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.
And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere
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RedTie13@lemmy.world 1 year ago
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
I have YT Premium because I watch 95% of my YouTube through Apple TV, which doesn’t support ad blockers. I discovered that I can “visit” Argentina and sub to YT Premium for about £3 a month. I’m happy enough with that.
sharkaccident@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You ios or Android user?
sznio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
LinkOpensChest_wav@midwest.social 1 year ago
I’m gradually getting to the point where I’ll drop Spotify. Shoving ads for podcasts in my face every time I launch the app was bad enough, but now their app has become such a bloated mess that it bugs out whenever my phone is switching between wifi and mobile data. I have more than 1k songs downloaded just so I don’t have to deal with that, and now I have to deal with it because it’s more important to them to show ads and promotions than it is for their app to do what it’s designed to do.
And before anyone says “tHoSe ArEn’T aDs,” showing me recommended artists and podcasts against my will is absolutely a form of advertising. Do you think they’re showing me new releases from Joe down the street? These are paid promotions, aka ads.
PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Ads on podcasts are 100% at the discretion of the podcasts themselves. Not spotify.
schzztl@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
I switched to Tidal from Spotify, never looked back.
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If that were to change, then I’ll be subscription-free.
At this point you will also be music-free since you do not own any of it, and that is what keeps people locked into these services even as the companies jerk them around.
nxdefiant@startrek.website 1 year ago
Or do both?
The real value in Spotify is the music discovery. That’s driven by data that very few are in a position to collect. Of all the big tech companies, Spotify is the only one I can think of that uses the data they collect from the users to give the users a uniquely better experience. Even YouTube is littered with promoted ads and videos. If you’re avoiding ads anyway, it’s a win win for the user to pay for Spotify premium.
Then you can do what you will with all the playlists you make.
pinkwerdo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just pirate it.
NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, I know capitalism pursues money to the death, even when it’s no longer needed or when it’s already perfectly fulfilling a market share. But the greed still staggers me every time.
It wouldn’t be so bad if Bezos and the top people took 99% but there’s literally no reason to make him a trillionare.
Drusas@kbin.social 1 year ago
Bezos is no longer relevant to Amazon making changes.
pseudonym@monyet.cc 1 year ago
Umm yes, he’s the executive chair of the board ir.aboutamazon.com/…/default.aspx
EnderMB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It shows how ineffective Jassy is that hardly anyone outside of tech knows he’s been the CEO for 2 years.
Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Saved this image as: I WILL NEVER PAY FOR GODDAMN NETFLIX.png
RoseRose56@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Ya know, you could just buy a portable drive and put all your media on that.
RoseRose56@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I know, but tell that to the all the companies with their pops up. I have 0 subs btw. But my point is not everyone knows how to deal with stuff.
Oneobi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Greed. The ultimate human trait.
glockenspiel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Greed isn’t the ultimate human trait. Cooperation and curiosity are. We never would have built societies without either. We never would have advanced to the point we have without both. Everyone has greed in them, just like everyone has the opportunity to be angry or sad. But the notion that it is the ultimate human trait or somehow stronger than other characteristics is truly capitalist propaganda meant to justify their immoral hoarding of our wealth.
After all, if greed is the most natural and strongest human attribute… well, the do-nothing takers at the tippy top of the food chain can just continue to suck our blood and deprive us of our agency since it is natural.
There is a reason we don’t live in libertarian hellscapes. It is because greed is not the ultimate human trait.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
crackajack@reddthat.com 1 year ago
You don’t like Curiousity Stream?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It was ok. It didn’t offer as much content as I thought, it had a lot more in-house content that felt low budget, and I found it hard to find a topic that was truly enticing despite the variety. The service is fine and it was great as background noise while working, but it wasn’t enough for me. I would still recommend it.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Only subscriptions I pay for is Plex, Drunkenslug, and Newshosting
papertowels@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Plex lifetime goes on sale fairly often, just a heads up
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It does, but monthly subscriptions give Plex much more monetary support. Maybe one day when I really need to tighten my budget I’ll buy the one-and-done option, but for now $5 a month is negligible for how much I use the service
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s on sale right now
Gutek8134@lemmy.world 1 year ago
IDK, I can pay like 30$ for 5-6 months of XGP and play games worth 5x what I paid
atlasraven31@lemm.ee 1 year ago
$30 for 6 months is very reasonable if you enjoy what you are playing.
Resol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
winter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
blame the loudness wars, not the streaming service. they don’t alter audio files, the only exception being loudness normalisation between songs.
Resol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s either that or my opinion is the least valid out of them all.
randon31415@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Tried to cancel my paramount plus account. “You purchased the year subscription. In 6 months, you will not be billed.” Two months later: “Oh, Lower Decks is cool. I should keep this subscription.”
x4740N@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dude, just pirate it like everyone else
A vpn subscription is probably cheaper and I think mullvad is pay per use
Stumblinbear@pawb.social 1 year ago
“Everyone else” is absolutely not correct. Realistically barely a fraction of people know how to do it and even less bother.
schema@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I always get annoyed when reading ads like “it’s free with xy subscription”.
MrMobius@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Fuck you Spotify! I download my mp3 just like cool kids did 20 years ago, and it suits me just fine!
m3t00@lemmy.world 1 year ago
estimate shipping charges eh, prime about even still. not a video user usually. one of few subs actually worth it for me. cable cutting scrooge I am
elscallr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exactly. I buy Prime for the shipping. Being able to watch Wheel of Time without downloading it is a nice benefit.
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Muh stonk price.”
viking@infosec.pub 1 year ago
There’s ads in Dropbox?
cafeina@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is not only about ads, is about subscription services too.
Binthinkin@kbin.social 1 year ago
He should just dump Amazon Video simply because it is so bad. The days of good programming with them died in 2016-2017.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You should check out The Expanse.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Honestly, I didn’t like it. 😕 Probably because I get super annoyed when space opera horror is described as “hard sf”.
Also they messed with the drunkard cop’s personality in ways that I thought undermined the character.
I would like to see Severance at some point though.
alexhyatt64@lemmy.world 1 year ago
eh… nintendo online isn’t as shitty as the others
Zanz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nintendo online is even more shitty than the others. We still have zero games with dedicated servers splatoon smash none of them have dedicated servers which is the whole point in why they needed to charge a fee. You might like having the old games on the emulator for the monthly fee and that would be fine but there’s no reason to charge for matchmaking. Matchmaking and leaderboard should be free it might cost like 5 to 10 cents per year per user and they make way more than that with the 30 to 50% licensing fee for each game. To make the Nintendo one even worse third parties still have to pay for online services even though Nintendo also charges the customer. So if you buy a game that wants to use matchmaking or leaderboards they have to pay Nintendo additional fees for you to use them even though the customer you’re all so paying the fee for the same service
Crass_Spektakel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Who buys his kids an product from Apple or Nintendo is most likely also torturing cute cats in his basement. And enjoys it.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I rather flush my money in the toilet than buy Nintendicks products
SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s the only one we pay for. ~$35USD/year for the family plan is worth it to us.
ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
God forbid you pay for services.
SternburgExport@feddit.de 1 year ago
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 that songs will get removed from the service.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
For music piracy if you’re needin’ try soulseek. I understand collecting physical items though, I do it with records, comics, and VHS tapes, just figured I’d spread the word just in case.