I’m going to wake up soon, I’m dreaming, I think I’ve been dreaming for a few years now. Am I dead?
I don’t believe this. I read a study a while ago that said advertisements work better when played at speed as you have to watch them and pay attention.
Sky Glass from £13 a month
So a subscription service that you are then forced to watch what adverts? sky’s?
Glad I don’t own a TV, privateer is the life for me.
Are they trying to intentionally drive customers away? Sky glass is a load of arse, this just adds to the reason to ditch them. Pricing is ridiculous, especially in the current economic climate.
So you now have to pay a premium sky fee to be ad free on a premium sky package….
We really getting into this selling advertising space and then allowing customers to pay not to see the advertising space lol
One of the many reasons I’m baffled why people stick with sky and line uncle Rupert’s pockets
Haha you must be kidding.
My mum will be fuming about this esp with Sky already increasing their prices
hehehe pay-tv subscription offering a chance to pay extra for no ads. hilarious. i’m so glad I don’t pay for sky or any other broadcast TV.
Haha paying sky anything in this day and age is just a waste of money
Streaming online never felt so good
I had to Google this to see if it was true…. And it is. Not had sky for ever a decade now. Not watched any type of old school TV in that time either. It just needs to die a death.
Yep, it’s true, although free for the first year so after 12 months you suddenly lose the ability to skip adverts on recordings unless you want to pay £5pm.
Fuck off.
‘Streaming TV subscription:
Ad Skipping Add On which allows you to fast forward ads (£0pm for 12 months then £5pm).’
I guess we are all going sailing on the choppy seven seas once again.
Weirdly, piracy + adblock Ive never had advertisements for wank products im never going to use interrupt my viwwing
The front on them. They literally talk about it as if they’re doing us a favour.
“Customers are able to purchase this add on to be able to fast forward ads”.
What the hell?? We can do this for over a decade, we pay for the TiVo or whatever exactly for recording and fast forwarding to the content. Bizarre.
Paying a monthly subscription and still having to sit through ads is something that’s always put me off getting Sky. Never wanted it before and now I want it even less.
I am constantly amazed this dinosaur isnt dead.
If you’re still using SKy, you deserve to be treated like this.
And these fat cat twats wonder why nobody watches tv anymore. What else would anyone use fast forward for
Still not as bad as Microsoft’s “say McDonalds to skip the ad”.
If I ever see an advert for something I didn’t want before the advert, I make a mental note to never go there, or buy it.
Now TV sucks too.
Having to pay for the subscription THEN boost to get rid of ads on boxsets
Never understood why people pay for Sky to watch endless adverts
I never did understand why people gave Sky money all those years ago, when all they were doing was taking popular programs away from free to air TV and charging you to watch it with ads.
All you had to do was not pay them and they’d have gone bust. Makes me think this probably won’t stop people giving them money either.
Pauses ads and throws up an angry red border until you look directly at it.
Its likely sky and others will adopt it if they can get away with it, given a lot of smart tv’s have webcams built in now.
Next will be face tracking to check how many people are in the room when you stream a rental movie, so that they can charge per-person like a virtual cinema ticket.
A bold experiment in getting ride of existing customers
Repeated offenses will be punished by being strapped to a chair with your eyelids propped open while being forced to watch every advert you ever skipped.
Customers warn Sky that if they fuck them off enough with all this bullshit the sky box will be sailing through the window and they can suck a fat one if they think they’ll be getting any future subscription money.
It’s not as if every single thing ever shown on sky isn’t available somewhere online for free and without ads!
People are paying for convenience viewing, remove the convenience and people will remove the service from their homes and their wallets!
I always mute adverts when they come on anyway, but yeah this is too much
Wow, talk about shooting yourself in the foot. This is going to go down really well isn’t it 😅 right in the cost of living crisis, right before Christmas. They are so fucking dumb , they deserve every bit of shit that is going to get flung at them.
Don’t rely on pirate bay links as I’m sure you’ve experienced they’re notoriously unreliable. Try a torrent aggregator instead such as snowfl dot com.
Will never understand paying for Sky – the default package channels are rubbish anyway and you get ads on top. Sky sports is an even bigger scam. At half time during a football match youll get about 3 mins of actual analysis broken up by betting adverts…
To explain to those who clearly haven’t read the article, you can still fast forward adverts when watching a live stream on a pause delay, or watching a recording. This is just for on demand content, through Sky Glass. Doesn’t affect Sky Q customers, although you can’t skip ads on ITV on demand, for example. But you never could without paying extra. That’s nothing new.
Note: Does not apply to Sky Q and the traditional Sky boxes. Just the new Sky Glass
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I’m going to wake up soon, I’m dreaming, I think I’ve been dreaming for a few years now. Am I dead?
