As always pirates are unaffected by this new flavor of bullshit.

Why tf did Trump reverse this

>>212735134 (OP)
At the end of the day all this means is it's 3-5 clicks instead of 1 but yeah, you should really considering pirating more of the content you watch at this point since all content providers, be it film, tv, music, gaming or porn, seem determined to let their customers know they absolutely hate them.

>>212735147
because he doesn't give a fuck about you.
someone greased his palm and now he's giving them a handy. welcome to politics, dumbass

>>212735134 (OP)
Honestly, you deserve it if you're still paying for those shitty services.

>>212735147
Are you rich? No? Then he doesnt give a fuck about you.

>>212735173
Streaming services will make sure to turn it into a maze where you have to call in and verify your identity with ID and an electricity bill, and it will all be automated by AI that will reject your request to cancel.

Everything to keep you on their subscriptions.

>>212735134 (OP)
>As always pirates are unaffected by this new flavor of bullshit.

>>212735147
as with anything Trump decides to do or not do, someone paid for it.
if you don't have the money to bribe with you shouldnt have voted for a grifter.

>>212735147
He didn't fucking lib judges did

>>212735243
Can't stop me from linking payments to a dead credit card.

>>212735134 (OP)
>more complex procedures
is this an american thing? go into your account, cancel subscription, removed saved credit card data. that's it. they'll pester you with promos for couple of months and then you block them.

>>212735376
It's just putting it behind a few extra steps so the average boomer can't navigate their way to the cancel subscription screen and gives up through frustration.

>>212735147
Canceling useless subscriptions is antisemitic

>>212735324
>federal court under Trump admin
>liberal judges

>>212735376
You're really naive if you think they can't make it extremely hard to find and turn the process into something long and tedious especially for the average user

>>212735147
The current head of the FTC is a former lobbyist.

>>212735147
Because it could hurt company profits.

>>212735607
Swamp status?

>>212735376
What they'll end up doing is make something like 10 screens/popups trying to convince you to stay subscribed offering promos and whatnot. They'll change the procedure on cancelation every few weeks so if you look up a guide on "how to cancel" it'll be outdated quickly so you're stuck fiddling with finding the cancel button yourself.
Amazon already does this with canceling prime subscriptions.

>>212735571
Yep

>>212735376
> removed saved credit card data
if I was designing a system to be intentionally annoying, I wouldn’t allow a user to change a credit card unless they added a new, valid credit card

bonus points if you force the user o “confirm” the new payment method by drawing a couple of cents and then asking how much you charged

>>212735147
He really really really wants you to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein and that flight list conspiracy

>>212735147
When will they learn

They can just force you to speak to an agent before being allowed to cancel. GoDaddy have been doing that for years when you want to move your domain elsewhere. Total ball ache. Fucking cunts.

>>212735134 (OP)
Because you fell for it again.

>>212735134 (OP)
I had to send an email to cancel Regal Unlimited. Would be better if it was simpler but it wasn't too much of a thing

>>212735147
>Why does a republican make policy decisions to favour corporations over consumers?!?

It’s a mystery

>>212735717
Said agent can also keep you on the phone begging you to stay and if they detect you getting frustrated they can threaten to hang up the call. They can also do the transfer roulette and "accidentally" drop the call.

>>212735134 (OP)
The minute these streaming services started pulling or editing movies because they were "problematic" was the minute I refused to give them a cent.
NAS + Jellyfin all day baby.

>>212735147
Trumpxirs be like “Wtf why did Trump pass the I’m Going To Anally Rape You Bill i thought he was only going to anally rape the blacks and browns”

>>212735147

lol this is great. hope they make it near-impossible.

>>212735134 (OP)
I have no sympathy for pay pigs. Every time they bend over these streaming services never miss a chance to fuck them in the ass and they just continue to do the same thing over and over again.

>>212735268
>he was PAID to want to deport illegal aliens

>>212736691
Keeps his zealot fans docile to all the other shit he's pulling. Politics baybee

>>212735134 (OP)
>dial number to credit card company
>"Uhh yeah I'd like to block all charges from Netflix and Amazon....cool, thank you"
>hang up
If they both want to make it hard it simply becomes that easy

>>212737385
how long until doing that becomes illegal?

