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JA WestenbergThank 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.
Cleo of Topless Topics@Daojoan That Black Mirror episode becomes more realistic every day.
EtherealResonance@toplesstopics @Daojoan which one?
@EtherealResonance @Daojoan There's one where a woman has a brain tumor or something and she needs a cloud service to think again, but they keep shoving more and more ads into it until she starts parroting ads live. I forget the details but there's a reasons so many Black Mirror episodes are disturbing AF.
@toplesstopics @Daojoan oh, I didn't continue watching it as the beginning made my stomach upset. Am happy to be spoilered
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Kimota94@Daojoan As someone who used to have several streamers subscribed to at all times, Iām 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 weāre telling the streamers where to shove their price increases, as a bonus.
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stuxā”ļø@Daojoan Hmm that must be ThePirateBay dot org
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Good Dog Rex@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.
Norman Wilson@good_dog_rex @Daojoan I read lots of books too, always have. But I also borrow DVDs and CDs from my local library, buying stuff I like enough or that the library doesn't have. Lots of stuff there that's hard to find streaming, especially older stuff; certainly more than enough for the time I want to spend watching or listening.
@oclsc @Daojoan yeah. Totally. Libraries have a lot of wonderful... well, everything. From events and books to tools. With all the stuff going on and all of us stretched thin, I find myself focusing on just several things, and one of them - supporting our libraries: using their services, donating money, buying merch and books from the friends of the library, voting "yes" to support library budgets. I am certain: reading makes us better humans.
WanderingHuman šØš¦@good_dog_rex @oclsc @Daojoan And many libraries also provide access to streaming content, through services like Kanopy! And things like Lynda.com (or did they change the name?), Great Courses, and so much more! Soooo much content - for free! Our almost free, depending where you live.
@WanderingHuman @good_dog_rex @Daojoan Every time I look for something in Kanopy it's not there.
But I am more likely to look for specific things, often old and obscure. I don't just browse there. So Kanopy is fine, it just doesn't fit my need.
@WanderingHuman @good_dog_rex @Daojoan Also I've become fond of the backgrounders/extras on DVDs. That too is a matter of taste, though.
@WanderingHuman @good_dog_rex @Daojoan The main theme remains: who needs to pay for streaming services? Not I. Not many.
š«§ socialcoding..@Daojoan yes, logical move.. because we all just š love the reek of rural hypercapitalist #enshittifaction to permeate the entirety of our daily lives. 
fuzzle @ cccfr@Daojoan where "valued Streaming Service+ subscriber" got its own valued meaning
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Jay@Daojoan āExceptions 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.ā
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Hands Off Christo
Nicole ParsonsThis 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.
David
Vee@Daojoan I got rid of them all. I only purchase movies via my Apple TV. I always buy whatās on sale. Occasionally I house sit for my daughter who has a selection of Streaming Services and I binge watch stuff I havenāt seen in a while. I refuse to pay for their enshitification of their services.
BufordM
Captain Jack Sparrownetflix ?
I watch #AlJazeera news on youtube and grab whatever movies etc I can download for free (using a vpn)
if #netflix etc don't like that, they should stop ripping people off, oh and they should also stop removing Palestinian movies and docs.
grrl_aex
Dud Has Voted. Have you?
EVHaste@Daojoan Weāre 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.
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.
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Toni Aittoniemi@Daojoan Ps. This is all due to financing arrangements that allowed us to run at a loss for 15 years, tricking you into believing the price you signed on with was reflective of the costs we actually accumulated, and now we need to get all that back. But we also bought up everything else, so now you donāt have any other options left.
@gimulnautti @Daojoan Funnily enough I was explaining the internet of the 1990s to my First Born yesterday.
Like how fast Altavista was and how easy it was to find useful stuff.
Also about companies with an idea who managed to secure venture capitalist funding, implemented the idea, built up the user base with no clear plan as to how to fund the company when their seed cash pile ran out.
And there were twenty other companies with the same idea.
Then, the dotcom bubble burst.
GhostOnTheHalfShellI would like to think a lot of people would get themselves a nebula subscription or join means TV
@It's okay, I read a lot of novels.....
De_Minimis@Daojoan Pay for a streaming service? That be cray-cray.
caneToad 
@Daojoan No streaming service, no subscription plans - whether media or software. If I want it, I buy it - just not from the little anthrophomorphic rocketman (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/20/jeff-bezos-rocket-design-an-inquiry).
Corporate accountants may love subscriptions, TechBros may fancy to monetise my life. I don't appreciate either. Rot in hell, and GFY (go fuck yourself, for speaking out loud).
LukefromDC
I AM BANKSY ā / šāš„@Daojoan I have to post this again.
The Ensh*ttificator
Marcia
Evelyn Octavia@Daojoan hold up, why would the price increase that high?
SPāCED GOāT"Can no longer be shared with people you live with"
Actually, wait, any person in view of your TV screen must have their own subscription. No free riders period.
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Peter Brown@Daojoan how many punches can you get into one email?
Kevin P. Fleming@Daojoan Small note: they would say "the price has been updated to $24.99", they will never use the word "increase".
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