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What subscription finally gave you "subscription fatigue"? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 1 year ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] toototabon@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not subscription, but the first service I thought "wtf is this money-making model?" was Plants vs Zombies 2. The game wasn't that good. And, oh, my most recent guilty pleasure is Monopoly Go; it's entertainingly boring?

Apart from that, I've tried to keep subscriptions that I really like or use constantly:

~~UberPass~~ Uber One (mainly for when depression hits)
Deezer (just because I get 20% discount)
Kagi (first month atm, but it has a minimum % of trash results)

[–] procrastinator@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

never heard of uberpass, is it like free food delivery?

[–] toototabon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Correction: The service I referred to was renamed to Ober One.

Kinda. Basically you pay for occasional coupons and credits on UberEats, and a (5%) discount for every Uber ride.

For 70 MNX (~3.5 USD) a month there is no delivery fee on anything you order. It's obvious their business model is to charge an obscene fee to then roll out a "better" option. But hey, it's been convenient nonetheless.

I end up ordering from the same few places when I'm on my lowest, so their system usually gives me 100-200 MXN (~5-10 USD) discounts on those specific restaurants. The subtotal almost never exceeds 600 MXN (~30 USD).

Succinctly, it's not free free. It's a 5% discount on Uber rides, and a variable 15-30% discount for two orders a month.