Have you heard of pirate bay?
HBO Max is removing features from my plan without reducing my price.
Submitted 11 months ago by Candybar121@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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parascent@lemmy.world 11 months ago
jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Getting rid of 4k streaming was a deal breaker for me. Literally watched one movie we’d been putting off last night just so I could cancel today.
SicParvisMagna@feddit.nu 11 months ago
I love the wording of “some features will change” and even “new features” when the only change is that features will be removed.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Greedflation and shrinkflation rearing their ugly heads again. 😡
greenmarty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They realized that Netflix is heading six feet under , Amazon sucks so they can go back to making profit.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Netflix did the same, but prices went up 1-2 times a year regardless. I’m no longer paying for Netflix. 🤗
ohlaph@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Same. After almost a decade, we finally cancelled this year.
penquin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m just waiting for my daughter to get enough of storybots so I can shit on shitflix.
melonpunk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I cancelled back on the first price hike they did. Just wasn’t enough for the handful of times I used it per year. They had me at the point where I kinda didn’t care I was paying, but the price hike gave me a wake up call. Since then they’ve continued to up the prices and I’ve continued to not give a shit. Netflix originally won me back from bothering to pirate stuff cause it was so good and easy, now the opposite is true in the streaming space.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t worry, we’ll shovel more garbage reality shows into your app and wreck the ux even harder. Here’s 40 seasons of people having diarrhea on airplanes. Expect price increases in 6 months.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 11 months ago
40 seasons of people having diarrhea on airplanes
What's the name of this show?
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When C. Diff Strikes: Mile High Edition
Candybar121@lemmy.world 11 months ago
this made me laugh!
mateomaui@reddthat.com 11 months ago
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Delta and EasyJet
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
makyo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Correction: the writers planned out 40 seasons but it was cancelled on a particularly shitty cliffhanger after season two.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 11 months ago
The show really jumped the shart.
egeres@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Does this count as shrinkflation…?
Candybar121@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Absolutely
_number8_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
the ‘download’ offering is funny because you know it’s not a real download you can have faith in, it’s some fake bullshit where they’re allowed to let you hit a button
LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
🏴☠️
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 11 months ago
the enshittification continues. how do you continue to grow when everyone is either already a customer or would never become one under any circumstances? you make the product worse and more expensive.
Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
vladmech@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just canceled my service. I wasn’t watching too much on there already and this was ridiculous. They were already one of the priciest options and now I can either lose the 4k I was paying for, or bump up to $20/month? No thank you.
shasta@lemm.ee 11 months ago
A lot of people don’t even realize they aren’t watching it in 4k. At least, browsers don’t stream it in 4k. You have to install the app on your system for that, either on your TV app store or Windows Store (if on Windows). If you’re on Linux, I have no idea. So many people watching in browsers not realizing they’re paying for 4k that they never use.
vladmech@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For sure yeah, so it may be a whatever for a lot of folks anyway. Just irked me.
UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Last time I checked/had a streaming subscription, you didn’t get 4k on linux.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When is Doctor Who leaving Max for Disney?
Globulart@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Set your vpn to uk and go on bbc iplayer. It has every episode as far back as the reboot with Christopher Ecclestone
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I canceled hbo max because the price is ridiculous
Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Call your bank and ask about a charge back.
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is the selection even that good on HBO max? I know it probably has all the HBO shows but what I it like movie wise (for context in my country there is no HBO)
ZzyzxRoad@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I honestly think it’s better than Netflix (most streaming services are) and Hulu and definitely better than Prime.
It’s just that once they switched to Max they started focusing on reality shows and true crime and other such garbage.
Cjwii@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I like the HBO shows, there’s a big chunk of classic movies (TCM) and then all the DC cartoons which I’ve been making my way through with my kiddos. It’s a decent selection of stuff. There’s also all the discovery crap. My wife is addicted to the 90 Day Fianceeverse
Cynnith@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Cancelled my subscription yesterday because of this.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Don’t trust DRM
Candybar121@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s so shady that even Google is backing down from bringing it to Chrome.
Throwaway4669332255@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I canceled when they raised the price. I am DONE with all the price increases the past year.
yoz@aussie.zone 11 months ago
OP, you know what you can remove, right?
Candybar121@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not the owner of the account. But I can bring light to others about this, including the account owner.
yoz@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Just use streamio with torrentio add-on or real-debrid. Screw these streaming services.
csolisr@communities.azkware.net 11 months ago
Know what would solve this problem once and for all? If people collectively decided to boycott “popular culture” and entertain themselves without bowing to the copyright industry
Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t worry they’ll introduce a plan for you!
Candybar121@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I asked customer support what they will do about this, and they helpfully told me I could upgrade my plan by paying more money!
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This has to be illegal. No literally this has to qualify under some bait and switch law.
RamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
So they created a new tier and downgraded this tier? This is some buttfuckery if I’ve ever seen it. So those that had it as part of their cell plan now have to pay extra if they want 4K? I wonder if there’s any discourse with cell providers since now they’ve been downgraded, I feel that they have some responsibility to reduce their prices as well if you’re not getting the value you were promised when signing up. But I’m pretty sure cell providers will say shut up and take it you slut and double down. Out of curiosity what’s the price differences now?
GlintingKingfisher@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I got the email yesterday and went ahead and canceled. All the months of zero content during the writer’s strike made it pretty easy to do away with a lot of these streaming services. Gotta vote with that wallet!
vox@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
btw i don’t get the “download up to 30” limitation.
it’s not like they’re paying for your own disk space?Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s so don’t buy a month of service, then spend that month ripping everything they’ve got to your own storage and cancel.
dirtbiker509@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The downloads aren’t unencrypted, you can’t play them with any media player. Only their app can decrypt and play it. Has nothing to do with ripping them all in the month, you can do that without downloading them at all and just stream them to rip them.
The point of limiting it to 30 is to prevent someone from downloading them all to their device and then disconnecting the device from the internet permanently so you can have them forever. You’d have to do some date manipulation too in the operating system to keep the app from knowing your subscription actually expired.
mibo80@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Phew so glad I canceled when they changed to Max. That was a sign. Plus, all the other bad news that came with it.
LazyPhilosopher@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thanks for sharing. I found I got the same email so I canceled immediately. Guess I’ll just watch those shows else where for free 🦜🏴☠️
Chais@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yarr harr fiddle de-dee…
Voyajer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Time to make your own discount