you can also cancel individual services too. For example, I'm canceling Disney plus. I may turn on for a month or two next year to catch up on the new movies but I need to cancel it pretty quickly afterwards. I subscribed to Paramount plus to catch up on Star Trek. When the season is done, it goes away.

enough people do this, and then the streaming services will try to fix that by insisting on long-term contracts for short-term life for the content on the service. At which point, it is not worth subscribing.