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Black Friday Streaming Deals Include Big Savings on Disney+, Hulu, Paramount+, and Peacock
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Apparently if you're signed up for Hulu through Disney, you can't:
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Kinda dumb since AFAIK the only way to get the ad-free Duo bundle is to sign up through Disney.
I'd add in here, if it hasn't been mentioned...
If you really want Parmount+, you can get the ad-supported version for "free" if you subscribe to Walmart+, it's just an extra that they include.
I mention this because the price of subscribing to Walmart+, which even if you never use it for anything, is on a BF deal of its own for $60 for 1 year.
And if you subscribe directly to Parmount+ (minus the sad deal of 2 months for cheaper with their BF "deal"), then it is the same at $60/year.
With the Walmart+, while i still hate subscriptions, you at least can also save on Gas at lots of even non-Walmart stations like Exxon for 10 cents a gallon, which isn't bad. Along with other things.
Just throwing this into the mix if you're looking for Parmount+.
If you really want Parmount+, you can get the ad-supported version for "free" if you subscribe to Walmart+, it's just an extra that they include.
I mention this because the price of subscribing to Walmart+, which even if you never use it for anything, is on a BF deal of its own for $60 for 1 year.
And if you subscribe directly to Parmount+ (minus the sad deal of 2 months for cheaper with their BF "deal"), then it is the same at $60/year.
With the Walmart+, while i still hate subscriptions, you at least can also save on Gas at lots of even non-Walmart stations like Exxon for 10 cents a gallon, which isn't bad. Along with other things.
Just throwing this into the mix if you're looking for Parmount+.
That doesn't work outside of watching on a computer. I haven't watched a streaming service on a computer in years...almost exclusively on my TV using an Apple TV or Roku.
I’ve been weeding out subscription services over the past couple of years and I finally got them down to a manageable level. No thanks to any deals for me. 🤌🏼
The hack is to pay for a month on one of the services, binge watch all the shows, then cancel. Switch to another service or renew when they have new shows worth watching. Letting multiple services ride for many months is where they get you. Its not possible to watch everything so might as well dip in and out.
I don't remember them offering Black Friday deals like this in the past, so they must realize people are about at their limits and are going to start or have already started cancelling and renewing like I just described.
I don't remember them offering Black Friday deals like this in the past, so they must realize people are about at their limits and are going to start or have already started cancelling and renewing like I just described.
Disney and Hulu have doing Black Friday deals for years.
The binge and cancel is a hack for people who like to binge. One or two episodes of a show per week is pretty much the max I can watch.. ☹️
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Not new... People have been doing this for half a century with cable companies.
They've been doing it at movie theaters too. The difference is they call them trailers instead of ads.
I don’t own a TV, I watch through my laptop and a monitor (Firefox with adblocker.) I assume a Pi Hole would also do the trick for TV owners.
hulu has run this deal every year for like 6 years . I always take advantage and Disney had this deal last year
they tried to renew me at full cost today so I called them and got a refund of $18 and now will resubscribe with this deal
I’ll never understand companies that charge you for products and make you endure ads. No promos on the ad-less variations of their bundles.
Even with Cable, I never paid for it years ago because I won’t pay for something that shows me ads - unless they paid me lol!
Even with Cable, I never paid for it years ago because I won’t pay for something that shows me ads - unless they paid me lol!
I don’t own a TV but I do have a monitor. Apple TV is nice, I bought my mum one when she cut the cable, but I watch so little that I don’t mind a few extra seconds of setting it up on my laptop. There is just a tiny hiccup when you get to where an ad would have been, it’s worth it to me.
I had a Pi-Hole running for a while, but was redoing some things and screwed it up and haven't had the time to get it back up and running yet.
So sounds like you have more experience with it here, with ad blocking. If using an Apple TV and running things through the pihole, does that allow the full stripping/skipping of ads on the streaming services? I'm not sure of the limitations or its abilities in that area?
Would be great to know if so!
I have cancelled all my subscriptions. Was not watching any of them to any degree anyway.
Gone back to reading books, hobbies, seeing friends and family more....and I am happier for it.
Thanks for the reminder! I get Walmart+ free through work and I almost paid for Paramount+
Work has a benefit for a company "One Pass" that offers gym memberships to various gyms. One Pass randomly includes Walmart+ which in turn includes Paramount+ !
Curiously, Walmart+ includes "Burger King savings" 25% off burger king every day, and a free whopper once a quarter. So our gym membership includes burger king? The circle is complete!
If you want to see into the future, notice that there are no deals on anything ad-free. While ad-free may cost $1-2 more per month normally, you can't even get the Black Friday deal and pay the difference. The only option is to throw any "savings" to the wind and subscribe for an ad-free subscription like any other day of the year.
Why? The ad plans essentially let them double-dip. They charge the customer for the privilege of watching ads, and they charge the ad agencies for the privilege of displaying the ads. Anything they bill the consumer above $0 for the ad-supported streams is gravy. At this point, I wouldn't expect to even see ad-free as an option a few years from now.
Why? The ad plans essentially let them double-dip. They charge the customer for the privilege of watching ads, and they charge the ad agencies for the privilege of displaying the ads. Anything they bill the consumer above $0 for the ad-supported streams is gravy. At this point, I wouldn't expect to even see ad-free as an option a few years from now.
But now there are ads and trailers and it makes going to the theater not entirely enjoyable anymore. I haven't been since Wolverine and Deadpool earlier this year.