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All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah or you could, you know, just download a program that isn't problematic.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I exclusively use qbittorrent to download Linux distros.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What do you use for other downloads?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s qbittorrent all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You use qbittorrent to download qbittorrent? I think that causes a rip in the spacetime continuum.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's an impressive piece of software, alright

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Don't forget to upload some ISOs as well! Keep the network healthy and happy :)

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Got a recommendation for a Nas? My 12tb is getting so full of Linux distros, I have to expand faster than I thought

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Synology’s smaller units are great and with a few docker configs you are ready to go.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I use Synology, works as smb, cifs, and nfs for my in garage proxmox stuff. It's pretty good for the money

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I have an older one... 411j I think. Amazon gifted it to me one day... so nice of them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

There are just so many distributions.