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Handling tens of subscriptions for all kinds of services and content is getting ridiculous. Yes there's much more and in better quality today but you almost ne
by kossTKR 5y ago
Handling tens of subscriptions for all kinds of services and content is getting ridiculous.
Yes there's much more and in better quality today but you almost need a Personal Assistant now just to sub/unsub various services while the terms and catalog is constantly getting worse.
I had netflix and 10+ other subscriptions but recently just decided to close all of them and just torrent when i need to and drop the rest - no more having to use my already strained mental capacity to find stuff, switch services, unsub, sub, miss subtitles in local languages or in english etc. Way too much content was removed and seemingly disappeared sometimes mid season.
I'll still support indie projects, podcasts, smaller creators etc. but big business can get their shit together.
Imagine having 150 subscriptions as a family in the future "smart city" dystopia ranging from media to food to transport etc with a million pages of terms - i want less choices, less terms, better curation and don't want to use my life "handling" a personal technocracy.
- shadilay 5y agoI just want to pay cash.
- sefrost 5y ago> you almost need a Personal Assistant now just to sub/unsub various services I believe the billing methods should be changed to "if you don't use the service this month then you don't pay". If I watch a single minute of Netflix this month then fine, bill me the normal monthly fee. If I don't watch anything then they shouldn't bill me. Same for all streaming services. This would solve that problem nicely for me. This would also be good for game subscription services.
- DevoidSimo 5y agoI think I heard (possibly here) that Netflix actually does stop billing inactive accounts. Never tested that myself though, and the time before being considered inactive may be longer than 1 month.