If you click the Library tab (to show your purchased media) there aren't any ads. But you knew that already.
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Yeah. But it doesn't stay on that screen. It opens by default to "Watch Now" which is now identical to the "TV+" tab.
And, once I navigate through the library which for some reason has to completely reload its cache, slowly and frequently, and start a show, once that show ends the "watch now" tab wants to send me to Hulu for the next episode. So I have to navigate all the way back into Library and re-find the same episode.
The library navigation is deliberately clunky, they're trying to drive you to the "Watch Now" tab which as I said is identical to or worse than the "TV+" tab with all the ads.
Not to mention that if theres' any content during the credits it's impossible to watch because the app shrinks what I'm *WATCHING* to a tiny little window and shows a full screen STILL PICTURE of the next episode. If I try to re-maximize that tiny window, the playback stops. Starting playback minimizes it again.
Even Netflix and Hulu let me just watch the credits without interruption. Their interfaces have actually gotten a little better and less user hostile lately. Apple's continues to get worse.
This is not me just complaining to complain. I've bought hundreds of dollars of TV shows and movies from Apple. I just want them to not treat me like crap for giving them money. I just want to watch what I bought them a supposedly premium company in a premium experience. But Apple just wants to drive engagement. I even have Apple TV+ through Apple One but that's not enough payoff money for them to quit bugging me.