cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/28397398
The suspension triggered strong responses across social media and beyond. Hashtags like #CancelDisneyPlus and #CancelHulu trended as users shared screenshots of their canceled subscriptions.
With cancellations surging, many subscribers reported technical issues. On Reddit’s r/Fauxmoi, one post read, “The page to cancel your Hulu/Disney+ subscription keeps crashing.”
“crashes”
“If we don’t let you leave you might forget you were mad at us and keep giving us money”
MAGA hates Disney because of their current movies perceived “wokeness” so the big brained executives decided to piss of the Left as well by attacking the 1st Amendment and bowing down to the Right. Big brain move there.
the thing to understand is that for Disney it’s not always about the money. they control so much power over all media that they can inflict their world view on everyone through their propaganda streams. the performative wokeness that still sits within overall metanarratives about the value of the status quo? that’s for the dollar. cutting Jimmy Kimmel loose? that’s in alignment with their core values
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are you still alive, Nazi?
No, I’m pretty sure it’s about the money. They wanted a merger and didn’t want trouble, so they cut Jimmy Kimmel’s show to help that progress more smoothly.
Disney is really easy to understand because it is always about the money with them.
merger with who? i haven’t heard anything relating to this. i’m willing to buy in though given what happened to colbert
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Nexsar owns ABC affiliates and wants to buy Tegna, which owns more affiliate stations.
Disney isn’t really part of that deal, but I’m guessing they also want to appease the FCC for similar reasons.
Colbert’s show seems completely unrelated. My understanding is that the cancellation has been planned for some time and has more to do with it having run for 10 years than anything political he has said.
Consider taking the money you save and using it to donate to npr and pbs
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Cancel, buy some rum with the money you saved, and sail the high seas.
- Apple: Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad. Tap your Apple ID name, then Subscriptions. Select Disney+ and tap Cancel Subscription.
- Google Play: Open the Google Play Store. Tap your profile icon, then Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions. Tap Disney+ and Cancel subscription.
- Roku: Press the Home button on your Roku remote. Highlight the Disney+ app and press the Star button. Select Manage subscription and click Cancel Subscription.
- Amazon: Go to https://www.amazon.com/appstoresubscriptions. Find Disney+ and click Actions, then Cancel Subscription.
Their phone number is on their page… (You don’t seriously accept phone numbers directly from social media do you? Check the source!) Contact Us | Disney+ Help Center https://help.disneyplus.com/contact-us/account-billing?target
Do it from their website (settings then account)so that you can fill out the exit survey and tell them why.
Also delete the apps and use live chat to get them to delete your account.
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Beautiful guide. A vote was not enough. I salute you.
Sad that all we can do to prevent literal fascism is unsubscribing from a streaming service
Let’s not talk as if it’s all we can do; it’s one action amongst many. Besides, let’s not forget that these companies would 1000% be in favor of democracy if they thought it was profitable. They’re fascists, but if their ideals hurt their bottom line, they’ll change their tune, because they have shareholders to appease.
Let’s be realistic: not preventing, more like protesting
They only care about money. Hit em where it hurts.
It’s not all you can do but it’s one of the easier things you can try
Talking with your wallet is the best thing you can do, honestly. Against any company.
Unintended consequence of capitalism: all the eggs in one basket makes for a much easier target lol
Yeah, I don’t have a subscription, so I guess I’ll just shrug and upvote 🤷♂️
The most powerful force on earth is the consumer. Don’t mock or dismiss the power you have. Embrace it.
Or they crashed it when they saw how many were trying to quit
Nah, cancellation resources are always minimal. Doesn’t make sense to pay for serious hardware to please people on their way out the door. Every service I’ve ever had to cancel has always been a maze and generally more annoying, slow, and cumbersome than the signup process.
Yeah well when the laws regarding this allow mass psychological manipulation for profits then it’s on the countries for enabling the greediest pieces of shits to do this.
Edit:Antilaw suits everywhere but Mark Zuckerberg creating an entire algorithm dictating your view on Instagram and Facebook is completely fine using psychology to manipulate everyone.
it’s easy to do something in the heat of the moment when passions are running high (and your favorite show is in-between seasons) but let’s see where the boycott is in 6+ months after everything has cooled down and about 300 other new little fires from the current admin have come and gone from the headlines. That’s the true measure of these kinds of “low temp” protests.
but let’s see where the boycott is in 6+ months after everything has cooled down
It seems to me that once folks have discovered the joys of piracy, they rarely return to streaming.
