Yup, while attacking the older generation from educating the young about the good things in the past, can’t let those pleb kids have physical bank notes.

I got a bone to pick with this kind of statement. Before they started raising prices exorbitantly, the techbros (mainly) all over social media would bite my head off for even suggesting their beloved tech companies would dare do so such things. It was a minority of voices who said they would inevitably follow the cable model. Did that ever chap some asses.

I was right.

Quite frankly the period roughly spanning the 2010s was wild with how enamored everyone was with tech companies.

Hard drive space is the cost going up whilst on the seas.

Yet VPN use keeps gaining more friction. I can’t log into my bank without shutting it off, for example.

Are you kidding? Jellyfin just tripled their prices

Another common jellyfin W

Don't forget that data center's are making hardware incredibly pricey, including hard drives. Almost tripled in a year where I live. This makes even local storage of media so much harder.

It's called "courage"

/S

Even though I'm not spending any money on this and pirating everything it's still bad

And had contracts to keep you locked in

25 years ago, i had cable with all the 'premiums', and internet.. for less than what that same company gets just for the slowest 'available' internet (only) today. despite the cost to deliver bits to the home being lower now. yes. it's faster today but the speed i had before was enough to watch a stream in realtime. it'd still be enough to watch an hd stream today (and then by extension, 'fast enough' for anything else i care to do at home). i never asked for faster, i wanted to keep the 'cheaper' but that's not an option. they want their 90 percent pure profit. the shareholders demand it.

The big promise of streaming was that you were supposed to only need to subscribe to individual channels of content. It turns out the major streamers are still providing some bundling.

Honestly piracy and going to the theatre are the move nowadays

We also have control of what we want to watch and when, and can cancel and move between services.

My parents used to spend £35 a month for 300 channels of which they would only watch one or two of, and they had no control of when they could watch what they wanted unless they paid extra for the ability to record shows.

I moved them over to a broadband only deal and they hop between streaming service subs now. It saves them a good amount of money each month and they can watch what they want when they want.

Streaming services are far from perfect, but they are ad free (if you pay for it) and give you greater control.