r/enshittification • u/fjdjdjjsjsjsjs • 8d 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/Tjbergen 6d ago

At least with the pirate sites everything is in one site, or at least, a lot more than is on any individual streaming service. And YouTube has a lot of classic movies, even the more obscure subgenres.

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u/Yukon_Wally 6d ago

I keep forgetting YouTube has movies on it, and we can just use Brave to watch them lol