The fact that Tubi exists basically applies clown makeup to all the other streaming services. Like, Tubi shows me ads as or less frequently as the payed services and I don’t need to make an account to use it. That’s a huge plus for me personally as I’m tired of account bloat.

It doesn’t have every show or movie ever but no streaming services does. Its original shows are totally uninteresting to me, but that’s also true of 95% of new original shows on other streaming services. I ain’t about to shell out 8 dollars a month and sit through 10 minutes of ads every hour just to watch a couple of prestige shows.

And there are plenty of options for watching everything, for free, without ads, assuming you’re willing to jump through a couple hoops.

[–] loops@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How can installing software and downloading compatible file types be seen as jumping through hoops?

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago

It’s not hard, it just takes time and attention to set up properly. And a lot of people are scared of messing it up.