Why not? They saw subscriber count go up after blocking shared accounts. Not like people give a shit.
People on average will roll over and take most anything.
I predicted exactly this when they first announced cheaper subscriptions with ads. People were raving that they'd abandon Netflix, because of price hikes commercials and preventing unlimited shared accounts. I suppose some did, but more was added with the cheaper option. So 100% a gain for Netflix. I even considered buying stock in Netflix, but didn't in part because the stock market was pretty shaky at the time. But it would have been a decent investment.
18 billion yearly profit last I checked.
Not enough.
Never enough.
The enshittification continues
It's called rent-seeking. There's already a well studied term for the phenomenon. I'm happy that young people are starting to recognize it, but this isn't anything new. This is how capitalism works.
I plan to retire Netflix amid ad growth.
Fuck off Netflix.
What I find interesting is it seems like we are again converging on the same service as cable. Which suggests that the best method of profiting off watching movies/tv at home is to have ad supported entertainment, with a monthly fee.
Once again, the profit motive ruins something good .
Netflix already costs over $185 a year. For that price I can rent 6 5k UHD movies a month at redbox and get much higher quality viewing. I can't find 6 good things to watch any given month on Netflix. I might turn my membership back on for the final season of Cobra Kai or Stranger Things, but there's just not much else that's compelling me to spend that money.
And rip those disc's while you're at it...
With what type of software? Oh, MakeMKV, that sounds simple and easy!
Redbox is still a thing? Huh
I hate shareholder capitalism.
That's just capitalism.
Yeah, because its other plans are STUPIDLY expensive, their content and original shows don't justify the price.
Price anchoring, they show you* the big price and now you think the smaller one is a great deal.
*Not you you, you us, we. Hmmm
Price anchoring should be illegal honestly
God their lineup sucks balls. It's all the same juvenile drama dressed up in different genre costumes.
Fucking true, im only hanging around with it because the wife likes watching some of the shows…
Obligatory, “if it happens I’m out” post
For reals though fuck these gonks
Corpo rat scum
Just like when they banned shared accounts too I bet.
Didn’t really affect me but I really should of just in principle, not that it seems it made a difference in the business model though
I cancelled prime the day they sent the no more ad free email.
Netflix doesn't even provide me with low quality counterfeit goods that get lost in transit, so this is a super easy decision.
Heh. What am I saying? I cancelled Netflix last year when my kid's graduation coincided with their shared password crackdown. I only still had it so she could use it.
Same here and I cancelled Netflix back when they announced they were cracking down on shared accounts. Arrrrrrr
I already unsubscribed and start sailing when the account share thing happened, but people are willing to take anything these days... so good for netflix I suppose.
101 businessman logic: slowly stretch it until numbers go down, and then back down a bit, just to keep trying stretching it further in a later time. Repeat.
infinite growth guaranteed.
This is why at this point I don't trust any subscription type thing, they are all destined to end up in that cycle, which, good for them, I think it'll have to explode eventually, or not, who cares, I'm already out anyway
Lol at the people still paying. Learn to use the internet.
I only had Netflix because it was ~~free~~ included with my T-Maybe account. They are switching it to the ad supported tier today as base, and a user has to pay extra for the non-ad supported tiers.
My plan going forward is to watch the first episode with ads and if I like it I'll search the high seas for the rest.
The enshitification continues.
Once they changed it to paying that like $1 extra for the plan, I noped off TMobile. No use for it anymore when Google Fi is way cheaper for just 2 people. I just pirated everything anyways even when we had the subscription
“Time to extract profit from the losers-er I mean customers that are left”
We've really been weighing whether we use Netflix enough to justify the cost lately. Don't push us, Netflix.
been free for two or three years. i haven't missed a thing, as far as i can tell.
They smell the blood in the water now.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of netflix
Hahaha. If they remove the "basic" which I believe is standard since that's the lowest I see. Only leaving the Premium option then I'm afraid I'm going to pull a full dragon's den.
I really did like Netflix, but they're just getting greedy and trying to extract blood from stone now. And for that reason, I'll be out should they remove the standard tier.
Lol... Just 1 out 2 more kicks to the balls and I'm outta here!
Well, I've not been affected so far. But this will definitely be a huge hit to me and that will be it.
Isn't this like actually the 5th or 6th price hike in the last year? I already cancelled Netflix when they cracked down on password sharing but this just feels like they're trying to lose customers
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