You literally Google, Kodi or Jellyfin whenever you want, and start building your own media library. Then you can cancel all these crazy subscriptions and just enjoy your shows/ films
Netflix is planning to raise prices… again
Submitted 1 year ago by Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/3/23901315/netflix-subscription-price-raise-wga-strike
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FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
buzz86us@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What is even left?
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
A VPN.
Mullvad is £5/mo. AirVPN is €7/mo.
Both are top tier VPNs. Mullvad has all RAM servers. AirVPN offers port forwarding.
Plex with Sonarr/Radarr/VPN/qBitTorrent is the way to go.
Marketsupreme@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What’s the VPN for? Hitting the seas?
Beardedsausag3@kbin.social 1 year ago
Raise the anchor! 🏴☠️
Khalic@kbin.social 1 year ago
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
mstrk@lemmy.world 1 year ago
stremio with addons ahoy
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shave his belly with a rusty razor!
i_am_hungry@meganice.online 1 year ago
Just finished watching Peaky Blinders on Netflix, guess that was the last good show on there, now they keep pushing Beckham and reality shows in my face, like I care about that, can’t find anything good. I’ve cancelled it.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Black Mirror is incredible. You could sail the high seas for that.
eran_morad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Arrrrr!
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Maybe they’ll actually start paying actors and writers the residuals they they are entitled to.
GaimDS@lemmy.world 1 year ago
More reasons for me to get out of streaming subs… Itturned into what cable was 🫥
Copernican@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cable is a pipe to get content from TV and Film companies into the home. Netflix was also a pipe to get content from TV and Film companies into the home. The cost of TV and Film isn’t magically cheaper on cable or Netflix. TV and Film companies want to get paid, and that cost gets passed on in the subscription cost. Instead of cable being a one stop shop for bundles and packages of everything, you now have to basically have multiple streaming subs that likely add up to the cost of cable.
scorpious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s still not clear how much Netflix will raise prices, and Netflix declined to comment.
Curious, is there any price hike y’all would consider fair? Serious question.
jadegear@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Depends on if it coincides with raises for working class staff, or there was enough transparency in operating costs and expenditures to be confident it’s not just being done for additional profit margins. If the cost of serving video has actually gone up by $2 * subscription count every month, then no problem. I suspect that isn’t the case, though.
pwnstar@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I think all pricing ends in 99. They can round it up to the nearest dollar
nostradiel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why join NAVY when you can be a pirate…
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unsubscribed years ago. Haven’t missed it.
Von@lemmy.kya.moe 1 year ago
Yeah doesnt surprise me that Netflix are digging for more pennies in the couch. buddy of mine actually decided to make a streaming service himself through Emby after the practices of the companies kept getting worse. Obligated to plug my buddy since hes a small independent hoster I helped troubleshoot for with a pretty damn good cross platform service Good Alternative Service: at $7.99 / month with 3000+ movies at 1080p WITH show requests… if you arent gonna pirate theres really no contest here. popflix.cc discord.gg/UeSPqCpdAy
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Does he have licenses to legally stream the shows? If not, this just sounds like piracy for morons.
redw04@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
That seems like a really bad idea, no? Promoting a paid for pirated streaming service? Seems like that’s ripe for a lawsuit
Von@lemmy.kya.moe 1 year ago
rentry.co/megathread cough cough
Predator@feddit.uk 1 year ago
redw04@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Seez nuts
Gottem
Von@lemmy.kya.moe 1 year ago
also the referral program is crazy u can get 10% off ur sub cost per month for every person u invite up to 40% off bill
sebinspace@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Spam your trash resold libraries elsewhere
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
that’s cool. i haven’t had netflix since 2011.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Netflix is planning to increase the cost of its streaming service yet again, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
The streamer will reportedly issue the price hike a “few months” after the Hollywood actors strike ends, which could happen in the coming weeks.
Just last week, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) ended its strike and began voting on a contract with major Hollywood studios, including Netflix, that could change the business of streaming.
For example, Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, and other services will now have to share streaming data with the WGA under the new contract, allowing writers to see how well their content performed.
Netflix is likely waiting until the end of the strike to raise prices, as hiking up costs when no new content is coming out doesn’t seem like a smart move.
Once both writers and actors are back to work, there will likely be a lot of new shows and movies coming out that Netflix can use to justify the increase.
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SaysThreeWords@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Congrats writers union
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Infinite Free Netflix hack:
Sign up for a month and pay. Immediately go and cancel the subscription. It will say the cancellation takes effect in 30 days, however they will actually cancel your subscription in 2-3 days and issue you a refund. In that 2-3 days you can watch Netflix. Repeat.
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Could be the get fed up with you after the 10th time you try that, and ban you or your IP.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve personally done it twice. Mostly was trying to actually sign up for a 30 day period to watch a show, but wasn’t planning on letting the subscription run unquestioned like I used to. The price is too high for that. Turns out Netflix is petty. Either you let the subscription run, or they cancel you.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, if you linearly extrapolate, from this, eventually they will have a single user who is paying a billion dollars a month for their subscription.
Rengoku@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Some people will still say it is cheaper than going to cinemas everyday.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
All while they can’t make new content from the strikes? They better buy up some gold for shows to binge watch like Battle Star Galactica.
I still have it cause it’s free with t mobile.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Only hanging on to an account for my parents’ sake now.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
shrug.
Netflix’s price structure hasn’t been a concern for me for a couple of years…
mcgravier@kbin.social 1 year ago
Gave up on netflix some time ago due to lack of good content
Skyline969@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Their greed made me put on my eye patch years ago. And since then I’ve only convinced more to do the same.
Screw these greedy bastards.
pizzatodato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have been a user for 6 years and I’m tired of it now please stop
dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And my desire to have an account has reduced even further. It’s already way too expensive, but on top of that we have endless license wars, so the actual consumer will never win. We’re playing checkers while they are playing monopoly where every spot is get out of jail for free
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well it’s time I learned to sail the high seas. Yaaaarrr.
stagen@feddit.dk 1 year ago
Yo ho ho…
CharlesReed@kbin.social 1 year ago
I watch Netflix on occasion and share it will my sibling, who watches it a ton. If it does go up any higher, I'm going to have to start paying for half. Otherwise, I'll just have to cancel. They don't have enough content to justify me paying anymore than I currently am. I'm mostly on Hulu anyway.
frickineh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would love to cancel it. I almost never watch it and there’s nothing I do watch that I couldn’t live without. Unfortunately, my mom does watch it constantly, and she’d just sign up for her own account if I got rid of mine, so in the interest of keeping her bills down, I’m kind of stuck. At least I got her to dump Hulu’s outrageously overpriced live tv option, so I got that going for me.
QubaXR@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All these services from Netflix to Uber are built on understandable foundations. They lose a ton of money in their first phase in order to gain subscribers but sooner or later start looking to turn profit out at least stop the bleeding.
I can already hear the outcry of surprised gamers when Microsoft cracks the whip on their Game Pass pricing, and there will be little to no alternative because they bought out most of the studios and publishers.
djgenesis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The whole industry is a profit driven capitalistic trap to squeeze as much monies from us as possible. The same companies behind extortionate CD / DVD prices and market control are behind the streaming services. While the coast is still semi-clear and we can pirate what we want, they’ve slowly infiltrated the governments around the globe and introduced stupid copyright laws so that they can go after the common man. I expect that the future is bleak, with more governments succumbing to the industry’s lobbying and making it harder for the average user to pirate, so much so, that we’ll be forced to pay as much as they ask us