I still get it as part of my phone plan, and hardly ever use it. They’ve conditioned me to not ever get interested in a Netflix show until there’s at least 4 seasons.
Comment on Netflix confirms it is increasing subscription prices, again, after adding 8.8 million customers
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Who cares though, right? We all unsubscribed from that useless streaming service, right?
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, it’s quite ballsy of them to do this when they haven’t released anything good in several years.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Even if they don’t release anything, wtf. There is a huge back catalogue of movies I want to rewatch and stuff I’ve never seen. I can’t remember a single time I searched for a classic movie I wanted to watch and found it on Netflix streaming. Those movies were often available through Netflix DVD though! Enshitification indeed.
Radicaldog@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I use Justwatch to figure out where films and shows are, and even then it’s grim how many aren’t available to stream, or even buy legally.
briongloid@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Given the decline in service quality and the increase of 8.8 million subs in a quarter, they can continue being worse for more and the general public will support it.
The only thing I care about is quality shows being made from good networks, still getting their funding, but streamers are turning into trash TV from the 2000’s.
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Tell all your friends and family what a steaming pile of shit it is. Share memes that tell people its a waste of money. Lots of stuff do to
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sure, you could do that. But it’s better to be pro-alternative than anti-whatever. Personally I’d share jellyfin or Plex with my friends and family and ask them to do the same with whatever movies they have. It’s the modern equivalent of lending somebody a DVD and a list of your DVD collection.
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Im not sure if your pro/anti point is true. Its the whole reason ads are a billion dollar industry. To counteract it there should be anti marketing movement.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Great point. I’m skeptical though. If you are anti-thing-1 then there could always be thing-2. Being anti-marketing is better framed as pro-person or pro-volition or something similar. I suspect if advertising companies could not exist, media companies would force you to buy something you did not like instead of watching an ad, or in Netflix’s case they would force you to watch an episode of something you didn’t care about. This wouldn’t be advertising but would cause the ratio of watches of whatever their sponsors show was to go up. This would be similar to how Apple automatically added that U2 album to everybody’s account. It inflates that thing and causes you to digest it into your subconscious. It’s better to be pro-I-choose-what-I-watch.
Asafum@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Yeah, I thought I did. I can’t even log into Netflix as they say I don’t have an account, and yet my PayPal history is showing I’ve been paying them continuously…
How the fuck can they charge me for an account that doesn’t exist!? I just cancelled it today through PayPal, hopefully that stops it. It’s absolutely absurd.
Raptor_007@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sure did. They still email me about shit to watch. Dunno why I thought that would stop on its own.
gogosempai@programming.dev 8 months ago
Currently costs peanuts in India (have some good friends over there 🥸) and there’s no password sharing crackdown yet. Comes down to $2 per person on the highest plan. As long as this continues, I’ll stay subbed to Netflix.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s like the only one that works natively on my mom’s TV so that’s all she watches 🤷
TheYear2525@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I mean yeah I suspect most people on Lemmy have. But we’re outliers.