Each day brings us closer to either Cyberpunk 2077 or Bladerunner
... or Terminator, or Mad Max. Dredd with Robocop are on the list too.
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.
I paid for the ad tier of disneyplus and use an adblocker. Seems to work well so far.
"Millions of former subscribers will cancel their accounts in 2026"
FTFY
Sadly I think you're a optimistic with those numbers. It's probably gonna be a few thousand. The numbers can feel skewed if you only look at Lemmy.
Nah, my cousins are normies. Every time I'm at their place and the TV is on, you almost can't tell if the ads get more play than the content they actually wanted to see. Their TV is treated like an old FM radio where ads are just a part of it. They complain, but they'll never actually do anything about it.
“[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.
They have told writers to dumb things down and have the characters speak aloud what they’re doing because so many people doom scroll while it’s on in the background.
There not making quality. They’re making elevator music for your home.
If I pay for a service and get ads, that service is dead to me forever.
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?
Cause a lot of times it’s a family account and only one person actually realized how bad of a deal it is.
I mean we keep signing up for services because they're convenient or fun or interesting and every single time they start cutting corners, worsening services, being more invasive with ads, and charging more and more for the 'privilege' of doing whatever it was you were doing there. Why do we keep falling for that and then being surprised when it ends up in the same place as the last 12 platforms or whatever?
Nice ahoy mateys!
The shittyfication goes forward...
byeeeee
Quit netflix ages ago, but is add blocking not going to work here? I addblock on hulu no problem.
I recently setup my own Jellyfin server with qbittorent search plug-ins and its so easy. Netflix is really playing with fire here cause people will leave when pushed enough as it's becoming so easy to switch. You can just hop on your friends server too
While I am in the same boat as you, you severely overestimate the tech-affinity of the average Netflix user.
Pirating content safely, setting up a media server for it, share it with other people... it is all possible, there is good documentation out there. But aside from having the drive to do this, you also need to invest time to keep it running and maintain it.
The average person out there is happy to pay Netflix money so they don't need to do that.
Edit: add to that also the fact that it is technically illegal in many countries. This is probably also a deterrent for the average person.
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