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All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced.

We'll also examine each streaming platform's financial status to get an idea of what these companies are thinking (spoiler: They're thinking about money).

Netflix starts killing its cheapest ad-free plan in June

Sony bumps Crunchyroll prices weeks after shuttering Funimation

Peacock is raising prices

Fubo cuts 19 channels

In a seemingly desperate push, many streaming services prioritize revenue and profits ahead of building the best streaming service for customers.

We could go on about how this might force people to reconsider their subscriptions, but we should publish before another service makes yet another policy change.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Because it feels like the triggers are finally being fired from the corporate capitalists in the world. They've bided their time and when they feel things are tender enough to practice their most devious schemes, then they'll fire upon it.

They do this whenever there is a generational shift, in culture and how we do things. They're always carrying their ideas over and applying them in even more devious ways.

While we all like to laugh at, joke about and make memes of these things. It stops being a joke when you become personally inflicted by it.