>>212735147
Stop the fucking antisemitism, fucking libtard.

>>212735134 (OP)
hhahahahaha That would be one of the biggest stupid things they could do. It would simply force everyone to cancel their subscriptions before this shit starts. The streaming companies would go bankrupt.

>>212737711
mate it's already been nullified, they can immediately push this change tomorrow if they want

>>212735134 (OP)
you vill pay for ze compulsory subscription unt you vill be heppy

>>212735656

You surely cannot be this stupid...

Woah. Big happening. Just like the Net Neutrality repeal, kek. Right, anons? That one was major. So much changed.

>>212735147
has the orange grifter done anything to benefit regular joe consumers?
Even Biden was more man of the people then zion don

>>212735134 (OP)
No it won't. I'll still cancel my services, and if that doesn't work then I'll stop paying it and change my credit card. What are you going to do about it?

>>212739017
Well inflation has massively slowed, other countries now pay us way more to trade goods (which is how it always used to be), we have better industrial growth and infrastructure, more jobs open, and cheaper gas. Oh, and he deported all the Took-Er-Jobs

>>212735134 (OP)
Doesn't concern me>>212735134 (OP)

>>212739017
Don't mention Biden and Zion in the same sentence unless you want the clip posted. Learn your lesson, next time.
https://youtu.be/dbn4i7_CFIM?si=YxQ5q1_rxLQTcT-G
https://youtu.be/DDR-tWM2zzU?si=uXjXuXx0YE_OHavG
https://youtu.be/Uo-UXZ-1ups?si=XKvkAn4n8umtSDto
https://youtu.be/DZgNBXIZ-OU?si=5ygHGq2s9OBGC-k3

>>212735147
Because:
>(((Trump)))

>>212735677
>if I was designing a system to be intentionally annoying, I wouldn’t allow a user to change a credit card unless they added a new, valid credit card
Call up credit card company
"I need a new card"
Bye

>>212735147
Cancelling your goyfee is antisemitism and proterrorism

>>212735134 (OP)
If they won't cancel it then watch it for free while doing charge backs with your bank or CC.

>>212735134 (OP)
Wha? But.. Wait a minute, I’ve never subscribed!

>>212735173
apparently for a few years you had to mail a letter to your local Planet Fitness saying you'd like to cancel your subscription and there was quite literally no way to do it on the website or calling etc. The policy was you had to mail a letter to your home gym.

>>212735758
replace republican with american politician
>imagine believing there's a difference between the two parties

>>212735134 (OP)
It's not that big of a deal for streaming services but this would have been really great against extremely predatory stuff like gym memberships.

>>212735376
I once used some streaming service which offered some free time and of course I wanted to cancel before it started billing me. You had to call them and it took like 20 minutes in total of waiting and canceling. I don't use any subscription service anymore except maybe the netflix my dad has with 2 screens. Making it harder just makes sure you won't subscribe ever again, very retarded move by the streaming services.
t. Swedistani

>>212735147
>Why tf did Trump reverse this
he's a business man
he understands what business is
he's all about winners
no time for losers
be aligning myself with him means im good at business and am a winner too

>>212739297
That would work or course but fuck is it annoying. So I have to replace my credit card every time I want to cancel a service now? I get that's worst case scenario, slippery slope fallacy type stuff but jesus

>>212735147
Lobbying
This isnt exclusive to Trump
Lobbying is just "corruption but legal"

>>212735134 (OP)
>harder to cancel streaming subscriptions
based this is what i voted for!

>10 dollar VPN
>Literally every single game, movie, and TV show I want for free
>It takes like 5 minutes after airtime for episodes to get uploaded

I dont know about america but in europe you have a right to refuse subscriptions like this and to force options like this against consent is against the law.

