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We're at a point where the improved user experience is enough justification.
Every service ever is putting revenue above costumer satisfaction. Every streaming app gets in the way of what you want to watch so they can funnel you to the same 3 Movies/TV Shows. Searching is almost useless you get a few results related to your search term and the rest is unrelated garbage.
The other day I was watching a movie at a friend's house on Netflix. When you hit pause, the movie minimizes into a card on the left and the rest of the screen turns into a fucking advertisement.
Like, not even a "recommendation" for another movie on the service, just a full blown ad for something else, ours was a food delivery app ad.
I've gotten spoiled by the Piracy experience. Over here it's me first and me above everything.
None of my 'services' fill my screen with ads for their new season so the shareholders can recoup their half a billion investment.
They show me my media and get the fuck out of my way. It's refreshing.
The apps are made by people who actually use them daily and there's no pressure to make a "return of investment", they just make the best user experience they can and that's it.
It's pretty amazing how qbittorent is such a nice app, while something like youtube is constantly shoving ads up your butt.