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Re:I Think Subscriptions Are Over by noemit on Saturday September 21, 2024 @05:39PM (#41612844)
I'm willing to pay 50 cents per year for them to store it. That's already a 10x profit for them. But 10/month is a lot for virtually nothing?

Anyway, I ended up saving my stuff locally, closing my account and just not using their service. I found an alternative solution using a product I already pay for.

Re:I Think Subscriptions Are Over by bruce511 on Sunday September 22, 2024 @10:24AM (#41617287)
There you go. Good discernment.

If they're not offering you value then cancel the subscription.

But that doesn't mean the end of subscriptions. It means that services that don't offer sufficient value go away.

Re:I Think Subscriptions Are Over by palata on Sunday September 22, 2024 @05:05PM (#41620070)
But there are interesting situations, e.g. video on demand. When there was essentially only Netflix, everybody was fine paying a subscription. But now there are many different services with exclusive rights on some content, so people have to choose between paying multiple subscriptions, alternating between subscriptions, or going back to downloading content.

Meanwhile the VoD services get more expensive and add ads on top of subscriptions. Not sure if that model "works".