Why pay for 20 services offering 10 mid quality exclusives when I can pay for a VPN.
Spotify was the only service I had. Lost my job, cut back. Thought I’d be fine with some ads. Not like THAT I wasn’t.
Thankfully I downloaded all my music first. Been too lazy to find a FOSS alternative to play it all.
I have Prime (for delivery savings) and still steal the shit they play. If I like it, I keep it. If not, I delete it. Backed up onsite and offsite. Fuck 'em. $100/yr. to Google gets me plenty of storage.
LOL, nothing new to me. I’m in an amazing, high-tech version of 1999. Fuck it. I’m stealing it. Again.
Plex with the plexamp app is pretty good for music playback. Otherwise anything that supports the subsonic API works too.
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.
I wonder if 2+ years between seasons is also having an impact.
I pick up new shows way less than I did in the past because of this with the ones I do being more tied to whether it is a miniseries or source material I plan to read after the season ends to finish it out on my own.
Personally I think more time between releases is healthier for both the quality of the product and the now not perpetually consooming, consumer.
What really puts me off is that shows get canceled too often nowadays, even ones that do well because the service doesnt want to pay the cast better. So I tend to wait for shows to complete before I even consider them for my watchlist.
I haven’t seen a quality improvement. Only a production improvement which had made the wait even worse when the long awaited seasons flop like The Boys and House of the Dragon.
It’s reason I haven’t bothered to get into shows like Severance despite good reviews, since I don’t want to get hooked into yet another show that will take forever between seasons and not even be a guarantee to be worth the wait.
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).
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.
We are cancelling some services. The value isn’t there, and we need the money. /shrug
Not fatigue but service issue.
I think what would save the streaming industry would be anti-exclusionary legislation. Prevent contracts where shows are exclusively produced for one streaming company. Then streaming platforms compete on cost, curation, and interface, not on exclusive content.
What would be smart is for them to develop a unified platform where they get a percentage of your subscription fee based on the media you watch.
I mean, shit on the music industry for all of their crappy practices, but 100% this. I pay for one music streaming service and have access to any music I want without having to think about which record label released which album. Why is it still illegal for studios to own movie theaters, but not streaming platforms?
Decouple the content creators from the content distributors.
It’s not illegal for studios to own movie theaters. Paramount Decree was struck down a couple of years ago.
Expect it to get worse over the next four years.
Bit that would only benefit consumers and we all live in plutocracies masquerading as “democracy”?
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.
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.
it’s a service issue and some people still can’t turn on a PC much less set up usenet.
There will always be a market for install app and gib card details plz.
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Sounds like they need to make it 25% more expensive next year. That will fix it!
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…
Never better served than with Piracy™!
I recommend grabbing the full collection plus related movies elsewhere.
Could have just bought it on dvd, much less stress
Check out your local library. Mine has physical disks of a lot of shows. With MakeMKV and Handbrake, and about an hour per disc (computer time- my time is maybe 5 minutes per), I can return the discs and watch the show at my leisure. If you have a ton of disk space, you can skip Handbrake and just keep the .mkv files…
So many service raised their price and so many people cancelled their subscription in response, in summary: FAFO
