We now have a collection of maybe 400 DVDs (not pirated, legally purchased). Sure, everything we watch is reruns, but there are no commercials.
99% of the shit Netflix has is reruns anyways
40 months of PIA is $80. So for $2 a month, you can have it all with no ads and no region locking.
Remember to use streamio so you don’t have to download shit. 😉
I’d take a PIA for $2 per month
Pia?
What’s PIA?
Pain in advance or otherwise known as prepay.
The shittiest VPN company that you shouldn’t trust ever.
I don’t trust anyone, but I haven’t heard bat things about PIA. That was just the first one I looked up. Did something happen that we shouldn’t trust them? I know Nord is now suspect.
Bad things about PIA? Apart from the fact it was bought 5 years ago by Kape Technologies, a former malware distributor, involved in state sponsored espionage and mass surveillance, who also owns Cyberghost, Express VPN and Zenmate plus a plethora of VPN review sites and social network channels that promote its own products as top notch?
TIL thanks! Which VPN would you suggest?
I am PIA User atm and my subscription will end next year. So, I am still undedcided between Mullvad or protonvpn
Private Internet Access is a VPN service.
Private Internet Access, it’s a VPN that handles streaming and torrenting well.
If that happens,i’ll trakt + jellyfin the hell out of all their shitty shows. Just for kicks.
Cable is dead! Long live Cable!
/s
Cable companies did the cable model because it was profitable. Netflix and others are slowly realizing that and moving towards it.
Yup. It was the same enshittification process. “Subscribe to cable. We don’t have commercials!” Then a few years later, “Guess what?!? You’re getting commercials!”
Netflix removing subscribers. What is their plan, zero subscribers?
Is it opposite day?
It’s the classic “get people hooked with a free service then force them to pay”
Gotta bump up that “$/sub” metric!
They’ve tested the waters, and people will most probably wind up staying, as their password crackdown demonstrated.
Not only staying, they’ll stay and pay more
Do you have any data that shows Netflix didn’t lose subscribers in markets where they cracked down on password sharing? I keep seeing people saying this is the case, but all the news stories I’ve read say that Netflix is only adding subscribers in the cheaper markets (like India and South America).
Slightly off topic, but starting 2025 they’re going to stop providing quarterly subscriber numbers to focus on “other metrics” related to revenue and growth.
That could be true, I was going on the fact of what they reported and how their stock jumped up because of what they said as well.
They’ll never mention how many people left though (unless that info is out there too?)
This is public record due to their financial reporting obligations as public company, but their password sharing crackdown resulted in not insignificant amounts of new subscribers.
Or at least, there was meaningful growth that occurred in time periods that aligned with those policies going into effect.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/business/netflix-password-sharing-results/index.html
I don’t have a source, but it wasn’t that Netflix didn’t lose subscribers, it was that their revenues grew. Part of that was charging subscribers more, but a lot of that was the new ad-supported plans netted them more money than basic ad-free plans. Which is probably why they’re now sunsetting the basic ad-free plans.
Subscribers are subscribers are subscribers, the total is up so even if they lost some in the US/European market, the rest of the world makes up for it.
Emerging markets pay around $6 a month for Netflix. Basically the “password crackdown” markets are subsidizing the new subscriptions where Netflix is trying to gain a foothold. It’s the typical “get ‘em hooked, then start raising prices.”
Netflix has no way to continue growing aside from increasing prices. That is a bad sign. They will just keep squeezing people. Your best bet is to stop subscribing.
Genius MBA thinking of our time
Yea tbh it’s business model is gonna be obsolete.
The bottom line is especially in a trash economy where the rich are bleeding everyone, no one is gonna wanna pay for digital luxuries.
I only shell out for hardware and food.
Streaming is going to end up exactly like cable, it feels inevitable. Adverts, package bundle deals, contracts will be the final thing where they lock you in for a “discount”.
The shareholders are seeking to juice the company and throw it away as usual. Users need to see the writing on the wall and move on.
