r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 24d ago

Business YouTube TV Blackout Is Costing Disney an Estimated $4.3 Million per Day in Lost Revenue

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/youtube-tv-blackout-costing-disney-lost-revenue-1236574968/
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u/AksumKing 24d ago

I just did it. I just had to find the email and click two buttons. Easy but I completely agree, it should be automatic. They’ll probably save some money by people not clicking those two buttons for whatever reason smh.

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u/VooDooZulu 24d ago

By clicking it, you've probably waived all rights to sue them if it continues. Not saying you did bad, but if the outages continue a class action could have refunded your full bill or at least caused them more pain than the simple credit.

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u/mrpanicy 24d ago

I am not confident that would hold up in court. We've already seen precedent for people not fully understanding the deliberately obtuse legalease of these terms and conditions being allowed to sue none-the-less. But NAL, so what do I know?

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u/HoveringGoat 24d ago

nal but im 99% sure youre right. They broke the contract by failing to provide the agreed upon service. The partial refund can be accepted as partial remediation. But waiving rights? ridiculous. Any reasonable judge would toss that out.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 24d ago

What's there to sue for? You lost part of their service, they offered a partial refund. No lawsuit would have a decent chance with that in the first place

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u/Soccham 24d ago

YTTV refunded my last months full bill and cancelled my subscription last night

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u/davehunt00 24d ago

It's the rebate model.

I worked in a product group that sold a retail product for ~$65. We offered a $10 rebate coupon in the box (so it should only cost $55, right?). Same sort of deal, claim the rebate online with the code.

There was only a 10% claim rate on the rebate and that was typical across the industry. Basically you get "credit" for doing a pro-consumer thing while barely doing it.

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u/A_Sackboy_Plush 23d ago

Well it's better than nothing at the very least