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.”
Torrent, thank me later.
Cancel, buy some rum with the money you saved, and sail the high seas.
- Apple: Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad. Tap your Apple ID name, then Subscriptions. Select Disney+ and tap Cancel Subscription.
- Google Play: Open the Google Play Store. Tap your profile icon, then Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions. Tap Disney+ and Cancel subscription.
- Roku: Press the Home button on your Roku remote. Highlight the Disney+ app and press the Star button. Select Manage subscription and click Cancel Subscription.
- Amazon: Go to https://www.amazon.com/appstoresubscriptions. Find Disney+ and click Actions, then Cancel Subscription.
Their phone number is on their page… (You don’t seriously accept phone numbers directly from social media do you? Check the source!) Contact Us | Disney+ Help Center https://help.disneyplus.com/contact-us/account-billing?target
Do it from their website (settings then account)so that you can fill out the exit survey and tell them why.
Sad that all we can do to prevent literal fascism is unsubscribing from a streaming service
Let’s not talk as if it’s all we can do; it’s one action amongst many. Besides, let’s not forget that these companies would 1000% be in favor of democracy if they thought it was profitable. They’re fascists, but if their ideals hurt their bottom line, they’ll change their tune, because they have shareholders to appease.
Let’s be realistic: not preventing, more like protesting
They only care about money. Hit em where it hurts.
Unintended consequence of capitalism: all the eggs in one basket makes for a much easier target lol
Yeah, I don’t have a subscription, so I guess I’ll just shrug and upvote 🤷♂️
Remember to no only tell your friends but also keep the boycott going even if they bring back Kimmel’s show.
Per Deadline:
Still, according to another well-placed source, while some senior staff are expressing disappointment in how it all went down, “it is in no way widespread”.
They have not learned a single lesson here, keep boycotting and I’ll be willing to help with anyone who’d like to get a docker based media server going so you can protest while still watching the content that the creative people stuck contractually at Disney are making.
Please tell your friends about free streaming sites: https://hydrahd.io/
We need to work together to change this culture.
I can’t really be sure if these sites being suggested are all legal…but that aside; if full legitimacy is part of your moral compass, and maybe it isn’t, local library services connect to some streaming services as well. They often go unadvertised, and likewise contain no ads. It’s a sizable option. I can’t recommend a specific one, since it’ll depend on what your local library is partnered with.
https://fmhy.pages.dev/ just link them here instead.
I use https://www.bestfreestreaming.org/
It updates the links regularly in case one goes down.
FMHY definitely updates as well. That site is much more streaming focused, though, so definitely useful.
Thanks for the FMHY link. I also don’t want to rely on just one updating site.
“Crashes”? How convenient.
The cancellation page specifically. Everything else is fine.
On one hand, could be a “crash”. On the other hand, tons of websites break when they get a little extra traffic.
Side tangent, seems odd to me this is still a thing. Most company websites aren’t hosted on premises, so do these services like (i assume) AWS not scale for when there’s traffic? Squarespace has been advertising for years that it will scale up if there’s extra traffic. I’ve never tested it but still.
If your page is just static, e.g. no login, no interaction, everyone always sees the same thing then it scales easily. Scaling means you copy the site to more servers. Now imagine a user adds a comment. Now you need to add the comment to every copy of your site, so that everyone sees it regardless of which server they use. So a comment creates more work the more servers you use. And this is where scaling becomes a complex science, that you need to manually prepare for as a software developer. You need to figure out what data will be stored where and accessed how.
Caching servers, they self replicate when a change is committed, then send back a signal to main server that task has completed
I am not sure what you are trying to say?
You have to design for scalability. Bottlenecks may be wherever. Even if their virtual server CPU and RAM can scale up, other stuff may be bottlenecks. Maybe the connection to the DB. Maybe the DB is elsewhere and doesn’t scale. Can’t really reasonably guess from the outside.
Mass cancellation is not usually a thing they would design around bottle-necks. It also doesn’t add value to them.
Scaling has a budget, I’m sure. They’ll only pay for so much.
Wish I could cancel but I was never a subscriber to begin with.
Stop giving money to those facsists-friendly business. Use stremio, and begin by stopping to watch stupid american content. Don’t use Amazon, they hate you, people where just fine just a few years ago, before all that crap. We are legions, we could destroy their entire economy within 48 hours if we really wanted.
I was thinking about that. Do we need to sign up when things are quiet so that we can cancel to protest such stuff. I usually feel left out because I already don’t use most of the things I want to cancel in protest. I got to do it this time because I had forgotten I signed up for my kid a while back.
The classic card payment and subscription model is actually insane. You literally have to beg companies to stop taking money from you. Good thing it is changing with more modern payment systems - you literally just stop paying for services you don’t need and it’s on them to stop providing them to you. Nothing is ever charged off my account without an explicit action from me.
As soon as I figure out how to pirate alien earth imma cancel Hulu.
Looks like there’s plenty of torrents
I’m old. So first i gotta teach myself how. I’ve got no clue what a torrent is. Funny thing is. Back in 2008 I knew how. I forgot how lmao
It isn’t too difficult, but you should use a VPN, too, or else you might get an angry letter from your ISP.
Or you can avoid all that and just use Soulseek.
Word homie, thanks. I’ll look into it and give it a go!
I msg you something simple
Thanks dude! Yall are too kind
Time for some real cancel culture.
I cancelled my Disney sub when the Gaza genocide first started. Glad its catching on. Disney is run by assholes.
crashing, or DISNEY+ trying to stem the cancellation, until they can reorient thier positions.
No it’s definitely crashing. Definitely nothing happening here, they’re not worried, or panicking, or anything. Everything Is Fine I Wouldn’t Say There’s A Problem At All. EVERYTHING IS ABSOLUTELY FINE. IT’S FINE
I canceled mine and am now sending that money as a monthly contribution to Palestinian aid.
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.
