Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension

Yup

Anytime I want to cancel something and the company makes it difficult I just cancel the credit card side of it. Sod them. That's what they get if they want to play silly buggers.

They use AWS and specifically design their software to be able to dynamically scale, ever since Wandavision crashed their playback.

Is it possible that they never entertained having to make their cancellation page scalable? Sure. Is it more likely that they intentionally haven't made it scalable? Yes.

Unlikely. I was trying to contact support and that was completely broken also. Unlikely if they were just trying to make cancellation harder. Likely if they were overloaded.

even if that is the case it’s a good sign imo. it means people were causing an impact big enough for them to notice and take action.

It's amazing to think that people were fooled into thinking a greedy litagatious mega global corporate conglomerate like Disney was actually progressive in the first place instead of just following market trends for maximum shareholder profit.

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

They can stream to millions of people at once but their basic page is crashing... Right.

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.

I'm similarly skeptical it's a genuine outage given how so much stuff nowadays is done with cloud computing which enables dynamic on-demand procurement of server resources. Or whatever the correct terminology is to describe that.

Yep, most people don't care

highly likely

Probably, but if it turns out on the higher end of that, say 0.8%, then that's also not nothing, considering that it's the result of firing one (1) dude.

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.

Do it from their website (settings then account)so that you can fill out the exit survey and tell them why.

Also delete the apps and use live chat to get them to delete your account.

o7

Beautiful guide. A vote was not enough. I salute you.

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.

It's not all you can do but it's one of the easier things you can try

Talking with your wallet is the best thing you can do, honestly. Against any company.

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 🤷‍♂️

The most powerful force on earth is the consumer. Don't mock or dismiss the power you have. Embrace it.

Same here, except I stopped giving a shit about Marvel & Star Wars when they bought them.

I'll admit, I'm hypocritical on some things. Disney became an easier choice for me when all their stuff became kinda bad.

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the thing to understand is that for Disney it's not always about the money. they control so much power over all media that they can inflict their world view on everyone through their propaganda streams. the performative wokeness that still sits within overall metanarratives about the value of the status quo? that's for the dollar. cutting Jimmy Kimmel loose? that's in alignment with their core values

“If we don’t let you leave you might forget you were mad at us and keep giving us money”

they also donate heavily to the GOP, so they are partially responsible for getting themselves in this situation.

Sadly if every performer took that approach, that might be the end of broadcast television. Which it might be already anyway.

Not been an American I don't really know who he is but if he is as popular as seems to be the case I'm surprised that he didn't move away from broadcast television anyway.

A lot of comedians are doing extremely well on YouTube.

Just dig up an old laptop and setup the full *arr stack with jellyfin. Takes some work up front but after that it's basically painless.

Live sports is the real question. Hard to get on the free scale.

StremIo is the move

Nah, cancellation resources are always minimal. Doesn't make sense to pay for serious hardware to please people on their way out the door. Every service I've ever had to cancel has always been a maze and generally more annoying, slow, and cumbersome than the signup process.

https://fmhy.pages.dev/ just link them here instead.

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.

hicartoon.to and wco.tv are also places people be aware of (to not go to)

And here I thought this movie couldn't get any worse. I wasn't able to continue watching after about 11 minutes due to the story feeling boring and forced.

Source?

Edit: don't bother. As always, they are quoting Adrian Zenz, who's conveniently also the director of the sinophobic US backed "think tank" Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

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.

Even if they get back two thirds of the people who quit while the other third have discovered "other" ways to get their Disney content, that's still a third of a loss of revenue. A small dent is better than no dent. And whether the website crashed because of all the people quitting or they intentionally crashed it to prevent people from quitting, that means its a significant amount of people, and a third of that is still significant to them.

but let's see where the boycott is in 6+ months after everything has cooled down

It seems to me that once folks have discovered the joys of piracy, they rarely return to streaming.

I wouldn't know, because I wouldn't download a car unless it was fully copyleft licensed.

There's always sailing the high seas

I mean, I finally quit Hulu over this, and neither my husband or I had even watched Hulu in about a year at this point. I'd always kept the subscription going "just in case,". I was the only one paying and neither of us has any qualms about letting it go.

I can't believe that we're the only ones in this bracket of users.

At this point, just pirate.

Looks like there's plenty of torrents

Kimmel is selling his show to abc which is owned by Disney

Welcome to the world of mega coorporations owning almost everything