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[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 113 points 5 months ago

I don’t do ads. Seeing them after years of not has a profoundly negative effect on my brain. A slight fog akin to waking up after using Benadryl as a sleep aide, and a hazing of attention capacity.

I’m not going to pay for that impact on my thinking. It certainly won’t improve the world to have more of it.

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 10 points 5 months ago

God, I have so many of these annoying catchy lines in my head. If I can't access anything I'll just use that Goldberg website to get some classics to read.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

It's been a long time, but I remember most of those Goldberg "classics" being pretty short, one-note affairs.

And then Schiavone exclaimed, "There it is, the spear! This one's over folks, one, two, three!"

"If that gentleman needs a chiropractor, my brother in law just set up shop downtown," said The Brain.

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[-] SitD@lemy.lol 100 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

all that to be locked out of anything higher than 720p if you dare use a privacy friendly operating system 😂 right, I'll be holding onto my money then

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Even using Firefox on Windows 10, 720p! I cancelled a while back and now I just download stuff.

[-] Wolfie@lemm.ee 48 points 5 months ago

I remember when streaming was super new and the service was AMAZING. As time passed; everything got much more expensive, movies and series were removed and now, even ads are displayed to you even though you pay for their service. The reason for the streaming service was BECAUAE of them having no ads. Now all streaming services has gone to shit :/ giving you 720p upscaled but saying its 1080 HD or 4k. Just lies.. Too expensive to pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services to get the movie you want to watch because one service doesn't have what you want to look at.

[-] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 5 months ago

Just FYI, currently in Sweden I pay the equivalent of about $10 for the standard tier without ads.

They only recently increased it to the close to $10. Currently I am OK paying that since my kid is actually using Netflix frequently.

As soon as the price goes higher, or they introduce ads in any way or once they start peddling their shitty mobile games on the child account, we're out.

They already started to not have non-English audio for a few pretty popular movies, which is a weird move and makes it less usable for us as well.

Already got Jellyfin setup, so no worries for the future on my end.

[-] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

mobile games might be the one good thing theyve been doing, pretty sure they released some solid ones, like hades port

[-] itslilith 18 points 5 months ago

Fuck them for licencing games behind a monthly subscription. I want to buy Into the Breach, not get a video subscription I won't use to be able to play it.

[-] Zoot@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago
[-] itslilith 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have it on PC, but I want to play it on the go. The only way to (legally) get it on mobile is via Netflix. I'd buy it, if I could, it'd be worth it

[-] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thats wild , didn't know that, you cant own hades on ios or play it offline

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[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah I was playing it while I cancelled my sub over the account sharing restriction. The only thing I missed, really.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

I think you're looking at it the wrong way. It's just an extra that you have for "free", not a dedicated gaming subscription. I also live in Europe and my Netflix is cheap, so I will have the subscription by default (cause a lot of people in my family watch it), which means I get to try the games for free. You can always just go buy them if you want, from the store.

[-] stardust@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

Even greedy Amazon is providing games that don't require a constant subscription to play even after you cancel Prime.

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[-] itslilith 4 points 5 months ago

I cannot. Mobile games are exclusively licensed by Netflix: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NGP.IntoTheBreach&hl=en-US

On desktop, I'll of course go for the actual purchase

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hmm, didn't know that one was exclusive to Netflix. It's not a universal thing or a rule, cause San Andreas Definitive Edition, for example, is available for purchase for $20. Probably depends on what the game publisher agreed to.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

No, you seeing it wrong.

The subscription is the ONLY way you can get that game, making the whole subscription a necessity if you only want to game that one game.

Like with YouTube, where you have to pay YouTube music as well, even if you have apple music payed by your daddy already

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[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

You can play hades on mobile now? It was already tough on PC, I can't imagine how difficult that would be on mobile touch controls.

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[-] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 5 months ago

Wasn't $7.99 the price for standard at some point? I mean, it was easy to predict but they really did just add the option with ads to make it as expensive as the version without ads and then make every other option way more expensive

[-] moody@lemmings.world 22 points 5 months ago

$7.99 was the only price at some point. Then they reduced the quality of the service and increased the price.

