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Go ad-free for free! Just give us your credit card number so we can charge it when you’re not looking!
Seriously, why isn’t this illegal yet? Why has this fallen to the private sector? WHY DO I HAVE TO GIVE A COMPANY MONEY IN ORDER TO STOP GIVING MONEY TO COMPANIES WHOSE SERVICES I’M NOT USING?
That’s why with modern payment systems they give you a code and you send them the money. Credit cards made more sense before cell phones.
Ita worth it for me, I watch tons of twitch and ads are annoying. I don’t have to mess with anything or deal with twitch updating stuff breaking extensions etc.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that was illegal in EU.
“free” as in “available”
yea, but at the top of the email it says “go ad-free for free”
It’s not “free” it’s Free™
twich is for billionaires
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The really interesting question is, are they removing revenue from channels? Are you really supporting them by going adfree? Do the users who pay this still count as viewers of ads even though they don’t see them?
Yes, they still count as viewers of ads and the streamer gets a small cut of the twitch turbo subscription money.
Nitro users count towards ad views and show as regular users… basically to count as a viewer you have to have the video running, doesn’t matter if the player or tab is muted.
That’s interesting! So the more of those subscriptions twitch sells, the more they devaluate themselves towards the advertisers?
Well they get the money directly from the user. In most cases this is more profitable.
For sure! Untill no more advertisers feel its worth to advertise.
Maybe $11.99, they won’t actually confirm that till checkout
This is normal though. I get 25% vat added whenever i shop online outside my country. Other countries have less or more vat. They can’t tell for sure, before you checkout because you may be ordering while not at your home country.
They could be charging $50 for ad free ON TOP of the $11.99. That’s a savings of $50! You should consider yourself lucky! You can’t afford NOT to take a deal THIS good!
It’s sad that this has basically become a standard. Subscribe to a service, but then you have to pay extra on top of that to not see ads. Are we now supposed to be grateful that products and services we already pay for aren’t trying to bleed us for every cent they can get?
Shameless plug, if anyone here streams check out https://owncast.online/. If you feel comfortable setting up a docker container you can stream on the fediverse, and people on mastodon/other services can sub to you. (You can follow me if you like at https://owncast.scrubbles.tech/ )
Doesn’t this take up quite a lot of bandwidth if you have a lot of viewers?
This was an interesting question, so I took a quick dive in the docs, it seems it has an S3 integration to help with it, and some comments on the various supported services
More info here: https://owncast.online/docs/storage/
Still, depending on the chosen provider and the amount of viewers, it could be quite costly
As everything, a big “it depends”. Each viewer will eat more bandwidth, but you control the compression and qualities. For me, I have an unlimited fiber uplink, so it’s quite easy for me to self host. If someone were more bandwidth constrained, then hosting it on a cloud that then has much more egress may help - at a cost of course, but then your own personal internet would only have the one outgoing stream. Finding a provider that has super cheap egress traffic would probably help
If you have a data cap… well… not a lot you can do.
There’s also Peertube with the chat plugin if bandwidth is a concern
Advertising, yes but in this case I’ll allow it
Thanks, I knew I was skirting the rule, but I’m on a constant strive to convince people to move to fediverse alternatives. Appreciate the exception, and won’t make a habit of it.
I’m trying to open your link but I get a Lemmy page saying this link does not exist. Is it a voyager app thing?
I’m on voyager as well and both links opened fine in app for me
Works for me on mlem
That’s so weird, the markdown processor got confused. I changed the link
Yeah, honestly this logic doesn’t make sense
“If you pay for this subscription, we will stop showing you ads for free!” like- this is part of the subscription, how is it free lmao
Didn’t it used to be that at the grocery store, if an item is advertised on the shelf for a different price than what it scans for, they give you something like half the difference? But there’s no code of ethics like that on the interweb.
Yeah in the uk I think if something is advertised at a certain price the shop has to sell it for that price - certainly happens fairly regularly at supermarkets
That isn’t actually true. The price on the shelf is considered to be an invitation to treat. By taking the item to the checkout you are offering to buy it which they can reject. In practice they will sell it to you for the price on the shelf but this is not the law
Oh cool yeah seems pretty obvious that they would be entitled to refuse the sale. Definitely see it in practice particularly at supermarkets tho tbh
It’s free after you pay for it.
It’s a one-time fee that you pay monthly. One-time in that you pay one time a month.
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This is Kumail Nanjiani’s best work.
