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- technology@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/28397398
The suspension triggered strong responses across social media and beyond. Hashtags like #CancelDisneyPlus and #CancelHulu trended as users shared screenshots of their canceled subscriptions.
With cancellations surging, many subscribers reported technical issues. On Reddit’s r/Fauxmoi, one post read, “The page to cancel your Hulu/Disney+ subscription keeps crashing.”
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crashes
Maybe, but could it also be an intentional dark pattern to make it difficult to cancel?
They use AWS and specifically design their software to be able to dynamically scale, ever since Wandavision crashed their playback.
Is it possible that they never entertained having to make their cancellation page scalable? Sure. Is it more likely that they intentionally haven’t made it scalable? Yes.
even if that is the case it’s a good sign imo. it means people were causing an impact big enough for them to notice and take action.
It’s amazing to think that people were fooled into thinking a greedy litagatious mega global corporate conglomerate like Disney was actually progressive in the first place instead of just following market trends for maximum shareholder profit.
Anytime I want to cancel something and the company makes it difficult I just cancel the credit card side of it. Sod them. That’s what they get if they want to play silly buggers.
Unlikely. I was trying to contact support and that was completely broken also. Unlikely if they were just trying to make cancellation harder. Likely if they were overloaded.
But overloaded by design?
There’s a huge public rush to cancel their services. It’s probably just overloaded by reality.
I canceled mine and am now sending that money as a monthly contribution to Palestinian aid.
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Yep, most people don’t care
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I thought you guys want megacorp to fail?
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The only way to get any resemblance of that is through govt. regulation. Since that’s impossible with the current levels of wealth inequality and moral bankruptcy, them failing is for the best! That and the noggin removal of the highest earners.
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You think the global economy is going to collapse because Disney collapses? They make a lot of money as a corporation but that’s not important because they don’t pay any taxes.
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Sad that all we can do to prevent literal fascism is unsubscribing from a streaming service
Call me a cynic, but engineering some rate limit on a cancellation page suits them rather well
Yeah it’s not like services make the cancellation process super difficult. It’s like mafia style extortion. They make this type of stuff so difficult, I like to waste their time too, and make sure it involves wasting so many of their employees time, which they have to pay for.
Remember to no only tell your friends but also keep the boycott going even if they bring back Kimmel’s show.
Per Deadline:
Still, according to another well-placed source, while some senior staff are expressing disappointment in how it all went down, “it is in no way widespread”.
They have not learned a single lesson here, keep boycotting and I’ll be willing to help with anyone who’d like to get a docker based media server going so you can protest while still watching the content that the creative people stuck contractually at Disney are making.
“crashes”
“Crashes”? How convenient.
The cancellation page specifically. Everything else is fine.
What Kimmel has to do with Disney+?
Kimmel is selling his show to abc which is owned by Disney
Please tell your friends about free streaming sites: https://hydrahd.io/
We need to work together to change this culture.
https://fmhy.pages.dev/ just link them here instead.
I use https://www.bestfreestreaming.org/
It updates the links regularly in case one goes down.
I don’t see https://lookmovie2.to/ there. That’s another one.
Torrent, thank me later.
StremIo is the move
Let me check out!
AH nah… I still need to pay for subscriptions here.
No subscription required for stremio
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crashing, or DISNEY+ trying to stem the cancellation, until they can reorient thier positions.
Or they crashed it when they saw how many were trying to quit
Nah, cancellation resources are always minimal. Doesn’t make sense to pay for serious hardware to please people on their way out the door. Every service I’ve ever had to cancel has always been a maze and generally more annoying, slow, and cumbersome than the signup process.
Yeah well when the laws regarding this allow mass psychological manipulation for profits then it’s on the countries for enabling the greediest pieces of shits to do this.
Edit:Antilaw suits everywhere but Mark Zuckerberg creating an entire algorithm dictating your view on Instagram and Facebook is completely fine using psychology to manipulate everyone.
