Netflix password crackdown fuels sign-up surge
Netflix password crackdown fuels sign-up surge
The company is planning price increases, even as many new users opt for its cheaper plan with adverts.
Does it? Is there proof this time? Last time the media jumped on this narrative, it turned out Netflix had lost subscribers in western nations where they’d cracked down, and simply added users in cheaper emerging markets.
The fact that they are adding pro wrestling to the channel does not bode well for their future. It’s what cable networks did when they started hemorrhaging users (see SyFy).
Netflix is also getting rid of their cheapest plan. Another sign they aren’t doing so great.
These articles are written by the subjects. I used to think they had to at least take the journalists out to a nice lunch or something, but in fact there are no actual journalists involved. Sad
SyFy also did the same shit as Netflix and cancelled all their shows after two seasons. I liked a lot of their shows but after a while SyFy became synonymous with "no point in getting invested" which is where Netflix has been for a long time for me. I dropped it long before the password crackdown crap. Hoist the sails, me mateys!
Yeah pro wrestling is a sign we are going the cable route. It's almost funny.
I have Peacock for the PPVs, that's as far as I'll go. I have no problem downloading RAW or Smackdown the next day and watching without commercials.
Netflix will never get my money for the amount they charge. Fuck Netflix in the ass with a cactus.
Hey! You using my fetish as a synonym for “unenjoyable and bad punishment” is not cool.
This Just In: Corporations Succeed In Ripping People Off Because People Are Fucking Lazy and Piracy Is "Too Hard."
As someone who pays for streaming and cable like a good boy and also pirates things that cannot be purchased, I assure you that using legit services is so much bigger a headache.
I'm buying up physical media of everything I want to keep while I still can.
There is a third option of not consuming this content.
That is such weird framing.
Piracy is easy af tho. Easier than signing up for shit.
The vast majority of people have never heard the word "bittorrent". People hate learning, so they whip out the credit card to watch mid netflix shows.
Not so sure about that. I'm actually surprised at the number of people that I would never have imagine, that have started to pirate. Maybe it's just anecdotal, but I have a feeling that we are going to start to see updated versions of " YOU WOULDN'T STEAL..." PSA ads for the cloud era.
Also, sometimes some people just decide that the content provided is worth the price charged.
How is asking people to pay for the service you're providing "ripping them off"? Netflix is like 10 euros a month. You can't literally buy even one DVD with that.
I haven't ever used Netflix, nor any other streaming service except for Spotify, but I find it absolutely incredible how people are complaining for not getting this all for free. Why would anyone create new tv-shows and movies if it's not going to make them any money? It's crazy the mental gymnastics online pirates do to justify their behaviour. I've always used adblocker and have pirated my fair share of content but I'm not kidding myself about it being anything other than stealing. I'm taking a product and not paying for it. We're just as greedy as the people we critizise.
How is asking people to pay for the service you're providing "ripping them off"? Netflix is like 10 euros a month. You can't literally buy even one DVD with that.
This is a dishonest argument. People were glad to pay for netflix when it was 2015. Guess what? It's 2024 now and there's competition in town and you better compete or be called a rip-off.
Besides I haven't ever used Netflix, nor any other streaming service except for Spotify, but I find it absolutely incredible how people are complaining for not getting this all for free.
Spotify is good unlike netflix.
Why would anyone create new tv-shows and movies if it's not going to make them any money?
The problem is not making "any" money.. the problem is the greed of executives and shareholders who demand exponential growth.
It's crazy the mental gymnastics online pirates do to justify their behaviour.
If the economy is good and people on this god forsaken planet can afford stuff without signing away their souls then you have a point.
I've always used adblocker and have pirated my fair share of content but I'm not kidding myself about it being anything other than stealing.
You're a fool if you think businesses haven't stolen anything.
I'm taking a product and not paying for it. We're just as greedy as the people we critizise.
