I'm all for services making a reasonable profit and being able to fund new shows and such endeavors...

But we're rapidly getting into an environment of "soaking viewers for all we can get out of them" simply to feed the fucking shareholders ever larger payouts.

Thank you Milton Friedman. 🖕

🙄 🤡 🖕

YAHAR!!!!! HOIST THE MAIN SAILS!!!!

They want the old cable tv days back, but worse

This gem might need an update.

“[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,” Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, per the publication.

Amy, I want you to be honest with me, are you an alien.

Because on planet Earth we do not, if fact, pay as much attention to the ads as to the things we're actually interested in. Famously our brains even produce this fascinating effect to spare us from the bullshit you're shoving into our eyeballs.

Netflix will what now? Sorry, I was busy canceling my netflix account.

Kidding, I canceled it ages ago when the $10 version became SD-only with ads.}

Why do we keep paying people like this to enshittify everything?

They show me an ad, and they are out. It is that simple. Luckily, my life does not depend on streaming.

If I pay for a service and get ads, that service is dead to me forever.

i just subscribe to the netflix tier that serves all streams as torrents

Yarrr

Between that, price hike, and some weirdly low quality content because you don't use this or that browser, netflix really wants people to stop their subscriptions it seems.

94 million people decided $10 a month savings was worth watching ads rather than doing without. Fuck em. They are the reason many things only have an ad supported tier. Pay for stuff or pirate it, but don't use ad supported tiers when you have a choice.

“[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,” Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, per the publication.

In terms of attention, she's either lying or admitting that members barely pay attention to their content.

I've gone back to books.

No they won't 🏴‍☠️

Either they have great technology, or they have great entertainment,” she said. “Our superpower has always been the fact that we have both.

Please. Your software is an image carousel and a video player.

"Millions of former subscribers will cancel their accounts in 2026"

FTFY

The sooner people realize that the subscribers are nothing more than super-slow-boiled frogs to them, the better.

Is this feature coming to Sonarr/Radar + Jellyfin? /s

So the dead Internet extends to streaming.

Also anyone else interested in just crazy an ai add what will be.

ads will continue until subscriptions improve

I was looking to cut down on subscriptions and picked Netflix as an experimental one. I haven't missed it at all. Things like this make me less likely to occasionally reactivate for a couple of months as I was originally planning.

I wonder when they'll see a big enough effect to break their current run of fucking over their customers.

Soo... the ad income is higher than the energy costs of gen. AI? They lied about the pennies per visit? 😢

Also, 🏴‍☠️

Well piracy is the only way then.

Each day brings us closer to either Cyberpunk 2077 or Bladerunner

I'm sorry, did you say Netflix is going to be pirated aggressively for the few shows that aren't complete slop?

Bye Netflix, hello plex.

Edit: hello Jellyfin, as helpful users have mentioned the enshitification of plex to me.