Are you cancelling streaming services? : asklemmy

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

My husband and I occasionally talk about canceling some of the services, but I want to cancel the services I don't use and which he uses and he wants to cancel the services he doesn't use and which I use. So it's never going to happen.

[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I still use my family plan for Spotify but Netflix isn't even worth it these days.

There's a bunch of services I feel I would have happily paid for years ago, but most "features" they offer nowadays are just fixes for problems they introduced (looking at you Youtube).

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 0 points 1 year ago

Yes I cancelled almost all of them. Had quite a few also but did a proper cleanup. :)

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I never subscribed to the scam of streaming services to begin with and no one should.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not really.

My parents use Netflix and I'm in the same house as them so the whole account sharing crackdown is moot. I wouldn't want to share my account with them otherwise.

Spotify I'm keeping for lack of a better service. It has improved by leaps and bounds.

I really don't like this argument that the TV streaming market is too pricey, too complicated and is starting to turn back into cable. Maybe if you're too fucking lazy to go through a cycle of cancelling and reinstating subscriptions based on what new shows are on or whatever old show you feel like watching.

Cable is multitudes more expensive than your typical streaming service, while giving you little to no video-on-demand catalog. Streaming is nowhere near as bad.

Oh and another thing, have you ever tried to cancel a cable service and spent hours on the phone to reps whose job it is to ensure you don't cancel and waste your time upselling you shit you don't want? You don't get that with a streaming service, and cancelling is as easy as going to a menu, disabling auto-renew and waiting for expiry, so not setting yourself a reminder to cancel the service is honestly on you.

It's like everybody is fucking entitled and think it's their God given right to steal TV shows when it's not available on a singular $9.99/month service.

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[+] solidgrue@lemmy.world -8 points 1 year ago

Account sharing is theft. Sorry, but you agreed to a ToS rider and they're clear about that. "B-b-but it's my mom's who lives in another state" isn't a valid objection. The services have real costs for licensing they need to protect.

Now, before you down vote I agree with pretty much the rest. Introducing ads into paid tiers is utter bullshit, and capping quality for paid subscribers amounts to theft the other way. I'm paying for a product and I agreed to Terms.

We just carry Hulu here. We don't use the free Netflix we get though perks programs because They Suck, and I am canceling Huiu upon seeing the first ad I'm forced to sit through. We also have free AppleTV, bit haven't activated because its Apple and we are an Android household.

Does any of this contribute to the discussion? No, probably not but I feel better for having ranted about it. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[+] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works -9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I laugh at the people whining about password sharing getting shut down. It was never really intended to be used that way, everyone just saw an easy loophole and just thought they were the coolest shit.

Really surprised that people got used to a cheap loophole and when it got shut down, instead of the expected "it was fun while it lasted", people got really butthurt about it.

It was always going to happen, it took way longer than I ever expected.

The ones who had it for family and not being able to include college kids I understand. But in my experience almost everyone seems like they knew at least one person with access to each and a massive group would share the cost that way.

If it's not a family group issue, stop whining about having to pay a fair share.

Yes, the amount of them that are all separate costs is totally obscene now. There really should be some kind of "build your own" combination for a lower cost than the total of the parts thing happening.

But being mad about an unintended hack no longer working is dumb.

But to the actual question being posed here, I've only ever had one at a time. I don't watch much of what's out there anyway. I had Netflix while it was free with phone bill (who I worked for, so I got it included along with half off the bill. But these days I just have Paramount, but all I really use it for is Star Trek.

Although I'm still mad about Prodigy. Everything I wanted was in one door and now I'm gonna have to figure out how to get that.

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