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"Millions of former subscribers will cancel their accounts in 2026"
FTFY
That absolutely won't happen.
Everybody on Lemmy and Reddit were saying the same when they banned account sharing and price increases. In reality their subscriber numbers went through the roof and so did their profits.
Nah, my cousins are normies. Every time I'm at their place and the TV is on, you almost can't tell if the ads get more play than the content they actually wanted to see. Their TV is treated like an old FM radio where ads are just a part of it. They complain, but they'll never actually do anything about it.
Sadly I think you're a optimistic with those numbers. It's probably gonna be a few thousand. The numbers can feel skewed if you only look at Lemmy.
I think it'll be somewhere in the middle. Quite a few people have not had to deal with ads in streaming for many years now, if it's suddenly forced it'll piss off a lot
I don't think they're all going to suddenly pirate again, I think many will just switch to other streaming providers.
If they all start doing the shitty ads, we're fucked.
People might be forced to stop paying for these services, at least at their current prices. The recession might force the needed step back from consumerism. If the average person has 4 streaming services, and tightens their bet to "just" 1, that's a 3/4ths reduction in subscribers across the industry.