Anonymous
08/10/2025 19:59
Subject: subscription for everything
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The software ones makes me so angry! Why am I paying monthly for Acrobat and Office when I hate both and never use stupid new features?
Came here to say this. I hate paying Microsoft for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. every year.
Yes because software never changes and magically requires nothing once it's released. No moron their are 10000s of devs and cloud admins keeping releases, patches and feature working. Software is never complete unless it's dead abandoned and no one uses it
Anonymous
08/10/2025 19:49
Subject: subscription for everything
Anonymous wrote:Because there's so much money to be made for with subscriptions. I only have HP ink subscription, but even that has given me more headache than necessary. Not the help I expected.
I also have only few bills like rent (all included), cellphone, internet bill, car insurance, and kid's health. They are all automated.
This is as clutter free as I can keep it.
Why do you have to automate, let's see here...five bills? Is paying five bills on time every month too difficult for you to accomplish?
Anonymous
08/10/2025 15:07
Subject: Re:subscription for everything
Anonymous wrote:yeah, the subscription business model is insanely profitable. People sign up and just keep paying, automatcially, via credit card and therefore we don't really feel how much it is costing us.
And worse they forgot about it. So sometimes the cost is so low like $9.99/month, people don't feel it.
Soon someone will come up with subscriptions for clothes, shoes. We will reach a point where we don't own anything, but rent from someone or a business in perpetuity
Anonymous
08/10/2025 12:52
Subject: subscription for everything
This is going to be a huge problem with the AI services. One the companies become reliant on it, the AI companies are going to raise prices until it costs basically as much or more than the employees the company replaced with it.
Anonymous
08/10/2025 07:57
Subject: Re:subscription for everything
Came here to say this. I hate paying Microsoft for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. every year.
So, don't. Buy the perpetual license or use alternative software.
Anonymous
08/09/2025 18:19
Subject: Re:subscription for everything
yeah, the subscription business model is insanely profitable. People sign up and just keep paying, automatcially, via credit card and therefore we don't really feel how much it is costing us.
Anonymous
08/09/2025 18:15
Subject: subscription for everything
I do not buy anything that requires a subscription (other than tv streaming services and gym). And, because I am annoying, I tell businesses when I am not signing up for this reason.
Anonymous
08/09/2025 18:12
Subject: subscription for everything
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why does it feel like absolutely everything now requires a subscription? We have a 2 year old Hydrawise for our garden. In our previous house, we had something similar from another company. Neither required a subscription - but now Hydrawise says I have to pay a subscription fee for the app. I just want an old system where it turned on the sprinklers in the morning at the same time - without having to shell out in perpetuity for the thing I have already bought.
My printer wants me to sign up for a printer ink subscription. My water filter for my refrigerator needs a subscription. My list of monthly subscriptions is just out of control. How do I stop this?
That’s how businesses secure recurring revenues. I would do the same if I was running a business.
How did businesses like this survive before?
Anonymous
08/09/2025 17:47
Subject: subscription for everything
Anonymous wrote:Why does it feel like absolutely everything now requires a subscription? We have a 2 year old Hydrawise for our garden. In our previous house, we had something similar from another company. Neither required a subscription - but now Hydrawise says I have to pay a subscription fee for the app. I just want an old system where it turned on the sprinklers in the morning at the same time - without having to shell out in perpetuity for the thing I have already bought.
My printer wants me to sign up for a printer ink subscription. My water filter for my refrigerator needs a subscription. My list of monthly subscriptions is just out of control. How do I stop this?
Stop buying/paying into the subscription scammers.
Remember the WEF slogan, "YOU WILL OWN NOTHING, YOU WILL RENT EVERYTHING, YOU WILL BE HAPPY".
The socialist powers that be even have come up with a plan for your clothing, where you cannot even own your own clothes. It's dystopian.
But all you have to do is refuse to play their game.
Anonymous
08/09/2025 14:16
Subject: subscription for everything
Anonymous wrote:Why does it feel like absolutely everything now requires a subscription? We have a 2 year old Hydrawise for our garden. In our previous house, we had something similar from another company. Neither required a subscription - but now Hydrawise says I have to pay a subscription fee for the app. I just want an old system where it turned on the sprinklers in the morning at the same time - without having to shell out in perpetuity for the thing I have already bought.
My printer wants me to sign up for a printer ink subscription. My water filter for my refrigerator needs a subscription. My list of monthly subscriptions is just out of control. How do I stop this?
That’s how businesses secure recurring revenues. I would do the same if I was running a business.
Anonymous
08/09/2025 13:48
Subject: Re:subscription for everything
We avoid subscriptions where possible. I use a prepaid mobile plan because I hate wireless providers the most. I have a treadmill and weight set that works fine and doesn't charge to my credit card every month. Your parents' and grandparents' grass was fine without a subscription for a hose. Basically companies want to charge monthly to your credit card and make it difficult for you to cancel. That is the business model. We work in federal government/federal government contracting. Jobs are hard to get and can disappear at any time. I have no interest in giving my money away to make someone else rich for something I don't need.
Anonymous
08/09/2025 13:41
Subject: subscription for everything
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The software ones makes me so angry! Why am I paying monthly for Acrobat and Office when I hate both and never use stupid new features?
Came here to say this. I hate paying Microsoft for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. every year.
What? I bought it once a few years ago, but don’t have a subscription. I mostly use Google Docs, but just used Word last week with no prob.
Anonymous
08/09/2025 13:40
Subject: subscription for everything
Anonymous wrote:Well to MAGA economics not only will it require subscriptions privatization of everything will be here in 5,4,3,2,11...
Weather subscriptions coming our way.
Anonymous
08/09/2025 13:35
Subject: subscription for everything
Anonymous wrote:The software ones makes me so angry! Why am I paying monthly for Acrobat and Office when I hate both and never use stupid new features?
Came here to say this. I hate paying Microsoft for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. every year.
Anonymous
08/09/2025 13:31
Subject: subscription for everything
The software ones makes me so angry! Why am I paying monthly for Acrobat and Office when I hate both and never use stupid new features?