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What subscription finally gave you "subscription fatigue"? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 1 year ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Learned the term recently and really enjoy it, subscription fatigue is the feeling we all have had now where we are just over how everything is subscription based.

Which one was the last straw or most annoying/frustrating to you?

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

When my paid Paramount+ subscription included unskippable ads.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I loathe the trend where I pay money and they still expect me to sit through ads. That's why we all left cable to start with.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why people switched to cable to start with. Broadcast TV had ads and cable didn't.

People have depressingly short memories and a depressingly long patience for megacorporate thievery.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Ads on cable channels first happened in 1971. I doubt most people on here were born yet then.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

by the time I had my own money I didn't even think of getting pay tv because it was already running more ads than free to air.

Never had subscription fatigue because paid services have never been better than the free option in my experience.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

What's the point of paying for a subscription if you still get ads 🤷🏻

Marvelous strategy model.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Luckily I did the 6 month free trial and learned. 6 months is generous, ads are not.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still haven't forgiven Paramount+ for making me watch that train wreck of a Halo show.

[–] Stormyfemme@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody made you watch that but you lol.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 0 points 1 year ago

They tricked me! They said it was about Halo! I had no clue!