ads” purchase on an Android game you actually like
Purchase it
“Congratulation, you received 10 ad skips”
Refund!
but isnt this kind deal is from like shitty mobile game? i remember when i play really shitty idle game, it have this deal XD
The game is called State.io (ignore the url-ification, it’s not a page)
A risk-type game (even tho I’ve never played original risk, it’s also about luck+strategy, numbers and claiming territory)
same developer as slither.io?
Never stopped pirating gang, pop out.
how do u do it safely
even if you dont pirate, youtube with adblock gives you more than enough videos on a specifi show/movie, without having to actually watch it.
I seem to remember a lot of arguments when Netflix first introduced a cheaper-with-ads subscription that “not everyone can afford ad-free subscriptions” and that somehow it would make things better.
Ignoring the fact that the play was obviously to get the ad-subscription up to the current cost of ad-free subscription.
And now I think it’s Disney introducing ads to all subscriptions.
So, no doubt Netflix will do that soon in order to “innovate” the line-go-up.Netflix is my last bastion of legit media. I was only using Netflix for a number of years and reduced the amount of new media I downloaded to nothing.
I never bought into all the additional services that popped up after it, like Apple and Disney, and just reverted to downloading for the stuff that wasn’t available anymore.
I still pay for Netflix though. I pay for myself and my Mum as an additional account. I also pay for a friend from another country so I effectively have 2.5x subs to premium Netflix.
If they add ads, then I’m done with all the bullshit and will just download 100%.
Spotify now has ads on Premium when listening to podcasts. It’s infuriating and frankly insulting. Podcasts are cheap as dirt to make compared to music.
I think I’ll cancel Spotify.
Watch them implement ads on the base subscription tier for non-ai generated music. I smell the way the winds are blowing
Pretty much where I am at.
Piracy is a service issue, I think Steam proves that.
If that service isn’t viable any longer, time to move on
Issue a chargeback.
This kind of shenanigans are the exact benefit of credit cards. You’re no longer getting what the merchant sold you. You didn’t agree to this.
They will in all likelihood ban your credit card and terminate your account, but this harms them a fuck ton more than just cancelling.
Issue a chargeback.
Be careful with chargebacks on Google Play though. I hear Google don’t like chargebacks and they absolutely ghost you after permanently disabling your Google account if you do it.
Be evil :) their motto stronger than ever right now
I know for a fact Sony will. I hesistate to call it a chargeback, but my bank did a transaction reversal after they caught a double charge from PlayStation for a game. The rep on the phone called it a chargeback. This wasn’t a double click accident; the transactions were 10 hours apart and I was asleep for the second. They locked my account and refused to accept any evidence that this was a mistake on their part and everything was in the clear as to who owed who money. I had screenshots and communications with my bank, but there was no one to send it to. They told me to pay the amount, then we could clear it up. I told them I’m not paying $150 for one game.
I never got my account back and lost all of my digital titles. I’ve used it as a warning now that Sony is talking about killing off discs. They can and will cut you off whenever they feel like it and you have zero recourse. You don’t own any of it.
That calls for an escalation to small claims court.
Make ‘em fly an attorney in from Japan
I kinda doubt this would get your games back as I’m sure its in the TOS, but you can make them spend more money on a lawyer than them “losing” the $150
The TOS can include things that a judge refuses to honor. Even if you ultimately only have a digital copy of games, purchasing them still gives you reasonable expectation of continued access absent good cause to lock you out. Removing access without a good reason is then effectively false advertising.
Wish you could make a charge back for the full value of your account. If they can remove something you bought, you should get your money back in full. Fucking parasites. Sony is shit.
Some people would get so many money back lol, i know some people who prolly have HUNDRED of euros on steam games some eve thousand
Yet another reason why antitrust law is important. The same entity shouldn’t be able to shut off your email because you had a dispute over an entirely separate product.
That’s completely unnecessary. You can refund your purchase directly.
Chargebacks should only be used if the merchant refuses to make it right.
I’m so glad this hasn’t been an issue in my life for the last 20ish years.
When I stay in a hotel now I get legitimately offended by commercials. I actually find them offensive.
Same, I stop watching anything with a commercial outside of Golf. Which is background viewing anyway, simultaneously inundated with commercials, the irony isnt lost here, but I like golf and it’s the only time I can handle it.
Ive also started reading novels again, just mentally preparing for the inevitable break away from all streaming/reinvented cable bundling bullshit. Video games aren’t far behind either which is my true last bastion
The commercials are free dude
So stop paying them. It really is that easy.
Probably a one time purchase typically between 5$ to 10$
Today in why is pirating get popular again, we see all steaming platforms add ads to all paid subscriptions.
When I signed up for Disney they didn’t have any ads, that’s why I signed up. Now looking at if I should cancel my account, but I know my kids would rebel
I mean they’re counting on parents to capitulate to the demands of their children for this not to be a financial mistake on their end.
Tell your kids to pay for it.
Had that last year, after switching to a new phone.
The document scanning app I had payed for suddenly displayed ads.
I had a look into it, and it turned out, that the company just stopped updating their existing app at some point and instead released a new one under the same name.If you still have that phone you could try to extract the APK using some app
I went another way. Had a look and by now there is an open source alternative in the f-droid store available.
I prefer that anyway because… reasons…
First choice: open source, second choice if OSS not available: paid app.
Likewise when you download a free app whose ad explicitly says, “No ads!” and it does, in fact, have ads.
The line must go up.
