When they announced there could be ads, I promised myself I would cancel the moment I saw the first ad. Then I saw an increase in price, so I immediately cancelled.
Getting less and paying more for it. Fuck the mouse.
They just pulled a huge scam too. I had Hulu at a discounted rate of $1.99 a month for a year. After 5 months, they locked my account section up so I couldn't look at it at all for well over a month, and then charged me $12.99 for a month. My credit card reversed it, and Hulu is now freaking out because I canceled it all.
Cancelled when they announced ads on all tiers. Funny thing is I just had it in case I wanted to watch something so I was giving them money for nothing most months.
It pissed me off when streaming started inserting ads!
When streaming began, the whole premise was "you're paying a subscription fee so we dont need to show ads". Then one by one, they started putting ads. Then raising the prices, then adding new tiers that were ad-free.
Did the very same thing already and never look back! More free time and money. Besides, there are not too much to watch at the first place to pay such an amount to some streaming company. Shitty content mostly or old that you watched few times. What’s the reason?! And they ruined old good movie/series (45m, 22 per season) concept demand and just copy/paste shitty series with the story repeating like for imbeciles.
I personally have a plex server that has around 25tb of data on it...movies, TV shows, concerts....I also use keepstreams that allows me to rip/download stuff off of all of the streaming sites, and then I torrent whatever I cant find there. All my friends use it and because I have so much content on there they've all canceled their streaming services in favor of my free stuff.
I just love helping people save money.
"If buying isnt owning, then pirating isnt stealing."
For noobs like myself, do you have some sort of self starter guide you would recommend for setting something like this up? I have cancelled everything except Netflix (that's next if they introduce ads where I am) and torrent some things but would like to set up my own library. I was thinking of going back to burning CDs but I don't even think my laptop supports those anymore.
Fun fact. If you have a library card there is an excellent chance your local library is part of the Kanopy streaming platform. This will allow you to "check out" thirty or more movies, TV series, etc a month via your library card
The only bad news there is that some libraries are going to start charging for that service if you don't actually live in the area. Cincinnati public library is ending free reciprocity next year with Northern Kentucky Counties. I feel like this could spread across the country.
I finally discovered DVD's from the library. It's like taking a trip back in time to Blockbuster.
It is a whole different experience when you plan your viewing ahead. No more endless doom scrolling trying to find something to watch. We watch what we check out and that's the end of it.
Same. My husband and I are closing in on 50 so we have a ton of DVDs from back in the day when that was the way you watched new movies outside of going to the theater. Streaming was cool af when it first came around ngl and we got rid of cable to move to streaming. But, like with anything in this capitalistic hellscape, media companies wanting to extract every $ they can from us, ruined it. Now it's like buying a la carte cable. $30 for this platform, $25 for this other one... it's now more expensive to have all of the streaming platforms than it is to have cable again. I have to sit down and figure out which ones I pay for, which ones my husband pays for, and which my daughter pays for and either cancel them all or keep only the ones we use regularly. I don't think our Disney+ subscription is being used much anymore. My daughter watched all she wanted to watch and now I think I'm just paying for a platform no one watches. I'm so sick of this shit... the people with the most are trying to extract every cent they can from people with the least. In every aspect of our lives.
Yeah, I’m with you about the physical media thing. A few years ago the last video store in my town went out of business and I scored big time on new and used videos for cheap. I had a lot even before that.
Our library has a ton of passes for museums/gardens around us (probably more but that’s what I’ve looked for) and a whole catalogue of random tools, party stuff, house stuff you can reserve to check out.
Yes. Going to the library is fun. My gf gets her book and I get the movies. I got a bluray player for a good deal. They also rent bluray players for free. They have a lot of games and they allow you to rent it for a full month at our place.
You can stream through your library too. My library offers Binge Passes through Hoopla and you get free access to certain subscription services for, I think a week. My partner watches Hallmark+ that way 😂
This is Disney's very public plan. Low price to entice consumers into buying it and then slow step up to get past the loss, to break even and then profit.
The problem is that they have by far the best catalog out there, especially when you get one of the bundles.
Cancel your subscriptions. You're complicit in them raising prices on DIGITAL goods for no reason other than their own greed if you keep your subscription. Trust me that your child doesn't need to watch Moana for the 725th time, and if they do then just buy the damn bluray for less than your Disney+ monthly charge would have been to begin with
3x16tb in raidz1 here, so 30ish tb useful. Drives are over 5 years old now. Raid is my backup for media, and if i lose it all, who cares, I can download it again.
The craziest thing is that I could sell these drives now, for the same price I bought them new!
Bro, there is absolutely zero chance that if I lost my almost 30tb of content id go back and redo everything. Thats more or less 2.5 years of work finding, downloading, and tweaking things.
I love how when the internet goes out I just keep watching my stories…and Plex has a feature where you can add commercials from any era if you miss them.
Theoretically, what would you charge to fill up a couple external harddrives 🤔 I used to have 5TB but I didn't back it up and lost everything. I miss it dearly but I am technologically illiterate and no longer have access to my plug.
I remember having 10 4TB in my array thinking I will never need to buy another hard drive again. Oh how wrong I was. Now I need to find 32TB drives that aren't over $1,000 each.
Cancel your subscriptions! We used to get 130+ channels for less than $100 bucks. Basic cable was like $40 bucks! Now you get 4-5 streaming services with rotating seasons of the same crap for $100/month. Just stop paying for this shit. You have a choice. I cancelled nearly all of our streaming in November of last year and it felt great TBH.