Damn near every tech company and major utility provider has no way of growing aside from squeezing.
No matter where you turn you will be getting squeezed, and it’ll just get worse every year that regulations don’t catch up.
And if the U.S. has it’s way, institutional regulation will be a thing of the past as a new wave of unchecked corporate oligarchy begins. And since the U.S’s biggest export is crazy, it’ll just spread…
Making the future more grim.
Anyone care to actually do anything about it? Seems like people are more concerned about abortion and things like that than everyone’s collective livelihood.
Trustbusting would be a solution, but people gotta get behind it. Guess which guy running for President is moving in that direction? Hint: it’s not the billionaire.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
remember when the adfree plan for netflix was 8.99?
They’re passing off the price of inflation to the people
Hahahaha
Yup, and that’s when I stopped buying DVDs and pirating. But with standard without ads being ~$15 with less selection, guess what I’ve gone back to doing?
My biggest beef is that the ad plans also limit your downloads. I use that feature a ton.
So now I just pirate everything.
We pay for an ad-free tier and our downloads “expired” when we were in the middle of nowhere. They still existed on our device and on the service, we just couldn’t play them.
That got my wife annoyed enough that I think I can convince her to just buy DVDs again. $15/month is 1-2 DVDs/month, and that’s about what we watch anyway. We won’t get Netflix originals, but that’s fine with me. If we ever need any of those, we can just binge for a month.
Shit like this is why I don’t feel bad at all for pirating.
They raise their rates by 65% so they can continue to pay Hollywood actors to make crappy forgettable movies for the service
I love seeing the private trackers I use not mentioned here. If other sites have the spotlight, that’s a win.
Care to share what site you use to pirate? I haven’t been in that loop for a while, but all these pricing increases for all these streaming services is driving me back.
123moviestv.net , bflixhd.to, yts.mx look for them through yandex search engine and not the google , google blocks them
for anime zorotv.to/home ,https://9anime.com.pl/
Check out FMHY (Free Media Heck Yeah) they have a subreddit (I think) and a website. There’s absolutely everything there for pirating.
Kodi and RealDebrid
Do it, do it! One of us, one of us! 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Usenet. 44 years and still kicking.
links to pirate pretty much anything
In before “Removed by Mod”
Whoops, am I not supposed to?
Lemmy.World defederated from an instance known as the instance that has all the piracy. Then pushback from the userbase caused them to refederate. Then they defederated a SECOND time. Despite pushback from users AGAIN theystay defederated from them to this day.
So it wouldn’t surprise me if they removed it.
Don’t forget the 5 BILLION dollars they just gave to WWE, a company that regularly goes to Saudi Arabia. A country so backwards in human rights that they don’t allow women to work. So WWE’s answer to this was to create a tornament just for the women. Called “The Great Moolah Classic”. Only problem with that is, it happened just as the MeToo movement was happening. Now in case you’re unaware, womens pro wrestling from the 1950s through the 1980s was dominated by “The Great Moolah”.
Btw, I’M not saying she was great. Far from it. Thats just her stage name.
But if you were a woman, and you wanted to get into womens wrestling between 1950-1985 you NEEDED to go through The Great Moolah. Here’s the problem though.
You had to live in a camp, where she controlled every aspect of your life from training through retirement. What she did with this control was appalling. She forced them to prostitute themselfs out to not only the male wrestlers, but also the rest of the general public in the area.
These women then had to give 100% of the money to Moolah, or else they’d be beaten.
And that’s the tornament they tried to give as the consolation prize for women not being allowed to wrestle in Saudi Arabia. Oh, and when they were forced to change the name, almost IMMEDIATELY, they changed it to The Mae Young Classic. Mae Young was Moolah’s best friend, and one of the people who would help beat the other women. That’s still what it’s called today. When they first introduced the trophy for it, the trophy was intentionally made to look like a vagina. "Here’s your make believe trophy for winning a make believe tornament, as a consolation prize for very real restrictions on making very real money, and we shaped it like your genitals. Snickers, who sponsered the tornament balked when they saw their logo would be on that trophy, and they were forced to redesign it to something more generic. The tornament continues to this day.
