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You either die a hero, or live long enough to become another shitty cable company.
I ditched Netflix years ago when the content got worse by the week. Good shows were taken off by rights holders so they could put it on other platforms and what remained sucked. Not to mention Netflix’s proclivity for killing its own shows.
It got to a point where all the new stuff were shitty movies and Scandinavian crime dramas. Hard pass.
With the way other streaming services are going, it wouldn’t surprise me if people jumped back to piracy. I honestly don’t mind paying something reasonable, but all these subscriptions and price hikes do add up.
This is more feel than empirical data, but Netflix feels like they've gotten markedly better over the last 2-3 months.
I get the subscription as part of a membership on some other things, but would not have paid for the service the way it's gone over the last ~2 years. That said after seeing the recent improvements, if my access to Netflix was cut off tomorrow, I'd probably shell out for the lowest non-ad tier of service.
However, mad respect for the people out there keeping the P2P/torrenting communities alive.
Edit: spelling errors
It only got 'worse' if you're American. They've been consistently adding cool foreign media. Sure not everything can be a hit but that's literally true for regular cable too. Plenty of shitty channels and shows. I canceled my sub anyways because of the price a while back, arrrg.