My favorite thing ever is when people complain about this sort of thing, but then continue to pay for the exact same service, now more expensive. It’s you man, it’s your fault they keep doing this. Because you keep paying for it.
Does anyone know why? Shouldn't these clowns need to justify rate increases? They ride on the back of shared fiber networks, nothing about their business justifies more increases.
Yeah…why does their fiduciary duty seem to always outweigh every other duty out there?! Seems like it would be a simple change to make a law that prioritizes something else besides the shareholders.
Well, the law is shaped by those same corporations. Until America bans private funding for elections, absolutely nothing will change. But it’s not in the interest of politicians to do that, so it won’t be a voting thing if it ever does happen.
No business has ever needed to justify a price hike. It's on the consumer to decide whether the service at a higher cost continues to be worth it to them.
I cancelled Netflix a month ago, something I've been subscribing to since 2008 - The only reason I haven't cancelled Disney/Hulu is because I'm still on a much older Verizon plan that they keep trying to get me to "upgrade" [to a worse plan for more money] that pays for the bundle for me. I'll use the app for free, and would pay for it at a reasonable cost, but I'm not paying those prices.
I cut Netflix for the first time since 2018 2 weeks ago. I don't pay for Disney+ but I do pay for Hulu.
When Hulu gets swallowed into Disney+, I'll probably cut it too. I hate ads and I expect a big price increase as a result of them putting the two together.
Been subscribed to Disney+ since its inception. Last year, I barely squeaked by on the price hike. My renewal was just before the big jump. So my subscription went from $70 (last year) to $190 (this year).
Absolutely the fuck not. Glad I tweaked my Jellyfin.
It’s going to happen eventually too. Bc Hulu is the reason alot of people even buy the Disney plus bundle. Once they realize this they’re going to make Hulu only obtainable with Disney Plus and have it be a sub app within Disney plus
They've realized this. Hulu is being phased out. You can already move your Hulu profile over to Disney Plus so you have the favorites and continue watching stuff ported over. All Hulu shows can be watched on Disney+ now. They're just slowly doing the phase out
I have the Disney credit card so was given the opportunity to lock down for 3 years at like $7 a month before it was released. After three years it just kept going up. Canceled a couple years ago when I got an email about a price increase. Wife and kids didn’t even notice I canceled for months
I was fine when streaming for a whole family was around 10 bucks. I could stop pirating for little money, and I didn’t have to watch ads like on TV. Now those greedy fuckers all want 20+ bucks, track your logins so you’re forced to upgrade to a more expensive plan for multiple people, produce mostly trash, and have introduced ads into the basic subscription tiers. They’re becoming unpleasant and inconvenient for the user overall which was the ONLY reason so many people switchted to them in the first place. I guess I’m back to sailing the seven seas.
the whole arc of streaming platforms really proved the point gabe (and many others) have made. piracy is a service issue. if your services is good, affordable, and available, people will pay for it. and we did, when it was good and affordable.
Sign up on Black Friday, we have it for $3.99 per month for a year. I have 2 accounts and just switch to the other one every year to get the deal every time 🤷🏼♂️
I’m cancelling everything this year if I can’t get it for less than $10 a month. Idgaf about ads, gives my old ass time to go to the bathroom like the old cable days.
The justification is simple: PEOPLE PAY IT. This is a 100% discretionary income CHOICE. So if you think it's too expensive, cancel. In fact, when people accept the increase and don't cancel, the message you're sending is that the price was too low before, because you're willing to pay more.
Cancel it like the rest of us did. If you help to set the example of we are not willing to pay it, they will bring it back down. But, as long as people pay it, they will keep raising it.
I dropped the bundle we had because my husband didn't want to pay for it. I didn't want Disney just Hulu and HBO. We'll you can't bundle just Hulu and HBO you have to bundle with all 3. And if you want Hulu and HBO no ads its more than Disney/Hulu/HBO with ads. But I can't afford all 3 with no ads. Disney has literally forced all the bundles to include their bullshit.
I don’t even understand because all the Hulu content is on Disney+. So why am I paying for a “bundle” when one part of the bundle actually has 2 parts?
It's insane so many of us accepted a half dozen tv subscriptions in our lives. If you have an absolute must see show and don't wanna sail the high seas, just sub for a month after the season is over and binge it over the month. It's not like the 90's when we got 25 episode seasons. You're getting 6 to 12 episodes tops. That can be knocked out easily in a month with some effort. Then move on
I cancelled all my streaming services last year. Thought i would care or miss them And add it back. I barely thought about it or even noticed. It was way easier than i thought. I had netflix, apple, disney, espn+, hulu, and hbomax. I have paramount still through a 2 year free walmart+ but i havent even turned that on
JFC people stop using streaming services if you're just going to complain about being milked. This is like the TCG people who just HAVE to buy the next Pokemon expansion. Move on and find a more sustainable form of entertainment. May I suggest the library where about half of the source material for movies and shows comes from. We don't have to be a heteronomous species addicted to screens. Creature comforts are fine and everything but learn to have some control and know how to pivot when you start to get priced out.
I dropped them when they said they were going to host AI user generated content. They’re terrible and there is hardly any good content on their platform except legacy IP
Why does this surprise anyone this time of year? It's Disney's annual least magical time of the year, the end of their fiscal one. All prices go up. You should all be used to this by now.
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u/Dysmorphix 1d ago
When they announced there could be ads, I promised myself I would cancel the moment I saw the first ad. Then I saw an increase in price, so I immediately cancelled.
Getting less and paying more for it. Fuck the mouse.