Streaming services are falling into the same trap as cable TV

By Carson Vercoe | Sports Writer Last weekend I laid down in my bed, opened my computer and got ready to watch a movie. I opened up Netflix and started looking, but after 10 minutes I hadn’t found what I was looking for. Then I tried another streaming platform and another one after that; by the time I was done, I didn’t even want to watch the movie. Watching TV used to be simple. You would scroll through the channels and find something interesting to watch. If you wanted to watch a specific movie, you could rent it without having to search through multiple platforms to find it. But that’s gone now. Streaming services such as Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus and countless others were designed to make watching the things you wanted to watch simple. You can watch whatever you want, whenever you want.

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