Are you cancelling streaming services?

With the simultaneous rollout of restrictions on account sharing and price increases/addition of advertising, I’m cutting back severely on streaming services.

I allowed my streaming subscriptions to grow without thinking about it. Without trying to remember the constant merging and bundling, I was subscribed to probably a dozen services at one point. They ranged from Netflix and HBO and Hulu to Shudder and Showtime. I had Paramount, Criterion, Disney, Peacock, and others. I’d do the typical thing where I’d search for a movie, find it is exclusive to a platform, and grab the free trial and forget to cancel. I excused it if I found a movie even every couple of months on it. There were still nights where it’d take an hour to find something I wanted to watch. I was probably closing in on $200/month all told, and I don’t have sports subscriptions.

I’m interested in learning what other people are doing regarding the price hikes and service compromises. Are you cancelling? Are you taking advantage of bundles with your internet services? Are you rotating on some interval? Or are you not changing at all?

Diana,

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danie10,
@danie10@lemmy.ml avatar

About 3 months back I cancelled Netflix (after being in it for many years) and moved to free Tubi.

Perhapsjustsniffit,

Been pirating and then free streaming since it was possible. I’m almost 50 and haven’t paid for big box tv or movies since the 90’s.

IsoSpandy,

I got tired of all this B’s long time ago and just resorted to torrenting. I missed the series management and resume feature so I coded a app to do it.

PS: in case anybody wants to use it… It’s open source. github.com/Dr-42/offflix

yokonzo,

Good sir you are a gentleman and a scholar

IsoSpandy,

Thank you so much

krush_groove, (edited )

I get a lot of value out of Netflix, I watch tons of their shows every month.

I use Prime quite a bit also obviously for Amazon shopping and try to watch Prime Video a few times each month, and now they’ve expanded the music I’ll try that too.

I will be canceling Disney and just pirate what I want to see, which isn’t much, literally just one show.

E: I canceled Spotify ages ago and use their free version but for my favorite bands I downloaded their MP3 discographies. I buy their music on CD because it pays them better than streaming their songs thousands of times, plus I buy merch and go to the concerts so I’m OK with that.

E2: someone mentioned Patreon, I cancelled most of those as well because my gaming group broke up and all my patreons are for gaming 3D files. I have years worth of stuff to print and will never reach the end.

joemo,

I’m not changing my habits, but I probably should. My girlfriend and family use the streaming services more than I do. If there’s something I need to watch, there’s always ways to watch it online. However it’s easier for them to use the legit streaming services ha.

Abracadaniel,
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Eventually Netflix will kick me off the family account but there’s no way I’m paying for that garbage. I might pay for Hulu as they have a much better selection for my tastes.

vodnik,
@vodnik@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve cancelled them all and started sailing the high seas since the beginning of the year. I’m considering picking up Crunchyroll, though. It’s just easier to pay for One Piece than pirate it.

PhlubbaDubba,

I’m only on Crunchyroll since other services are through family accounts, I am considering dropping some of my Patreon subs because of belt tightening I might have to do though.

z2k_,
@z2k_@lemmy.nz avatar

Cancelled my Netflix account when they announced the password sharing crackdown (even though I wasn’t password sharing), and recently cancelled my Spotify family account when they increased the price.

vitor_sk0n,

Only Tidal for me… cancelled Netflix when they hiked the prices at the beginning of the year I believe

CheshireSnake,
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Yup same. I was with Qobuz until it started having issues (kept buffering even if there’s no problem with my connection). Apple music is buggy on Win 10 and sounded worse than Qobuz so i skipped it. I’m now on Tidal (fuck MQA still) but still looking for goodbetter music streaming services. Netflix can rot.

Destraight,

I have never got into Netflix, or any other subscription services. KissAnime, and pirating is what I use to watch shows, even then I don’t watch much shows

Ekis,

I cancelled my Netflix and Spotify subscriptions long ago after content would get taken down for whatever reason. This reminded me that I’m only renting the content from these services; I don’t actually own them.

Fast forward to now, I selfhost a Jellyfin server and pirate all the content I want. Feels good to have total control and ownership over my music and movie collection.

wildcardology,

Already cancelled mine. Netflix, prime, hbogo. Now I’m back sailing the high seas.

JackbyDev,

I’m trying to get better about canceling services we don’t actively watch and only having two at a time. We already have Prime so I don’t count it but we have Max and Hulu right now. We swapped Disney+ for Hulu when What We Do In The Shadows released and my wife is an Our Flag Means Death stan so we will probably permanently have Max (but the new season comes out soon anyways).

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