[-] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 29 points 5 months ago

Normal, people show again and again that they dont give a f about the prices, so they go up and ppl still subscribe.

prices will go up until ppl start to cancel

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 5 months ago

All that for JUST NETFLIX. What incredible bullshit people are having to deal with.

[-] AnagrammadiCodeina@feddit.it 23 points 5 months ago

I stopped going to the cinema for the ads , I used Netflix until they geoblocked my downloaded content and I couldn't watch it while traveling.

Now all my movies and series are free, in the resolution that I want, and they stay on my device for how long I want.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

I honestly don't mind the pre-movie ads too much. Usually there's not that many, it quickly moves on to other movie trailers (which I don't mind knowing about) and then you just get the full movie without any ads whatsoever. You can always just arrive 10 minutes later and skip most of the ads anyway.

Netflix ads can kiss my ass though. Jellyfin to the rescue!

[-] wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

My local single-screen theaters usually have little to no pre-roll ads. Some of them even have pizza and beer at a reasonable price.

That said, I watch most movies on my Plex server, from the comfort of my couch. The experience is harrd to beat.

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[-] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 18 points 5 months ago

This is incredibly misleading. They lost users in high paying regions and gained in lower paying countries.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 points 5 months ago

Lots of people want their chance at being American™ before the country collapses into a different culture

[-] hellequin67@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago

Sadly I still pay for a service I don't use because I have members of my house who are relucant to embrace the change. I, on the other hand, am more than happy with my Jellyfin and assorted apps to provide my content from whichever source I choose, now if only I could cadjole the others into embracing the freedom of the high seas.

[-] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 25 points 5 months ago

I was in a similar situation, I just told them I'm cancelling the account when they added the extra charge for extra users, and they're free to make their own account if they want.

There was a bit of complaining, but it turns out no one missed Netflix enough to come back.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

How do your house members prefer this service over jellyfin, if you are running it anyway 🤨?

[-] hellequin67@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

At this point your guess is as good as mine. I e also set up Jellyseer for discovery and ability for users to request stuff but still a reluctance to move.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago
[-] cestvrai@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago

Already bailed when they blocked account sharing…

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago

Yesh numbers can be easily manipulated.

Netflix is "sold" along other services. Here many internet companies bundle netflix in their plans.

They don't need to be attractive to the consumer. They just need to do a deal behind curtains with other companies and force Netflix on people by other ways. Numbers go up.

[-] squid_slime@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

Corner the market. Then close in.

Don't buy into subscription services.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago

When you open the app without an account, the animation it shows still says that it doesnt have any ads

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 9 points 5 months ago

Was watching a movie on Netflix with a friend a while back and it didn't even support subtitles for her...

[-] A_Asselin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago

Am I the only one around here that wants to see them burn in hell just out of principle?

[-] sakuragasaki46@feddit.it 9 points 5 months ago

what about stremio+torrentio+RealDebrid?

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 9 points 5 months ago

I shared my parents' account, but rather than locking me and my sister out of Netflix when they started bringing in restrictions against account sharing, Netflix just…deleted our account entirely. Maybe something to do with my parents being in a different country from me and my sister.

So anyway we haven't had Netflix for like 2 years now thanks to that. Thankfully we've got a really nice…alternative streaming site with all the stuff that Netflix has, and any other stuff available from around the web, with the niceties of being streaming based rather than requiring downloading ahead of time, and keeping your watch progress etc.

[-] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 8 points 5 months ago

My parents are finally getting rid of it. The one thing I've noticed, though, is that not having a subscription service means I'm very unlikely to get off my butt and watch tv/movies. Which isn't a bad thing, I guess I just value other entertainment more?

I've wanted to watch the boy and the heron for a while. Maybe I'll get to it eventually, lol.

[-] Xianshi@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Think of them as patrons of the arts

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

I get Netflix for free but literally never use it. I think I’ll cancel it. Why even have it?

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

Are the gains self reported? They are probably lying then.

[-] vfsh 6 points 5 months ago

"Are these 'gains' in the room with us right now?"

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[-] cupcakezealot 2 points 5 months ago

Wild that standard with ads is now the same price as original regular Netflix

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