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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I don't know the name of the practice. But I already do the buy for just 1 month thing when they've got something I really wanna watch.

Right now I'm waiting for Bleach to finish so I can get a month of Hulu so I can watch that and the new Futurama.

They don't deserve a concurrent monthly payment. And I'm happy as hell to deny one to them.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The term is subscription hopping.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I thought that was exploiting credit card/savings account rewards by bouncing from card to card, as in /r/churning.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Both can be true.

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