Smartyflix

These need to be outlawed for domestic use in the United States immediately. Other countries should probably follow suit.

I went 10 years ago, and the experience now sounds absolutely awful. They’re nickel-and-diming every aspect of the experience. What they’re banking on (literally) is that there are more people that will just say "Oh well, it’s Disney so I’ll pay" than people who refuse.

And to be honest, they’re probably right. This is just the real-life equivalent of the mobile industry monetizing around whales.

You know how to make this responsible and trustworthy? Open-source all the code and decentralize it. Short of that, Facebook is trying to create a "friendly" walled-garden that they control. Like…imagine the Internet, except the Internet is ONLY Facebook.

The only thing I saw here is that I might be getting $10 a month off of YouTube TV, and that sounds fine.