[rebeccaskinner]

> Apple TV+ / movie-streaming services (without ads)

Apple TV+ doesn’t have an ad-free tier. They have a tier they call ad-free where they still force you into pre-roll ads for apple products. Unfortunately that’s the same for most streaming services that claim to be ad free.

[spacedcowboy]

You're right, Apple TV+ does do that, but there are two crucial differences

- I can always fast-forward through anything on Apple TV, and in fact for the ads you mention, there's a button in the lower-right corner specifically to do that. It's the same as the "skip intro" button, which I also habitually press.

- These ads never come up slap bang in the middle of the content, they're only ever at the start and that's it.

Together, these make it far far less intrusive.

[throwaway290]

Is apple tv+ pre rolls a new thing? I had it during covid, zero ads

[tialaramex]

I was interested to see which idiots would choose to advertise during the new Black Mirror episode "Common People" but it seems Netflix got no takers (at least in my territory) and so it didn't happen.

[In Common People an apparently life-changing medical intervention is gradually monetised, jacking up fees, adding new "premium" tiers that degrade until they're no better than the old baseline and eventually by inserting advertisements directly into the patient's actions any time they aren't paying everything they have ...]

[throwaway290]

Nice, I didn't expect advertisers are that selective

[rebeccaskinner]

I don't really remember when they started, but they now include 1-2 prerolls for other Apple TV+ content. You can scrub past them, but you can't disable them.

[jrgoff]

I just started using apple tv+ again this month - the only pre-rolls I've noticed are previews for other shows/movies and the previews were skippable.

[throwaway290]

Yep. I don't count those as ads. Often they are shows I'd watch and if you can just ffd them it doesn't matter

[rebeccaskinner]

yeah, the pre-rolls for the other shows are exactly what I'm talking about. Those are ads. And they are only skippable if you scrub forward past them. You are forced to deal with them.