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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?

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[–] [email protected] 197 points 1 year ago (5 children)

When my paid Paramount+ subscription included unskippable ads.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Ads on cable channels first happened in 1971. I doubt most people on here were born yet then.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

by the time I had my own money I didn't even think of getting pay tv because it was already running more ads than free to air.

Never had subscription fatigue because paid services have never been better than the free option in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

What's the point of paying for a subscription if you still get ads 🤷🏻

Marvelous strategy model.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Luckily I did the 6 month free trial and learned. 6 months is generous, ads are not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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+.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Even worse when it's regarding Trek, a franchise that's always been critical of capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Imagine how we feel over here in NZ when we wanted to watch S2E1 of GH we actually got S1E3 of DOOL instead! Boy when the NPD were told about this I bet they ASAP'd their pants!

I hate acronyms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still haven't forgiven Paramount+ for making me watch that train wreck of a Halo show.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody made you watch that but you lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They tricked me! They said it was about Halo! I had no clue!