How Subscriptions RUINED the Internet (and everything else)

'Life leaves me no choice, I gently open the door'

A subscription or a fucking app you need for a thing to work, so damn annoying. I personally pay for youtube at the moment and for netflix (together with my sister as a joint account). It’s enough and I honestly refuse to pay for more stuff. I still buy paper books and magazines and CD’s and will continue to

I'm sorry, but if you don't have the moral fortitude or stamina to click through to the cancellation screen, you deserve to be charged a monthly fee.

Would you pay $7,000.24 for a lifetime standard with ads Netflix subscription? Or $21,901.24 for a premium one? Hell no. While subscriptions are consistent income for a company, they’re quite expensive for the customer, and many don’t realize.

Fuck no, I am pirating.

DC++ was the glory days of filesharing

3:30 On average it iakes 6.7 clicks to get from a homepage to cancellation

People are getting so fed up of subscriptions that I predict the whole model is going to crash and burn. People currently pirate, find alternatives or do without. Companies will have to start making good quality items that people can buy and own in order to become relevant again.

I mean… I’ll use the example of news outlets. It used to be “free”because they made money by selling newspapers or magazines, but as soon as online access obliterated that revenue outlet, how the hell are they gonna pay journalists and staff without a paywall?

The biggest subscription scam that no one seems to talk about is property tax. When you pay your house off, that should be it. You should own it. End of story. But you don’t, you have to continue to pay the tax on it and if you don’t the government can literally take your house. Even though you paid for it. Yup, just like that… take the house. And every year property tax goes up and up and up so like people who have no mortgage pretty much end up with a mortgage sized payment anyway.

its crazy theres a literal website where you can put like tasks like messages well you have to pay for it you can t protect yout self because you need to pay for an anti virus or use an anti virus who steals your data and shoves ads in your corner without consent you can t even teach a random leaguage without paying subscription

it's hilarious you bring up furniture rental as a potentially good and sustainable model... when as an elder millennial I'm old enough to reemmber what a massive scam that exact industry was in the 90s and 00s

Gotta love that adorable Gen Z optimism.
As a Gen X'er I've watched it unfold before my eyes, and I can't say I agree. The system is rigged.

Don’t have subscriptions, very happy I have left those alone

No a subscription itself BUT think about the new tools with batteries….
They’re making corded tools less available so the only option you have is buying these tools with batteries that will eventually die and you need a new one.. a new battery could cost up to 200 to 250 dollars… it’s insane!

the very idea of paying a monthly subscription, to activate something that is already present in what you are already paying for, is just hideous... if I bought a car that has heated seats, well I expect to be able to use the heated seats...

Imagine you can only use your pen and your pencil for $10/month. Or maybe you have to use a layer of tissue for $3/layers.

You don't need any Microsoft subscription, RING subscription? get another system. Adobe? Come on, only people with very specific jobs use it, Spotify? there is a free tier or you could buy your music like a normal person. ALL movies and series subscription? you will never have time to watch it all, sign one or two at best. HP? What is this, everyone now needs a printer at home? No, subscription is not ruining your live, being stupid and subscribing everything you see in your front is.

One of the things that makes me the most mad is subscribing to Spotify premium and the podcasters are allowed to play ads. It literally defeats the entire point.

They even paywalled radio play by play for listening to live sports 😅😂 out of market

We gonna have subscriptions or you wouldn't be allowed to buy food soon. Watch.

Those Pirate Bay glory days still exist. Pirate Bay is booming and I still download my movies if they are not on netflix. For music I buy physical CDs used from ebay and discogs.

I don't think the subscription based business model is a bad thing when its implemented on the right products or services. For example, subscribing to a content creator or something like Spotify is okay in my book because im paying for more content and ad free music. However, paying for a $15 subscription for a mobile game for no ads is just ridiculous, and for mechanical features that are already in the car is crazy.

7:18 The way I would jailbreak my car so quickly lmao... my god these people are greed af.

