3 ms·
After a couple of years with several media subscription services, I'm about done with them. If I have a slow month, I feel like I'm losing money. I feel press
by pasbesoin 14y ago
After a couple of years with several media subscription services, I'm about done with them.
If I have a slow month, I feel like I'm losing money. I feel pressure to "consume now", because if I subsequently drop the service, I'll no longer have access.
Items come and go. I e.g. add them to my queue, to find a month or three later that they are no longer available.
I can't loan them to family or a friends (I'm not counting "authorized" "lending" features that are at the whim of the subscription service).
I'm switching back to ownership. And to public libraries -- assuming the U.S. manages to maintain any sort of public infrastructure.
Fuck "subscriptions". From someone who actually tried to make them work.
P.S. Not to mention my concerns about "centrally redacted history" and the like.