All of these streaming services have started cracking down on family and friend account sharing to game their stock price. Turns out kicking off the broke college students doesn’t lead to them signing up for ~$80/mo. smattering of streaming services.

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VanTheBrand 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Except that so far results have shown that it does lead to a net increase in signups:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/netflix-subscriber-boom-th...

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HDThoreaun 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I mean netflix saw a pretty big jump in subscribers when they started doing this so maybe it actually does work?

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kotaKat 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s also getting tiring of this massive fragmentation of streaming services as a whole combined with a weird game of rebundling various providers in either deals direct from the streaming platforms/their overlords, or rebundling all of these streaming services into “free” offers with other service providers and THEIR offerings.

Even my goddamn cable company does this now offering me one of the streaming services? with my Spectrum plan. I don’t even know which one(s).

Quite frankly, I’m tired of my Verizon plan trying to cram Netflix and Hulu and Disney+ and crap down my throat, I’m tired of Walmart trying to cram Paramount+ at me with Walmart+. However, the market of ‘average (dumb) people’ seems to love this concept as “little extras” that eventually cause scope creep to their bill over time (and we all lose as a result).

	▲	datadrivenangel 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's on AppleTV+ but only if you also have the entity formerly known as paramount+ or for 3.99 (14 to own). Poob. Poob has it for you. [0] 0 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/poob-has-it-for-you
	▲	rkomorn 6 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		There are services I already pay for that I'd likely save a handful of dollars on per month if I bundled them with my other services... but I can't bring myself to do it out of stubborn principle.
	▲	robotnikman 6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		>I’m tired of my Verizon plan trying to cram Netflix and Hulu and Disney+ and crap down my throat And of course when they do its never the ad-free versions.