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The most noxious ones are the ads for the platform you are served by the platform when using the platform.
Paramount+ plays almost 90s of ads, sometimes ads for the exact show you are about to watch, any time you hit go. That's just heinous.
Still better than the Peacock app though, for which the sound randomly cuts out for a few seconds every minute or two on a device as uncommon and odd as... a Chromecast.
Paramount used to show no ads whatsoever for their no-ads plan, but now they show an ad at the beginning for another show. For the longest time it was unskippable, but at least now these can be skipped.
Hulu does the same thing. No ads should mean NO ads!
That was when I dropped Hulu. If I'm already paying, I'm not going to sit through ads as well.
YouTube does this on paid content. I bought It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia but it has ads for other FX shows (Mayans, Cake, Sons of Anarchy) baked in to the first 30 seconds and last 60 seconds of some episodes.
It also has a teaser that is the last item in each season's playlist, which is an ad for the season you just watched :/
These companies think ads are the best thing in the world. They can't imagine a world without them. That's evidenced by what that other person just said, them showing you a generic Paramount ad while you're watching a video on your paid Paramount subscription. Just fuck off, you clueless bitches!
It can get much worse on Paramount+. I wanted to check out the new Halo series, so I queued it up. When it got through the second commercial break, it started the video from just before the last commercial break. At first everything seemed normal because it had started showing me scenes I had not seen before, but after a time (suspiciously similar to the commercial break time), I noticed that I'd already watched this part. Once I started skipping ahead I noticed that it had rewound the video to just before where the last commercial break had cut in, played commercials (seemingly without pausing the show), and jumped back into the show. I thought it was just a one off glitch, but at the very next commercial interruption, instead of resuming the stream, it jumped to just before the last commercial break to show me another scene that it had skipped. I gave up on Paramount+ immediately, but we only signed up a trial to watch the Superbowl anyway so... Oh well I guess. Gave up on the Halo show too, what I'd seen wasn't good enough to pay for or even pirate really.