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Nevada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Not only does it lag constantly, often times, for no reason, the show or movie will just jump back 5-10 minutes. The subtitles are often a frightful mess, and lag as well.

Also I hope you like watching the same movies and/or episodes over and over until finally you just turn off the tv and read.

1 star is way too good for Pluto TV

Date of experience: March 22, 2023
Connecticut
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I can live with the incessantly repetitive commercials, but they repeat the same few Doctor Who episodes for months now... why? There are so many to choose from, yet we get the same ones, over, and over, and over again. Seems like an effective torture, but entertainment...? Not really... maybe that's the point.

Date of experience: March 16, 2020
Wyoming
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Loved to watch Pluto tv from its birth. Whoever changed the guild to all black and made it so user unfriendly would be out of a job and thrown if I were CEO. The older guild was way better to use and see. If I'm watching Pluto tv today it's my last choice. Please give me an option to go back to the old guide system. A six year old could have done a better job on the guide than your programmers did, at least a six year old would have picked friendlier colors. Viewer gone!

Date of experience: January 7, 2022
North Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The TV channels on Pluto TV are decent, but the 'On Demand' aspect is a joke. With so many commercials shown over and over again, it takes forever just to get through a 90 minute movie; what's more, not one bit of thought has gone into the placement of these ads. I was watching a movie classic that featured a famous and moving two minute montage, and the movie was totally ruined when they cut to stupid ads just thirty seconds into the montage! They could not even let us watch a two minute sequence in peace! I'love never watch a movie on Pluto TV again. Sometimes, 'free' is simply not worth the cost!

Date of experience: November 22, 2021
Tennessee
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Too many commercials!
December 22, 2023

Free tv is great! I quit cable to get rid of excessive commercials but today I'm getting 8 to 13 commercials every 8 minutes. They are too long and too much repetition! Come on Pluto your becoming no better than cable companies except yes your free. Losing this customer

Date of experience: December 22, 2023
Florida
1 review
21 helpful votes
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Pluto could have taken over the airwaves but no, They have been showing the same hand full of sad movies for 6 months or more. Every channel ( except the news) shows the same six shows over and over. Americans let T. V. and cable get away with it like the brain washed zombies we have become. I dropped Pluto, Thankfully there is Roku.

Date of experience: April 1, 2020
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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It USED to be my go-to app, but now it keeps changing channels by itself. Sometimes it's worse than other times, but it always happens multiple times in an hour. It is no longer watchable, unless you want to watch the one channel that it always changes to.

Date of experience: February 17, 2023
Massachusetts
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Programs constantly freeze up. By the time they unfreeze you've missed the program content. It is so frustrating and aggravating. Also, most of the channels feature stupid, narcissistic and vulgar characters.

Date of experience: June 20, 2020
New York
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Commercial Overkill!
March 18, 2023

I get that this is a free app and they have to have commercials...but There is way too many commercials on Pluto TV! Pluto TV will also glitch out quite frequently and it will keep playing commercials over and over again until I have to either restart my phone or fast forward a bit on the show I'm watching in order to break the glitch. I spent 20 mins trying to break the glitch the first time I noticed this problem! It still happens, but not that extreme...very annoying...

Date of experience: March 18, 2023
Washington
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Worst streaming ever
September 3, 2023

I've been at it 4 hours trying to watch a one hour on-demand show. Streaming freezes repeatedly especially during the ads. Impossible to restart even if leaving and returning. Moving to another on-demand show or live show doesn't have any effect. When I return to the frozen one it's still frozen or forces me to start over. Absolute garbage.

Date of experience: September 3, 2023
Arizona
1 review
3 helpful votes
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BUFFERING
October 8, 2020

The buffering is super annoying because it covers the video with a loading screen but plays audio for like 10 seconds after, and often when it finally loads its plays 20 seconds or so behind where you were at. Super annoying. I get that its free and idc about ads, but holy damn that buffering is annoying! Also, Joey Steel didn't do anything wrong!

Date of experience: October 7, 2020
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I put the show I like to watch at about a 14 and then the commercials come on and the volume doubles. Its time to use another app that is more customer friendly. They are now asking me for a proof of purchase? Why would I pay for this nonsense?

Date of experience: November 16, 2022
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Soft porn
June 10, 2023

I can't believe that you allow a movie like Top of the Heap is allowed to be shone on pluto. Be careful and make sure your children are not just channel surfing and watching movies like this. I don't want my kids to see a man sucking on a,women's breast. And playing with her nipples.Do you?.
Very disappointed in Pluto allowing crap like this on the family channel.

Date of experience: June 10, 2023
Connecticut
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Pluto tv Breach
March 22, 2023

I am one of the 3.2 million accounts that were breached and sold on the Dark Web. No notification from pluto tv. Norton ID Protection notified of this breach. I advise all not to create an account on pluto and if you already have one, send a strong request that your account be deleted. Also change your password and don't use the same password on other web sites.

Date of experience: March 22, 2023
Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
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One sentence you'll get to know well " we're having trouble playing this title"
In the classic 30 minute shows you'll miss the endings because they were designed for 2 commercials at each break. But pluto uses 5 ads game shows you always miss the ending. I only watch three classic tv section because there they don't do it but every other section they do 5 to 6 ads. Yes it's free but is it worth your mental health. Also cnn and nbc never buffer but all the conservative news does constantly. Is free worth the frustration you get from same ads every 5 mins. It's up to you. Steer clear. The live tv is not live it's all prerecorded.

Date of experience: August 7, 2022
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Glitches often
December 12, 2023

Can't Wait until I finish the series I'm watching so never have to use Pluto again. It restarts episodes in the middle, reverts to live TV in the middle of on demand TV. Won't let fast forward without stopping to make you watch commercials. Just terrible.

Date of experience: December 12, 2023
West Virginia
4 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Started Out Good
December 10, 2021

It really did start out good, the programming seemed worth it but... as time has progressed I have found I've become less and less satisfied with it. Same old programming day after day, seems more and more commercials and less program time. Advertisers seem to rule the entire channel. There are more gaming channels than there needs to be, not enough content worth watching. Seems to lose signal more as time progresses and I end up missing parts of the program, or I switch channels away and then back to force it to play. That is SO old and deters me from watching at all some days.

Date of experience: December 10, 2021
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Ads are so frequent and lengthy you completely lose the thread of what you're watching! And good luck canceling your account! We were directed to a link where we had to fill out a request form—and the login was an infinite loop! This is a total scam of a service all designed to get your account info to pass on to advertisers.

Date of experience: July 30, 2023
Maryland
4 reviews
29 helpful votes
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More Facebook hypocrasy
January 21, 2021

Pluto TV is continuing to run ads that has Facebook employees talking about the need for government regulation. It is nothing more than an effort of Facebook to protect themselves from the large amount of free speech censorship they are involved in. Facebook is part of advancing the tyranny that has gripped the minds of young people. If you have a Facebook account, close it and live free of their control of what you read.

Date of experience: January 21, 2021
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Misleading at best
October 23, 2021

Boasts premium content such as mainstream live sports, but actual free content is mostly bad old shows and movies or obscure sports. Wondered why Google Play reviews are so high, but GP app redirected me when I tried to write a bad review!

Date of experience: October 23, 2021

Overview

Pluto TV has a rating of 1.7 stars from 433 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Pluto TV most frequently mention many commercials, commercial break and streaming service. Pluto TV ranks 328th among TV Shows sites.

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