I stopped watching network television because of ads, then I stopped watching free streaming because of too many ads (Pluto TV, Crackle), I get a basic subscription to Paramount through Walmart and I stopped watching that because of the ads. I have an Amazon prime subscription because I get it for one half off but I rarely use prime video an if they start showing ads, I won't use it at all.

I just got charged $165 a couple days ago from two yearly subscriptions I totally forgot I had. We need a better solution. The banks should just implement the usage of Virtual Cards like Privacy.com does. It'd be so much more convent for people to cancel subscriptions, if they're allowed to have multiple different virtual cards that they can easily toggle on or off.

Why don't the banks do this?

If it's free, you're the product

I basically canceled almost all my subscriptions and pirate stuff. Except music, since I build a CD collection and buy the rest online which is still cheaper than a streaming service and I can keep the music as long as I want without having to fear that songs will get removed from the service.

I think that Spotify (or any other music streaming service) are the only ones still worth it. I don't have to sign up for Spotify and Tidal and YouTube Music since any of them has whatever I need.

If that were to change, then I'll be subscription-free.

Also, I like paying for Spotify since it's the only European big-tech.

I finally dropped Spotify, I still maintain a YouTube Premium subscription, only because I'm grandfathered into their old Google Music plan. I'm finally looking to setup my own Nextcloud and Jellyfin server on a NAS because Google cloud storage starts to get pricey when HDD are so cheap. I do still pay Means TV because if I'm still paying for a streaming service, at least it's a co-op.

Only subscriptions I pay for is Plex, Drunkenslug, and Newshosting

Learn to torrent and throw Plex or Jellyfin onto your computer then you have your own Spotify and Netflix

People like us just don't see it, they are want us on subscription plans for every service that exists. Starting from movies and series, which you don't own anything, and once you signup you agreed with their terms, they do what ever they want, to phone where your storage space will max out, and you have to pay monthly, to upload all your videos and photos in the cloud/server. They want us to keep paying for even basic things, because why should be free right?

Saved this image as: I WILL NEVER PAY FOR GODDAMN NETFLIX.png

The last thing I paid for as a subscription service was Curiosity Stream a year ago. I've stopped watching movies and documentaries since and I don't miss it.

Wait, Spotify? Don't you mean "a pile of garbage"?

I have to be honest, I hate this thing even with the paid plan. Everything sounds so compressed.

I always get annoyed when reading ads like "it's free with xy subscription".