I decided to give FUNimations paid streaming service a try wanting to support the US Anime industry. What I encountered led me to canceled my elite membership almost as soon as I signed up for it.
First off the site is uselessly slow. It seems they insist you allow many third party cookies to be installed on your system and if you don't they throttle the hell out of your connection. Some pages taking minutes to load. There is not any reason a site needs to install third party cookies on your system. None. I don't allow them. I subscribe to Crunchyroll and they do not practice installing third party cookies and my page rendering on their site is blazing fast. Secondly is FUNimation's idea of simulcasting. There is one show in particular I was interested in and they made a big production about their buying the rights to simulcast it. However their idea of simulcasting is 3 weeks and several days after the show actually airs in Japan. That isn't simulcasting. Lastly they displayed advertisements from other companies one being a pop-up/pop-under they got past Google Chrome's block on those on their site even though I was a paying member and was logged in. That kind of sneaky underhandedness.is what you'd expect from some nasty porn site you wandered into. It's really low life. ANN doesn't do that, Other than an advertisement on their main page Crunchyroll doesn't seem to do that. I don't find it acceptable personally.
If you don't mind your system infested in third party cookies doing who knows what I guess it might be a good deal but it's not worth the dollar more a month they charge over what Crunchyroll gets. The lack of same day streaming is also not useful to me. My recommendation is you give them a pass. I'll continue to by their DVD's and BlueRays but they leave too much to be desired in a streaming service in respect to my privacy. Chruncyroll rules and FUNimation blows.
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