Who cares though, right? We all unsubscribed from that useless streaming service, right?
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I mean yeah I suspect most people on Lemmy have. But we’re outliers.
I still get it as part of my phone plan, and hardly ever use it. They’ve conditioned me to not ever get interested in a Netflix show until there’s at least 4 seasons.
I get it through my phone plan for free (t-mobile) and I still cancelled my account with Netflix.
Yeah, it's quite ballsy of them to do this when they haven't released anything good in several years.
Even if they don't release anything, wtf. There is a huge back catalogue of movies I want to rewatch and stuff I've never seen. I can't remember a single time I searched for a classic movie I wanted to watch and found it on Netflix streaming. Those movies were often available through Netflix DVD though! Enshitification indeed.
I use Justwatch to figure out where films and shows are, and even then it's grim how many aren't available to stream, or even buy legally.
even then it’s grim how many aren’t available to stream, or even buy legally.
At that point you should honestly just pirate it so that a copy continues to exist.
I've done that for my Jellyfin server, but some things are too rare and niche to be sure of results unfortunately.
Sure did. They still email me about shit to watch. Dunno why I thought that would stop on its own.
Yeah, I thought I did. I can't even log into Netflix as they say I don't have an account, and yet my PayPal history is showing I've been paying them continuously...
How the fuck can they charge me for an account that doesn't exist!? I just cancelled it today through PayPal, hopefully that stops it. It's absolutely absurd.
Currently costs peanuts in India (have some good friends over there 🥸) and there's no password sharing crackdown yet. Comes down to $2 per person on the highest plan. As long as this continues, I'll stay subbed to Netflix.
It's like the only one that works natively on my mom's TV so that's all she watches 🤷
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The prices of Netflix's $6.99 ad-supported plan and the $15.49 Standard tier remain unchanged.
I wouldn't be surprised if they crunched the numbers and realized adverters are desperate for a new place to show ads now that cable is basically dead.
They'll keep raising the prices of ad free hoping people move to the ad supported tier.
If you're ad free, Netflix makes the most profit when you never open it, and may even lose money if you're always streaming something.
On ad plans, they'll keep making money the more people watch. There's no "tipping point" where profits go down the more someone watches.
Spot on. I expect within five or six years most streaming services will have priced ad-free plans out of the average person's budget and then they'll drop them entirely, citing a lack of consumer demand. There's way more money to be made through cablefication.
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There’s way more money to be made through cablefication.
I mean. Supposedly.
But then again, cable is dead for a reason.
I mean. Supposedly.
But then again, cable is dead for a reason.
Yes, and the reason cable is dead is specifically because streaming offered a more affordable, convenient, and ad-free option. Now that it's pretty much the only legal game in town and every greedy fuck out there is trying to start their own streaming service the cablefication is well underway. You think the c-suite types give a single fuck about the long-term viability of their services? lol no. They're here for short term profits. They'll be carried off into the sunset by their golden parachute while you're paying $45/mo to watch commericals on Netflix.
You think the c-suite types give a single fuck about the long-term viability of their services? lol no
This is the madness. It really speaks to the emptiness that underlies whatever we call the philosophy that results in this kind of decision making. Modern MBA cult? Neo-liberalism?
Christ, stop buying businesses just to break them people.
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If you have more than two streaming services it now cost more than cable.
We've come full circle, guys!
I’m not sure which streaming services you mean but cable back when I had it YEARS ago was over $120 a month. That was just the tv part, not including internet.
I can’t think of 3 streaming services that come near that price.
Yea you could really pay a lot depending on how many channels you subscribed to and especially if you had premium channels like HBO or Starz.
I'm sure we'll get there though.
Still way better than cable
At least for now we don't have to watch ads....
Only if you’re counting YouTubeTV as one of those and even still, I remember my dad arguing with dish or direct about the $150 bill all the time over a decade ago. We switched cable providers every other year to keep the price in the low $100 range and as soon as the honeymoon period was over they would double it.
Even YouTubeTV+Netflix+Disney+w/e is less than cable for now
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At this point, I don’t think I’ll ever subscribe again. 🏴☠️
Oh god no. Its the high seas or no see's for mee's
I am not that concerned about prices because I only ever have one subscription going at once but cancelling it Inside Job was the last drop for me. I'm not going to pay them to NOT make the shows I like.
Once you've used Stremio + a debrid service, you realise how much better everything could be. Just... the entire catalogue of shows ever made available all the time. I don't think I can go back.
Does Stremio work similarly to Plex? I've not heard of it or debrid, going to look into it!
I don't really know plex, I tried some media players like it ages ago, but Stremio just recently.
Basically it has plugins that link it to databases of shows and their torrents, then the debrid service links those torrents to cached versions that can be downloaded from the debrid servers at high speed so you don't have to actually wait for a torrent. I also do it behind a VPN because that can get you in trouble if you end up using a torrent.
The only issue I've had is occasionally shows will get hit with copyright strikes that the debrid services will honour in order to stay in business. Usually another torrent will take their place but then you have to search for it in the list. Still better than Netflix just saying "no results" or "here are similar shows". No, Netflix, I do not want something similar to the show I was halfway through, I want that show specifically. They may be fungible to your algorithm, but not to my heart. Fuck you, Netflix.
I unsubscribed when they killed account sharing and planned to subscribe just for one or two months per year to binge every show I like... but I may not subscribe again for a long time now, considering that these guys take their villain role very seriously, I mean it's really hard to not dislike them right now. They're like the Cersei Lannister of streaming services
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
lmao hivemind with their finger on the pulse again. 8.8 million users added following the "mass exodus"
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Juice it! 🍋
Pump it! ⛽
Milk the cows 🐄
Its so boring rn tho
Another reason for piracy
I feel what streaming services did was repeat cable, like we cut the cord just to bring it back.
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