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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.
 
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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
 
Netflix wouldn't be so big if so many weren't canceling.

I feel like now is the best time to get the ad versions of various services while the ads are still minimal. Is this true of Netflix? How many ad minutes for an hour show or 2 hr movie?
 
If prices go up, people may start to be more choosy about how many services they subscribe to - the danger is that this will impact the smaller players rather than the larger ones, like Netflix, with big-name shows. Currently, I'm subscribing to 4 but as prices rise one or more of them is likely to get "rested" for 6 months or so... Netflix and Prime tend to be the ones to stick with since there's a lot of back-catalogue stuff on those that I could watch, or re-watch, in a drought.

Probably, the best approach is to "rest" some services until there's a backlog of shows you want to watch (and just hope that spoilers don't show up in news/social media headlines) - so I fully expect minimum-term subscriptions to be the next stage in encruddification...

For me, Apple TV+ is safe for the moment simply because Slow Horses season 4 is coming in September... after that, it might be getting a rest (no sign of Severance or For All Mankind yet). Interesting, because that's one show where we don't have to wait 2 years between seasons - probably because although it isn't cheap neither is it a SFX-loaded, CGI-in-every-scene spectacular that spends a year in post... (and it looks like they've shot it pretty much back to back) but I don't think that's the only reason it takes so long, and could be one reason why so many shows fail after 1 or 2 seasons - people just lose interest while waiting, figures go down, more shows get cancelled after S2, so people don't bother starting a show until it's got 3 seasons under its belt.., figures go down more... I know that Covid and the writers strike have put a crimp in production - but the "8 episodes, cliffhanger, now wait 18 months" pattern was emerging before that.
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.
 
They will simply stop releasing on physical media in the future if people balk on streaming.

"Digital Purchases" aren't yours, as has been demonstrated many times over the years.
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.”
 
I do not think there is any company out there who is not trying to screw over it's customers by finding ways to get more money out of them for less services.
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.
 
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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
 
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I’m curious what people are paying for their streaming packages. We have Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+, Max (paid by AT&T), Prime Video, Hulu, and Disney+. All ad free. I never watch Prime, it’s just for the shipping.
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.
 
In exchange for the odd advert (currently. I expect this to change) they've knocked the price down from £7 to £5, added 2x streams and upped the quality from SD to HD. This is a lot more than Amazon who just shoved in ads and then asked for an extra £3.
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.
 
I’m curious what people are paying for their streaming packages. We have Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+, Max (paid by AT&T), Prime Video, Hulu, and Disney+. All ad free. I never watch Prime, it’s just for the shipping.
Same set of streaming services here, but got rid of Netflix last year after the n-th price increase and the location restriction.
 
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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.

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.
 
Cue lots of commenters saying how they’re glad they’ve cancelled long ago.
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.
 
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I am amazed in this day and age platforms don't allow me to dislike certain ads. Surely the marketing budget holder would like to know not to waste money on me.

"I know for sure half the money I spend on marketing is wasted. The trouble is I don't know which half."

I will never buy a brand new car.
I will never gamble online or in person.
I will never order food delivered by a stranger.
I live alone and will never be persuaded by images of family and friends socialising with beaming smiles. I have no kids so don't care about those products either.

Seriously, even if you buy a 50k electric car, I bet they still advertise it to you. How can that be a valid state of affairs with all the data they have on their platforms?
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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?
 
Welcome to the subscription age, I still have subscribed to Diddo. I prefer to purchase movies and tv shows on Apple TV and blu ray.
 
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.
 
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