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Oh fuck off with this. Don't victimize cable companies. They charged an insane amount and offered no innovation. $100+ a month for live TV that had more commercials than actual content is still a shit deal.
Streaming was great until everyone decided they wanted a piece of it. Fragmentation of the market drove enshitification.
They aren’t victimizing them, they are saying streaming companies are turning into them
Stream is still way better than old TV, specifically streaming from your local jellyfin or Plex server ;)
This is the way.
Fragmentation is certainly accelerating things. One company tries something like price hikes, ad tiers, password sharing prevention, bundling, etc and sees no consumer pushback, then they all do it.
I don't think the OP is victimizing cable. They are just saying that these companies swooped in with something better that was cheaper to disrupt the industry only to end up rebuilding said shitty industry. Different players, same game.