It’s like they are trying to irritate people into canceling their accounts.
Imo, this one might actually be worse than the account sharing and cause people to quit. As soon as you have people messing around with their subscription version, it’s all too easy to just say “nah, I actually don’t want this anymore”.
I already dipped. By the time I cancelled I wasn’t using the service enough to justify paying for it monthly, anyways.
Yeah, imagine running a company, with customers that simply pay the monthly, because it is cheap enough to cancel. But then you start annoying the users and reduce convenience, then increase the price. What could possibly be the end goal here?
Me, too. In my country, I’m paying the equivalent of 13€ for Disney, Amazon, HBO and SkyShowtime combined. And although Netflix has some good shows, it’s nowhere near enough to rival all of these together - no way I’m paying 10€/mo. just for it. Guess I’ll pirate the few I actually miss.
I just cancelled everything, no more subscriptions for me, except for the yearly re-up on usenet indexers
I had actually thought about signing up for the basic plan because it is just me who likes it, but I was put off by the low quality.
Well - I guess now I’ll be officially sticking to Plex.
I gave up on Netflix so many years ago now with zero regrets. The second they started their rumblings (nearly a decade ago now) about wanting to stop people from accessing other countries media selection I said fuck it, spun up a Plex install and never looked back.
Sonarr and Emby were pretty much the only things I needed to scrap streaming services entirely.
I can only assume this but this is most likely a response to the C-11 bill that just passed. Netflix was already losing mass amounts of content due to other streaming services. And now our government is mandating that all online streaming have & pay for a certain amount of Canadian content…
Our government is really the one fucking us over when it comes to the internet. From only ever helping monopolies to passing laws on the internet that can only harm users.
That law is in effect in Europe since a long time ago (in fact is thanks to that law that netflix carries so much non north-american content) and netflix didn’t remove any tiers.
Only some European countries like France, UK never had that law.
Sorry, when I said Europe I meant the european union.
Which the UK was in up until three years ago and never had said law. I’m pretty sure places like Germany or Poland don’t have it either.
Yes they have. I think that it’s not a law from the european union but a directive that then each country has to apply locally, but just with a simple search I found things like these:
https://variety.com/2022/digital/global/netflix-30-europe-content-quota-avms-1235286587/
https://looperinsights.com/what-do-new-european-content-laws-mean-for-streaming-services/
https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-amazon-prime-video-eu-law-local-content-2018-9
Companies always use stuff like this to jack up prices and blame others for their own greed. Just like companies who use 3% inflation to increase their prices 40%. The ignorant just lap it up and blame the government while putting that 40% extra into some CEOs pocket.
Things in Canada have changed dramatically over the past 15 years and every year it seems to accelerate at a faster rate. We all thought Reddits “enshitification” was bad, living here is worse!!
A coincidence that cory doctrow who coined enshittification, is from toronto?
Is that the 720p plan or the 1080p? Anyways, I already thinking about canceling it. I pay already 12,99€ a month and the program quality has gotten worse over time.
720p is single screen, 1080p dual screen, and 4k for 4 screens
Most people I know will be subscribed to one streaming service and switch every few months to get the shows they want. I’m expecting most streaming services to become a lot more “user hostile” as they try to squeeze out every penny.
Yeah this is what I’m going to do once my Netflix accounts expires on the 28th. I have feel like they’re going to start introducing a cheaper option for a yearly subscription in the hopes that they can prevent ppl from jumping ship every few months.
“nah, I actually don’t want this anymore.
This was my reaction quite a while ago. We got rid of our account because we just didn’t use it anymore and the price kept climbing.
This is just Netflix desperately trying to claw back some profit. They think they can siphon most people into higher-priced accounts.
Arrr 🏴☠️
Mullvad is 5.50$/mo, enjoy.
They block port forwarding, essentially killing P2P for anything but public sites. There are better options.
I get that they’re being greedy, but provided you’re not set on watching one specific show, why pay for Netflix? Lots of cable TV providers are setting up their own services and taking their shows there instead of Netflix. Most of the Netflix originals either don’t last, aren’t even close to being good, or both; I feel like there hasn’t been more than two or three major hits from them a year in awhile (could be wrong though). In the past they had no big competitors so they could charge whatever, now it just seems like way too much.
(I guess that doesn’t mean the ad-supported tier going away, but who wants to pay and still have to watch ads?)
If you’re learning a language, netflix has good tie-ins with language reactor… but if the $9.99 option goes away, I’ll just switch to the beta video + subtitle file upload for that
Which is why I’m switching to jellyfin
Netflix’s catalog seems to just be dying you watch one thing on there and you’ve seen everything.
I really should thank Netflix for finally motivating me to actually get off my ass and build my home server. After cancelling all of my streaming subscriptions, it really does pay for itself.
Just gonna drop a couple links here, do with them what you will.
Thumbs up for piracy. Once you figure out jellyfin/plex there’s no way back.
Only problem really is storage. High quality video can fill a hard drive pretty quick.
You’re absolutely right hehe I gave my media server 12TB thinking it woulf last ages but I already filled it in just a few short months.
Yeah, I just got started with jellyfin and it is amazing never going back
We left Netflix after I decided I didn’t want to understand their rules.
“Number” of streams was easy to pay for and made sense. We paid for extra screens, so our parents could have easy access.
There are too many streaming options and services worth subscribing to these days, and more than any one person could watch so, well, not a problem.
Do I miss netflix, nope.
