Learned the term recently and really enjoy it, subscription fatigue is the feeling we all have had now where we are just over how everything is subscription based.

Which one was the last straw or most annoying/frustrating to you?

      • emogu@lemmy.world
        48·
        1 year ago

        What’ll really aggravate you is that way back when cable was first rolling out, it was billed as paid TV service without ads (as opposed to the ad-supported OTA local networks). Obviously that promise didn’t last long.

        It’s a tale as old as time. Its happened before, it’s happening now, and it’ll happen again.

      • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgEnglish
        281·
        1 year ago

        That’s why people switched to cable to start with. Broadcast TV had ads and cable didn’t.

        People have depressingly short memories and a depressingly long patience for megacorporate thievery.

        • cobra89@beehaw.orgEnglish
          18·
          1 year ago

          Ads on cable channels first happened in 1971. I doubt most people on here were born yet then.

      • metaStatic@kbin.social
        17·
        1 year ago

        by the time I had my own money I didn’t even think of getting pay tv because it was already running more ads than free to air.

        Never had subscription fatigue because paid services have never been better than the free option in my experience.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      231·
      1 year ago

      What’s the point of paying for a subscription if you still get ads 🤷🏻

      Marvelous strategy model.

    • dan1101@lemm.ee
      6·
      1 year ago

      Luckily I did the 6 month free trial and learned. 6 months is generous, ads are not.

    • Dandroid@dandroid.app
      31·
      1 year ago

      I still haven’t forgiven Paramount+ for making me watch that train wreck of a Halo show.