>>212740310
in amerikkka we like freedom for the rich only

I only use ESPN and Spotify. Stopped streaming TV/Film a year ago now. Just started collecting physical media again. Not even to have a collection, it's just psychologically more beneficial. You have to commit to buying one (1) thing and it makea you want to watch and engage with it, versus "Netflix and chill (on your phone)".
Streaming random sports games fills the gap while I wait for my moobies to arrive at my door.
>mfw listening to Santana, about to watch Fargo S1 in a few days, and the 2025-26 seasons for the Big Five start in a month

>>212735147
Trump as always has only cared about the rich

>>212737385
They will send you an invoice, if you don't pay the IRS will be involved.

>>212740347
Freedom is Financial. You would have money if your family understood generational wealth, but they didn't, so you don't, and instead of dedicating yourself to improving not just yourself and your successor's futures, you're shitposting that kikes stole your money.
Jew jokes are funny as fuck, but the reality is as greedy as they are, they're not stupid.
So they'll always win. They don't even have to try. Because you ane yours never even showed up to the fight. Coward.

>>212740444
you fucked up, you could have made a fair society, france shall commence again

>>212740413
>the IRS will be involved
I highly doubt that

>>212735198
They are the only services to carry particular shows, try not leaching off of everyone else idiot.

>>212738956
>>212735571
hey retard, federal judges are appointed for life they aren't changed with each admin. Only 4 of the 12 judges in the eight circuit were appointed by Trump back in his first term.

>>212737385
But doing that would murder your credit score, right?

>>212735353
This is the first thing they do even before giving you your subscription though. They take some cents and give them back to make sure it's not dead.

>>212735243
Man I hope they don't start doing that thing Sky do here in europe where you have to call them up to cancel and if you cancel they say "hold up, we can do you a special offer!", so it was an open secret that you do this to get better rates, basically "haggle" for your subscription. That is the absolute worst thing, mind fuckery, I don't know if they still do this but probably.

>>212740826
No wtf? You're not in a contract and you don't have a loan so it won't do anything for your credit. It's the same thing as your card getting declined. These services don't ask for payment after the services were rendered but before, meaning you won't have a situation where you got a month of service and decided to not pay so they report it to the credit agencies as debt.

I do the same thing as >>212737385
, if I have to spend more than 2 brain cells to cancel service, I just block the payment through the card, fuck them.

I use Privacy for online stuff though, lets me create a separate virtual credit card for every site and I can set it to "one time use" or just set a max monthly allowance so even if their shitty website gets hacked and they get all the cc info my money is safe.

Just the other day I wanted to cancel a gym subscription but I had my membership through this work program thing and that website was so ass I could not find the fucking cancel button so I just deleted the privacy card I had for that website and voila, cancellation complete.

>>212735134 (OP)
Just buy the app anons.

>>212735173
>At the end of the day all this means is it's 3-5 clicks instead of 1

The gold standard of making cancellation a chore is to require a phone call to some call center in india where you spend 45min on hold and then get cross examined about why you are cancelling along with offers for other services. The whole experience will turn you into a pirate.

>>212741034
Never get how apps like this work. htt does it know what you sub to?
Do you give access to read all your bank accounts?

>>212735147
Imagine living through trumps first term and still asking this

>>212735173
I tried to get a "good citizen" but the amount of bullshit the corporations make you jump through just isn't worth it

>>212735134 (OP)
The holocaust was really really really bad btw

>>212741780
they are so unbelievably stupid, it would be funny if we weren't living on the same planet as them.

>>212735376
You're obviously young. I remember when you had to call Microsoft by phone to cancel XBOX Live subscription back in the 360 days before these laws were put into place.

>>212735571
Biden and Obama nominated most current sitting Federal judges. Trump's main contribution to the federal judiciary is the remarkable timing of three Supreme Court justices.

>>212735134 (OP)
That's what you get for throwing your cc# around all willy-nilly. Next, they should have a subscription fee for food delivery services.

>>212741780
His first term wasn't that blatant though. The thing that really sealed the deal was operation warpspeed

>>212735717
god damn imagine if they implemented this again? Zoomers can’t even call to order a pizza on the phone. They’d probably just keep the subs forever

>>212735717
>>212742187
comcast was the worst, literally a three hour phone call to cancel

>>212735147
I've got a special award for you, anon...

