Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com

4d ago

Netflix does it again. Record subscriber gains.

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Am I the only one around here that wants to see them burn in hell just out of principle?

I stopped going to the cinema for the ads , I used Netflix until they geoblocked my downloaded content and I couldn't watch it while traveling.
Now all my movies and series are free, in the resolution that I want, and they stay on my device for how long I want.
- My local single-screen theaters usually have little to no pre-roll ads. Some of them even have pizza and beer at a reasonable price.
  That said, I watch most movies on my Plex server, from the comfort of my couch. The experience is harrd to beat.
  
  Here is 8€ for popcorns... And the average salary is 1400-1500 The price for the ticket is usually very low tho. Like 4-8 €
- I honestly don't mind the pre-movie ads too much. Usually there's not that many, it quickly moves on to other movie trailers (which I don't mind knowing about) and then you just get the full movie without any ads whatsoever. You can always just arrive 10 minutes later and skip most of the ads anyway.
  Netflix ads can kiss my ass though. Jellyfin to the rescue!

Yesh numbers can be easily manipulated.
Netflix is "sold" along other services. Here many internet companies bundle netflix in their plans.
They don't need to be attractive to the consumer. They just need to do a deal behind curtains with other companies and force Netflix on people by other ways. Numbers go up.
- Seconding this. The figures are too rubbery for headlines like this to have any meaning.

all that to be locked out of anything higher than 720p if you dare use a privacy friendly operating system 😂 right, I'll be holding onto my money then
- Even Asahi Linux literally had to deal with this just to get 1080p:
  
  This is why I keep insisting that Kodi (and other open source "media center" solutions) really only work for people dedicatedly ripping their own large collection of physical content, or for pirates.
  I would kill for an all in one, "single pane of glass" way to browse and watch even just only my legally obtained media library (personally ripped discs amd multiple streaming services). But at absolute best I still have content from different sources all squirelled away in their own separate menus, and if I use something like Kodi for the rips I'm stuck at 720p for streaming (assuming the unofficial plugin for Netflix decides to work that day).
  And not even proprietary closed source stuff gets it right. With a chromecast dongle (or whatever they've relabeled it now) at best I can search for a specific piece of content from the main menu, and then it's a crapshoot if say, the Amazon Prime content found by the search is included with my sub or a separate cost. It's a crapshoot if the "link" will just open the associated app or actually take me to the fucking content in the associated app.
  I don't get why these streaming services think people care about the brand at all. The less I have to think about the service itself, the more likely I am to ignore how infrequently I use it. The more I have to deal with friction getting to the content, the more I have time to think about if the subscription is even worth the cost.
- Even using Firefox on Windows 10, 720p! I cancelled a while back and now I just download stuff.

I don’t do ads. Seeing them after years of not has a profoundly negative effect on my brain. A slight fog akin to waking up after using Benadryl as a sleep aide, and a hazing of attention capacity.
I’m not going to pay for that impact on my thinking. It certainly won’t improve the world to have more of it.
- God, I have so many of these annoying catchy lines in my head. If I can't access anything I'll just use that Goldberg website to get some classics to read.
  
  I had those syndromes too, until I have quit doing it
  Stop it, before it is to late! Please, this stuff is poison to your brain! You suffered enough.
  
  It's been a long time, but I remember most of those Goldberg "classics" being pretty short, one-note affairs.
  And then Schiavone exclaimed, "There it is, the spear! This one's over folks, one, two, three!"
  "If that gentleman needs a chiropractor, my brother in law just set up shop downtown," said The Brain.

I remember when streaming was super new and the service was AMAZING. As time passed; everything got much more expensive, movies and series were removed and now, even ads are displayed to you even though you pay for their service. The reason for the streaming service was BECAUAE of them having no ads. Now all streaming services has gone to shit :/ giving you 720p upscaled but saying its 1080 HD or 4k. Just lies.. Too expensive to pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services to get the movie you want to watch because one service doesn't have what you want to look at.

My parents are finally getting rid of it. The one thing I've noticed, though, is that not having a subscription service means I'm very unlikely to get off my butt and watch tv/movies. Which isn't a bad thing, I guess I just value other entertainment more?
I've wanted to watch the boy and the heron for a while. Maybe I'll get to it eventually, lol.

