I know very little about this topic, do not take this as fact. One possible reason is licensing issues. It's a mess. Not an unsolvable one, but one that pirates usually don't have to deal with.

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Might be licensing but I think it's actually just that they will hide everything that's not dubbed in the language you speak because I didn't find anything on Netflix (back when I had it) that wasn't dubbed in German

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

It's just US managers who cannot imagine people speaking more than one language

[–] mke@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My bad, I misunderstood your previous comment as saying you could only watch in your native language.

Searching a bit, I found an old blogpost explaining how to filter Netflix content so it only showed stuff available in English. So I assume it isn't (or at least wasn't) that they only show content dubbed in your language.

However, from my understanding, dubbing is quite popular. Especially so in Germany, or so say my 10 minutes of superficial research into the topic.

Netflix may simply noticed that dubbed was the more popular option by a significant margin and accordingly decided to invest a lot into making shows available with dubs, or not "waste" money making them available at all.

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For most things that's true but 99% of anime aren't dubbed in any language other than Japanese. I still wanted to watch them tho, I always watch those in the original language with subtitles anyway. Was one of the main reasons I stopped using Netflix.

[–] mke@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I completely understand. Though I rarely watch it nowadays, I'm much the same. Sometimes I'll make an exception when I hear the dubbed version is worth it.