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Fuck Subscriptions

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Naming and shaming all "recurring spending models" where a one-time fee (or none at all) would be appropriate and logical.

Expect use of strong language.

Follow the basic rules of lemmy.world and common sense, and try to have fun if possible.

No flamewars or attacking other users, unless they're spineless corporate shills.

Note that not all subscriptions are awful. Supporting your favorite ~~camgirl~~ creator or Lemmy server on Patreon is fine. An airbag with subscription is irl Idiocracy-level dystopian bullshit.

New community rule: Shilling for cunty corporations, their subscriptions and other anti-customer practices may result in a 1-day ban. It's so you can think about what it's like when someone can randomly decide what you can and can't use, based on some arbitrary rules. Oh what, you didn't read this fine print? You should read what you're agreeing to.

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Some other groovy communities for those who wish to own their products, their data and their life:

Right to Repair/Ownership

Hedges Development

Privacy

Privacy Guides

DeGoogle Yourself

F-Droid

Stallman Was Right

Some other useful links:

FreeMediaHeckYeah

Louis Rossman's YouTube channel

Look at content hosted at Big Tech without most of the nonsense:

Piped

Invidious

Nitter

Teddit

 

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Providing a substantially inferior outcome to someone with an ADA need absolutely violates ADA rules.

When stuff like this has gone to court it hasn't been pretty for the offending organization.

There's a bigger question about how much of what Spotify currently provides falls under ADA. Web services used to get a free pass. They largely don't anymore.

Source: some of this stuff is my problem, professionally. And no, I'm not going to look up a primary source for anyone. That's Spotify's lawyers job.

[–] null@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So no, just talking out of your ass then.

You can Google the lyrics to songs on any device you can view them on Spotify.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you could google the subtitles to any film or tv show, should that absolve Netflix of the responsibility to provide them?

[–] null@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Do lyrics fall under the same regulation as subtitles? If Netflix were free, would it still be subject to those requirements?

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps they should. Let's join hands, friend. I believe we can change things for the better.

[–] null@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You obviously don't give a shit, dude, I don't know why it matters to you so much that people want their lyrics back. Do you own stock in Spotify or something?

[–] null@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why you can't just provide proof for the claim you're defending.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Proof of what, social good will?

[–] null@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're lost. Go back to the top and try again.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't care about the technicalities of the ADA, dude. You can jerk off to legal documents all you want, I want lyrics to songs for deaf people, a feature that already exists.

If they don't require it, they should. I already asked you to take my hand on this. But, you don't care because you like it when deaf people suffer.

[–] null@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 months ago

I don't care about the technicalities of the ADA

Then you're replying to the wrong thread, genius.