Disappointing streaming changes are happening so fast that it's hard to keep up.

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.

  • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
    951·
    8 months ago

    I’ve cancelled Netflix. Just wasn’t using it enough for the price. Instead I will entertain myself by downloading Linux distributions on BitTorrent.

    • Usually_Lurker@fedia.io
      38·
      8 months ago

      I had to upgrade the 4x8TB drives in my Synology NAS box to 4x12TB to hold all of the extra Linux ISO’s I was downloading.

    • yokonzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      281·
      8 months ago

      Awesome! But I hope you aren’t using the actual program “bitTorrent” cause that shit had a litany of privacy and security issues that I don’t even know where to start describing. A good one nowadays is qBitTorrent

      • FortuneMisteller@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        8 months ago

        cause that shit had a litany of privacy and security issues

        You don’t solve that by using another program. You try to reduce the damage by using the torrent client in a dedicated virtual machine and reset the machine to the original image at regular intervals.