I don’t believe this. I read a study a while ago that said advertisements work better when played at speed as you have to watch them and pay attention.
Sky Glass from £13 a month
So a subscription service that you are then forced to watch what adverts? sky’s?
Glad I don’t own a TV, privateer is the life for me.
Are they trying to intentionally drive customers away? Sky glass is a load of arse, this just adds to the reason to ditch them. Pricing is ridiculous, especially in the current economic climate.
So you now have to pay a premium sky fee to be ad free on a premium sky package….
We really getting into this selling advertising space and then allowing customers to pay not to see the advertising space lol
One of the many reasons I’m baffled why people stick with sky and line uncle Rupert’s pockets
Haha you must be kidding.
My mum will be fuming about this esp with Sky already increasing their prices
hehehe pay-tv subscription offering a chance to pay extra for no ads. hilarious. i’m so glad I don’t pay for sky or any other broadcast TV.
Haha paying sky anything in this day and age is just a waste of money
Streaming online never felt so good
I had to Google this to see if it was true…. And it is. Not had sky for ever a decade now. Not watched any type of old school TV in that time either. It just needs to die a death.
Yep, it’s true, although free for the first year so after 12 months you suddenly lose the ability to skip adverts on recordings unless you want to pay £5pm.
Fuck off.
‘Streaming TV subscription:
Ad Skipping Add On which allows you to fast forward ads (£0pm for 12 months then £5pm).’
I guess we are all going sailing on the choppy seven seas once again.
Weirdly, piracy + adblock Ive never had advertisements for wank products im never going to use interrupt my viwwing
The front on them. They literally talk about it as if they’re doing us a favour.
“Customers are able to purchase this add on to be able to fast forward ads”.
What the hell?? We can do this for over a decade, we pay for the TiVo or whatever exactly for recording and fast forwarding to the content. Bizarre.
Paying a monthly subscription and still having to sit through ads is something that’s always put me off getting Sky. Never wanted it before and now I want it even less.
I am constantly amazed this dinosaur isnt dead.
If you’re still using SKy, you deserve to be treated like this.
And these fat cat twats wonder why nobody watches tv anymore. What else would anyone use fast forward for
Still not as bad as Microsoft’s “say McDonalds to skip the ad”.
If I ever see an advert for something I didn’t want before the advert, I make a mental note to never go there, or buy it.
Now TV sucks too.
Having to pay for the subscription THEN boost to get rid of ads on boxsets
Never understood why people pay for Sky to watch endless adverts
I never did understand why people gave Sky money all those years ago, when all they were doing was taking popular programs away from free to air TV and charging you to watch it with ads.
All you had to do was not pay them and they’d have gone bust. Makes me think this probably won’t stop people giving them money either.
Don’t forget [THIS](https://futurism.com/moviepass-eye-tracking-ads) already exists.
Pauses ads and throws up an angry red border until you look directly at it.
Its likely sky and others will adopt it if they can get away with it, given a lot of smart tv’s have webcams built in now.
Next will be face tracking to check how many people are in the room when you stream a rental movie, so that they can charge per-person like a virtual cinema ticket.
A bold experiment in getting ride of existing customers
Repeated offenses will be punished by being strapped to a chair with your eyelids propped open while being forced to watch every advert you ever skipped.
Customers warn Sky that if they fuck them off enough with all this bullshit the sky box will be sailing through the window and they can suck a fat one if they think they’ll be getting any future subscription money.
It’s not as if every single thing ever shown on sky isn’t available somewhere online for free and without ads!
People are paying for convenience viewing, remove the convenience and people will remove the service from their homes and their wallets!
I always mute adverts when they come on anyway, but yeah this is too much
Wow, talk about shooting yourself in the foot. This is going to go down really well isn’t it 😅 right in the cost of living crisis, right before Christmas. They are so fucking dumb , they deserve every bit of shit that is going to get flung at them.
Don’t rely on pirate bay links as I’m sure you’ve experienced they’re notoriously unreliable. Try a torrent aggregator instead such as snowfl dot com.
Will never understand paying for Sky – the default package channels are rubbish anyway and you get ads on top. Sky sports is an even bigger scam. At half time during a football match youll get about 3 mins of actual analysis broken up by betting adverts…
To explain to those who clearly haven’t read the article, you can still fast forward adverts when watching a live stream on a pause delay, or watching a recording. This is just for on demand content, through Sky Glass. Doesn’t affect Sky Q customers, although you can’t skip ads on ITV on demand, for example. But you never could without paying extra. That’s nothing new.
Note: Does not apply to Sky Q and the traditional Sky boxes. Just the new Sky Glass