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My approach now is to rotate. We keep Crave which has HBO and Showtime. We paused Disney and Netflix and will turn back on, watch for a few months to catch-up on Tiger Kings or Wandavision. You can cut a lot of your costs and not have to torrent. Just keeping the subscription going doesn’t seem to be good value.

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Wait till they make that loophole unpractical.

A lot of the big titans in the streaming biz are already whinging about account sharing[0], so I wouldn't be surprised if they start complaining that people aren't "committed" enough to their streams as well, too.

It'd be way easier to cut down on stream cycling than account sharing, too - just jack up the monthly price and make the annual price cheaper.

[0] which is particularly rich because they sell multi-stream plans that are almost practically built for it

Can easily imagine yearly subscription becoming $120 and monthly something like $29.

How?

For example by disallowing suspending the account more than once a year or completely. Another way, if someone is trying to cancel a second time (instead of suspending) they start security theater («Your behavior is suspicious, we need to make really really sure that it's you who want to cancel»).

I've been doing the same. Usually I stay 2-3 months in each before running out of stuff.

Unless you need to watch the viral stuff as soon as they are released and people start talking, this is more than fine.

So did we until the kids got old enough to have a say. Perhaps that is Disney’s thinking, they’ve got the kids roped in and exhausted parents willing to spend.

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