Thank you for being a valued Streaming Service+ subscriber.

[daojoan@mastodon.social]

Thank you for being a valued Streaming Service+ subscriber. Your monthly plan is increasing from $9.99 to $24.99. This price adjustment reflects our continued investment in canceling your favourite shows after one season, removing titles from the library without warning, and building a worse user interface. Note: Your tier now includes ads. To remove them, upgrade to our new Ultra Premium Platinum plan ($39.99/mo). Btw your password can no longer be shared with the people you live with.

[toplesstopics@eldritch.cafe]

@Daojoan That Black Mirror episode becomes more realistic every day.

[sortius@infosec.exchange]

@Daojoan ‍️

[kimota94@mas.to]

@Daojoan As someone who used to have several streamers subscribed to at all times, I’m here to say that you can enjoy life just fine if you only have one going at a time and each one only for 1 month before cancelling it. We save hundreds of dollars per year with this approach and still get to watch everything we want to, just usually a little later than we used to. And we get to feel like we’re telling the streamers where to shove their price increases, as a bonus.

[stux@mstdn.social]

@Daojoan Hmm that must be ThePirateBay dot org

Oh waittt! That’s the good one

[good_dog_rex@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan that's why I no longer watch anything. I read books: either borrowed in our local or county libraries or bought from independent local bookshops (or bookshop org, if I want ebook, with our local bookshop linked). And honestly, I think this is one of the best things that happened to me in the past several years.

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@Daojoan yes, logical move.. because we all just love the reek of rural hypercapitalist #enshittifaction to permeate the entirety of our daily lives.

[fuzzle@chaos.social]

@Daojoan where "valued Streaming Service+ subscriber" got its own valued meaning

[kkarhan@jorts.horse]

@Daojoan and then the same shitty execs wounder why #piracy is on the rise…

[rvlara23@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan

And pay no mind to the fact that we made 42b last year. It's definitely not enough.

[manul70@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Btw you are fired.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan

[whitecattamer@mastodon.online]

@Daojoan “Exceptions can be made if you can prove that you live with sharers of your account. Proof of shared status may be made with 1) valid DNA test indicating your ma/paternal relationship, 2) 3 personal witnesses available to testify in person at a branch in the Seychelles, or 3) a valid marriage license and latest tax return. Please note that a return indicating your separation from your spouse will invalidate your account; please reapply when you learn real commitment.”

[ethicalprofessor@mstdn.social]

@Daojoan

Thanks for reminding me why I strictly limit subscription services to only one.

(And there are times when 1 is too much.)

[christofbg@mstdn.plus]

@Daojoan Preach

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@Daojoan

This exact same business model is killing cable TV.

More ads. More junk content. More manipulation. Reductions in quality programming.

Ever increasing prices sends customers elsewhere.

[grudge@mastodon.social]

@Kimota94 @Daojoan I like that Netflix lets you pause your membership (up to 3x in a row) while still allowing you to browse and build your watchlist for when you resume.

[vee@musician.social]

@Daojoan I got rid of them all. I only purchase movies via my Apple TV. I always buy what’s on sale. Occasionally I house sit for my daughter who has a selection of Streaming Services and I binge watch stuff I haven’t seen in a while. I refuse to pay for their enshitification of their services.

[buford@twit.social]

@Daojoan I've cancelled them all. Somehow I am surviving.
(Reading more books. Getting more exercise. Talking to real people!)
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[captain_jack_sparrow@mastodon.world]

@Daojoan

netflix ?