When I lived in thailand someone stole my netflix account and selected the most expensive option which was paid from my card... I called them immediately to cancel, but Netflix said sorry but we have no legal requirements to refund you.

Netflix, at the time, didn't even cover Thailand so I couldn't even fucking use it.

Subscriptions only exists because they blatantly ignore consumer laws.

Recently had to cancel Xfinity. Had to wait for a text chat so I could schedule a cancellation appointment. They didn’t call at the requested time. I called instead to make an appointment for them to call me back.

30 minutes of waiting and questions about what it would take to retain me as a customer or who could take over my account. I told them up front that Xfinity isn’t available at my new address but they had to ask all the questions anyway.

All of this nonsense meant I was 6 days into the billing cycle, so they had already charged me for a full month and held onto the remainder until the next month.

Ugh.

I fully expect that, just like the rest of the account management parts of Xfinity’s site, the page that serves the “cancel” button will be horribly slow to load, frequently broken, and borderline unusable, while the upselling pages remain lightning fast and reliable.

Honestly, this sounds great!

Funding.json is a good idea for a standard proposal and seems to solve most problems I‘d personally recognize with FOSS funding :)

Scrob...what?

wikti

Verb
scrobble (third-person singular simple present scrobbles, present participle scrobbling, simple past and past participle scrobbled)
(Internet slang) To publish one's media consumption habits to the Internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain items are played.

Noun
scrobble (plural scrobbles)
A datum or the aggregate data collected by this means.

I actually started using my own media and am trying to cut down on streaming. Went back to last.fm a few weeks ago.

I don't feel libre.fm is very active in development?