It still exists. I'm currently paying for the ad free add on and often cancel and resubscribe to it before I'm about to watch anything.

Annoyingly though, even with that, it'll still show you skipable ads about other shows they have once before you start something in a session.

When I click "subscribe" on my TV it gives me three options, all with adverts

Maybe I could subscribe and take a risk that I could then buy something again, but it tells me they don't want people paying money, they want people watching adverts.

As such the rare amazon exclusives (mainly clarkson's farm) I will get elsewhere.

Compared to say Paramount, which I once again subscribed to through apple-tv a couple of months ago. I watch new Star Trek and South Park episodes, then unsubscribe, suits me fine, far cheaper than how I used to watch Star Trek in the 1990s.

Likewise I'll subscribe to Apple when for all mankind and morning show come back.

If they want me permamently subscribed, they should go back to making 26 episodes a year.