Netflix is such a great service, I'd say they are the ones that are truly represent the disruption Silicon Valley dreams of so often in, in the positivest sense

Netflix is such a great service, I'd say they are the ones that are truly represent the disruption Silicon Valley dreams of so often in, in the positivest sense. Shame the world around them is less than great. Their existence in the US is being hampered by petty, extortionist ISPs who couldn't tell the truth if their lives depended on it and by dumb licensing and copyright laws. Their catalogue abroad is often less than 10% of the American one (my country has 12% of it! - according to https://www.finder.com/netflix-usa-vs-world-content https://www.finder.com/netflix-usa-vs-world-content). I remember, when they finally expanded to my country, I quickly signed up and the first thing I did was search for House of Cards, just to see no results. It was very disappointing, because their original content is really good, in fact good enough that they created the market in which everybody wants to be Netflix, so they are all trying to create quality original programming, and that's a competition I love seeing. I used to be a Netflix subscriber via VPN, before they officially opened here, but it just became cumbersome and risky to connect (remember the controversy surrounding sketchy Chrome VPN plugins?). Unfortunately, right now I don't have an active subscription at the moment, sadly, because I finished watching most of the things that interested me from their catalogue in 4 months. Kind of a shame because the company that cracks international expansion first is usually the one to stay in those markets. On the streaming music front, aside from some sketchier ones, Apple Music was one of the first to open up shop here, and I'm still using it with no plans to ever abandon it because it's a great service -- not only that, but Apple decided to offer regionalised pricing, so their is priced very fairly (to compare and contrast, their subscription costs a little more than twice the amount than here, but the country I live in being a poorer one, I think it's perfectly acceptable). On top of that, they have their original content. Even if Spotify managed to come to this market, I wouldn't switch. There was a time when I desperately tried to pay for their service but they did not let me, now I wouldn't, because I already have superior service. Edit: I can't stand advertising on services, the ads on most American TV channels and services are so bad that I have to stop using them from time to time. It's not exactly the norm in my country, but there was a time when I thought our ads were crazy annoying! Some of it is extra annoying, like YouTube's, I would love to get YouTube Red, but it's not available here, even tho Google introduced some really crappy business practices to try and steer users towards it.