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Originally Posted by OtinG
I have both Hulu and Prime, but Prime mostly for the shipping and its BritBox add-on. Prime Video by itself has always sucked as they want to charge for nearly everything. Their free video stuff mostly isn't worth watching except for an original series like the Grand Tour. Netflix never seems to have the streaming version of video I want to watch and it says I have to pay another $12/mo for the DVD version of Netflix--bleep that. They have almost no original shows I care for. Hulu has a ton of stuff to watch, and at $8/mo is very reasonably priced.
Personally I stay as far away from Google products and services as I can because Google is well known for selling your data to the highest bidder. They are one of the scuzziest companies in existence. I could care less if their hardware, Android, or services are good alternatives because I simply don't trust them with my data, or anywheres near my data. Apple and Amazon can get breeched, but neither is going to openly market my data to other companies (or possibly even to other countries). I'm not a naive hen house owner who will invite the Google fox in to do what it wants to do. I prefer to put out large, painful traps to catch the fox!  |
Interesting post. Two things I would like to comment on.
My problem with Hulu comes down to one word. Advertisments. The last time I tried it there were simply too many of them for my liking.
Secondly, I don't see a lot of difference between the Google Fox and the Apple Fox or the Amazon Fox. They are all foxes and like to do the same thing when admitted to the hen house. Privacy, despite the ever increasing regulation paying lip service to it, is largely dead. If you want to use these services to their full potential you must effectively accept this. Yes, Google is "evil" in this regard, but they are not the only ones. Just the biggest hypocrites given their former slogan.