For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

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      The only reason I even have Hulu is because I pay for Spotify. Otherwise, it’s just not worth the price tag for me.

      Spotify, though…raised its price recently, but also gave me new features that I use, so I’m not complaining.

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          The one I know for sure is new that I use is an AI DJ feature. It plays music in sets it thinks you’ll like, then lets you know when a new set is starting and what it’ll be like; lets you start a new set manually if you don’t like the type of music being played.

          As someone who lived alone, when it came out it was nice to have a friendly voice (sounds like a young, 20-something guy), even though fake, to talk to me about my music.

          Clearly I need to do research on them, though; I’m out of the loop on their nastiness.

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      I’m on a Disney/Hulu bundle for $19.99, that isn’t bad. Hopefully that won’t change. But as soon as Ahsoka is over I plan to cancel.

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          This is what happened to cable too I think. My grandpa was saying back in the day cable was what you got to avoid ads

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            thats right. broadcast had tons of ads and also had no cursing/sex etc. cable came along with no ads and tons of cursing and sex etc.

            and of course broadcast was a big deal originally because people didnt want to pay 25 cents to watch a movie.

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          I can’t see any removing the ad free option, they’ll just make it more expensive.