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UnD3Rgr0uNDCL0wN ,

Lets call this what it really is: asset stripping.

Taking the finances of the many, for very little service, only to make those elites in large corporations so much richer. These corporations should remember the history of Ratner’s

Cancel your subs, be £15 a month better off.

1984 ,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Cancelled prime yesterday, felt great.

Last service standing is HBO and I’m thinking to cancel that shit too.

CrowAirbrush ,

Do it.

randon31415 ,

Tried to cancel my paramount plus account. “You purchased the year subscription. In 6 months, you will not be billed.” Two months later: “Oh, Lower Decks is cool. I should keep this subscription.”

x4740N ,
@x4740N@lemmy.world avatar

Dude, just pirate it like everyone else

A vpn subscription is probably cheaper and I think mullvad is pay per use

Stumblinbear ,
@Stumblinbear@pawb.social avatar

“Everyone else” is absolutely not correct. Realistically barely a fraction of people know how to do it and even less bother.

x4740N ,
@x4740N@lemmy.world avatar

“Everyone else” doesn’t refer to everyone on the planet, it refers to those in general who pirate and my comment has the context to tell that meaning

Stumblinbear ,
@Stumblinbear@pawb.social avatar

So not “everyone else.” Got it.

RufusFirefly ,
@RufusFirefly@lemmy.world avatar

I stopped watching network television because of ads, then I stopped watching free streaming because of too many ads (Pluto TV, Crackle), I get a basic subscription to Paramount through Walmart and I stopped watching that because of the ads. I have an Amazon prime subscription because I get it for one half off but I rarely use prime video an if they start showing ads, I won’t use it at all.

nadram ,
@nadram@lemmy.world avatar

This isn’t a shitpost, this is truth brilliantly represented 🙏

Gutek8134 ,
@Gutek8134@lemmy.world avatar

IDK, I can pay like 30$ for 5-6 months of XGP and play games worth 5x what I paid

atlasraven31 ,

$30 for 6 months is very reasonable if you enjoy what you are playing.

senoro ,

I will tell you a trick now that may blow your mind. Xbox live gold, upgrades at a 1:1 ratio to xbox game pass ultimate. If you stack 3 years (thats the max) of xbox live gold for maybe $50 a year. And then buy 1 single month of xbox game pass ultimate once you have loaded up all your live gold. It will automatically convert all of that gold into gp ultimate. So you end up paying like $165 for 37 months of game pass ultimate.

HeckingShepherd ,

Pretty sure they changed that so it doesn’t work anymore

senoro ,

I did it with 2 years probably a couple of months ago. Maybe its a region thing.

Gutek8134 ,
@Gutek8134@lemmy.world avatar

I’m using it, though MS changed/will soon change the ratio to 3:2 (XG : XGPU)

Lemminary ,

The last thing I paid for as a subscription service was Curiosity Stream a year ago. I’ve stopped watching movies and documentaries since and I don’t miss it.

crackajack ,

You don’t like Curiousity Stream?

Lemminary ,

It was ok. It didn’t offer as much content as I thought, it had a lot more in-house content that felt low budget, and I found it hard to find a topic that was truly enticing despite the variety. The service is fine and it was great as background noise while working, but it wasn’t enough for me. I would still recommend it.

crackajack ,

That’s fair. There are not as many documentaries as I expected too. Many of the documentaries there are actually old and re-broadcasted from other TV channels around the world years ago. In a way, there is a sense of exoticness to them because otherwise they would have been forgotten by the passage of time and restricted by geographic distribution.

SternburgExport , (edited )

I basically canceled almost all my subscriptions and pirate stuff. Except music, since I build a CD collection and buy the rest online which is still cheaper than a streaming service and I can keep the music as long as I want without having to fear that songs will get removed from the service.

ArcaneSlime ,

For music piracy if you’re needin’ try soulseek. I understand collecting physical items though, I do it with records, comics, and VHS tapes, just figured I’d spread the word just in case.

PP_BOY_ ,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

Only subscriptions I pay for is Plex, Drunkenslug, and Newshosting

0x2d ,

why not jellyfin?

