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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Already bailed when they blocked account sharing…

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.

Corner the market. Then close in.

Don't buy into subscription services.

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

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.

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

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

what about stremio+torrentio+RealDebrid?

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.

Think of them as patrons of the arts

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

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

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