Mastodawn

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.

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EVHaste Apr 15

@Daojoan We’re also updating our user agreement (which you do not need to agree to). Effective immediately, each member of your household must purchase a seat in order to view our content. Briefly walking past the screen on the way to the kitchen now constitutes one use of our service.

This change is retroactive. We have used AI to estimate how many people live in your house, and how many infractions you have likely committed (rounded up). A partner collections agency will be in touch shortly.

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Eggs now in different baskets.

@Haste @Daojoan A few years ago MicroSoft patented an idea where a smart TV, IIRC via a camera mounted facing the audience could count the number of viewers in front of the TV.

Then the TV would inform the company providing the content if the number of people watching was high enough to classify it as a public viewing event rather than just a family watching a film at home.

Thus the fee due for the viewing of the film could then be adjusted accordingly.

#enshittification