cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/6302705
I have a hard time understanding why a option to view it either with ads or pay money to not show ads is bad.
I understand it’s frustrating that you already pay and still see ads.
In the end you choose to buy something from a company which sells something. Either you pay with your money or with your attention if you don’t want to pay, just don’t use their service.
I much rather have the option to pay to get rid of ads than not having it like it was in the 90ies.
Because it’s a gradual death-march to pricing out the ad free tiers entirely. Right now we’re in the ‘illusion of choice’ phase. But ad free tiers will continue to become more and more expensive until one day corporations can turn around and justify removing them by blaming consumers. “We’re getting rid of our ad-free plans due to lack of consumer interest.” It won’t be a lack of interest. It’ll be a lack of affordability. And you can be damn sure once the ad-free plans are gone those ad based plans will end up priced at the rate for the old ad-free options. It’s corporate gaslighting and it’s happening right now.
Then stop paying for the service if you’re not happy with it. Vote with your wallet.
Like, corporations need to make money… People understand that, right? They going to try to do things to make money. As a consumer, you decide the point at which the value is no longer there for you.
You’re not entitled to streaming services. It’s not a human right. I understand that it sucks to be priced out of a service you like.
Then don’t be part of society is the root of that argument.
Don’t want to be tracked? Don’t use a phone. Or a car.
Don’t want to support exploitative publishers? Don’t read.
Can’t afford rent?
Can’t find a job?
It’s all just blaming people for corporate bullshit.
They make plenty of money. They’re not exactly poor.
They’re trying to squeeze every penny they can out of people.
How do you clean your tongue when you finally get it off billionaire boot. Do you need a special cleaning product or like does a regular tongue scraper do the trick?
Another way to look at this, is that we were all shoved in to a society with a financial system that basically requires the expenditure of money to get along. If I’m not entitled to the media, why are they entitled to my money? At the end of the day, none of us asked to be here. Since the dawn of time, people have been taking what they’ve wanted and what they’ve needed–be thankful we’re in a phase of society that were taking pirated media and complaining about pricing, instead of taking eachothers lives for survival (which isn’t even universally true yet lol). I would also argue, but not with any conviction, that we need to consume at least -some- of this media to be able to participate maximally in society. Everyone loves movies and media, and if you’re the one person not consuming it, you’re an outcast. Outcasts proverbially die alone away from the warmth of the communal fire. It’s just human nature, tbh
They probably wouldn’t need to pull stunts like this if people just accepted that the price will slowly increase over time. However they don’t. People hate when someone increases prices. The issue here however is that 10 euros 5 years ago buys you more than 10 euros today and that’s how it will always be. If a company like Netflix just sticks to the 10 euros a month price for decades then the only way to maintain the same amount of revenue is to gain more customers each year. However if the number of customers stays the same aswell as the prices then they’re effectively making less profit each year.
