Flaresolverr was not working all that well for me. I switched to byparr and now I'm using trawl, which seems to fail less.

me

but I choose not to pay for it anymore because the product is less convenient than alternative methods

streamers

I'm not subscribing 20% harder.

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.

Streaming companies HATE this one weird trick!

Yesh.

They're definitely the ones doing the good stuff these days.