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The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices

arstechnica.com The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices

Op-ed: Apps promised to free us from ad-supported subscription bundles. Oops!

For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn't want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

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Do what i did and stop watching TV completely. I have watched maybe 10 hours of TV in the past 12 years.
- Some of the greatest television ever made is coming out these days. Fuck that. Just build a piracy machine. Yar.
  
  Yeah, i dont find tv to be worth my time. I always heard people talking about the hottest new thing and was like "meh" i dont care.
  
  Do you watch movies, or are those also a waste of time in your opinion?
  
  Very few. I can count the movies i have seen in the past decade on 1 hand.
- Cool story bro.
- I didn't quite completely quit, but there's lot of other things to do than watch TV.
- But…Ted Lasso…?!
  
  Who's Ted Lasso? Some sort of cowboy?
  
  Hm…Kind of… 🤔

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