i used to do the one-month binge on one service. then awhile later, do a different one.

prices kept going up. i don't even do that any more.

it's been over two years now without anything but what i already have in my library, or the occasional free streamer through pihole or a ubo-backed browser.

i just don't care about new 'tv' or movies anymore.

It's been a while since I do on and off, watch stuff that interest me on service X then cancel, watch stuff on service Y then cancel, and so on. There are just too many services to be subscribed to all.

Quality of content being the thing that keeps me.

It’s not like they don’t know what they’re doing. They studied all kinds of business strategies diurig their “International business studies” or whatever the fuck they did. The C-suite simply doesn’t care about long term retention, they want their bonuses for this year and the next. They know perfectly well they will be replaced in a few years time anyway, whether it’s because profits are not increasing as much as the shareholders want or whether the profits have gone up because of price raises, but down again because customers left.

But in the second scenario they will get a whole lot more bonuses than in the first. So this is what consumers get: enshittification.

That’s what Dropout does, and while I’m not likely to cancel anyway because I love their content, I’m even less likely knowing if I left and came back not would be on the higher sub price

It's a 2$ increase from 13$ to 15$. I feel like most people don't care and it's more of a boiled frog situation than anything else. I doubt anyone is seriously going to cancel for an extra 2$ unless they were already planning too tbh.

The problem is that everyone who wants a subscription probably already has one. New customers aren't born fast enough to keep up with line go up.

Most streamers at least have annual subscriptions at a discount. Netflix is month-to-month only, which is just asking for churn.

They're not trying to make a good product. They're trying to get their short term gains.

Normal capitalist bullshit where a handful of people (who probably don't even do any work) make decisions and keep almost all the profits.

That sounds like terrible economics when you have hundreds of millions of customers who will likely just accept it