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Netflix confirms it is increasing subscription prices, again, after adding 8.8 million customers::undefined
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Who cares though, right? We all unsubscribed from that useless streaming service, right?
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.
It’s like the only one that works natively on my mom’s TV so that’s all she watches 🤷
Tell all your friends and family what a steaming pile of shit it is. Share memes that tell people its a waste of money. Lots of stuff do to
Sure, you could do that. But it’s better to be pro-alternative than anti-whatever. Personally I’d share jellyfin or Plex with my friends and family and ask them to do the same with whatever movies they have. It’s the modern equivalent of lending somebody a DVD and a list of your DVD collection.
Im not sure if your pro/anti point is true. Its the whole reason ads are a billion dollar industry. To counteract it there should be anti marketing movement.
Great point. I’m skeptical though. If you are anti-thing-1 then there could always be thing-2. Being anti-marketing is better framed as pro-person or pro-volition or something similar. I suspect if advertising companies could not exist, media companies would force you to buy something you did not like instead of watching an ad, or in Netflix’s case they would force you to watch an episode of something you didn’t care about. This wouldn’t be advertising but would cause the ratio of watches of whatever their sponsors show was to go up. This would be similar to how Apple automatically added that U2 album to everybody’s account. It inflates that thing and causes you to digest it into your subconscious. It’s better to be pro-I-choose-what-I-watch.
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.
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.
We’re getting there. At one time TV was $40/month
And now my basic Internet connection from the only provider in the area (who is also the TV provider) is $100/mo
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
The cost of cable where I can choose what I want to watch when I want to watch it. Whereas before I had to hope that the programming directors for the different channels picked something somewhere worth watching when I turned on the tube.
Die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain
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
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
There is nothing on netflix that I would even want to watch and they canceled both the dark crystal and 1899. Also altered carbon was a disaster and black mirror is not what it used to be. Maybe 3 body problem will be the single good scifi series they made since the dark, maybe not.
altered carbon was a disaster
Personally, I loved it. I just wish they’d make a second season.
altered carbon was a disaster
Personally, I loved it. I just wish they’d make a second season.
I might be confusing with another show, but I thought they did make a second season, but not a third?
They had a major lead actor change between the two seasons, if it’s the right show that I’m thinking about.
I was being a bit sarcastic, because season 1 was fantastic, but season 2 was (IMHO) absolutely terrible. I couldn’t finish it.
Fair enough. I got through the second season, and I found it okay, but yeah definitely not as good as the first.
Maybe 3 body problem will be the single good scifi series they made since the dark, maybe not.
I just started the series and while I like it I don’t see how it will make for good TV due to it’s heavily philosophical nature. At least not without drastic change to the source material.
The Chinese version pretty much stuck to the novel word for word and looks pretty decent except for the low budget and average acting. Still better than watching the minecraft version.
I was so confused when I saw the most recent Black Mirror season. Joan is Awful was really good (and tech related), but then there was a bunch of so-so Twilight Zone wannabe episodes with little to nothing to do with technology.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Man. So glad NAS is in my computer toy budget next year
Same I’m finally looking to build one in January or February
lmao hivemind with their finger on the pulse again. 8.8 million users added following the “mass exodus”
Eh, it makes sense. Folks here are thinking about it a few steps ahead, if I don’t unsub then all the other services will do the same over time and raise prices, which negatively impacts me in the long term. Your average folks aren’t thinking that at all.
Another reason for piracy
Its so boring rn tho
When did netflix become a FAANG company? What do they have that is so valuable? To me it seems like they don’t develop any particularly incredible tech besides streaming and storage
I mean FAANG stands for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google. So they’ve always been one.
I know that the N stands for netflix, but like, why did people considered it important enough to be in the name? It sounds to me like microsoft deserved that spot
That’s a good point. I’m not sure why Microsoft doesn’t get a spot there. I think when the acronym was made these were the tech stocks that were growing like there’s no tomorrow, whereas Microsoft just always has steady growth, and isn’t as sexy.
Nah they bumped Netscape out
Netscape must’ve stuck around much longer than I imagined lol
They don’t develop any particularly incredible tech aside from the one their whole product is based around and enabled them to be an industry leader 🙈
Yeah but, it’s just one product, the rest of FAANG have multiple gooses that lay down golden eggs
To me it seems like they don’t develop any particularly incredible tech besides streaming and storage
Well they pretty much single-handedly started the whole streaming on demand service for movies and series and rapidly grew accordingly. This success even allowed them to get into the production side of the movie and series industry. They also destroyed the DVD market and stagnated the Blueray market on their own.
Now they face more and more competitions after the other companies saw that there’s a lot of money in this. The lose of that monopoly of course impacts their success and they seem to struggle with it. But they still are a giant in that market segment. So it’s not surprising that they still are counted as a FAANG company.
and they seem to struggle with it.
they never struggled. The just cannot adhere to the “eternal growth” which is different than “struggle”. They were making millions. The “problem” was that they wanted each quarter to make more millions that the previous quarter. CEOs believe that there is an infinite amount of potential subscribers or even if they manage to make everyone on earth subscribe then they will eternally increase their prices every quarter. Or I don’t know, maybe their system has some flaws
I get that at the time, but even back then Netflix didn’t have that much valuation compared with the top of the tech companies. Sure, they are very relevant even with the rise in streaming platforms, but as far as I know they only have 1 good product, no hardware or other diversification. I don’t really align ideologically with the following companies, but Nvidia, Tesla, Adobe or Microsoft could have taken that spot, they much more valuation according to https://companiesmarketcap.com/, and as I see it, they do more technological innovation
I feel like people just sticked with FAANG because it’s kinda catchy, but I think if you take into account world impact/tech development/valuation/size I don’t think it makes much sense that Netflix is there
