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it is literally insane how netflix is flushing itself down the toilet. is this all ‘to appease the shareholders’ kind of stuff?
Yarrr….
Thanks Netflix for convincing me to cancel all of my paid streaming services and head back out to the open seas 🏴☠️
Plex
Wait, you mean you DON’T want to watch a hundred single-season shows that get canceled as soon as you get invested on an account you can’t share?
So I pay for one streamer. My buddy pays for another. It’s gonna make me not ask for his side of it but instead ask for another to replace it. He is now paying for no ads on YouTube. We won’t miss Netflix. Had they done it a few years ago maybe. Now who gives a shit.
Just cycle through them. Every month you cancel one and then sign up for a different one. After a few months, enough new content will build up on NetMax+ to binge for a few weeks before canceling again. Rinse and repeat
Hello /piracy my old friend🎶
Since they announced that they were going to begin doing this I’ve started hitting up my local resale shops and goodwill stores, and EVEN the sale bins @ big box stores looking for and buying cheap DVDs and blurays so I can rip them and put them on my plex server.
I kind of hope they do this, so I can have the courage to cancel. It took me three months to cancel LA fitness.
I cancelled a couple of months ago when they first threatened it. It obviously offended them so badly that they decided to double-down and perform corporate seppuku!
Netflix and (HBO) Max are getting chopped after this weekend for us.
When a show we want comes on, we’ll subscribe for a month, then cancel. Just like what I used to do with HBO and Showtime in the good old days.
The sea… it calls to me…
Lol. This was me 2 hours ago as well.
In order to detect whether you are sharing your account outside your family, Netflix would have to know where you and your family members are physically. Here in Europe there are privacy laws against that. Who says I’m not over at my friend’s house watching Netflix on their wifi?
How does a sailor with a PS5 sail the seven seas? Please and thank you 🙏🏽
Yep. The new rule hit Australia today and I’m already seeding a few Netflix originals. You’re welcome Australia.
So if I wanna use Netflix on my phone during a commute I can’t do that?
You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the very cable tv system you were created to replace.
yo ho! yo ho! A pirate’s life for me!
I’m so angry I would cancel if I wasn’t using someone else’s account.
Where did the claw for my arm stump get to…
Literally all they need to do to keep me is offer me a reasonably priced single screen, highest quality option.
I’ll pay for it. Their content isn’t great but I’d pay for the convenience of having access to their library.
But no, they want me to pay for 4 screens and not share with anyone outside of my studio fucking apartment, so they can fuck off.
Thanks for reminding me I needed to cancel my subscription.
So goes every service under capitalism. You cant just provide a service everyone likes AND have a dominant market share. You need GROWTH.
Never mind that that growth leaves you ultimately insolvent, unprofitable, and betraying all the buisness solutions which made you profitable in the first place.
Make sure you delete your credit card off the site or close your account after you cancel.
They started hitting up my card after I cancelled. They claimed someone stole the account but then refused to refund any money. Good thing my bank didn’t see things their way. Netflix is a bunch of greedy fucks and they really sealed it with that little scam. I will *never* give them another card number.
The third part is setting up a Plex server and sailing the seven seas.
Don’t share passwords. Share Plex libraries.
Just a friendly reminder that the feature they’re banning *now* was used to justify their previous increase in subscription price.
I’ve been telling everyone for years this was the way it was going to go – the increasing Balkanization of content was just going to get worse.
“Who even has Bluray anymore,” they’d ask. “Streaming is the future,” they’d say, while I kept diligently tending to my media collection like some digital prepper stockpiling beans. “Put some pants on, man.”
*THEY THOUGHT I WAS A FOOL!*
If Netflix thinks the people using shared passwords would go create an account, they’re living in a fantasy world.
Free platforms with ads are coming strong: we are back to the TV times. Then we will go to the new megaupload or bittorrent 2, and then somebody will create a good streaming service. Circle is complete.
They should offer a friends and family plan where you get 5 addresses for the same price.
And in a few years we’ll start seeing posts asking what was something really popular that no longer exists and you’ll remember the name with fondness.
A big problem for me is that all these companies are built to grow indefinitely. They might make $9.99 profit out of every $10 in revenue, but they need to make more. That’s how investments work. They need to grow forever.
There is no such thing as making a good product anymore that will generate profit forever. It is literally never enough. Everybody getting screwed over is part of a company’s core now.
Edit. I gave a poor example of what I meant by eternal growth. Please see below comments for corrections.
Yep they tried this in Canada and as soon as I got the email asking me to “verify my primary household” I ended my subscription. It made me realize that what was once a $14.99 service had ballooned to $26.99 and I barely touched Netflix.
Others have said it before, but as a subscription service the worst thing you can do is draw attention to yourself – which is exactly what Netflix is doing here.