Are you cancelling streaming services? : asklemmy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been meaning to. It's just that I got my current Netflix subscription as part of a bundle with my ISP. I have to phone them to cancel it. I don't really have the energy to do so.

Though, I'm in the process of being kicked out of my home. If I'm able to find somewhere to go, I'll likely cancel it once I change my address with the ISP.

Other than that. I use YouTube with an adblock on both my PC and FireStick.

[+] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I still use my family plan for Spotify but Netflix isn't even worth it these days.

There's a bunch of services I feel I would have happily paid for years ago, but most "features" they offer nowadays are just fixes for problems they introduced (looking at you Youtube).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yes I cancelled almost all of them. Had quite a few also but did a proper cleanup. :)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I never subscribed to the scam of streaming services to begin with and no one should.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not really.

My parents use Netflix and I'm in the same house as them so the whole account sharing crackdown is moot. I wouldn't want to share my account with them otherwise.

Spotify I'm keeping for lack of a better service. It has improved by leaps and bounds.

I really don't like this argument that the TV streaming market is too pricey, too complicated and is starting to turn back into cable. Maybe if you're too fucking lazy to go through a cycle of cancelling and reinstating subscriptions based on what new shows are on or whatever old show you feel like watching.

Cable is multitudes more expensive than your typical streaming service, while giving you little to no video-on-demand catalog. Streaming is nowhere near as bad.

Oh and another thing, have you ever tried to cancel a cable service and spent hours on the phone to reps whose job it is to ensure you don't cancel and waste your time upselling you shit you don't want? You don't get that with a streaming service, and cancelling is as easy as going to a menu, disabling auto-renew and waiting for expiry, so not setting yourself a reminder to cancel the service is honestly on you.

It's like everybody is fucking entitled and think it's their God given right to steal TV shows when it's not available on a singular $9.99/month service.

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[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 year ago

Account sharing is theft. Sorry, but you agreed to a ToS rider and they're clear about that. "B-b-but it's my mom's who lives in another state" isn't a valid objection. The services have real costs for licensing they need to protect.

Now, before you down vote I agree with pretty much the rest. Introducing ads into paid tiers is utter bullshit, and capping quality for paid subscribers amounts to theft the other way. I'm paying for a product and I agreed to Terms.

We just carry Hulu here. We don't use the free Netflix we get though perks programs because They Suck, and I am canceling Huiu upon seeing the first ad I'm forced to sit through. We also have free AppleTV, bit haven't activated because its Apple and we are an Android household.

Does any of this contribute to the discussion? No, probably not but I feel better for having ranted about it. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I laugh at the people whining about password sharing getting shut down. It was never really intended to be used that way, everyone just saw an easy loophole and just thought they were the coolest shit.

Really surprised that people got used to a cheap loophole and when it got shut down, instead of the expected "it was fun while it lasted", people got really butthurt about it.

It was always going to happen, it took way longer than I ever expected.

The ones who had it for family and not being able to include college kids I understand. But in my experience almost everyone seems like they knew at least one person with access to each and a massive group would share the cost that way.

If it's not a family group issue, stop whining about having to pay a fair share.

Yes, the amount of them that are all separate costs is totally obscene now. There really should be some kind of "build your own" combination for a lower cost than the total of the parts thing happening.

But being mad about an unintended hack no longer working is dumb.

But to the actual question being posed here, I've only ever had one at a time. I don't watch much of what's out there anyway. I had Netflix while it was free with phone bill (who I worked for, so I got it included along with half off the bill. But these days I just have Paramount, but all I really use it for is Star Trek.

Although I'm still mad about Prodigy. Everything I wanted was in one door and now I'm gonna have to figure out how to get that.

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