What is the point of a paid service with ads? Its just really odd, like who has money for Netflix and whatever shit they are advertising? And everyone will resent these added ads on this platform, so why pay Netflix to make people hate your product.
What is the point of a paid service with ads?
Cable got away with it until it didn’t.
Yeah and where is it now? Oh yeah in obscurity.
Specifically because we could binge watch without ads changing the vibe OR THE VOLUME
Cable was a shitty service. It was expensive, you had to subscribe to a bunch of shit you didn’t want for just a few programs you did, and was full of ads. People dropped cable for streaming because it was cheaper, centralized, and didn’t have ads.
Now that cable is essentially dead, streaming is bringing back the high prices and the ads, and now you have to sign up for a bunch of shit you don’t want for the few programs you do.
What’s the point? They know customers are full of piss and wind, threatening blue murder while doing absolutely nothing beyond jaw flapping. (Same with gamers).
Amazon’s service model, for example, is to twiddle the knobs to just under the point where the majority ragequit: the sweet spot of maximum profit right now. Everyone else is copying it.
And the sweet spot moves - probably like boiling a frog. A major player does something many hate, but not everyone/enough and those people live with it. Then it becomes the new normal. Twiddle the knob. Rinse and repeat.
I canceled my Netflix when they did the account sharing shenanigans, and filled out the exit survey explaining why. I had only kept my Netflix because my parents watched it, then they made it so hard to add a family member addon account I said fuck it and canceled everything.
My parents signed up for their own account, so Netflix didn’t lose total count, but they lost the extra subscriber that was the whole point. I know I am an edge case in not just complaining while taking it, but there is always hope.
Amazon’s service model, for example, is to twiddle the knobs to just under the point where the majority ragequit
I mean, I get Amazon Prime via their shopping service whether I want it or not. And half of their “library” such that it exists is just links out to other paid premium services. Nevermind their Netflix-esque habit of cancelling or delaying popular shows while churning out lots of AI slop to fill in the gaps.
There’s no strong incentive to drop Prime Shipping (because it’s dirt cheap and I still do plenty of retail shopping on Amazon). But I find myself going to their TV / Movies selection less and less frequently. Occasionally just pirate the Amazon show I already have access to out of convenience.
Can’t say the same of Netflix, though. Cancelled that shit a few years ago. Barely anything left worth pirating from it anymore.
I kind of doubt prime is a good deal considering how many online store offer free shipping (with out a paid subscription!) and actually give you REAL arrival estimate dates.
I haven’t seen anyone doing a better job. Lots of hype around the new things, though.
They still offer an ad free plan
Oh boy! Let me guess its 2x the ad plan and like YouTube red will also have limited ads soon.
How to make more people sail the high seas.
Netflix plan to bring even more ads to even more parts of it’s service…and I plan to continue not being a customer.
yarrrrrrrrrr
TBH it’s just for their ad tier.
Back in the day, the “ad tier” for shit was free and you only paid money to not have ads at all.
Back in my days they had no ad tier, and their prices were reasonable.
Damn, how old are you that you remember when TV didn’t have ads?
I don’t think they were talking about TV :)
But yeah, I used to export shows from my Tivo, decrypt them, run them through comskip, re-encode to divx them with handbrake and store them on cds :)
Most 30m shows had at least 7-8 minutes of commercials. Some cartoons had 2 shows in a 30m timeslot, commercials up to the 1m mark, 10m of show, commercial break to the next show, 6-7m of ads, ran up to 2-3 mins before the half our and had another commercial or three shove in the outro.
Now that cable has moved into a streaming online service not much room left for TiVo. Commercials will reign again.
Yeah, that makes my heart sad, but my tivo went out in the trash before 2010.
HDMI copy + comskip still exists, though.
You still pay money to have no ads at all 🙃
Woosh…
Now you also pay money to have ads.
What’s an ad tier? Honest question, I never used any streaming service.
AFAIK a cheaper subscription, but it shows ads
Oh I see. And people still pay for it…
Yeah, an average consumer looks at price first I guess 🤷
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Cool. I plan to continue not using Netflix. Seems like this arrangement is working out great for both of us.
We’re paying for ads now. They’re double whammying users and we’re eating it up because everything’s just too expensive.
I don’t want to live in this society anymore…
There will be a subscription based cancellation fee before you leave.
Ah, the Adobe method. Gotta love it. This is why I use pre paid cards for my subscription. Can’t take money when there’s no money on the account!
Y’all still payin for Netflix?
I came in only to ask that same question. Thanks.
I wish I could cancel my subscription, alas I have none.
I’m so angry, I’m not going to give them money three times harder!
Teehee, username checks out
Hey ! Looks ! This thing it’s called jellyfin. It’s installed on something that’s called Truenas. It’s doing the same thing as netflix.
That’s just misinformation. I put some shows onto a Jellyfin instance and not a single one has disappeared. Not even an email about something being dropped soon. So that’s a core part of the Netflix experience you’re just not getting with Jellyfin.
Heck, it doesn’t even randomly force me to watch in 1080p or 720p despite being on the 4K plan and the show/movie being available in 4K. It’s like Jellyfin isn’t even trying.
The last drop in the bucket for me was when Jellyfin didn’t show any ads.
Maybe we should fork an Enshittyfin and add these vital features.
lmao that would make a good April fools bit
There’s also Emby and Plex.
Yeah, and Plex is also enshittifying. Fuck Plex. Go FOSS or go home.
Plex is pumping the gas on going down the drain faster than netflix, netflix just has a head start
I promise I won’t bring ads to my jellyfin.
I can’t understand the reason people choose Jellyfin over Stremio. I gave it a try, and it seems a lot of hassle.
Maybe Jellyfin fits people who download their content in advance, while I make spontaneous decisions.
And I will continue pirating all the series I ever want to watch.
So done with Netflix. Streaming just isn’t worth it any more; I have better things to do with my time.
Might I recommend a library card? Most libraries have a DVD/BlueRay collection to borrow. And there are books. Maybe the younguns might want to consider reading a few more books? It’s good for you. Like eating vegetables for the mind.
…This made me realize how lazy I’ve become around movies. I don’t like the effort involved in going to a place to physically borrow an object, then having to remember to repeat that later to return it.
Renting movies was a very normal part of my life in the past. I’m not proud of this laziness. I’m fine with going to movie theaters, so it doesn’t make much sense.
Never been so happy to sail the seven seas! 🏴☠️🥰🏴☠️ Jellyfin FTW
Time to swap media with your friends on portable hard drives and USB sticks again baby!!!
You know what old laptops are good for? 1 terabyte mini-SATA disks. You know what costs like four bucks on Temu? USB cases for 2.5 inch disks. You can put a lot of Linux ISOs on one and who cares if you never get it back?
