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What are you surprised that people pay for, when there are free alternatives in existence? (kbin.melroy.org)

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I was going through my Wal-Mart+ subscription plan that I got for free and I saw their offers. One of which was EMeals, that was a 60-day trial. I thought that this was like Blue Apron or other meal delivery services so I thought I'd take a crack at it and hope that it would get me on a path to eat better.

Turns out, it's just a meal planner. And it's absurd to me why and how would anyone pay for something when there are countless and countless recipes and meal planners readily available for free. Who'd the fuck would want to pay for a planner? That's like paying for a calendar app.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

You're not being a jerk :)

I use YouTube for this myself but I'm under the impression that Apple TV lets you do this too. The content is still hosted by them and I'm sure you can't easily download the content and do whatever with it, but I'm under the impression that what I've paid for (the one time per piece of content) is the rights to stream it from them forever. Content has not disappeared for me like it has with Netflix (and what finally drove me away from it).

The only thing I'm trying to get across is that there are other streaming models present beside the subscription one everyone is doing. And this model that I've highlighted is the one I prefer.