Ad-supported services such as Peacock, Roku Channel and Tubi are budget-minded alternatives to Netflix and Hulu. If you can’t stand commercials, grab your library card.

Nicole Nguyen
Personal Tech columnist, The Wall Street Journal
Nicole Nguyen is a Personal Tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal, covering how technology companies' products and policies affect people's lives. Before joining the Journal, she was a reporter covering tech giants at BuzzFeed News. Nicole lives in San Francisco with, to her husband’s great dismay, zero cats or dogs, and can be reached at nicole.nguyen@wsj.com or @nicnguyen on Twitter.
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