Adobe keeps trying to push their customers away, their customers keep staying. Weird.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/adobe-hikes-subscription-prices-to-support-generative-ai-features/

I don't want to be the evil villain in the room, but #GamePass is going to be as high as a new "AAA" game a month.

Why? The value proposition. You can play all games you want in a single month for the price of one great game, or have only one game forever.

Once #Xbox Game Pass stops growing, that's the growth alternative. Line must always go up.

#FTC #subscriptions #ConsumerProtection

'The Federal Trade Commission had voted in a rule that would make it easier to cancel subscription services, but the start of that rule has been pushed back until July 14. Initially, the regulation — called the Negative Option Rule — went into effect on January 19, but certain provisions weren’t set to kick in until May 14. These provisions would require companies to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up.'

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/it-might-be-a-while-longer-before-you-can-easily-cancel-subscriptions/

Nice move @trakt. $60/yr?! Guess it’s time to leave.

Grandfathering doesn’t mean anything now. Companies just want more and more.

"Amazon revokes the concept of owning books, can edit books you already bought; Piracy Is The Answer!"—Louis Rossmann >

https://youtu.be/XfcoUdWCB9M

I've created some 'Printable Journeys':

Petals & Pause
Balance Sheet for the Soul
Flawed Goddesses

These are 6 month subscriptions with a curated bundle of useful and inspring printables. I designed them to help me with the phase of life I'm in right now...needing a bit of a break...

https://printable-journeys.teachery.co/

It should not be difficult to unsubscribe!

FTC sues Uber over difficulty of canceling subscriptions, “false” claims

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/ftc-sues-uber-over-difficulty-of-canceling-subscriptions-false-claims/

Plex and Jellyfin are looking better and better each day.

Max implements $8 extra member charges on all subscription plans

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/max-implements-8-extra-member-charges-on-all-subscription-plans-195228707.html?src=rss

Worried you miss Easter? Subscribe to calendars quick & easy with Tuta Calendar's feature!

To add subscriptions:

1. Click on the + in your calendar
2. Select From URL
3. Enter the URL for a calendar subscription ICS file
4. Click Subscribe
5. Enjoy

Have you given it a try?

I have updated my Defaults and Subscriptions pages. So if you want to have a look, you can do so.

https://ner3y.me/defaults/
https://ner3y.me/subscriptions/

If you could only afford three streaming subscription services, what would they be?
#film #TV #streaming #subscriptions

Pick 3, and/ or reply with others. I just pulled these off the top of my head and can only list 4. I would have included Criterion if I could post more choices.

This is a multiple choice survey lasting a week through January 31. Please boost for a decent sample

Another quarter of profits!

Another price hike!

Netflix is raising prices again, as the standard plan goes up to $17.99

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/21/24348682/netflix-price-increase-earnings-q4-2024

This should help with generating too much eWaste and exploitation of mineral rich nations.

Apple Drops Plans for iPhone Hardware Subscription Service

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/18/apple-drops-iphone-subscription-service-plans/

Still finding it amusing that #BlueSky was all about being a better, "#decentralized" #SocialNetwork, where you could get away from the #enshittification and corporate bullshit that was making all #SocialMedia bad, but they aren't even decentralized, and don't have any sort of feature to move outside of their walled garden, and already are talking about #ads and #subscriptions.

Like, people have already bought domains for this, already built sign ups for those domains, already invested in the server infrastructure for hosting servers for what is basically someone else's social network, in anticipation of some sort of #Fediverse-like decentralization, something that has not been implemented beyond a box diagram as far as we know... And here we are, watching them implement ads and subscriptions, something which would be undermined by that, instead of just doing that.

At this point, I'm feeling pretty confident about my earlier assertions that "#BSky" might be Bullshit.

Why it just might get easier to get rid of subscriptions you no longer want:
https://theconversation.com/us-government-tries-to-rein-in-an-out-of-control-subscription-economy-242175
#netflix #amazon #subscriptions