I’m know kids these days who are preferring a dumb phone, now physical media is making a comeback.
Has our surveillance economy finally backfired enough that people are starting to reclaim ownership? God I hope so.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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We're the closest we've been since the cloud started, but sadly, people are still addicted to the almighty algorithm.
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What happened to good old pirating? We used to show them middle finger for wanting single payment from us, and now we do subscriptions for stuff we barely even use?
Pirates have historically been some of the biggest DVD collectors.
They changed tactics.
Pirating is work. You need a little technical expertise for debrid, or to set up a media server, or even to keep a bunch of USB storage organized. And while it's not that hard, when they couple taking care of all that for you AND running your likes through an algo and introducing you to new content regularly, your average person sees enough benefit, if the price is right.
So they introduce a service, get the price down to 10-15 a month. Get you in, get your preferences, sell them to the highest bidder and slowly crank back content to make more profit.
For the music it's worse, they're fucking over the artists AND selling your data.
When the cost in price or morality gets too high, they'll all pirate.
Some never stopped.
Discs from libraries!
lol. I was boycotting more than I thought. Seriously though its practically a fight to do things without a cell phone now.
My rapidly diminishing purchasing power due to high inflation, tariffs, higher interest rates, higher taxes, higher junk fees, and stagnant wages is forcing me to boycott as much as I can, whether I like it or not.
I feel that.
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TIL I am unintentionally boycotting
The website would be better if there was also links or resources to alternate.
But also that's hard depending on where you are.
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