cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/28397398
The suspension triggered strong responses across social media and beyond. Hashtags like #CancelDisneyPlus and #CancelHulu trended as users shared screenshots of their canceled subscriptions.
With cancellations surging, many subscribers reported technical issues. On Reddit’s r/Fauxmoi, one post read, “The page to cancel your Hulu/Disney+ subscription keeps crashing.”
“Crashes”? How convenient.
The cancellation page specifically. Everything else is fine.
Sad that all we can do to prevent literal fascism is unsubscribing from a streaming service
It’s not all you can do but it’s one of the easier things you can try
Call me a cynic, but engineering some rate limit on a cancellation page suits them rather well
Yeah it’s not like services make the cancellation process super difficult. It’s like mafia style extortion. They make this type of stuff so difficult, I like to waste their time too, and make sure it involves wasting so many of their employees time, which they have to pay for.
crashing, or DISNEY+ trying to stem the cancellation, until they can reorient thier positions.
I canceled mine and am now sending that money as a monthly contribution to Palestinian aid.
crashes
Maybe, but could it also be an intentional dark pattern to make it difficult to cancel?
They use AWS and specifically design their software to be able to dynamically scale, ever since Wandavision crashed their playback.
Is it possible that they never entertained having to make their cancellation page scalable? Sure. Is it more likely that they intentionally haven’t made it scalable? Yes.
It’s amazing to think that people were fooled into thinking a greedy litagatious mega global corporate conglomerate like Disney was actually progressive in the first place instead of just following market trends for maximum shareholder profit.
even if that is the case it’s a good sign imo. it means people were causing an impact big enough for them to notice and take action.
What Kimmel has to do with Disney+?
Kimmel is selling his show to abc which is owned by Disney
