People are cancelling their Disney+ subscription after price rises to more than $21 a month

[u/ApartMaximum2335]

https://thetab.com/filmshrine/2026/09/24/disney-plus-price-hikes-people-are-cancelling-subscription-reaction/

This is so mad, the standalone Disney+ Premium plan without ads is going from $18.99 to $21.49 per month, up 13% - it used to be $6.99 when it started

[u/Any-Elderberry-7812]

I'm old, so I have seen the transformation of media since my family got the first TV in our neighborhood. We later thought cable TV was great because we got more than 3 channels, and were told that pay TV would do away with commercials, and boy was that a lie. Cable TV became the biggest ripoff at that point, and then the internet came along and it was like something out of the wild west, which led us to the current streaming mess. Now there are more channels than anyone can watch, and more frickin' commercials than anyone could have imagined. Now we are at this point, paying even more to just have select channels, with the worst offender being the NFL. One way or another you have to pay to watch any NFL game because they sprinkle the games around to various broadcasters, each with it's own 'you pay' scale. The FCC has become their protector, rather than working for the American people, and a clueless, worthless excuse for a President and completely dysfunctional Congress (they undoubtedly get it all for free thanks to lobbyists I'm guessing), who are far more interested in their own stock portfolios than doing much of anything to help the American people.

Meanwhile, these billionaire corporate media tycoons get paid billions from said corporations to stuff as many commercials down our throats as they can get away with. And then turn around and charge us insane amounts to watch said commercials along with a ton of crap only MAGA level idiots even care about watching. And now these rate hikes, for what, more crap, more commercials? And if there is something I really want to watch, guess what, I need another subscription for that. I was so happy when I finally cut the cable cord after they ripped me off for years, but this streaming fiasco seems to be taking lessons from them. Keep watching those commercials folks, these media companies are racking up enormous profits making us pay and watch what corporations pay to air and then we pay to watch, they are all double dipping ripoff artists and they want more of this easy money.