Clips is a TikTok-like vertical video stream where users can scroll through excerpts from Netflix series, films, and specials, as well as trailers for upcoming titles.
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Disney+ has "Verts". It's fucking ridiculous.
It's wild to watch these companies chase after one another with no thought. Just "TikTok is popular! Can we be TikTok?!?!???"
You have a product. Do that product well. Fuck!
CEOs are really herd animals, always looking what the other guy is doing and living in a continuous fear of missing out the next big thing. It sure doesn't help with shareholders breathing down their neck pushing for short term profit and growth.
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Who wants any of that?
Yes.. yes and of course!
Netflix plan to bring even more ads to even more parts of it's service.....and I plan to continue not being a customer.
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What is the point of a paid service with ads? Its just really odd, like who has money for Netflix and whatever shit they are advertising? And everyone will resent these added ads on this platform, so why pay Netflix to make people hate your product.
What is the point of a paid service with ads?
Cable got away with it until it didn't.
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Cable was a shitty service. It was expensive, you had to subscribe to a bunch of shit you didn't want for just a few programs you did, and was full of ads. People dropped cable for streaming because it was cheaper, centralized, and didn't have ads.
Now that cable is essentially dead, streaming is bringing back the high prices and the ads, and now you have to sign up for a bunch of shit you don't want for the few programs you do.
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Hey ! Looks ! This thing it's called jellyfin. It's installed on something that's called Truenas. It's doing the same thing as netflix.
That's just misinformation. I put some shows onto a Jellyfin instance and not a single one has disappeared. Not even an email about something being dropped soon. So that's a core part of the Netflix experience you're just not getting with Jellyfin.
Heck, it doesn't even randomly force me to watch in 1080p or 720p despite being on the 4K plan and the show/movie being available in 4K. It's like Jellyfin isn't even trying.
The last drop in the bucket for me was when Jellyfin didn't show any ads.
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Cool. I plan to continue not using Netflix. Seems like this arrangement is working out great for both of us.
The fact that they keep pushing the envelope with more and more ads and higher costs show that people are willing to go along with it. That is sad to think about
No one should be surprised, cable tv played out the same way. Got you hooked on content and then started shoving ads in so often they sped up credits or ran the credits under the commercial break to squeeze just a biiiiiit more out of you
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Good thing I don’t have Netflix then.
Morons… cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face.
Morons or masters of revenue?
We all hate it, but for every one of us who will cancel there’s ten more who will just keep paying no matter how bad it gets.
Just takes one show and a lack of motivation to self host a solution, and these companies own every popular show and nearly the entire pipeline of creation.
Advertisements work so well everybody is trying to put them everywhere to make more money. It’s just that simple. Reddit is effectively full vertical video and photo content if you browse the site without logging in, because a few second video format is enough to slip in a quick ad without triggering people as much as a long format ad does, like infomercials of yore.
If we want the ads gone we need to regulate them away.
This really opens a new niche for people to help newbies setup self hosting.
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We're paying for ads now. They're double whammying users and we're eating it up because everything's just too expensive.
I don't want to live in this society anymore...
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Time to swap media with your friends on portable hard drives and USB sticks again baby!!!
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There is a great episode on the podcast “99% invisible” called “enshitification “ that precisely describes this action. Every device or ‘service’ will do this once they feel they have you locked in. The case study was about John Deere and Apple, but applies here too. Interesting that John Deere settled their case and had to pay $99 million.
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I'm glad I unsubscribed to Netflix.
When that happens I'll be gone. I'm already at the end of my rope when pausing to read something on the screen and two seconds later they fill my paused screen with an advertisement. It's starting to seem to me that everything happening in the world today is to deflect from the sneaky invasiveness of company's wanting to sell you their shit.
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How to make more people sail the high seas.
And I will continue pirating all the series I ever want to watch.
It would be hilarious if all those company killed by streaming platform suddenly crawl back up from hell and make physical rental widely available again.
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So done with Netflix. Streaming just isn't worth it any more; I have better things to do with my time.
Might I recommend a library card? Most libraries have a DVD/BlueRay collection to borrow. And there are books. Maybe the younguns might want to consider reading a few more books? It's good for you. Like eating vegetables for the mind.
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I can’t for the life of me understand why people pay for this crap. Netflix used to be a great way to stream a bunch of shows you liked on a lot of different devices easily. It was like five dollars and it was definitely worth it just for the ease of use. It’s just too expensive now with too much crap on it that comes and goes. I have no idea why anybody puts up with it anymore. It’s either the high seas or just buy it on something like Apple TV.
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Laughs in Jellyfin
Never been so happy to sail the seven seas! 🏴☠️🥰🏴☠️ Jellyfin FTW
Enshittification is inevitable. The only variable is how long it takes.
Cancel your subscription & come over to the Dark Side! (I do recommend learning some basics beforehand though)
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The high seas are callin us boys! 🏴☠️
They're already doing this lol.
Netflix also plans to introduce “personalized ad loads and frequency caps that dynamically adjust the ads our members see, based on their viewing behaviors.” Netflix hasn’t shared any more details about how this could work. The big question is whether streaming more on Netflix could result in fewer ads per episode or film.
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