[philistine]

On a fundamental level you're absolutely right. Unfortunately, you're complaining about a model that has existed for decades at this point: the cable model. You pay an arm and a leg for cable, and yet you get ads.

Companies seem incapable of imagining a world where they don't double dip, since they've built the whole house of cards on the cable model and they want nothing else than to recreate it.

[bcrl]

Cable still has one thing going for it: it tends to be cheaper for sports. Watching hockey games online requires subscriptions to 3 different streaming services just to follow a single local team, which is ridiculous.

[reaperducer]

Watching hockey games online requires subscriptions to 3 different streaming services just to follow a single local team, which is ridiculous.

A newspaper recently published an article stating that if you wanted to watch every NFL game, you'd need eleven streaming subscriptions.