I wouldn’t know, because I wouldn’t download a car unless it was fully copyleft licensed.
DO you interact with normal people? most of them don’t even have a computer anymore.
DO you interact with normal people?
Not when I don’t have to, of course.
most of them don’t even have a computer anymore.
Sure, but motivated people seem to always find a way. Thumb drives work perfectly on phones now.
Seems to me that great streaming services is what stopped Piracy from becoming the default option a decade ago.
Now that the streaming services are enshsittifying, I suspect it’s a race between user friendly piracy tools and and one or more actual non-shit streaming services emerging.
Even if they get back two thirds of the people who quit while the other third have discovered “other” ways to get their Disney content, that’s still a third of a loss of revenue. A small dent is better than no dent. And whether the website crashed because of all the people quitting or they intentionally crashed it to prevent people from quitting, that means its a significant amount of people, and a third of that is still significant to them.
sure, but those are just numbers you pulled out of literally nowhere.
There’s always sailing the high seas
I mean, I finally quit Hulu over this, and neither my husband or I had even watched Hulu in about a year at this point. I’d always kept the subscription going “just in case,”. I was the only one paying and neither of us has any qualms about letting it go.
I can’t believe that we’re the only ones in this bracket of users.
At this point, just pirate.
Waaaay ahead of you
Please tell your friends about free streaming sites: https://hydrahd.io/
We need to work together to change this culture.
hicartoon.to and wco.tv are also places people be aware of (to not go to)
https://fmhy.pages.dev/ just link them here instead.
I use https://www.bestfreestreaming.org/
It updates the links regularly in case one goes down.
FMHY definitely updates as well. That site is much more streaming focused, though, so definitely useful.
Thanks for the FMHY link. I also don’t want to rely on just one updating site.
I don’t see https://lookmovie2.to/ there. That’s another one.
I can’t really be sure if these sites being suggested are all legal…but that aside; if full legitimacy is part of your moral compass, and maybe it isn’t, local library services connect to some streaming services as well. They often go unadvertised, and likewise contain no ads. It’s a sizable option. I can’t recommend a specific one, since it’ll depend on what your local library is partnered with.
Kanopy is a streaming service my local library has, and it’s great for documentaries, foreign films, and older movies.
This keeps routing me to porn.
Remember to no only tell your friends but also keep the boycott going even if they bring back Kimmel’s show.
Per Deadline:
Still, according to another well-placed source, while some senior staff are expressing disappointment in how it all went down, “it is in no way widespread”.
They have not learned a single lesson here, keep boycotting and I’ll be willing to help with anyone who’d like to get a docker based media server going so you can protest while still watching the content that the creative people stuck contractually at Disney are making.
As soon as I figure out how to pirate alien earth imma cancel Hulu.
Looks like there’s plenty of torrents
I’m old. So first i gotta teach myself how. I’ve got no clue what a torrent is. Funny thing is. Back in 2008 I knew how. I forgot how lmao
It isn’t too difficult, but you should use a VPN, too, or else you might get an angry letter from your ISP.
Or you can avoid all that and just use Soulseek.
Word homie, thanks. I’ll look into it and give it a go!
I msg you something simple
Thanks dude! Yall are too kind
It shouldn’t have had all those users to begin with.
crashes
Maybe, but could it also be an intentional dark pattern to make it difficult to cancel?
even if that is the case it’s a good sign imo. it means people were causing an impact big enough for them to notice and take action.
It’s amazing to think that people were fooled into thinking a greedy litagatious mega global corporate conglomerate like Disney was actually progressive in the first place instead of just following market trends for maximum shareholder profit.
Yup
Anytime I want to cancel something and the company makes it difficult I just cancel the credit card side of it. Sod them. That’s what they get if they want to play silly buggers.
They use AWS and specifically design their software to be able to dynamically scale, ever since Wandavision crashed their playback.
Is it possible that they never entertained having to make their cancellation page scalable? Sure. Is it more likely that they intentionally haven’t made it scalable? Yes.
Maybe. But more probably it was just fast written and untested.
Sure. It’s a design flaw. Yep. Nothing to see here.
