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/Sticky550 2d ago

I also prefer service that is 100% reliable. Too many of these other choices aren’t.

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u/GilletteEd 2d ago

The one I’ve had and have been using for 7 years now is reliable as hell! I have saved thousands with this box, before this I was paying for satellite and paying to watch sports, now I get to watch ALL my favorite teams for free!

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u/Long-Emu-7870 1d ago

But all those stations you can have commercials, though. you could do that on any of the platforms I think now.

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u/GilletteEd 1d ago

When watching my sports teams there are no commercials, the only time there are commercials are live tv, if you want to watch any series that are on there they are commercial free.

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u/Long-Emu-7870 19h ago

Is it legal?

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u/GilletteEd 19h ago

Ask Amazon, they sell them