Netflix has no way to continue growing aside from increasing prices. That is a bad sign. They will just keep squeezing people. Your best bet is to stop subscribing.
Genius MBA thinking of our time
Yea tbh it's business model is gonna be obsolete.
The bottom line is especially in a trash economy where the rich are bleeding everyone, no one is gonna wanna pay for digital luxuries.
I only shell out for hardware and food.
Do the shareholders care?
Cause they just want to squeeze Netflix while they still can before they jump ship. And at that time, Netflix dying and another streaming services surfacing would be ideal for savvy investors.
Netflix removing subscribers. What is their plan, zero subscribers?
Is it opposite day?
Gotta bump up that "$/sub" metric!
It's the classic "get people hooked with a free service then force them to pay"
remember when the adfree plan for netflix was 8.99?
Yup, and that's when I stopped buying DVDs and pirating. But with standard without ads being ~$15 with less selection, guess what I've gone back to doing?
They're passing off the price of inflation to the people
Hahahaha
Is it that the decade of 0% interest rates and angel funding for startups lulled us into unrealistically thinking we could get unlimited everything for 9.99 per month, or is it that companies are suddenly starting to rip off people?
As an end consumer it's impossible to gauge what is a proper price for entertainment.
Netflix has been profitable since 2003. This is greed.
It's probably the latter.
"Delivering shareholder value" has destroyed numerous companies, and I doubt it'll stop soon.
It's simple really
Is the boss a multimillionaire?
No: No problem
Yes: They're charging more than they need to
As with many things, it really is likely a mixture of both. Very possible that 9.99 was unrealistically low, but the current streaming market and "inflation" smoke screening is also enabling some real squeezing of consumers.
Not me! I gave all these streaming assholes the boot years ago.
I joined the Plex server plan, it's better and works everywhere and I don't get price increases or ads
All the shows that I like I've been buying DVD or Blu-rays for, and then I rip them and put them on my Plex server. Just so I can watch some anytime, and not potentially damage the discs.
I don't have to worry about geofencing, Don't have to worry about a price change ever, Don't have to deal with commercials, Don't have to think if the shows that I like are going to disappear and maybe show up on a different provider, and generally higher quality audio and video.
Would it just be easier to use something like iTunes for movies/shows?
You'd have to remove the DRM protection to get the same results. But by that point it's no easier than ripping a blu ray, and with ripping you get the added benefit of having a physical copy.
Okay that makes sense. I have around 1,000 movies on iTunes so not sure if I’d have all the space for the dvds and would take a pretty long time to rip
Guess we are all lucky that we have options these days
I find putting a DVD into a DVD player without having to sign in, have credit, a credit card, and have wifi to be the easiest. Usually costs less too
I bet you still write checks also
Remember those few years when stores had a little machine they could feed the check into and it'd fill everything out for you?
Jellyfin + Wireguard VPN server says hello
Also, on the "standard with ads" tier, they've removed the ability to chromecast.
Wow what a dumb way to basically gatekeep me from even moving to the ad tier.
The ads are added in the app. If you cast, the Chromecast can't add apps (yet) so they'd have to make ad streams instead, and switch between the streams show-ad-show which would take several seconds of loading screen each way and so on. Which is a level of fuckery even they shied away from.
TLDR they can't (easily) show ads during casting.
Kind of makes sense - casting is usually a webstream without extra dev effort. I'm not sure if you still can, but I used to circumvent twitch ads by casting from my phone. Not to excuse their shitty behaviour; I gave up on them years ago and started hosting my own content.
Good thing I already like digitizing my media for Plex
I mean I think I know what you mean I also think "digitizing" doesn't really describe it. Most media nowadays is digital to begin with. Even audio CDs store a digital format.
We now have a collection of maybe 400 DVDs (not pirated, legally purchased). Sure, everything we watch is reruns, but there are no commercials.
99% of the shit Netflix has is reruns anyways
Cable is dead! Long live Cable!
/s
Cable companies did the cable model because it was profitable. Netflix and others are slowly realizing that and moving towards it.
Yup. It was the same enshittification process. "Subscribe to cable. We don't have commercials!" Then a few years later, "Guess what?!? You're getting commercials!"
40 months of PIA is $80. So for $2 a month, you can have it all with no ads and no region locking.
Remember to use streamio so you don't have to download shit. 😉
What's PIA?
The shittiest VPN company that you shouldn’t trust ever.
I don't trust anyone, but I haven't heard bat things about PIA. That was just the first one I looked up. Did something happen that we shouldn't trust them? I know Nord is now suspect.
Bad things about PIA? Apart from the fact it was bought 5 years ago by Kape Technologies, a former malware distributor, involved in state sponsored espionage and mass surveillance, who also owns Cyberghost, Express VPN and Zenmate plus a plethora of VPN review sites and social network channels that promote its own products as top notch?
Private Internet Access is a VPN service.
I'd take a PIA for $2 per month
If that happens,i'll trakt + jellyfin the hell out of all their shitty shows. Just for kicks.
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