Could also be a decision to limit how much the service scales as more people use it. It’s not like they are incentivised to throw a bunch of hardware at the problem when the problem in question is “people are unable to leave the platform”
Unlikely. I was trying to contact support and that was completely broken also. Unlikely if they were just trying to make cancellation harder. Likely if they were overloaded.
But overloaded by design?
There’s a huge public rush to cancel their services. It’s probably just overloaded by reality.
crashing, or DISNEY+ trying to stem the cancellation, until they can reorient thier positions.
They can stream to millions of people at once but their basic page is crashing… Right.
No it’s definitely crashing. Definitely nothing happening here, they’re not worried, or panicking, or anything. Everything Is Fine I Wouldn’t Say There’s A Problem At All. EVERYTHING IS ABSOLUTELY FINE. IT’S FINE
Call me a cynic, but engineering some rate limit on a cancellation page suits them rather well
I’m similarly skeptical it’s a genuine outage given how so much stuff nowadays is done with cloud computing which enables dynamic on-demand procurement of server resources. Or whatever the correct terminology is to describe that.
hardly a silver bullet tho. capacity shortages, running up against any of dozens of quotas, or even just shit application code can and will fuck over even the best designed autoscaled cloud shit
Yeah it’s not like services make the cancellation process super difficult. It’s like mafia style extortion. They make this type of stuff so difficult, I like to waste their time too, and make sure it involves wasting so many of their employees time, which they have to pay for.
I’m ready to bet that only a 0.something% of customers will actually cancel, there will be a barely visible bump in Disney’s KPI this month, and in a month half of them will subscribe again to watch the latest Avengers vs Star Wars: the Invasion of the Ducks.
Yep, most people don’t care
It’s not about caring but about effectiveness. Even if I’m one of those suckers that “vote with his wallet”, I know that it’s naive to think that cancelling a subscription will move the needle for corporations like Disney.
Consider also the collateral damages of a hypothetical successful anti-Disney campaign: layoffs, drop in the stock market with impacts on pension funds, projects cancelled with third parties (so more layoffs and drops in the stock market), …
The right protest here (IMHO) is against Trump, MAGA, and especially who voted for them. That may be more effective and with less collateral damages than trying to bankrupt Disney by cancelling Disney+ from the couch.
I have far fewer fucks to give about the “impact” of my boycotts than I have for my integrity.
I refuse to give my money to fascists if it’s at all avoidable. I will inconvenience myself and pay more for alternatives, or forego things completely if I can’t make a compelling argument for having them.
I have yet to hear such an argument for a streaming service.
You think the global economy is going to collapse because Disney collapses? They make a lot of money as a corporation but that’s not important because they don’t pay any taxes.
You think the global economy is going to collapse because Disney collapses?
No, I don’t, but Disney could easily be a 5% of a pension fund, and its price fluctuation can have a significant impact on common people.
They make a lot of money as a corporation but that’s not important because they don’t pay any taxes.
That’s actually ad advantage for investors such as your pension fund.
Won’t some think of the poor shareholders?!?1?
I thought you guys want megacorp to fail?
“You guys” who?
I don’t want megacorps to fail. I want them to be ethical.
They are, it’s just not your ethics.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Lol good luck, it’s like saying I’d like Roquefort cheese to taste like pineapple.
Of course, but it’s a more realistic goal than shouting “let’s burn the megacorps” and it can be achieved through regulations.
You know what’s even more realistic? Reality, the one where megacorps are funding a new wave of nazifascism around the world, just so they won’t get regulated.
Wake the fuck up.
The only way to get any resemblance of that is through govt. regulation. Since that’s impossible with the current levels of wealth inequality and moral bankruptcy, them failing is for the best! That and the noggin removal of the highest earners.
them failing is for the best
The issue with that is that half of the jobs are in those companies. To that half, you need to add all the small business in the supply chains, and don’t forget the pension funds and personal savings invested in their stocks and bonds.
It doesn’t make much sense what you wish for.
Besides that, sorry, but they won’t fail. Regulations are much more likely to happen.
I want them to be ethical.
I’m gonna tell you something you shoulda heard a long time ago:
Wish in one hand, shit in the other, and see which one fills up first.
You’re on a hiding to know where with that one
highly likely
Probably, but if it turns out on the higher end of that, say 0.8%, then that’s also not nothing, considering that it’s the result of firing one (1) dude.
