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”.
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.
I already dipped. By the time I cancelled I wasn’t using the service enough to justify paying for it monthly, anyways.
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
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?
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.
Piracy my beloved🏴☠️
As Homer once eloquently said: “Nothing a month. We can afford that!”
When I was a poor kid I pirated, went to paying as a working adult, now I am back to buying random DVDs at thirftshops but if they keep this clown thing up, I will sail. These clowns have hard time understanding who controls the money flows here, shiti video streaming service is not a monopoly/utility…
Time to sail the seven seas again. Yarrggghh 🏴☠️
Oh my show is no longer available on my paid subscription? It’s still right here on my server.
That’s the thing that’s always bothered me about the online services. Sure, I can “buy” a movie or series or whatever, but I only have actual access to it so long as I still subscribe, the service has rights, and I have access (like, if I’m on a plane or ship, suddenly I can’t watch something).
If I download a copy, it’s mine for as long as the physical media lasts. I can keep it theoretically forever, I can put copies on my phone or the cloud, stream to my computer, my cousin’s tv, whatever.
I like how they keep testing this crap on the Canadian market.
I dont know if were the best guinea pigs, I mean look at what we pay for telecoms. We’re pretty passive when it comes to being gouged, other countries might not be so potato-like in their response.
| We’re pretty passive when it comes to being gouged
Only if you include cell phone plans, internet access, air travel, housing, and food. Oh, and pet food.
We’re pretty passive when it comes to being gouged
God, this is so painfully true.
If the docile sheep up North don’t go for it, then there’s no way the slightly less docile sheep South will go for it.
My family dropped netflix in Canada as soon as the password sharing change went into effect. I got a radarr + sonarr + jellyfin server all setup and even my parents can very easily find what they want and have it ready to go, they don’t miss netflix at all.
How easy was it to setup the server? I’m slightly tech savvy but server stuff has always kinda of alluded me.
There are a ton of guides on how to setup an arr stack and Plex if your willing to spend some time figuring it out.
We have a $23 plan with Netflix with 5 user profiles on it each from different locations and when the whole password sharing thing started and came into effect we thought “we’ll it was a nice run, Netflix”. Then the day came where we had to set the “main ip address” for the account and it’s been so weird. We all still have access to Netflix, each user literally uses a different ip address and 80% I’m on a vpn.🤷🏻♂️ 100% not complaining lol!!
They were talking about for continued use the other people on your account would have to connect to your local network once a month to keep that device active. Easy with family member bringing over a laptop, difficult with a TV; unless you setup a vpn tunnel to your home router.
Oh that’s odd. We haven’t done that at all and everything is working same as before the whole issue happened.
It may take a lot of time for their system to run through everyones devices and determine if they are past due or something
Do you have people from outside your network accessing it? If yes, how are you habdling that?
It’s been a while since I last has Netflix. I found myself looking through their selection with nothing enticing me to watch. I don’t know how people keep it for years. Did you always find something you liked?
I felt the same way, then got a proper vpn and boom. It’s like having Netflix for the first time all over again!!
Lol yeah it wasn’t the screen sharing thing that got me. When the news about that came up I realized I hadn’t used Netflix for 6+ months. There’s just nothing good in their library anymore
lol i basically mainly only have netflix cause my roommate accepts it as payment to use his internet. Otherwise i would constantly unsub after watching a show.
Just canceled mine when they enforced the no non household sharing. Now sailing with the pirates.
Wat.
Edit: Oh it’s only for new people.
Way back a few years ago when Netflix started going down hill, I cut back to the cheapest plan at like $8.99 - it was limited to one screen at a time, and 1080p resolution. That’s fine - my big TV is only 1080p resolution anyway so it worked.
Then they quietly raised pricing to $9.99 and I noticed my resolution had decreased to 720p. That was about two years ago. I cancelled my Netflix subscription after over 15 years as a Netflix customer (pre streaming back when it was DVD rentals only). I don’t miss it.
Already planning on cancelling other services like HBO Max next - just don’t watch enough television to justify it.
HBO Max is going the way of Netflix anyways after Discovery bought them out. Why a failed reality TV network thinks they know how to do TV better than a 30+ year old household name for quality, I’ll never know.
Yep. I guess it’s a good thing I just don’t watch much television anyway these days. There’s more to life than vegetating on a couch watching a television screen. I’d rather be tending to the garden, burning calories in the gym, socializing with friends, running my small business, etc - guess I’m just not the target customer in general for streaming platforms haha.
Fuck Netflix. I bought a firestick and threw Stremio and a vpn on there. Watching Black Mirror without giving those cunts a penny.
Do you use to pay for a subscription?
For Netflix? Yeah I was subbed to the highest tier since 2015.
I upgraded to the 4k max firesticks. I have my own Plex server, so I basically have my own personal Netflix.
Pirate bros!
Lol, so we got people to remove family accounts, paying more because they can’t share anymore. Then people probably downgraded because it’s not worth it more than $10 for one person. And now they’re killing that too, so there’s no reason to use Netflix?
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
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.
Netflix’s catalog seems to just be dying you watch one thing on there and you’ve seen everything.