Speak for yourself. You will change your mind when you sit next to a VP when he talks about letting go of employees like cattle just because his numbers don't look good over the next quarter for a company that he is bailing out off in the next 6 months, collecting his multimillion dollar compensation.
Wanting to pirate Barbie is NOTHING compared to the levels of psychopathy of an exec in a company.
Shame on you for comparing us with psychopaths.
Cloudstream on android tv, hexated repo and boom everything. Fuck corporate streaming, hit the seas.
As an avid sailor I agree
It looks like a worse version of Stremio, unless there's something I'm missing?
Both apps are horrible. Just having to understand where the hell to find the magic codes to add content to cloudstream is a pain. Stremio is a whole other mess to understand the plugins and which types they are and what are the catalogs and all that stuff, and then it's torrent. But people online all jumped on some poor man solution where you pay for something debrid stupid thing to make stremio use http downloads instead of torrents.
Yeah the apps works, but no one sane can say they are good.
Cloudstream
Interesting.................. Where might one find sources?
Yeah bruv i can’t be bothered with any of that shit. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Yyyyaaaaarrrrrrrr!
This is why we can't have nice things.
Because companies realize that giving us shit things will make us hand over more money and, with our hands bound behind our back, on our knees, bleeding from the lip, we’ll ask for another slap with lust in our voices?
Shitification continues.
Greed. Nuff said
Look at that Getty images girl, she is clearly happy with her Netflix. /s
I am going to get downvoted for this but yeah, this is kind of expected. We think that they will lose customers. Yeah they will lose us but they don't care. We're not part of the market that they're building on. Their markets are those who depends on them, those that can't live without them. And they don't care about about our generation that much because we are part of the experimental generations when they tested the market. The new generation are their targets because that's are what they're exposed to when they grow up.
Google is a good example as a case study. They took really long time to figure out how to make money. Instead of using ads banners like its counterparts during its time, it stayed on providing free services, Gmail, maps etc, so that we'll get hooked to them. It's only once we're hooked to them that they start changing things leaving the next gen with no much choice.
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Dude, if you don't agree with me, at least you can attack my arguments by stating your counterarguments. I believe that's much more useful.
Anyway, I am part of the quite early Internet Netscape, geocities, excite, Hotmail, Google etc generation, if you understand what I mean. Quite possible, I've lived through the whatever 4 generations you're talking about. But it's not useful for me to talk about that. So I stop at that.
I'd bet the majority of us are millennials, though.
I have a subscription only because it was added on to another service. I wouldn't be surprise if they padded their numbers by giving out accounts as paired deals.
As many have said, it's just cable all over again
Yarrr
People are idiots
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I was highly sceptical about this, too, because watching Netflix at more than one location and by more than one family member. Have to say that we haven't had any issue so far. Perhaps it helps that we still spend weekends at primary location together. 🤷♂️
lol sure it does
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Now that we're through that, we're able to resume our standard approach," co-chief executive Greg Peters said on a call with analysts to discuss its latest quarterly update.
The gains are an ironic twist for a firm that resisted calls to sell ads for years, saying such a move would hurt the viewer experience and complicate its business with privacy risks and other issues.
But the company was jolted by an unexpected subscriber decline in the first half of 2022, followed by a fall in profits, which prompted it to seek out new ways to bring in new viewers - and more money.
But the programme has sparked excitement on Wall Street since selling ads, on top of subscriptions, has the potential to bolster the money a company can earn per account.
Netflix said it had offered a strong slate of programmes, including hits like the Beckham documentary series and Adam Sandler's Leo.
The platform received 18 Oscar nominations on Tuesday, including "Best Picture" for Maestro starring Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan.
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Netflix used to make some really great stuff. Now it's just execptionally woke at the expense of good writing.
The only good stuff on neflix is the foreign stuff.
Lol Netflix has always being what you called "woke". Nothing change its just that now people have a name for it.
What a woke response. Now excuse me while I crank the AC so my snowflake body doesnt melt.
A lot of the original content was old and pre dated the woke content. Even stuff like stranger things changed during the course.