Technology

They show me an ad, and they are out. It is that simple. Luckily, my life does not depend on streaming.

I've gone back to books.

Half of new Netflix subscribers opt for the $8 per month option rather than ad-free subscriptions, which start at $18 per month, the company says.

Damn, when did it get so expensive? Assuming that's USD. That's a decent amount more than Disney+, right?

Is there a way to poison the well so badly and so irrevocably that corporations won't dare use generative AI for anything? Can we somehow trick these overgrown chatbots to speak ill of their masters in the form of direct-to-stream advertisements?

i just subscribe to the netflix tier that serves all streams as torrents

They want the old cable tv days back, but worse

Ahhhh, man moving away from corps just keeps on giving (or in this case, doesn’t enshitify while proprietary ones do).

Bye Netflix, hello plex.

Edit: hello Jellyfin, as helpful users have mentioned the enshitification of plex to me.

ads will continue until subscriptions improve

94 million people decided $10 a month savings was worth watching ads rather than doing without. Fuck em. They are the reason many things only have an ad supported tier. Pay for stuff or pirate it, but don't use ad supported tiers when you have a choice.

Amy Reinhard sounds like an asshole

Soo... the ad income is higher than the energy costs of gen. AI? They lied about the pennies per visit? 😢

Also, 🏴‍☠️

So the dead Internet extends to streaming.

Also anyone else interested in just crazy an ai add what will be.

And canceled my sub

Is this feature coming to Sonarr/Radar + Jellyfin? /s

Is there a plugin for Stremio that provides a kid's profile function? That's the only thing keeping me from canceling my Netflix subscription.

"Millions of former subscribers will cancel their accounts in 2026"

FTFY

“[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,” Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, per the publication.

In terms of attention, she's either lying or admitting that members barely pay attention to their content.

Not to me, they fucking won't

Netflix will what now? Sorry, I was busy canceling my netflix account.

Kidding, I canceled it ages ago when the $10 version became SD-only with ads.}

Why do we keep paying people like this to enshittify everything?

Well, time to cancel finally I've gotten used to torrenting again anyway

Each day brings us closer to either Cyberpunk 2077 or Bladerunner

If I pay for a service and get ads, that service is dead to me forever.

If I down vote this does it show my disappointment of netflix or the OP? 🤔