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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.

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.

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.

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