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Damn those greedy bastards wanting users to pay for their service
The users were playing for the service tho.
They then created artificial barriers to charge more for the service.
They’ve been doing it consistently.
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How many did they lose? They lost one from me
Doesn’t really matter because there were more new subscribers than canceled
Depends on how many of those people stay on. Most the people I know who signed up because they got locked out are finishing the series that they’re currently watching and cancelling. Couple of them already finished up.
How many new subscribers would they have had in the same time period anyway?
Article says Netflix believes 100 million (half of all subscribers) houses were sharing passwords. Six million would be like 3% growth …which is how much more then they would have if they didn’t do this? 1.5% maybe?
It doesn’t really seem significant
Significance probably does not matter to them. Number goes up = good job.
I have a netflix subscription. But I still torrent netflix series.
Because:
- I travel a lot, and my downloads are more portable
- Netflix are a bunch of cunts that need to be reminded that their only basis for existence is that they are (for now) slightly more convenient than piracy.
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Please no. Don’t go there. Nooooo
Yeah, people pirating makes me pair plex.
These foul villains can nibl on the jellyfins under the sea for all I care.
I only used Netflix from time to time and i would just buy one of these scratcher cards that lasts me a month or two and then i forget about it for a year.
I did this in march or so and saw yesterday that my netflix is still working. I was a bit confused until i saw that they just charge my phone bill to keep netflix running.
My sister said something similar happened to her, where she shared the password but stopped paying but the personwith whom she shared with said something like: they asked me a billing question and they just clicked on “yes” and it appeared on her phone bill too.They have restarted a lot of cancelled subscriptions I hear. Even people just opening the app re-starts it. That’s one way to get 6 million new subscribers and a fancy headline in the news.
Yes, this happened to me. Canceled when I got the password sharing email. My niece accidentally hit the Netflix button on the controller at their house, and we were instantly billed and resubscribed again.
I would think 6 million new subscribers is a bunch of people who haven’t noticed. And that’s really low then.
Oh I dunno, I spend too much on HDDs 😅
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After fifteen years, I cancelled my Netflix last year. Don’t miss it at all.
I think all these streaming platforms forget that not all of us need to watch their content 24/7. I spend less than an hour watching television a day while eating food and that’s it.
Did you know that you can still enjoy Youtube ad-free (or the occasional 10-second skippable ad). How do you do it? By not watching youtube at all aside from the random how-to video. Since I watch less than an hour of youtube a month on average, I see essentially zero ads.
I will literally go out of my way to see an ad. I have stopped watching TV, except some HBO but avoid paying. I am searching random questions or products in incognito so my regular chrome isn’t garage ads.
I watched a TV in a public space last week. The show was sped up and packed with ads. I watched more ads then show in 20 min.
TOTALLY get it. I’ve gone as far as blocking ads at the router-level so I don’t see ads browsing the internet or using apps on my phone inside my network. Plus I have ublock origin to help catch any extra ads that sneak through the router block.
To say I see no ads is an understatement. The only reason why I know about the “he gets us” ads is because I hear people complain about them. Not once have I seen one hahaha.
I wish to break my youtube addiction. Every night I end up going down rabbit holes with a “just one more” attitude that would make a gambling addict blush.
The way I got around ads was adblockers and the like. Or using the new piped website. But honestly, I wish that I had the will that you have to just drop it and never use it again.
Not me lol
Set up an openvpn/wireguard server at a “home” with bandwith, and have family/friends route their Roku/streaming device route through a router with openvpn/wireguard client back to the same “home” .
You want to walk my dad through that?
Ha! Yeah I had to set this up for my parents. My Dad couldn’t believe that I knew my IP address from memory!
I think it remains to be seen if that is sustainable groth or if it is a short term effect and piracy will pick back up as people ditch netflix and the other streaming services as they become more inconvenient.
More expensive isn’t really less convenient in that sense, it’s just as easy as before to watch Netflix. You just have to pay more (or watch ads).
That’s the reason why Netflix and Spotify won over piracy. Convenience, not price.
Still sucks though.
Yeah, this outcome seems to really hammer in the point of what Gabe said about piracy
One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue.
Lot of people value accessibility and convenience over free. Probably why you see even games that didn’t have the best launch reputation like Cyberpunk 2077 that are DRM free outdoing revenue of games that have denuvo as opposed to denuvo leading abnormally record high sales figures despite Cp2077 being immediately available to pirate.
Just a really surprising outcome with this Netflix growth despite the public outrage, and much easier access to Netflix media than games. But, also really hammers how much the average person wants something that just works when they want it to without additional hurdles and research to go through.
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