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And the funny thing is, rather than competition driving down prices, they only seem to be competing for who can charge the most while showing more ads.

Yeah, this definitely was not a case of "competition makes everything better." More a case of every greedy motherfucker wanting to have their own private walled fiefdom making everything worse. Who's going to be the first to bring up the GabeN quote?

I'm with you, I am proud to say I subscribe to precisely zero streaming services. There's very little on any of them I actually want anyway, and anything I might actually want to see is readily available... elsewhere.

Studios shouldn’t be allowed to own the channels. It’s a problem similar to when studios owned the movie theaters.

Yep, and everyone having their own exclusives. I'm neither paying hundreds of bucks for a gazillion streaming services per month, nor am I juggling subscriptions between them like some sort of puzzle game.

Hold on. The fact that it became worse doesn't mean that the monopoly was a good thing. Remember that those companies start new businesses usually at loss amd giving a lot to the users, just to grow their market share, but then will slowly take everything back, and more, with time.

Not only that, but all of their interfaces are trash. These services should model there UI off of Plex.

And all the different interfaces that lack basic functionality.. and proper filters.

Came here to say this.

Yeah, but they still were below what the market would bear price wise. Until the very last price increases, if you counted up all of the biggest service fees, it was still lower than the average cable bill like almost a decade before.

It's llm regurgitated garbage. Welcome to the new and worse internet.

I disagree... I'm up to 400TB... :/

Not sure if the writer had a stronk, or just written by an LLM. It gets rather repetitive later on as well.

This article could not have been written by a human. It's like nobody ever reads past the title.

I'm assuming it's unnecessary and out of place sarcasm

I think he meant that all the streaming subscriptions add up.

For me it’s: remember the last user on this device!

If I open Hulu and I have ONE account, why are you making me select the ONE account? I have to select it every time. They should know.

if(accounts.length === 1) {
    setAccount(accounts[0]);
}

There. I fixed it. Give me a job.

Peacock disabled auto play previews for a while and it was great. But that was only because the whole screen would go black for a couple seconds as it tried to load the preview. They fixed that issue and now the previews are back. Mute button is doing a lot of great work these days.

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.