>>212735134 (OP)
Just don't be a fucking illiterate retard and there's no problem.

>>212741974
>remarkable timing
Yeah like when republicans left a seat open for an entire year so Obama couldnt fill it

>>212742343
nah they deliberately make it convoluted and difficult. I had to search how to delete my instagram page and it was ridiculously buried under 3 or 4 seemingly unrelated menus

>>212735134 (OP)
I finally ditched shudder after literal years of paying them without realizing it. I think I watched one movie. I figure this pays for my next year of piracy.

Can't you just stop paying them? Then they'll cancel it for you.

>>212744305
Probably don't allow you to outright delete your credit card info. Probably only allow you to change to a valid alternate credit card.
At least that's how a lot of subscription based platforms do it. Force you to jump through the hoops to cancel your subscription.

>>212735268
Trump has nothing to with the courts. If you haven’t noticed outside SCOTUS they’ve been going after him. He’s got like 200 lawsuits

>>212744723
Still not impeached. How can one man be so based.

>>212735376
I work for a company that isn't a streaming service but has a similar monthly subscription that was supposed to be hit by the same FTC shit.
I signed up for one month to save some money and see what exactly I'm charging people for, and canceling fucking sucked. No way to do it online, had to call the customer service number then menu dive and wait on hold for half an hour before getting an Indian woman on the phone who spent 15 solid minutes trying to convince me to not cancel and refusing to take 'no' for an answer.
They absolutely can and will make it fucking suck to cancel.

>>212740778
Can confirm this is true, my grandfather has been clinically braindead for years but we keep his heart pumping on life support in order to keep cashing those federal judge cheques.

>>212735134 (OP)
>USA

I've heard about cancelling stuff like gym memberships being harder over there, but I'm having a hard time imagining how they go about it. Is it like you have to call at specific hours to cancel or something? Or that when you subscribe you have to maintain membership for at least a full year? Or have some documents on you?

Over here it's never taken more than a minute to cancel anything.

>>212740941
phone service providers do that in over here in France too, but it's become so well known that a lot of people just do that cancel maneuver every year to get a better price. My brother's gf got us a family plan with unlimited GBs for 5 eu a piece doing that.

>>212740853
Block all charges from said subscription service and failing that cancel your card.

>>212745637
Usually things like having to call the customer support number during business hours or, in some really shitty cases, requiring a physical form to be filled out and either mailed in or even handed off in-person at a very specific location. Planet Fitness is notorious for doing the latter, where even though they're a national chain, the only way you can cancel is to fill out the cancelation form and submit it in-person at the gym where you originally signed up.

>>212735134 (OP)
My credit card lets me just block subscriptions whenever I want.

>>212735134 (OP)
>blocks your subscription charges though my credit card
Heh nothin personnel kid

>>212735173
I buy old movies on blu-ray because I'm not opposed to spending moderate amounts of money on things I think are actually good. But I want the money to be targeted. I want them to see that I wanted this exact thing, and not just nebulous buffet of things I both like and hate

>>212735147
>Why tf did Trump reverse this
Did he?

>>212746110
damn that sucks, closest I've had is my cancellation form getting lost for my climbing gym during covid, but they gave me the year for free since it was their fault.

>>212735134 (OP)
Just don't pay it.

>>212735147
>something happens during the biden years
>UHM ACKSHUALLY it's wasn't good grampa joe it was the senate/the governors/the mayor/the republicans/the whites/the men/drumf
>something happens during the trump years
>how could the evil orange man do this????

>>212747319
>go into serious debt on all credit cards

Fuck you Netflix, how you gonna charge me now!

>>212735134 (OP)
A small price to pay for resisting capitalism and big cable

>>212735717
Netflix and Amazon don't have "agents", what a retarded OP image. This only affects ISPs and shit like that.

>>212735376
If it’s like my old gym they will make you call them, get something in writing, then show up in person but oh wait this gym doesn’t handle cancellations you have to go to one that does. The closest one is 500 miles away, oops! I’m not even joking this is the actual process they wanted me to complete.

>>212735134 (OP)
Thanks, but I pirate everything anyway.