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Streaming giants have banded together for lobbying power (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] bobman@unilem.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but tbf they kinda had to with the inflation.

So, they used inflation as an excuse to charge people more money for an already-profitable product?

Wow.

[โ€“] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Corporations keep talking about inflation as if the regular users aren't already being screwed by it. "Here, since you have less disposable money, lets charge even more."