I’m glad I don’t pay for my Netflix (I use my brother’s account), but if I was, I would’ve been canceled. Most of their content is reality/dating trash now.
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Certain credit cards like Chase Sapphire and American Express platinum will cover a fairly decent portion of most of these services, and like others have pointed out, certain cell phone providers and cable companies. Make sure you're taking advantage of everything you can for what you're already paying for.
I would have kept it on my basic plan but I don't watch it that much really and I don't want ads so when they told me I had to switch from my basic to another plan I cancelled. Guess their ploy didn't work, now they get nothing from me and I barely used their service so they were making profit for sure
Yeah i rest services as well.
Apple TV is most disappointing for me but its tied into Apple one deal so I don’t mind keeping it.
True about digital purchases but I believe apple to be different. Meaning if you download them then you can always watch them.
”Purchased Content will generally remain available for you to download, redownload, or otherwise access from Apple. Though it is unlikely, subsequent to your purchase, Content may be removed from the Services (for instance, because the provider removed it) and become unavailable for further download or access from Apple. To ensure your ability to continue enjoying Content, we encourage you to download all purchased Content to a device in your possession and to back it up.”
That is a true, not cynical, statement about American Business. If it is a public company the purpose of the business is to maximize stock price, not provide good service. They are rarely one and the same.
When I unsubscribed they sent me two messages “we would miss you” and “maybe you reconsider your decision” and another one when they said “your subscription ends soon”. Reported for spam. All of them. How else should I teach their marketers?
Fr Netflix wasn’t worth the deal at all. Cheap and quite filthy exclusives (“x sells” formula everywhere, like 10-20% of a movie is totally unnecessary xxx), lack of many classics, especially regional ones, poor recommendations
Fr Netflix wasn’t worth the deal at all. Cheap and quite filthy exclusives (“x sells” formula everywhere, like 10-20% of a movie is totally unnecessary xxx), lack of many classics, especially regional ones, poor recommendations
I’m in the process of cancelling services I don’t use much. I got rid on Netflix a while ago, it was already too expensive to be worth it, and I despise ads. I just canceled YouTube premium, which is a little painful. I’m going to hate things a bit in three weeks, but it was $16.99/month, and now it’s $22!
Disney+ at $17.99 is the next to go, I just need to finish watching Shōgun first. Star Wars shows don’t hold me much any more. It seems you have to be into the animated Star Wars to get anything now.
That leaves me with Apple One at $24.95, which is worth it, and the last thing I’d consider cancelling, and Prime at $12.98 now, I guess, since I paid the ransom money to stay ad-free, plus another $9.99 for Paramount, which I’ll get rid of soon.
When the next season of Stranger Things drops, I’ll get Netflix until I’ve seen it, but that’s it for me. It all adds up to too much these days.
The two top people at Netflix make $40 million each, next few up make $3 million
Cancelled because there’s not much to watch. Maybe pay less to the fat cats and more to products.
Cancelled because there’s not much to watch. Maybe pay less to the fat cats and more to products.
One could describe Apple the very same way.
I still don’t understand forum users who disagree with a post that states a fact. Netflix did all of those things. Amazon did just shove in ads and ask for £3 more.
Same set of streaming services here, but got rid of Netflix last year after the n-th price increase and the location restriction.
40 million can’t even fund one Star Wars miniseries these days. Just saying that paying executives less doesn’t really free up all that much cash for creating better content.
I haven't had Netflix since I got two free years from buying two Samsung phones many years ago. I barely watched it then when I did get it free because I was tired of the low quality acting in the movies. Haven't been tempted to ty it since. Those Samsung phones? That was the S7 Edge back then, many years ago.
I think that is because they noticed that as we get more angry, we just say "Sorry!" more.
This. I hate ads and pay to remove when I can but some still have trailers. Where is the “I’m not interested” button so they don’t keep showing me ads for the same 3 shows every 10 mins?
The ONLY reason I have Netflix is because my T-Mobile offers it for free with ads. My wife and sometime my kids watch it. I totaly don't care for their programing. I have Prime because Amazon and OTA Antenna for some live sports. The rest I look for free streaming. Most of the time I watch free YT and that's fine with me. With this awful economy, almost everyone are cutting costs.
They lured people in with rock bottom prices and gobs of money for content during the pandemic. I KNEW it couldn’t last. They swallowed losing money because it was all about getting subscribers.
Investors are asking for returns now.
I’ve cut all services except for prime because it pays for itself using the prime credit card over a year.
Investors are asking for returns now.
I’ve cut all services except for prime because it pays for itself using the prime credit card over a year.
And we come full circle to cable tv and the push back to piracy. Well done, greedy corporations!