I've canceled (and later resubscribed) to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon without ever picking up the phone.

This is easy now. Just wait until retention starts hurting their bottom line.

That's not legal in California since 2018. From SB 313, which requires that a subscription that was initially started online shall be cancelable online as well:

a consumer who accepts an automatic renewal or continuous service offer online shall be allowed to terminate the automatic renewal or continuous service exclusively online

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

What about all the other states? I don't live in California. Companies can and do script different behaviors depending on which state you live in.

And that doesn't stop them from using dark patterns or cancellation fees.

YAGNI

My cousin was nice enough to call at kickoff and paused his game until the FuboTV feed that I was watching caught up. Then we could text spoiler free for the rest of the game.

The page from the team that completed the proof: http://www.cube20.org/

I'm a little late with this, but my brother, cousins and I have been playing at http://games.asobrain.com/ for years. For copyright reasons, it's Explorers there.

They also have Carcasonne, which they call Tolouse.

Thanks for that. I've recently switched to Linux and while puddletag is a decent replacement, I've got nearly a decade of experience with mp3tag I've been loath to turn my back on.

I think you're confusing Google with Apple. The Play Store's policies are much more reasonable, and allow third party payment processors for purchasing digital items that can be consumed outside of the app itself. In fact, here's a third party video store on the Play Store [1], and here's Amazon's own Prime Music app [2].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.vudu.a... [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.mp3

That's iOS, not Android. And even on iOS, Amazon has a video app for viewing videos, though you can't buy or rent directly inside the app:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/amazon-video/id545519333

You can shop via an in-app browser within their Kindle app.

I'm not sure what the original poster had in mind, but what I'm guessing (and what I would want) is making it a web UI so access could be shared easily to other people or devices.

It's really no different than any other early adopter premiums. They pay $80-$100 every month to watch "Breaking Bad" now; I pay $8/month and I'll get to watch it in a year or so when it hits Netflix. Just like the people driving hybrids and electrics are bringing the cost down to where the rest of the population can afford it.

The only real difference is that in this case the early adopter is the normal case and the late adopters are the outliers.

+1. You'll pay more to watch a movie in a theater than you will months later when it's available on DVD. You'll pay more to watch the same movie on DVD than you will months later when it's available on Netflix Watch Instantly.

This is how successful media business models work: milk the most money from those who most desire the product.

>> "You'll pay more to watch a movie in a theater than you will months later when it's available on DVD."

This isn't the case where I live. A new release DVD costs approx. £10. I can get a cinema ticket for as little as £3.50.

> This isn't the case where I live. A new release DVD costs approx. £10. I can get a cinema ticket for as little as £3.50.

I'm referring to renting the DVD. Or even buying the DVD, and watching it together as a family or group (£10 DVD vs. 4*£3.50 movie tickets). But yes, there are some caveats.

Thanks for clearing that up. I didn't consider the cost of tickets for multiple people or renting the movie.

You're correct for purchasing, but I assumed this was DVD rental. Also there's often Pay-per-view rental between theater and dvd availability.

If you wait for shows to become public domain, you can watch them for free!*

*although you'll be dead long before you can watch breaking bad

You can watch many shows for $1.99 on Amazon right after they air.

I do this for three or four shows, and it's great being able to go back and re-watch entire seasons on a whim. I don't use Amazon Prime Video much since I usually go to Netflix first, but I rarely feel like I'm overpaying or missing out.

This. I would ship every bookcase in the house tomorrow if someone gave me credit toward the corresponding e-books.

The files go into my Box account, and I never lose another book.

Do that once on a production system in the middle of a shipping run. Lesson learned.

All my deletes written first as selects now, as a sibling comment suggested.