Subscription services are not worth it, period. Phone and internet bills are all you need to get everything you want at the best possible qualities in the best possible formats. Subscription services are only convenient for the lazy who don’t know how to use the internet.
There’s plenty of games you can just buy and not pay a subscription to. Hell, any game with a subscription is usually impossible to pirate, due to being server based.
Movies and TV shows almost invariably do require a subscription these days, though, unless you take to the seven seas.
Davinci Resolve (the basic version is free, premium is a one-time payment) + the Affinity suite (one-time payment) is a good alternative, unless you are specifically required to use Adobe apps.
Mostly, yeah. Between the telecom monopoly in Canada and 95% of movies games tv shows and music made after 2010 not interesting me in the slightest, I don’t feel like I’m missing out at all. The rare new game or bandcamp track I enjoy I have no problem paying a one time fee for. I’m not heartless or a thief but yeah… I learned very young how to get everything for free and it’s too easy to pass up.
I hate it when mobile apps are advertised as free only to reveal that you need a subscription to use them. Not everything needs to be subscription based. I miss actually owning software.
I agree 100%. Subscription services have ruined plenty of good software, among other things. I don’t know how people can stand the feeling of not owning anything, just basically renting them and being at the mercy of the corporation that owns them.
Though this may be true for movies and shows, for games there’s basically only one Denuvo cracker in the scene now, which means releases are slow and by (paid) request.
As Tom and many comments in that thread point out, there are valid use cases for VPNs. If you want to obfuscate your traffic just enough to avoid copyright notices when torrenting, or to access a streaming service in another jurisdiction, then a VPN is the right tool for the job. Just don’t expect it to meaningfully protect your privacy in any way.
Subscription services are not worth it, period. Phone and internet bills are all you need to get everything you want at the best possible qualities in the best possible formats. Subscription services are only convenient for the lazy who don’t know how to use the internet.
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There’s plenty of games you can just buy and not pay a subscription to. Hell, any game with a subscription is usually impossible to pirate, due to being server based.
Movies and TV shows almost invariably do require a subscription these days, though, unless you take to the seven seas.
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I wish adobe didn’t have subscription.
Davinci Resolve (the basic version is free, premium is a one-time payment) + the Affinity suite (one-time payment) is a good alternative, unless you are specifically required to use Adobe apps.
Mostly, yeah. Between the telecom monopoly in Canada and 95% of movies games tv shows and music made after 2010 not interesting me in the slightest, I don’t feel like I’m missing out at all. The rare new game or bandcamp track I enjoy I have no problem paying a one time fee for. I’m not heartless or a thief but yeah… I learned very young how to get everything for free and it’s too easy to pass up.
I hate it when mobile apps are advertised as free only to reveal that you need a subscription to use them. Not everything needs to be subscription based. I miss actually owning software.
Free to install - Sub to use
I agree 100%. Subscription services have ruined plenty of good software, among other things. I don’t know how people can stand the feeling of not owning anything, just basically renting them and being at the mercy of the corporation that owns them.
Though this may be true for movies and shows, for games there’s basically only one Denuvo cracker in the scene now, which means releases are slow and by (paid) request.
I subscribe to a VPN though
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As Tom and many comments in that thread point out, there are valid use cases for VPNs. If you want to obfuscate your traffic just enough to avoid copyright notices when torrenting, or to access a streaming service in another jurisdiction, then a VPN is the right tool for the job. Just don’t expect it to meaningfully protect your privacy in any way.