I had to answer a fucking question to keep watching on Hulu
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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it’s happening
The real question is, what if you give the wrong answer. Does it just say you’re wrong and continue the video anyway or do you have to watch the ad again?
It’s becoming more and more like the episode of Black Mirror called “Fifteen Million Merits”
I don’t even have a Hulu subscription and I want to cancel my subscription.
I’m actually kinda mad about this, the fucking audacity of these corporations
I haven’t experienced this yet and the first time i do I’m cancelling my subscription lmao
They’re forcing us to pay attention to the ads now, one way or another
These platforms and tech companies are just begging their users to leave, aren’t they. They’re all turning to trash but figure we have nowhere else to go
Please drink a verification can
I was just thinking tonight how we are ready to bring back physical media rentals again. I’m legitimately thinking of starting one. People are fucking done with streaming. I’m done with streaming. It’s shit. I’m tired of 100 subscriptions and still somehow not being able to watch something I wanted to. Option paralysis. Fuck it. I’m oooooooooooooover it.
Immediate unsubscribe.
Exactly this sort of trash that invigorated the piracy scene last time around.
Everyone says they’ll cancel for shit like this but nobody does. It’ll keep getting worse.
Dude. My mother has dementia. They do this and it will be a problem.
I remember a while back they had a choice to pick a “short interactive” commercial of 30 seconds or the full commercial break.
If you didn’t choose the short interactive, this is really a bad sign for the future.
I will gladly tell them why this was a bad decision as I am cancelling my account.
* stands up*
MCDONALDS!
I had a paid account there and did not watch it often enough to be worth the expense, and I just plain have no patience for ads, so I never tried to free or reduced price accounts. I download the shows I want to watch now. Yeah, it’s illegal. It’s also ad free. I also pay for some streaming services but they don’t force ads down my throat.
You have a lot of patience OP if this is just mildly infuriating. This is extremely infuriating. I would cancel my subscription immediately if I get this shit.
Stremio. Download it and then download the torrentio add-on. Now you can watch literally anything for free. Fuck these corporations.
Whats that episode where south park burns a walmart to the ground……..
They are doing this crap because people keep up with it, and even PAY them.
Vote with your Wallet. No Hulu won’t hurt.
“Please drink a verification can to continue.”
This seems aggressive, as if Hulu understands this will piss people of, maybe enough to switch to non commercial/ad plans
TLDR: Wow. This is next level devious tricks to be able to report back to advertisers that viewers are watching all their crappy commercials.
First, we had no way around commercials. With no remote on TVs, you would have no way to mute the sound quickly. Or switch channels quickly. So…you just went to get a sandwich or something.
Then, we got the remote and could lower the volume, but no mute button. So they turned up the volume from the feed on commercials to compensate.
Then, we got VCRs and now HDRs to record programs to watch later…. with the added benefit of being able to fast forward through the tons of worthless crappy commercials. Well, except for the Super Bowl commercials… those are actually fun to watch. Lol.
Then, all the TV streaming from 1000 different apps happened… that were ad free…. until some marketing genius came up with question:
“Hey, I wonder if we could vacuum up even MORE money if we added commercials where there were none before… and then charge extra monthly fees to go… wait for it “ad less”? Laughter and cheers throughout the room!
But the advertisers were still not happy. How do we really know if all of these slubs are even watching our ads? We want to know that we have at least IMPLANTED an idea that they should buy our overpriced products.
Another genius in the back of room raises his hand and goes “hey I have the answer!! “. You could hear a pin drop.
“We will make them take a test after each commercial…. checking on how much they retained from the commercial.
They won’t be able to resume with their program until they answer a question!
If they guess wrong, we just keep throwing questions at them until they understand they MUST obey and absorb the commercial. Sort of like those CAPTCHA tests that everybody likes!
And another idea? We could charge them 50 cents more per month on their subscription for each incorrectly answered question!! ”
Smh.
This is just never going to stop.
time to cancel the subscription
Immediate app deletion.
Hope someone with ADHD has grounds to sue under the ADA, tests without accommodations or something.
Forever ❤️
Everyday Piracy seems more justified..
Is it on a timer still? If you decide not to interact with it out of spite is it gonna sit there until you pick an answer?
You pay for a service that makes you watch participatory ads? Cancel, now.
Advertising effectiveness test.
People need to push back on this shit or soon it will be on every streaming service