Learned the term recently and really enjoy it, subscription fatigue is the feeling we all have had now where we are just over how everything is subscription based.
Which one was the last straw or most annoying/frustrating to you?
Tbh the best newsites are paid. It sucks. I use archive to get around it, mostly. Free sites usually just rehash the paid site’s actual scoops, with less information, days later, and are cluttered with ads, or feel like lame a blog.
And when I had a free account, those NYT graphic based interactive publications and data visualizations were S tier. Whoever makes those is making the best technical web content around.
And their real time election coverage when the polls are closing - with the needle - is always the best way to see what’s really going on in terms of where the votes are outstanding, and what that means in terms of what the final number will be.
Eg
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/15/us/mar-a-lago-trump-documents.html
https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/graphics
Also, newspaper journalism in general has always been monetized though a subscription.
Sync for Lemmy. I was looking forward for the app, but the subscription to remove ads made me stick with Connect instead.
To me, Jerboa is superior. At the end of the day, it is designed by Lemmy developers and the UX/UI is simple enough.
It’s the only app I’ve seen that show the number of upvotes AND downvotes, not just the sum.
Then do the one time payment option that was added literally a couple hours after the launch of the public beta?
When my paid Paramount+ subscription included unskippable ads.
I still haven’t forgiven Paramount+ for making me watch that train wreck of a Halo show.
I loathe the trend where I pay money and they still expect me to sit through ads. That’s why we all left cable to start with.
That’s why people switched to cable to start with. Broadcast TV had ads and cable didn’t.
People have depressingly short memories and a depressingly long patience for megacorporate thievery.
What’ll really aggravate you is that way back when cable was first rolling out, it was billed as paid TV service without ads (as opposed to the ad-supported OTA local networks). Obviously that promise didn’t last long.
It’s a tale as old as time. Its happened before, it’s happening now, and it’ll happen again.
I’m still refusing to pay for P+ in the UK. They nicked us about so much with Discovery, Picard and Lower Decks all being on Netflix and Amazon, then started pulling the rug from under us with Dis S3 and it appears maybe LD S4 this year. I’m not paying for a whole new service for one franchise no matter how much I love it. At least Disney got Marvel, Star Wars and all the Fox content before trying D+.
Yeah it’s such a shameless cash grab, I know corporations mug us off every day but it’s disrespectful when they’re so desperate about it.
I read and understood the dangers of SaaS as a school kid long before the term was cool and long before privacy community and corporate industry popularised it.
Ok, good for you, lol.
Chromebooks
You can install Linux on them and make them real computers, though. Right? Right?
This Google 1 shit. I love my Pixel phone, but they give shit for memory options so that you are forced to pay for the experience of Gmail and saving media. Pisses me off that I can’t just save it to my phone.
