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I have Hulu bundled with Disney+ and ESPN+ into my Verizon phone plan. I watched the newest Daredevil on Disney - no commercials. That was an unexpected surprise.

My god - the commercial load on Hulu is simply terrible. It's like every 8 or so minutes. I tend to avoid Hulu, but just wrapping up Handmaids Tale.

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I don't believe it can be done anymore but I did the "upgrade" to Hulu ad-free for $5/mo with the old Verizon Disney Bundle.

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https://deadline.com/2025/06/hulu-di...ng-1236428619/

Disney is now the full owner of Hulu. They bought Comcast NBC Universal out.

It would not surprise at all if all the remaining NBC content eventually gets dropped and segues fully to Peacock.

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I haven't been paying much attention to my streaming subscriptions lately. But last night I noticed that my Hulu/Disney+/ESPN+ bundle was almost the same price as the Hulu/Disney+/MAX bundle ($27 vs $30). Since I don't use ESPN+, it was a no-brainer to switch over to the MAX bundle and cancel my stand-alone MAX subscription ($17).

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I think the Hulu app won't exist much longer after this. I think Hulu will only be available in the Disney+ app soon.

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https://variety.com/2025/digital/new...ntent=&utm_id=

The standalone Hulu app will be phased out. It will be a channel on the new Disney+

But, it sounds like you still need a separate subscription for it's content.

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Live is moving to Fubo? Maybe I should start looking into swapping to YTTV.

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Hopefully the new Disney+ app is better designed. It's a freaking mess now.

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Hulu is kind of a mess now too, mainly because they have so much content added on a regular basis and it's really hard (unless I'm missing something) to see everything new.

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They haven’t required separate subscriptions for the “adult” stuff in the rest of the world. Even through Disney, the Hulu content in the US is lower quality (no Atmos) than the same content everywhere else (have VPN, will travel!)

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Has anyone tried the getting no ads with Hulu since has the Disney Bundle with Verizon now that they have integrated?

I want Hulu ad free, especially for the month of October, but various googling tells me that the bundle through Verizon is old, and I am scared to fuck with it and lose my free Disney + subscription with them.

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I don't know if I would risk it. The procedure (if it still even works) requires you to cancel the current bundle, sign up for ad free Hulu then reapply the bundle. Who knows if you would be able to reapply the bundle. Verizon wants us off those old plans. And I wouldn't trust the customer service department. They are notoriously misinformed or flat out lie to you.

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I pay Hulu directly for the upgrade to ad free since I get the V D+ bundle. But I have been doing that for years. I don't know if it would mess with anything if you did it now.

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I do as well. $5/mo. I didn't have an issue pulling it off as I hadn't redeemed the bundle in the first place. I activated Hulu first then activated the bundle.

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Have the Verizon Bundle and been doing ad free with direct with HULU as well by paying the $5/month.

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Hulu along with Disney+ is getting yet another price bump

https://variety.com/2025/digital/new...ntent=&utm_id=

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My annual love/hate relationship with Hulu. I love the product (will never go back to cable tv or switch to YouTube tv), but of course we all hate price increases.

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Hulu is having some issues - my ad free and HBO add-on have both dropped off my account. I tried watching something this weekend and I had ads, I then switched over to watch HBO and it stated I had no account. Went to Hulu account and it only showed ad-level account. Called and they stated it is an ongoing issue they are working on.

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This must still be an ongoing problem... watched Hulu two nights ago, no ads. Watched last night, ads. I thought my subscription changed thru Verizon.

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If you were paying for the no ads add on via Hulu, split billing is no longer applicable. Hulu blames Verizon and Verizon blames Hulu. There is no ad free available via Verizon any longer. If you are grandfathered into the D+ (no ads), Hulu (Ads), ESPN bundle you can't make any changes. Found all this out the hard way. Hours and hours on phone with Hulu and they conferenced in Verizon. They argued with each other while I was in the phone as to who's to blame. Only way to get ad free Hulu right now is by paying direct with Disney.

Word of caution though. Hulu states it's Verizon not allowing split billing while Verizon states it's Hulu getting ready for merging Hulu into D+. So we all may have to put up with ads till later this year or cancel with Verizon and go directly with D+ bundle.

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This sounds more like it's Verizon's policy change to force more people off the legacy plan.

I just logged into my Hulu account and it still shows the premium plan for $5.00 and getting billed tomorrow.

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...0259472ca4.jpg

Maybe the way I did the upgrade several years ago isn't affected... yet.

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I started getting ads this month, yet Hulu still charged me on April 1. I had to reach out to them and cancel, as even the option to cancel (and the subscription itself) was no longer appearing on my Hulu account. Thankfully, the Hulu agent I chatted with seemed to understand this issue. They canceled my recurring payment and refunded me the $5.30 (including the tax) they charged me in April.

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That was exactly ours until it wasn't

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And mine is now dead too. I knew it when the Hulu charge didn't hit my card yesterday. I checked my Hulu account and it says the Verizon D+ Legacy Bundle.

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Issue is even if you change your Verizon plan they no longer offer ad free upgrade either. As of now the only way for ad free is direct with Disney/Hulu. Yet depending on how you are paying etc it likely will be more no matter how it's bundled.