PP_BOY_ , (edited )
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

Good question. Im really not interested in the setup and support that Jellyfin needs to match Plex’s ease of use. The fact that I can download Plex on my desktop, direct it to scan some folders in my hard drive, and play those files on my PS5 or phone 10 minutes later without ever having to do any kind of serious work myself makes the $5/month more than worth it

EncryptKeeper ,

Probably one of its many shortcomings.

FlexibleToast ,

For me, Plex has a better ecosystem of apps and a far better sync or “downloads” as they call it now. The sync is a killer feature for someone who travels a lot.

Stephen304 ,

I run both similarity on the same box with the same source library but still prefer Plex for many reasons. One is that the nicer findroid app doesn’t seem to support Chromecast, which is how I watch all media 99% of the time. Also the JF UI is a bit rough between laggy menu interactions and views sometimes having transparent backgrounds causing you to see the previous view underneath while transitioning between screens. I also don’t like that the continue watching in the default UI uses landscape cards for each title that take up way too much space, and neither the default app or findroid has a recommended tab for individual library folders (like how in Plex I can go to movies and see recently released, added, top in genre x, top by director y). I think that would really draw me to use JF more. As it is it feels like I just have to resort to browsing the alphabetical list which I hate doing with thousands of library items.

papertowels ,

Plex lifetime goes on sale fairly often, just a heads up

EncryptKeeper ,

It’s on sale right now

PP_BOY_ ,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

It does, but monthly subscriptions give Plex much more monetary support. Maybe one day when I really need to tighten my budget I’ll buy the one-and-done option, but for now $5 a month is negligible for how much I use the service

Illuminostro ,

“Muh stonk price.”

Drusas ,

Bezos is no longer relevant to Amazon making changes.

pseudonym ,

Umm yes, he’s the executive chair of the board ir.aboutamazon.com/…/default.aspx

EnderMB ,

It shows how ineffective Jassy is that hardly anyone outside of tech knows he’s been the CEO for 2 years.

phario , (edited )

There was a prophetic podcast episode from the series Plain English a while back that I constantly think about.

In that episode the author describes how the internet is going through a revolution.

Basically 20 years ago, the internet was all about gaining numbers. Companies could operate at a loss if they got people signed up. Facebook, Google, YouTube, Uber, Deliveroo, etc. they were all about getting you in their mailing list or consumer list and who cares what happens then.

Now there’s an issue because that model is not profitable. In order to continue, all the internet is moving towards subscription.

In a sense, I don’t think of that as intrinsically bad. Patreon is a good example. The internet is now filled up with so much shit that people are willing to pay to filter it. So with Patreon, you pay a fee to support an artist to produce the content you want. That itself isn’t a bad idea.

Now that being said, a lot of “bad things” do emerge. The fact that you can no longer buy software like Adobe and it’s all subscription based. That’s shit. But that also inspired software alternatives like Affinity Designer.

massive_bereavement ,
@massive_bereavement@kbin.social avatar

I present to thee enshittification.

PP_BOY_ ,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

The fact that you can no longer buy software like Adobe and it’s all subscription based

100% the biggest factor in me deciding to buy Magix Vegas (formerly Sony Vegas) video editing software was because they still sold lifetime codes. Have I gotten $400 worth of value out of it? Fuck no. But I can use it whenever I want for as long as I want without worrying about whether or not I can afford it for the month.

XEAL ,

The you have companies like Filmora who tried to turn lifetime licenses into subscription ones…

PP_BOY_ ,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

Ironically enough the only reason I bought Vegas in the first place was because of the changes to Wondershare

Ilovethebomb ,

Davinci Resolve is another great value editing program.

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

There’s ads in Dropbox?

cafeina ,

Is not only about ads, is about subscription services too.

finnie ,

…but capitalism is so good, things only get better!!! The market is too regulated, is the problem

trailing9 , (edited )

It is very regulated. Remove copyright protections and things will change instantly.

JokeDeity ,

Yes. Fucking yes. I’m so tired of it all. I just want to own things again.

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