I’ve definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is “smart” nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn’t require any of that before.
What’s some things currently making you ramble like an old man?
Subscriptions. Why is everything a sub now?
I understand the need for some subscriptions and their benefits when there is ongoing content added to a platform.
However i’m not paying a subscription for software I could just buy and own forever, i’m not paying a £6.99 subscription to get some shitty cloud features in an app that is costing several cents a month to host. I get hundreds of gigabytes a month for less than that with Backblaze.
I’m not paying a subscription to read every second news website. I’m not paying a sub to access remote features of my car. I’m not paying a subscription to remove ads in an app, just let me pay once.
I really like the term “subscription fatigue”. It’s corporate sounding enough maybe they’ll pick up on it
Fuck all that, I went back to pirating because of this.
When Netflix was good there was a brief window when I did not download movies, music and other content. Needless to say that’s long gone.
You can pirate anything by signing up to one or two private trackers, not 15 subscriptions.
Yeah I have a single £4 a month Usenet subscription.
With the radarr and sonarr setup. Pirating is easier
Back in the day I sailed the seven seas with the best of em. It started with Napster. Then Netflix and Hulu had most of the things I wanted and I stopped. Now I have a dozen subscription services that come free as credit card perks, cell phone perks, internet service perks, or whatever. I don’t even know what all I have for free. So I don’t pirate because I have loads of perks. But the day that stops I’ll likely be back unless I’m too old and my mind is too far gone to figure it out.
I’ve pirated two movies in the last several years. Neither were available from any service at all. They’re just gone from the civilized world.
With all that being said, I’ll still pay for Shudder. It’s got content I want and they always have a sale when it’s time for me to re-up. Maybe instead of pirating I’ll only watch bad horror forever. There are way worse things for me to live out my life.
Same here. I’m subscriptioned out. Can hardly even graciously donate to something anymore without them expecting me to sign up to have money drawn from my account every single month. I’m so done with that.