Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Think of them as patrons of the arts

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Already bailed when they blocked account sharing…

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

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.

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.