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Hulu has launched a $1.99 per month deal for college students (regularly $5.99/month). College enrollment is verified through SheerID. Many college students already subscribe to the Spotify Premium/ Hulu/ Showtime bundle through Spotify for $4.99 a month, but this plan is now being offered for those only interested in the Hulu service.

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Created 01-11-2021 at 01:28 PM by bagelsafter8
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iuseyew
01-13-2021 at 03:27 PM.
01-13-2021 at 03:27 PM.
Yea the ads are no good at all. Kodi, and real debrid ftmfw!
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wolfie14
01-13-2021 at 03:38 PM.
01-13-2021 at 03:38 PM.
Quote from qkumbr :
I got the $1.99/mo Black Friday promo. No tax in my state. I use a Discover card. I don't use the card for anything else. Discover writes off balances under $2.00. I've been enjoying free Hulu.

Is there no annual fee for that card?

I tried the $1.99 deal the previous year but couldn't take the ads anymore. I do actually like a lot of the content on Hulu so I created a new account with Apple billing and got a bunch of discounted gift cards while they were still available so that gives me about 20% off the no ads plan for a while.

Now that Apple combined gift cards, the days of discounts are long gone but if you consider Best Buy or Target gift cards the same as cash, you can still get about 15% off the no ads plan by getting in on one of those gift card deals (when available) and billing through Apple.

If you can afford it, it's worth the premium to not see the same exact commercials over and over again every few minutes.

The most annoying thing for me was, if you happen look away from whatever you're watching for a few seconds and miss something that happened right before an ad break, to go back, you have to sit through the ad, rewind, watch the few seconds you missed and then sit through the ad again lol.

Somehow with my luck I'd always end up missing stuff right before an ad break and I just couldn't take it anymore.
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DelightfulStove7901
01-13-2021 at 04:01 PM.
01-13-2021 at 04:01 PM.
Quote from CleverCabbage389 :
How? I got sprint. Tell me more.
Not all plans, but I believe the $60 unlimited and up are eligible for free Hulu accounts. You should have received a link at some point after activation, but you can always contact c/s and they'll send you the link again.
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scottdwhitt
01-13-2021 at 04:09 PM.
01-13-2021 at 04:09 PM.
Quote from kolhsdeals :
shouldn't the college students be studying and not watching HULU?? lol

I got a chuckle. Don't know why some got so bent
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JacobM2643
01-13-2021 at 04:27 PM.
01-13-2021 at 04:27 PM.
Quote from TurtleThompson23 :
No Ad plan is worth it for $11.99. The ads on Hulu are awful. That said, if you can't afford that and don't wanna watch ads. There's other ways....

Other ways? Do tell please.
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TurtleThompson23
01-13-2021 at 04:29 PM.
01-13-2021 at 04:29 PM.
Quote from JacobM2643 :
Other ways? Do tell please.

Search engine other than google. Type the show you want to watch + free stream. There's always some sites. Just remember to have an adblocker.
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JacobM2643
01-13-2021 at 04:33 PM.
01-13-2021 at 04:33 PM.
Quote from Selman :
I can't believe we've moved past the model of paying for a service and then having to watch ads, and yet so many people are ready to welcome it back.

If you watch ads, the service should have no fee. Don't give in.

Spend it on Prime and watch some Pluto and Peacock for free.

Are there any deals to get peacock free? broke student here.

Agreed on hulu. Tried out Hulu (ads) and noticed the volume of the ads are much louder than the actual shows. Found myself rushing for the remote to mute the commercials. Immediately canceled service.

Thought they passed a law against this but probably left a loophole for streaming platforms. I see it as their tactic to get folks to pay for ad-free. Well not me, especially now out of sheer resentment.
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mhk87
01-13-2021 at 04:36 PM.
01-13-2021 at 04:36 PM.
Quote from Selman :
I can't believe we've moved past the model of paying for a service and then having to watch ads, and yet so many people are ready to welcome it back.

If you watch ads, the service should have no fee. Don't give in.

Spend it on Prime and watch some Pluto and Peacock for free.

Pluto is the freakin bomb. Highly recommend. Good movies on there all the time and all kinds of good tv shows old and new. Been digging the barker era price is right lately. Best part is it streams like cable used to so you don't have to commit to anything, just flip through.
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westermac
01-13-2021 at 04:41 PM.
01-13-2021 at 04:41 PM.
I tried ad-supported once, and there was such an unbelievable number of ads that I didn't last through a whole episode before I immediately signed up for ad-free. I can't believe they expect people to pay for such an ad heavy service
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sbobadilla1
01-13-2021 at 05:13 PM.
01-13-2021 at 05:13 PM.
are there ever any deals on the no ads subscription?
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qkumbr
01-13-2021 at 05:51 PM.
01-13-2021 at 05:51 PM.
Quote from wolfie14 :
Is there no annual fee for that card?

I tried the $1.99 deal the previous year but couldn't take the ads anymore. I do actually like a lot of the content on Hulu so I created a new account with Apple billing and got a bunch of discounted gift cards while they were still available so that gives me about 20% off the no ads plan for a while.

Now that Apple combined gift cards, the days of discounts are long gone but if you consider Best Buy or Target gift cards the same as cash, you can still get about 15% off the no ads plan by getting in on one of those gift card deals (when available) and billing through Apple.

If you can afford it, it's worth the premium to not see the same exact commercials over and over again every few minutes.

The most annoying thing for me was, if you happen look away from whatever you're watching for a few seconds and miss something that happened right before an ad break, to go back, you have to sit through the ad, rewind, watch the few seconds you missed and then sit through the ad again lol.

Somehow with my luck I'd always end up missing stuff right before an ad break and I just couldn't take it anymore.

All Discover cards have no annual fee.
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wolfie14
01-13-2021 at 05:52 PM.
01-13-2021 at 05:52 PM.
Quote from qkumbr :
All Discover cards have no annual fee.

Good to know, thanks, never had a discover card.
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texst
01-13-2021 at 06:23 PM.
01-13-2021 at 06:23 PM.
Quote from psyctto :
that's what drugs are for...
duh.
Those are pretty much legal now in Oregon, right?
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CleverCabbage389
01-13-2021 at 06:24 PM.
01-13-2021 at 06:24 PM.
Quote from DelightfulStove7901 :
Not all plans, but I believe the $60 unlimited and up are eligible for free Hulu accounts. You should have received a link at some point after activation, but you can always contact c/s and they'll send you the link again.
Thank you. Build back better, for someone else.
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JimA9744
01-14-2021 at 05:42 AM.
01-14-2021 at 05:42 AM.
Screw Hulu. Fox News hosts are claiming that Antifa was responsible for the terrorist attack on the Capitol. Hulu Sponsors FoxNews
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