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Streaming services are now getting out of hand (www.arktrek.shop)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I can't afford all these streaming services. I'm basically back to one at a time, churning through them until I run out of things to watch.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I absolutely can afford them, but I'm canceling them purely on principle at this point.

    My final straw was watching Fallout, when Amazon said "this program is ad-free thanks to this sponsor" and then not only showed an ad, but didn't even acknowledge that it was me paying them for the service, like I should be grateful to some stupid company for shoving their advertising in my face when I'm the one giving them my hard-earned money.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When you say that it sounds like a bad thing. I'm hopping from service to service too.

    I don't get why people think they can have 15 streaming services for the price of one, and get served the $100 million movie of the day.

    And the icing on the cake is that many use this as an excuse to pirate that stuff as if they were entitled to being entertained.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Most say it because they remember when Netflix had everything. It was a nice easy one stop shop and they want that again. Maybe it would need to be more extensive, sure, but every company stopped agreeing to license to Netflix because they wanted a larger peace of the pie. Sure they have the right, but people also have the right to not like it.

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