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Netflix and Amazon Prime subscribers to ‘pay TV licence fee’
(www.thetimes.com)
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Getting closer and closer to the old cable costs everyone cut the cord for.
I hear what you're saying and I agree, but this specifically is just a BBC/british thing.
Overall all the streaming companies are raising prices for profit regularly and introducing ad tiers everywhere to enshittify it to the max. Can't wait for them to start delivering targeted advertisements in the UI "but not in shows!" in all tiers, because that'll come before they put ads in all tiers and introduce a new supertier that costs much more and has less ads. It's all just $.
It amazes me the Brits don’t just add “TV license” to the tax pile rather than keeping it an individual fee. It’s such a nonsense game to pretend there are people in the UK who never watch TV/BBC.
They've been pretty conservative in terms of Europe. It's the same mindset for people in the US who don't want to pay for public transit because they "don't live in the city" but sure love the subsidies those city workers provide in taxes to the state.