It’s Netflix — but with ads. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Clicking into something on Netflix’s new ads tier is a roll of the dice: you never know how many ads you might have to sit through.
Netflix Basic with Ads is finally here, offering a cheaper Netflix subscription at $6.99 per month with the tradeoff that you might have to watch some ads with your movies and TV shows. I spent some time messing around with a new account on the tier on Thursday, and while the experience of using Netflix was mostly the same, what struck me was the unpredictability of how many ads I’d have to watch.
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You probably won’t be making this face after you have to watch a third ad.
Netflix says you can expect to see an “average of 4 to 5 minutes of ads per…
