Just more enshittification. Glad I cancelled last month, you don’t get to tell me who is or who isn’t in my household.
They’re cashing out and running the brand into the ground. Sure they may technically gain some new subscribers by cracking down on password sharing but their shows will be receiving millions less views because of this and everything else they’re doing. It’s all typical short-sighted please the share holders bullshit.
and i’m testing the seven seas. arrr! 🏴☠️
Aaaarrrrr! 🌊🛶
Arrrr
Aye!
Guess I’ll just… Stop paying for shit ever again. Already set up a nice Jellyfin server with 16,000+ movies in anticipation of this garbage move so I’m good for the next 43 years assuming one movie a day, every day.
On an unrelated note, how much data storage does it take to host 16,000+ videos? I’m curious
How did you download so much? Radarr lists?
Mostly some custom scripts for scraping yts.mx, cross-referencing imdb for e.g. top 50/100 box office for each year (https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?year=${YEAR}&title_type=feature&) and automatically uploading to and downloading from my seedbox. Tried radarr but it wasn’t really my thing. They’re all basically garbage 1080p encodes but for their size they’re passable enough for me, and my goal was a large library for discoverability not a small one for quality, so it worked out perfectly for that. Also been checking r/opensignups (RIP reddit) for good trackers when they have open registration for the occasional specific stuff that I want in better quality.
I’m currently testing the Netflix “Killed Off” subscription plan. 0.00 a year and ad free!
All this is doing is hurting the content creators themselves. Corporations like Netflix actively harm consumers and creatives.
I regularly rotate streaming subscriptions. They all got greedy and there are too many competing services offering too little value. If any service starts locking people in to fixed terms or forcing ads I will drop that service entirely. I don’t like piracy because it doesn’t support creative jobs and I think it should be unnecessary if services behaved reasonably. But the one or two decent shows a year that might be an exclusive to any particular service can be obtained on the high seas or I can live without them.
Netflix Tests Killing itself FTFY
If any company knows how to fast track their way into bankruptcy, it would be Netflix. Kudo’s for them to try and improve their previous track record!
How does this comment end up under every post about Netflix? Take a look at their financials. They’re doing fine. Great, even. Their decisions may be unpopular with a tiny but vocal minority, but let’s deal in facts here.
Yep their evidence shows the password sharing crackdown got them more subs overall and I’m sure they have checked this will work too. People forget the purpose is to make them money not provide entertainment to the masses.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of the form of capitalism that’s about selling what they want us to buy instead of what we want to buy, but it seems to be working for pretty much every company out there.
I guess we missed our window of opportunity with Netflix. We moved to the middle of nowhere with no internet or cell service 12 years ago. We’ve had Starlink for nearly 2 years and are just starting to run out of stuff available for free on our Roku. It’s been a couple of decades since I played with, um, other options, but I somehow doubt it’s become more difficult. :)
If you mean sailing the seven seas, check out Radarr and Sonarr
Yes, and thanks!
And bazarr
Crave (in Canada) did this a couple of years ago. Their premium package included shows from HBO and others. I guess not enough people were going for it so they got rid of the basic package & bumped everyone up when their auto-renewal happened. So the price switched from $99 per year to $199. I got rid of it for awhile then finally gave in.
Netflix just fucking sucks now. It has killed me off it’s service. We have been subscribed since 2012 and I’ll occasionally search something I don’t have on my home media server and the search will autocomplete what I’m typing, but not actually show the content I want. It will display some other related garbage. I can’t imagine paying monthly and suffering through ads for this experience.
I’d say they’re doing a great job at killing subscriptions indeed
The more anti-consumer shit they pull, the more of my friends I get to join my Plex server, for marginal cost since more users barely means any more used electricity.
I’m not surprised. Now that Netflix can no longer rely on cable and broadcast to produce its content for pennies on the dollar, Netflix is going to have a hard time paying for its catalog.
Just throwing it out there that large hard drives are inexpensive and there’s free software out there like jellyfin to let you play your own media on devices. Data acquisition is up to you of course but that’s not particularly difficult either. So just become your own streaming service!
They’re trying so hard to lose my patronage, but they forgot I cancelled last year.
