no they started pirating because of the ridiculous number of screaming streaming services

Yar harr fiddly dee dee

Maybe they should try not being shitty and expensive?

I spent $0 and use free streaming instead. Pluto.tv, Tubi, Roku, and YouTube have plenty of shit to watch, not to mention other options. I had been a Netflix and Prime subscriber from the beginning (like, back when Netflix only shipped DVDs) but both companies kept getting shittier and charging more so I ditched them.

Can confirm. Got rid of everything this year except the YouTube Premium family plan. It gives us all the music of Spotify, tons of free movies and TV shows YouTube offers for streaming without ads, and of course all other YouTube videos without ads. You also get to play YouTube videos with your phone off, which is nice if you just want to go to sleep listening to something. And you get to add five different people, so we have me, my wife, my daughter and both mothers-in-law on the same plan. It’s been really cost-effective. We’re paying a fraction of what we paid before with a similar level of professional content that I actually care about watching (YouTube doesn’t make most of the shows and movies they offer, so they tend to be ones they think people already like).

I want to watch Stargate SG1. I hear people say it’s on Prime Video, so I subscribe. It’s not there. I guess being a filthy European makes me unworthy. So I bite the bullet and get a VPN. Now I’m paying what amounts to twice the price of the usual subscription. I start watching the series and guess what? It’s leaving Prime in a few days. Motherf…

I only have Netflix left and that is because my daughter loves her storybots. Once she has enough of them, it’s going away.

We are cancelling some services. The value isn’t there, and we need the money. /shrug

Put ads in a service I pay for?
*****cancelled!****"

No one has mentioned COVID and habits. Sure we aren’t in lockdown, but it was literally the only thing to do a few years ago and people likely continued due to it be a comfort.

It has changed how we did things. As well as all the enshitifucation.

Anecdotally Netflix is the best. Hulu, Peacock, Paramount, Disney and HBO. Are okay but feel like late 90s cable with a couple of good shows each month. We get these services when there’s deal but cancel after it’s over.

If this is true, then somebody is already hurting.

Apparently price hikes did not hurt netflix though, so presumably peasants are cutting other merchants.

A small W but good to see that people denying these parasites profit.

If only more people would be more willing to sail the high seas to deny them all of the profit.

we have prime but streaming is not the primary reason although its a nice bonus basically. Mainly because of my wife though. Left to myself I would likely drop it.

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So many service raised their price and so many people cancelled their subscription in response, in summary: FAFO