I did not know that, but I just signed up a little over a month ago.

But yeah, even if I run out of their backlog, I'm probably going to keep that active anyways

Super weird it's basically College Humor legally, but they're doing a really good job.

Also, don't most people mentally round that up anyways? $13 was already $15 as far as I was concerned, so, this is just raising it what what I basically thought I was already paying. If they raise it again though, it's going to $20 which is gonna be a tougher pill to swallow.

It’s also included in the Apple one subscription that comes with Apple News, Apple Music, iCloud storage, etc. people might cancel their subscription to one of those, but not want to lose the others.

And they’re relying on people not noticing the price increases because of autopay.

This is what they do instead. The long term agreement discount encourages people to stay subscribed rather than discouraging people from (re)starting a subscription.

The cost in electronic services is in acquisition; the nominal cost to deliver services to a paying subscriber is lower than acquiring a new one.

Yes you would flatten your margin with existing customers by not hiking their rates (or not as much) but pretending there won't be defection assumes near monopoly--which the US has permitted largely for the last 4 decades.

Cell phone companies made it super easy to leave by only offering good discounts to new customers.

Then you don't understand why long term reliable customers are better than intermittent ones...

Which means you don't know anything else about business, and are just going off vibes

I feel 20% less-subscribed (80% of 0 is 0)

I have time, it's just that I can think of much better things to do with it. I spend my free time generally either reading, gaming solo and with my spouse, and exercising. TV is fine occasionally, but it's such a passive activity.

I'll try those as well, thanks. Flaresolverr is working for me (for the moat part anyway, lol), but it's great to know there are alternatives, so thanks for sharing. I'll try them over the weekend.

Sure...

ARR!

If buying is not owning, pirating is not stealing.

For All Man Kind is great, Star City is pretty good so far, Silo is great but drags at parts, and Severance is great, Foundation is well made and gets a little better each season. Monarch started strong, but gave up on it. Invasion was okay. Overall these shows are better than almost everything else on TV. Plenty of good non sci-fi too, widows bay, slow horses, lasso, etc. Definitely building out a high quality catalog and hitting their stride.

It all feels like a way to bleed money from working class to billionaires. Death by a thousand little cuts.

I understand buying HBO for a month or two to watch GOT, or Apple for Ted Lasso. I don’t understand keeping it when it’s not being used. Paying for a maybe. Or 4 maybes. Streaming services often get “used” like a gym membership.

I'm in the same spot.
Never liked the way Apple does things. Never bought an Apple product. But the last few months, I've been considering an Apple TV sub. I'm watching 5 or 6 series, and have enjoyed several of their movies.

I might even give up Netflix for it. Which feels strange, since my Netflix account is nearly as old as Netflix itself. Used to rip so many Netflix DVDs.