Needle meet haystack. The worst thing is that they all are requiring commercials even if you paid for not having them.
I pirate seasons of interesting-looking television and copy them to my phone so I can watch them with VLC whenever I want. This macguffin in my pocket can be a television too!
Cable TV needed to fill timeslots…
Streaming has to put out enough to not lose subscribers, and they know most people aren’t going to ever bother canceling.
It’s this weird market where a streamers best customer: is someone that never launches the app. Too much content and they have to pay for the bandwidth.
Not even getting into how monopolization is limiting competition.
Classic gym membership model.
I have this theory that the streaming platforms hire UI and UX researchers to design their apps and websites in a way that makes it as hard as possible to find the good content you actually want to watch. An hour spent scrolling their app is an hour of 4K content they didn’t need to stream.