And that’s what Netflix just paid 5 BILLION dollars for. Either 3 or 5 years. I forget which.
Holy shit, do you have some more info or refs for this, this sounds unbelievably fucked up.
From the book The Chronicles of Mad Maxine and from Dark Side of the Ring S01E06.
Disclaimer: I only know what I just looked up. Not a big wrestling watcher personally.
From what I can tell there’s two separate titles. The Mae Young Classic had two tournaments in 2017 & 2018. The Great Moolah was announced in 2018, subsequently changing the name to WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal. It also has only had two tournaments, in 2018 & 2019.
As for the logo/trophy, WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal looks like this, and the Mae Young Classic looks like this. I couldn’t find any info on previous versions, but if there was one that looked more like a vagina, it might as well be an anatomical model.
May I ask why you pirate crappy forgettable movies?
Also, on the “standard with ads” tier, they’ve removed the ability to chromecast.
Wow what a dumb way to basically gatekeep me from even moving to the ad tier.
The ads are added in the app. If you cast, the Chromecast can’t add apps (yet) so they’d have to make ad streams instead, and switch between the streams show-ad-show which would take several seconds of loading screen each way and so on. Which is a level of fuckery even they shied away from.
TLDR they can’t (easily) show ads during casting.
Kind of makes sense - casting is usually a webstream without extra dev effort. I’m not sure if you still can, but I used to circumvent twitch ads by casting from my phone. Not to excuse their shitty behaviour; I gave up on them years ago and started hosting my own content.
The peasants will pay… Sad reality.
Is it that the decade of 0% interest rates and angel funding for startups lulled us into unrealistically thinking we could get unlimited everything for 9.99 per month, or is it that companies are suddenly starting to rip off people?
As an end consumer it’s impossible to gauge what is a proper price for entertainment.
As with many things, it really is likely a mixture of both. Very possible that 9.99 was unrealistically low, but the current streaming market and “inflation” smoke screening is also enabling some real squeezing of consumers.
Not me! I gave all these streaming assholes the boot years ago.
It’s probably the latter.
“Delivering shareholder value” has destroyed numerous companies, and I doubt it’ll stop soon.
It’s simple really
Is the boss a multimillionaire?
No: No problem
Yes: They’re charging more than they need to
Netflix has been profitable since 2003. This is greed.
Good thing I already like digitizing my media for Plex
I mean I think I know what you mean I also think “digitizing” doesn’t really describe it. Most media nowadays is digital to begin with. Even audio CDs store a digital format.
Do the shareholders care?
Cause they just want to squeeze Netflix while they still can before they jump ship. And at that time, Netflix dying and another streaming services surfacing would be ideal for savvy investors.
Summary:
- Netflix is discontinuing its cheapest ad-free subscription tier, starting with the UK and Canada, with more countries expected to follow.
- Netflix has begun notifying users about the last day they can access the service on the Basic plan, prompting them to upgrade to the Standard with ads or more expensive Standard/Premium plans.
- In Canada:
- Original Basic plan price: $9.99/month
- New Standard plan price: $16.49/month
- New Standard with ads price: $5.99/month
- Increase from Basic to Standard: $6.50/month (65% increase)
- In the UK:
- Original Basic plan price: £7.99/month
- New Standard with ads price: £4.99/month
- New Standard plan price: £10.99/month
- Increase from Basic to Standard: £3.00/month (37.5% increase)
- The Basic plan ($11.99/month) is no longer available for new US subscribers.
- Netflix’s ad-supported tier now has 40 million global monthly active users, up from 35 million a year ago.
What bugs me is the people paying for an ad tier… please just pirate!
Not everyone knows how tho.
