I'm starting to think the NFL really hates their viewers. It's quite expensive and challenging to watch every game a single NFL team plays in a season.

The local games are all broadcast over the air, even the ones that are shown on the pay services. (I live in Philadelphia, and I watch all the Eagles games with a TV and an antenna.) However, if you're a fan of an out-of-market team, it may be a pain to see all their games, as you say.

> it may be a pain to pay to see all their games

FTFY. It's never been easier.

> I don't see any companies that despise their users quite like <snip> Disney.

I don’t get this take. Disney spends billions of dollars to make movies and TV shows that I and my family want to watch. I pay them $8/mo, and I get to watch all of them, whenever I want.

How is that a bad thing?

Oh boy, where to start? Screwing up copyright and preventing things from going public domain when they were supposed to for generations? Suing little girls over their fan websites?

Or back in the 80s to early 90s, pricing their movies' VHS tapes at $89.95 (about $234 adjusted for inflation) while also refusing to ever allow the movies to be shown on TV (because people might record them), thus ensuring that poor kids missed out on all the Disney classics?

Admittedly, that last one is not a really strong argument - a company should be free to price stuff however they want. However, if you were one of the kids that couldn't afford Disney movies, it left a lasting impression.

Maybe their streaming service is ok, but the company that owns it has a well-deserved reputation for being evil.

After an update, my tv got unavoidable disney ads on its home page. I had to downgrade it and disable updates. And I dont even have Disney app is installed. I consider them to be pretty evil

Sounds like you made the mistake of enabling your TV to gain access to a network. There's dozens of articles that spell out why that's a horrible idea, your experience is one of those reasons.

Never allow a television access to your network, you get a dedicated device to do the streaming/airplay/chromecast features and that's it.

The fact that connecting your TV to the network is a mistake is just more proof of current dystopian trends.

You're not wrong but that's the world we find ourselves in. No idea why my comment got down voted considering anyone in the tech industry knows that TVs don't belong on networks.