3:20 just tell your bank you no longer want to allow payments to this company. Then they can no longer collect. Gyms are notorious for this.

Pirating is becoming more popular again... and I'm here for it. Companies need to be reminded they are a luxury not a necessity. The consumer needs to be put first, not profit.

Piracy never died I'm still getting all my stuff for free from the Internet. I only pay my Internet subscription. No cable tv either!

Levi says the internet of his youth had very little advertising when it was the era of popup ads that you can't close out.

I'm just about ready to quit YouTube all together because I'm completely sick of the ad experience these days. Like, it used to be tolerable but now not so much.

I'm GenX and don't do subscriptions. I won't buy a HP printer because of subscription BS.

What worries me is that subscriptions to crap will be impossible to avoid in the future because every single company will do it so there will be no alternatives. And it'll be past my lifetime before the swings and roundabouts mean some company will be willing to buck the trend and cut out the subscriptions to whatever, and everyone will flock to this company doing such a new and refreshing thing.

I mean was anybody surprised? We live in a society rampant, uncontrolled capitalism. If they can get away with more money for less services, they will.

Came back from the future, Microsoft paint charges 129.99 devalued dollars to unlock the save feature on Microsoft paint but if you upgrade to pro you unlock "save as"

that company has great shavers tho frfr hot girl summer ready

That's why I dug out my old DVD player, bought a turntable, started buying DVDs and vinyl again, stopped buying e-books on Kindle, preferring good old paper books that have been around for millennia, and I'll keep repairing my '84 Daihatsu 4x4 Rocky until it kicks the bucket. And, no, I wasn't born in the '60s or '70s: I was born in 2003. I simply like being in control of what I buy.

Subscriptions are for brainless people. I am a millennial and I have a total of zero subscriptions on all of the internet. Never had a single one. Anyone can find anything for free, that's what the internet was always all about. It's just that there are always clueless people that are gullible enough to be suckered into paying for just about anything. Guess they deserve being robbed of their hard-earned cash. I call it natural selection. BTW I also see zero ads on any website, including YT, so it's not like I'm paying with my attention for anything, quite the opposite. I have MUCH better things to spend my time, attention and money on than stuff that's easy to find for free LOL But each to their own. Whatever rocks your boat.

Oh and I also do not drive. Obviously. Driving is for people that have a mind that is accustomed to following (painted lines) and obeying (colored lights). That's definitely not me LOL. I'm not getting ripped off by vehicle taxes and scammed into buying "insurances". TV licence is the biggest scam of them all. Believe it or not, there are still people out there that pay it! Get it? Paying to get brainwashed by propaganda? LOL the irony! The funniest part is that people do all of these things willingly. It's not like the government is making you buy a car or a TV set.

I could go on and on an on. It's a lot of fun, watching how so many mindless zombies are living their lives, their minds literally plugged into the Matrix. Scrap that, they're WELDED into the system. They couldn't get free if you showed them the way. The companies that are scamming them are no better. At least I make my money offering what you cannot get for free and I create lasting value while doing so. I enhance people's lives in a meaningful way. Amen.

I don’t have any other apps other than YouTube it literally can do everything and I don’t have to get the subscription

Getting an ad about subrscribing to a service in the middle of this video was ironic and also very saddening

I've never subscribed to any streaming service and never will!

Also, subscriptions associated with cars will only become a thing if consumers allow it, if we reject these cars, manufacturers will be forced to make them without annoying subscription-only features!

The solution is simple: do NOT buy subscriptions.
If we all stop buying subscriptions then companies will sell us full products. Because they will see that people will not buy subscription services and if no one buys subscriptions no one will sell subscriptions.
As simple as that.

I only have 2 pureflix for the year and Spotify

There's an app I loved that told me every recurring charge and I cut over a dozen subscriptions/ monthly purchases. I'm now down to 3 recurring payments I think are worth it and must be saving thousands/ year now. No more streaming (unless it's for 1 month just to see a show when the season ends), no more door dash even tho I was down to ordering pick up. Game changing