Draconic NEO

I didn’t say ask them for a refund. I said get your money back. A chargeback is more than fair in this case considering their service is already or about to become worthless. Yeah they’ll probably ban the account but they don’t have the leverage anymore to threaten you not to do that because yet again, the service is worthless at this point.

So… angry downvote trolling/brigading?

I was mainly taking a jab at the original Kodi addons community which had a lot of very toxic and elitist people in it which would bully people for not wanting to buy, specifically, RealDebrid to use for addons which only work with RealDebrid. These people are very much screwed now because many of those addons were RealDebrid exclusive and are effectively broken because of it. They were warned about this many times before and they laughed at the people who warned them about this happening.

That is true. You can switch to a new provider, and hopefully there are some that won’t become unstable in the future.

Although in some cases of RealDebrid addiction/dependency like with Kodi addons which stupidly hard-code or otherwise only utilize RealDebrid they’ll just end up broken and no longer functional. Thankfully most cases are flexible and don’t cause that to happen, and also hopefully this event teaches addon devs to not be so dependent on a single service.

I agree that simple questions can have simple answers. I was simply trying to offer an explanation as to why other people might downvote comments like this. But it’s likely they aren’t being reasonable.

I don’t know, maybe people thought it was a lazy answer? People on Lemmy can be insanely unreasonable sometimes with how they vote content.

Which unfortunately has been the preferred way of doing it for a while. Hopefully people will learn and stop relying on it so much.

That is true, $20 isn’t much in this day and age. It’s not something you’re going to die over or be in trouble without. I would still do it mainly out of principle since I’d rather not help them along with one more payment like that. Of course I haven’t ever signed up for them, and I obviously never intend to now.

As I’ve said in other comments you can easily get your money back, probably would be worth it since it’s not like RD will be of much use once they start pulling cached files.

You should probably try to get your money back via chargeback. This service is basically useless at this point, so might as well get money back better spent on something else if you still can. Worst they do is ban you from the service, a service they have already made not worth it anymore.

CC: @Evkob@lemmy.ca

Do a chargeback, get your money back for it, assuming you can and it hasn’t been too long. What are they gonna do? Ban you? Ha that’s rich their service is about to become darn near worthless, that’s an empty threat that doesn’t have any teeth. Download your existing files and get your money back from them.

Me too, I kind of always saw this coming and it really pissed me off when elitist pirates would try and bully people into buying it. Now I can and will rub their faces in it.

That’s almost every chromium browser out there, most don’t even bother to change the skin and user interface from the chromium default.