YT forces you to buy Premium if you want to listen to a video with your phone screen turned off
Spotify injects you with non stop ads unless you pay for their subscription
Less than half the movies on Amazon Prime Video are "Free" with a prime subscription, you still have to rent them
In general, everything has a subscription service now which basically sells you the solutions to problems that have no reason to exist in the first place (if the software or program was designed well in the first place).
The amount of money people I know spend each month on a dozen different subscriptions services they have set to autopay is ridiculous. All of this can be circumvented with a $5 VPN subscription and I actively encourage this behavior now in my real life social circles.
Not to mention just in general, things like new movie releases, books, etc are way overpriced imo.
We live in very dark times economically for everyday working class people, and the corporations charging us through the nose just to circumvent ads or be able to do basic user friendly things do not deserve our money.