Stream­fla­tion: Which stream­ing ser­vices have raised their prices?

Across the past year, prices for stream­ing ser­vices have shot up across the board.
Dis­ney+ is the lat­est to fol­low the trend, frus­trat­ing cus­tomers, many of whom see it as reneg­ing on the orig­i­nal promise that stream­ing ser­vices offered a cheap­er and more effi­cient alter­na­tive to cable. A Wall Street Jour­nal analy­sis found that the aver­age price for an ad-free stream­ing ser­vice has increased by about 25% in the past year.
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Stream­ing ser­vices first offered fire sale prices to lure in cus­tomers and cre­ate rapid growth, but have now had to go back on the mod­el, as many face a finan­cial reck­on­ing. Price hikes are like­ly to con­tin­ue in the future.
Here are all the stream­ing giants that have increased their prices recent­ly.
Net­flix
Per­haps the king of stream­ing ser­vices, Net­flix was a pio­neer for the mod­el, almost hold­ing a monop­oly for a brief peri­od. It also held out for a con­sid­er­able peri­od against engag­ing in price hikes but made up for the delay with two unpop­u­lar moves with con­sumers. For one, it cracked down on pass­word-shar­ing, only allow­ing a sin­gle house­hold to watch the ser …