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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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[–] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm subbed to YT premium, Spotify, and Amazon Prime. I primarily use Steam. I pirate via torrents for movies and series. No streaming services interest me. I've used a free trial for Netflix way back when and I was disappointed that some content was not available to download for offline viewing. With torrenting I can watch content in a better quality, I don't have to worry about buffering, I don't have to worry about discs and menus, etc. All I really want is just the mkv file and that's it.

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be sure to set up a Plex/Jellyfin server so you can stream your content to your devices

[–] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I've heard about Plex, but Jellyfin is new to me. I'll check both of those out, thanks.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 7 points 1 year ago

I got to the point where I was downloading shows to put on Plex that I already had access to via a streaming service just to avoid using their app. I eventually decided to drop the service too.

[–] ObiGynKenobi@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check out torrentio + realdebrid. $3/month, no need for a VPN or local storage for all the torrents you used to download.

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

That's a sweet deal. I'll check it out, thanks.