Cost of living general rip off thread.

Cuprajake

Can’t remember if we have one like this, but thought seen as inflation is only 7% it’s a good place to point out it isn’t 🤣

Got an email off Disney plus saying they are restructuring the way they charge, now bare in mind it’s a march subscription, price changes take place 1st Nov.

They are also stopping account sharing like netflix did.

When I first purchased Disney plus I paid for it before it came out, pre order for £45 iirc. This was 2019

Since then it’s gone up and up and this is the new renewal price

Also the new price structure sees them limiting quality and sound quality.

I’ve cancelled my subscription, it will run out in march.

With the cost of streaming going up, you can’t watch a 5 minute vid on YouTube without 15 ads,

End user really is getting whacked.

dfk41

Cuprajake you can’t watch a 5 minute vid on YouTube without 15 ads,

Yes you can! Use Chrome as a browser then google chrome extension, Adblocker. Mine never shows any ads although I gather YT are up in arms and desperately trying to find a way around it.

DavecUK

Cuprajake Even worse they have raised the price and dumbed down the other subs to 1080p. All that BS about 4K TVs (which are all you can buy since 2018), now they want to sell 8K TVs, that’s a laugh…especially as 70% of the contents people watch is 1080p or upscaled HD.

I dumped Netflix, I share Disney+ and will be dumping that, due to the higher fees and lack of sharing. If these companies are not careful, the smart people will subscribe for a month or so, suck up all then new content, then move to another streamer and do the same. Rather than keep them all going for convenience as I did because sharing subs made it cheap enough to do so.

It’s like the big corporates hear 8% inflation and think, ah we will increase prices by 20-30%, when the majority people in the country simply don’t have any more money. Energy up 100%, Car insurance up 60%, food up 30%, Fuel up 30%, Public transport soon to rise by the equivalent of 25%. Personal allowances not increased for 4 years, costing us all another huge percentage?

When do these guys stop sucking money from us.

Systemic

dfk41 Yes you can! Use Chrome as a browser then google chrome extension, Adblocker. Mine never shows any ads although I gather YT are up in arms and desperately trying to find a way around it.

Done that - worked fine until recently. Each time I loaded a video, got a warning saying I would be blocked if I carried on using an adblocker. Anyone else had this?

Cuprajake

Really? I shall try that. OBS doesn’t work with the app though

DavecUK

2 portions like this £110, methinks some strata of society have know idea of the struggles of the majority, most politicians included. I also think they have their heads up their arses to pay this.

HarveyMushman

Funnily enough I was just about to comment about eating out.

We barely bother anymore. Even well-rated restaurants end up being mediocre and you can quite easily spend £60-75 for poor service, overpriced drinks and bland food. I used to enjoy the experience but now everyone in the place just sits on their phones too.

Cuprajake

Cost us £57 for 3 fish n chips, sausage and chips and 3 drinks in Blackpool last week.

The fish was swimming too, sadly in grease 🤣🤣🤣🐠🦈

dfk41

Systemic Nope, I have not had that yet but it will come for sure. I get it on a lot of other sites that run ads. I believe the Adblocker type services will soon find a way around it though

dfk41

Systemic What browser are you using? Sounds like Safari……if so, change to Chrome

DavecUK

I am very annoyed that my YT channel which has been eligible for monetisation by me for years, now has ads put there by google. Especially when I chose to not put adverts on it and google take all the money.

Systemic

Savvy way to get the best value is to eat at lunchtime - menu may be more restricted but prices will be lower than the premium prices charged at peak times.

Elcarajillo

Today while at the S/m, did a double take on Union coffee- large bag has shrunk from 700 gms
to 500 gms 🤔.

DavecUK

Elcarajillo Today while at the S/m, did a double take on Union coffee- large bag has shrunk from 700 gms
to 500 gms 🤔.

food inflation is far worse than we think, because they don’t adjust the figures for shrinkflation….we are all really getting rinsed by anyone who can.

Inspector

I subscribed to YT premium when i was in Turkiye paying 90p a month with my Monzo, Disney+ subscribed via Lloyds bank club £3 a month but they waive it as salary goes in there, Netflix got cancelled as they made it quite tricky to password share.

Eating out, we barely bother too, unless we want a good pizza :)

Systemic

@dfk41 using Chrome on my iMac

dfk41

Systemic Clear out your cache…….log out, log back in

drdre89

The US dollar is on the verge of collapse.
Financial crash imminent.
Stock up on necessities while you can.

Cuprajake

drdre89 ready to go cashless……

dfk41

I stand corrected. It seems the corporation of Google, like most corporations are not happy with the billions they already make, are now running a concerted campaign to stop the use of Adblockers. Through sophisticated software, no matter what browser you use, what VPN you use they will get you. It seems they are targeting users initially so no doubt they will turn their beady eyes to all of us sooner or later. When that happens to me it will be two fingers at them. When I invite people around to my house I do not make them watch adverts before I serve coffee. I do not watch any videos on Sky News for the same reason. Why should I have to sit through two or three adverts in order to watch a current affairs program.

The simple answer is corporate greed. One day you can share your Netflix account, the next you are doing something wrong. If more people stood up to these greedy twats then their pockets would suffer even more.