Asklemmy

I'm usually subscribed to at most 2 at a time. Over a year or so I cycle through 4 or 5 of them.

I will not accept ads in my paid subscriptions.

I've been meaning to. It's just that I got my current Netflix subscription as part of a bundle with my ISP. I have to phone them to cancel it. I don't really have the energy to do so.

Though, I'm in the process of being kicked out of my home. If I'm able to find somewhere to go, I'll likely cancel it once I change my address with the ISP.

Other than that. I use YouTube with an adblock on both my PC and FireStick.

The only subscription that I have left is Spotify. I used to have Netflix as well before the explosion of streaming services started, when it made sense because it was convenient to have immediate access to almost all content. Now that every show is in a different service, I decided to go back to torrents with Stremio.

Yeah it's insane how expensive everything gets. I'm subscribed to a bunch of streaming services (like Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, etc) and sometimes I use them a lot but HBO, for instance, I've only used a few times and it's just sitting there on our smart TV taking up space and draining our bank account. But I got it when there was a really good deal and if I cancel and resubscribe I have to pay the full amount. Then again, I'm probably wasting more money with it now than I would've if I'd just cancelled and then resubscribed when I actually used it. Oops.

But yeah, I'm definitely not going to pay more for those services than I am now, so if the pricing gets even more ridiculous I'm out.

I recently cut most of mine. Don’t miss them as much as I thought.

I haven't been subscribed to a streaming service for about five years. Well, sometimes I pay for a month of Hidive. I usually just buy the show/film on disc and rip it. A decent amount of the shows I want to watch are old and not even on a streaming service.

Cancelled everything except YouTube. I could afford them but I just don't like the direction they are going, especially Netflix.

I cycle between them from month to month.

I've only ever subscribed to Bilibili. I think it's still fine so I'll keep my subscription for now.

We have YouTube family premium, mostly because pf the youtube ads bit also 3 ppl use music regularly.

We have netflix but it's bundled with the fiance's phone contract which is payed by her company.

I just installed Sponsorblock on the TV and phone in addition to PC because I hate advertisement.

If there is thia one movie which is not on netflix then I sail the high seas to get it, but that' like once a year or so.

Yes I cancelled almost all of them. Had quite a few also but did a proper cleanup. :)

I still use my family plan for Spotify but Netflix isn't even worth it these days.

There's a bunch of services I feel I would have happily paid for years ago, but most "features" they offer nowadays are just fixes for problems they introduced (looking at you Youtube).

I never subscribed to the scam of streaming services to begin with and no one should.

Not really.

My parents use Netflix and I'm in the same house as them so the whole account sharing crackdown is moot. I wouldn't want to share my account with them otherwise.

Spotify I'm keeping for lack of a better service. It has improved by leaps and bounds.

I really don't like this argument that the TV streaming market is too pricey, too complicated and is starting to turn back into cable. Maybe if you're too fucking lazy to go through a cycle of cancelling and reinstating subscriptions based on what new shows are on or whatever old show you feel like watching.

Cable is multitudes more expensive than your typical streaming service, while giving you little to no video-on-demand catalog. Streaming is nowhere near as bad.

Oh and another thing, have you ever tried to cancel a cable service and spent hours on the phone to reps whose job it is to ensure you don't cancel and waste your time upselling you shit you don't want? You don't get that with a streaming service, and cancelling is as easy as going to a menu, disabling auto-renew and waiting for expiry, so not setting yourself a reminder to cancel the service is honestly on you.

It's like everybody is fucking entitled and think it's their God given right to steal TV shows when it's not available on a singular $9.99/month service.