jballs,

Getting rid of 4k streaming was a deal breaker for me. Literally watched one movie we’d been putting off last night just so I could cancel today.

GlintingKingfisher,
@GlintingKingfisher@lemmy.world avatar

I got the email yesterday and went ahead and canceled. All the months of zero content during the writer’s strike made it pretty easy to do away with a lot of these streaming services. Gotta vote with that wallet!

LazyPhilosopher,

Thanks for sharing. I found I got the same email so I canceled immediately. Guess I’ll just watch those shows else where for free 🦜🏴‍☠️

stolid_agnostic,

My prediction is that people will get fed up with this and just stop subscribing to these services. Eventually they companies will give up on the gouging and all their content will reappear on Netflix, and we’ll all end up back in 2013.

erranto,

When contracts don’t include prices

FeetinMashedPotatoes,

The number of apps I just stopped using because of this shit is ridiculous. I feel most bad for older customers who probably don’t realize they’re losing features and paying more for their subscriptions. They probably don’t know how to properly sail the high seas either so they don’t have a choice when wanting to watch their favorite shows. Oh well fuck it, Max can keep this up until they want to join Netflix up on the dusty shelf of bullshit streaming services that can suck my dick.

iheartneopets,

Now that I’m canceling Max, I’m basically just left with Crunchyroll and Shudder as streaming services. They’ve all become so shit, I couldn’t stomach giving them any more money.

danc4498,

Don’t worry, they’ll raise those prices very soon.

Retiring,
@Retiring@lemmy.ml avatar

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum…

funkless_eck,

16 users on a dead man’s torrent

CosmicCleric,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum…

So singing and all is fine, but what we really need at this point is actual instructions on how to.

Back in the day it was all done via USENET, is it still like that today?

sweetviolentblush,
@sweetviolentblush@sh.itjust.works avatar
Retiring,
@Retiring@lemmy.ml avatar

Yes, and no. Highly recommend !piracy

lntl,
@lntl@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

will you pay them the same amount for less service?

vladmech,

Just canceled my service. I wasn’t watching too much on there already and this was ridiculous. They were already one of the priciest options and now I can either lose the 4k I was paying for, or bump up to $20/month? No thank you.

shasta,

A lot of people don’t even realize they aren’t watching it in 4k. At least, browsers don’t stream it in 4k. You have to install the app on your system for that, either on your TV app store or Windows Store (if on Windows). If you’re on Linux, I have no idea. So many people watching in browsers not realizing they’re paying for 4k that they never use.

UxyIVrljPeRl,

Last time I checked/had a streaming subscription, you didn’t get 4k on linux.

vladmech,

For sure yeah, so it may be a whatever for a lot of folks anyway. Just irked me.

Cynnith,

Cancelled my subscription yesterday because of this.

adamantris,
@adamantris@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

and then all corporations go suprise pikachu face when piracy is on the rise :O

Quills,
@Quills@sh.itjust.works avatar

“Piracy is growing back!? How?? We had prattically killed it with our optimal services haven’t we??”

HawlSera,

Do what you want cuz a pirate lives free, you are a pirate.

NotMyOldRedditName,

You know, I can actually see this happening and them not understanding why its climbing. I’m sure you could make a great comedy sketch out of it.

rockandsock,

People often have a hard time understanding things when their paycheck depends on them not understanding those things.

NotMyOldRedditName,

I feel like that’s on the level of ancient Chinese proverbs but for modern corporate society

rockandsock,

Sad thing is, I read it in a book from the 1930s and I don’t think it was new back then.

m3t00,
@m3t00@lemmy.world avatar

like retail suddenly writing off large chunks to ‘theft’ coinciding with move to self checkout. surprise

ohlaph,

Digital shrinkflation.

egeres,
@egeres@lemmy.world avatar

Does this count as shrinkflation…?

Candybar121,

Absolutely. My value to price ratio has dropped significantly.

SCmSTR,

Stop giving them money then?

Candybar121,

AT&T includes the subscription with their cellular package, so they claim its “free”. I’m also not the head of the account. But I agree.

phillaholic,

Can’t imagine that’ll last much longer since AT&T sold them.

Chr0nos1,

Honestly, that’s the only reason I have Max, because it’s “free” with my cell plan. If I was paying for it, I would have cancelled it a long time ago. I almost never use it

DAMunzy,

I was just thinking that I need to cancel my Max … But yeah, it’s included with mobile phone service. 🤷

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