Normal, people show again and again that they dont give a f about the prices, so they go up and ppl still subscribe.
prices will go up until ppl start to cancel

Just FYI, currently in Sweden I pay the equivalent of about $10 for the standard tier without ads.
They only recently increased it to the close to $10. Currently I am OK paying that since my kid is actually using Netflix frequently.
As soon as the price goes higher, or they introduce ads in any way or once they start peddling their shitty mobile games on the child account, we're out.
They already started to not have non-English audio for a few pretty popular movies, which is a weird move and makes it less usable for us as well.
Already got Jellyfin setup, so no worries for the future on my end.
- mobile games might be the one good thing theyve been doing, pretty sure they released some solid ones, like hades port
  
  Fuck them for licencing games behind a monthly subscription. I want to buy Into the Breach, not get a video subscription I won't use to be able to play it.
  
  You can play hades on mobile now? It was already tough on PC, I can't imagine how difficult that would be on mobile touch controls.

Corner the market. Then close in.
Don't buy into subscription services.

Wasn't $7.99 the price for standard at some point? I mean, it was easy to predict but they really did just add the option with ads to make it as expensive as the version without ads and then make every other option way more expensive
- $7.99 was the only price at some point. Then they reduced the quality of the service and increased the price.
- Streaming only launched at 9.99 iirc

All that for JUST NETFLIX. What incredible bullshit people are having to deal with.

This is incredibly misleading. They lost users in high paying regions and gained in lower paying countries.
- Lots of people want their chance at being American™ before the country collapses into a different culture

I get Netflix for free but literally never use it. I think I’ll cancel it. Why even have it?

When you open the app without an account, the animation it shows still says that it doesnt have any ads

what about stremio+torrentio+RealDebrid?

Sadly I still pay for a service I don't use because I have members of my house who are relucant to embrace the change. I, on the other hand, am more than happy with my Jellyfin and assorted apps to provide my content from whichever source I choose, now if only I could cadjole the others into embracing the freedom of the high seas.
- I was in a similar situation, I just told them I'm cancelling the account when they added the extra charge for extra users, and they're free to make their own account if they want.
  There was a bit of complaining, but it turns out no one missed Netflix enough to come back.
- How do your house members prefer this service over jellyfin, if you are running it anyway 🤨?
  
  At this point your guess is as good as mine. I e also set up Jellyseer for discovery and ability for users to request stuff but still a reluctance to move.
- If only there was a good way to get kids content
  
  Stremio + real debrid. My 6 year old can navigate around on his own now.
  
  I get them using sonarr and usenet as well as an indexer that lists those releases in german.
  Sometimes sonarr is smart enough and sometimes I have to grep em manually using prowlarr. But with smart filtering, it is done pretty fast.
  For English releases, it works flawlessly.
  The only thing missing are youtube series, but those can still be grabbed from YouTube directly (let’s see for how long still), hope more release groups would upload YouTube series to the usenet, hate it that YouTube has no series/episode sorting.

Already bailed when they blocked account sharing…

Yet they need ACE to shut down piracy sites

Was watching a movie on Netflix with a friend a while back and it didn't even support subtitles for her...

Boycotted over those cunts platforming that cunt chapelle and never looked back. No Netflix, no Disney, no Twitter, no Facebook, no Instagram, no TikTok, no Reddit, no Amazon, no Apple.
All I need is a ship and a star to steer her by.

I shared my parents' account, but rather than locking me and my sister out of Netflix when they started bringing in restrictions against account sharing, Netflix just…deleted our account entirely. Maybe something to do with my parents being in a different country from me and my sister.
So anyway we haven't had Netflix for like 2 years now thanks to that. Thankfully we've got a really nice…alternative streaming site with all the stuff that Netflix has, and any other stuff available from around the web, with the niceties of being streaming based rather than requiring downloading ahead of time, and keeping your watch progress etc.

Think of them as patrons of the arts

Are the gains self reported? They are probably lying then.
- "Are these 'gains' in the room with us right now?"
- They are a public traded company, it is illegal for them to lie about their finances.

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