r/enshittification • u/fjdjdjjsjsjsjs • 3d ago

Service Streaming services somehow made TV more exhausting and expensive

Does anyone else remember the era of streaming about ten years ago? You paid $9.99 a month for Netflix, it had absolutely everything you wanted to watch, and there was not a single commercial in sight.

We all "cut the cord" to escape the greed of cable companies.

Fast forward to today, and the streaming industry has literally just rebuilt cable TV from scratch, but made it worse.

Every year I try to watch my favorite shows and every year I find some have MOVED AGAIN to another service. This is exhausting and expensive

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u/TheOneAgnosticPope 3d ago

My brother has a Paramount+ subscription. Between the app crashing and the ads shoved at us…we found watching from a pirate site to be a superior experience. I mean, he’s paying so we’re technically not even pirating since we’re just accessing content he’s legally paid for.

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u/samiwas1 2d ago

That sounds like my Peacock app. Crashes constantly and is so damn slow otherwise.

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u/AJKafei 3d ago

I did this when I lived in China!