> what is stopping you from cancelling all your subscriptions right now? You can always buy back in when you like
> Because for some subscriptions the price goes up.
Had a bad experience of this with a tool where I had subscribed a full year at the old price.
They raised prices while I was on a vacation, and the first time I logged back in, I was charged the difference.
No prompt to agree or disagree, and the charge assumed a full year of usage on the new price rather than being pro-rated.
They refunded it shortly after on their own, and then someone from their team emailed asking what I'd done on login, as if they didn't already know. Possibly a billing system glitch on their end, but the lack of any consent prompt is the part that bothered me.
Didn't renew, though I'll admit their product is solid.
But the entire scheme here is to not have them continually. It's better to pay month+$2 in six months when you need it, than 6*month for the months you don't.
If you rotate subscriptions sensibly, they're much cheaper than the old cable model. If you're not looking, they can really bleed you out and be much more expensive than the old model.
You can also pay ~$20/month for an online locker that'll pull the torrent for you and serve to your devices, if that's within your philosophical tolerances. People need to get paid, but I do not much care of the enterprise value of media conglomerates and the resulting enshittification. I don't mind paying for Nebula.tv (~$36/year) and PBS Passport (~$60/year), for example, to directly support those media creators, as well as sending creators fiat directly or via Patreon (Coffeezilla and Peter Santenello, for example).
I have no problem with anyone just sending money if that's what they want to do; I have a number of Patreon supports also. I do strongly advocate for not letting subscriptions leak out without realizing it, and less strongly for considering whether or not you need something like Disney+ continuously or if you can rotate between it and other services.
> what is stopping you from cancelling all your subscriptions right now? You can always buy back in when you like
> Because for some subscriptions the price goes up.
Had a bad experience of this with a tool where I had subscribed a full year at the old price.
They raised prices while I was on a vacation, and the first time I logged back in, I was charged the difference.
No prompt to agree or disagree, and the charge assumed a full year of usage on the new price rather than being pro-rated.
They refunded it shortly after on their own, and then someone from their team emailed asking what I'd done on login, as if they didn't already know. Possibly a billing system glitch on their end, but the lack of any consent prompt is the part that bothered me.
Didn't renew, though I'll admit their product is solid.
But the entire scheme here is to not have them continually. It's better to pay month+$2 in six months when you need it, than 6*month for the months you don't.
If you rotate subscriptions sensibly, they're much cheaper than the old cable model. If you're not looking, they can really bleed you out and be much more expensive than the old model.
You can also pay ~$20/month for an online locker that'll pull the torrent for you and serve to your devices, if that's within your philosophical tolerances. People need to get paid, but I do not much care of the enterprise value of media conglomerates and the resulting enshittification. I don't mind paying for Nebula.tv (~$36/year) and PBS Passport (~$60/year), for example, to directly support those media creators, as well as sending creators fiat directly or via Patreon (Coffeezilla and Peter Santenello, for example).
I have no problem with anyone just sending money if that's what they want to do; I have a number of Patreon supports also. I do strongly advocate for not letting subscriptions leak out without realizing it, and less strongly for considering whether or not you need something like Disney+ continuously or if you can rotate between it and other services.
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