Why Subscriptions Make Everything More Expensive
#Subscription services exist for nearly everything consumers buy. Many, like #Netflix or #Spotify, start out affordable, but the cost adds up over time. And while signing up is effortless, cancelling can be difficult.
Companies such as #Adobe and #Amazon have even been accused by the Federal Trade Commission of using dark patterns to trap consumers in subscriptions.
Another example of. . . enshittification?
@stux More money can be made from you if you have to rent and can never own. We鈥檝e been increasingly skewing to rentier capitalism over the last few decades, which is one of the many reasons things are turning to crap.
I host my own movies and tv shows with self-hosted Emby
https://emby.media or https://jellyfin.org
Music I self-host with Koel including mobile app!
https://github.com/koel/koel
