My Cable TV package comes with at least 5 different streaming platforms. I only have said package because it actually brings my bills total cost down, somehow.
Seeing the writing on the wall that we could be headed back to the cable TV era, I had a hairbrained idea (haha- really just a name) back in like 2011/12, that would aggregate the three big streaming platform's libraries in a single interface. called: HuFlixPrime.
My idea to get cooperation and buy-in across the streaming providers was to try and "nudge" customers to subscribe and bundle competing services by directly showing all programming that could be accessed in one interface. Ideally streaming and account management and signup would be done through this single clearing house. Perhaps an incentive if all three services were active.
Obviously would be fraught with issues, and I could never really see any cooperation like that working. but I liked the name...
I'd add that I actually pay for Amazon Prime (mostly for the free shipping -- heavy stuff costs a fortune otherwise), but use other means to access Prime Video content because of the ads (there are a raft of Prime Video offerings that already have ads) and the spying.
I had a similar experience when I recently purchased Need for Speed: Heat on sale from Steam. The mandatory EA launcher that was installed along with game had separate spyware that launched at boot and couldn't (easily) be disabled. The "alternative version" didn't have that, so that's what I ended up playing.
Amazon was advertising during the football game last night that they could aggregate your subscriptions to at least Amazon Prime Video, Max, Paramount+, and AMC+ so you could get content from all of those platforms in the same place.
