I let it lapse when they stopped Apple subscriptions but my wife and mother insist on watching the Lifetime, Hallmark, or Freeform type trash original content. So I subbed to the cheapest tier with ads because I truly don’t believe it produces media worth their ad free prices.
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Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan
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While their value for money is decreasing, Netflix still offers BY FAR the best combination of quantity, originality, variety and entertainment value of any service. While you could argue that others have better 'quality' in terms of acting/writing/etc, their content is usually "safe" and unoriginal, and boring to a decent number of viewers.
This. Seriously, their point of differentiation is the fact that there are no ads. It's crazy that you can pay for ads at a decreased price. No thank you, I'll just watch YouTube lol. They are becoming dish, cable etc. and it's pathetic.
As it stands, we pay for Netflix and Disney+ and my wife and I share Prime which is more for the free shipping as we purchase quite a bit through Amazon. If NF ups their price again here in the US, I'll have no problem discontinuing that service for actual physical media (yes I still buy this). Thinking about it, truthfully, I can't recall the last time I watched something on NF where as I stream YT almost daily with some family/lifestyle/cooking channels my wife and I enjoy and it's already free as is the YTK accounts I manage for my kids. Not a hard choice for us at all.
That's a good point, they better watch out for YouTube. It's one of the very few Google services I happily pay for and hope never goes away. It's not perfect but it's becoming better than what has now become the "traditional" streaming cartel.
What is the opposite of the saying, a rising tide raises all ships. It's like some things are better now just by getting worse more slowly than their competitors.
Great username by the way.
I dropped the service 3 years ago when the programming became more political and shows and movies were either poorly written or was just a remake. I haven’t missed it. My experience also applies to Disney+.
I agree. I have held onto Disney+ despite the woke culture rot they now shoulder. I've held onto that subscription for the moment anyhow for my kids that watch classic stuff as well as the youngest enjoying Mickey Mouse Clubhouse reruns etc. I have to monitor their content choices extremely closely however. You simply cannot trust Disney at this point in time to not slip in inappropriate messaging into their content obviously geared towards minors. It's ridiculous that we even have to do this. I have amassed a fantastic physical library of Classic Disney material however that I am slowly but consistently pushing to my plex server in bits as time permits.
I do not like supporting a company who's values have gone completely into and out the other side of the perverbial toilet. Dropping D+ was a mutual decision that both my wife and I agreed with and has been in the works and will happen this year assuredly.
We got our own account after freeloading on my parent’s account forever. I didn’t mind, but then they hiked prices and made it difficult to authenticate my college daughter. We set up a vpn and went back to using my mom and dad’s account.
I am talking about jamming the ads into our throat.Isn't this more about the cost of internet entertainment has risen for new content providers. You pick the VoD host they are all doing it. Look at the price of going to the cinemas how much has that gone up for the last 20 years.
How many tickets bought does it take to negate this Netflix, Max, or Disney is expensive topic?
That should not have happened in a paid tier.
Times change, look at what has happened to ad-free vs add supported. A couple years ago I read that the streaming companies were making more money off of cheaper plans with ads then more expensive subscriptions with no ads. I still pay to avoid ads, but most people per these trends that have abandoned cable/satellite TV are quite OK with them.
Understanding Consumer Ad Choice Segments
Ad-supported plans have rapidly become an important part of the streaming video market, currently accounting for 25% of all Premium SVOD subscriptions. And they are especially critical to acquisition: ad-supported plans now make up nearly one-in-three new sign-ups.
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Paid, Ad-Supported Streaming Subscriptions Reportedly Surpass Ad-Free Signups in November
For the first time, ad-supported streaming plans attracted more customers in a month than ad-free plans did in Nov. 2023.
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They did the same with me, so while we had an active subscription for the odd movie or series we decided that we might subscribe for a season of one of the series we had been watching, once it has been fully aired.
So in the end Netflix just gets a fraction of the money from me, than they would if they had not booted me off the plan.
So in the end Netflix just gets a fraction of the money from me, than they would if they had not booted me off the plan.
People root for the underdog until they become the top dog, then they switch to rooting for their downfall. Same story over and over and over and over...
If you make all of those people work for free, Netflix can make one more average budget movie per year.
People who pirate aren't any better. They're greedy, entitled, and they steal people's work.
Is there a term for consumers who switch subscriptions every few months? Like wait for the entire season of “Acolyte” to be released before paying for 1 month of Disney+ and then binge that + X-men, then switch over to Prime next month for “The Boys”, and so on.
Rotating amongst the various streaming services so you are paying only for 1 or 2 at any one time, but it also feels like a bit of a hassle.
I actually buy digital now over streaming that way I’m not tied to their online servers, the TV shows and movies I bought from Apple over 10 years ago still work perfectly
Why does Netflix keep raising it's prices or finds way to increase costs because in my opinion they need to find the money to pay the top 6 people in the company approximately $133.9 million a year in their pay packets (source: https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/n...dos-greg-peters-2023-compensation-1235975731/)
As with any other company they will make sure they get the cheapest deal they can from everything, cost of running servers, electricity costs, water costs, cleaning costs, employee wages and so on. They will make sure advertisers pay them billions of $$$ a year to show ad's on their platform, they will make sure they get billions of $$$ a year from customers via subscriptions and after all I've mentioned has been paid off, where does the rest go?, into the pockets of the top 6 people in the company with the majority of it going to the two co-CEO's.
The president of the United States run's the country and for that is given a wage of $400,000 a year. The co-CEO's of Netflix are each given a yearly wage of around $3 million for running a company that has a few thousand employees. Value for money?, not by a long shot.
If a country leader can run the country on a yearly wage of $400,000 then the CEO's of Netflix can most certainly do the same running Netflix. Do they need a $3 million yearly wage? no but greed allows them too hence why prices have to rise.
As with any other company they will make sure they get the cheapest deal they can from everything, cost of running servers, electricity costs, water costs, cleaning costs, employee wages and so on. They will make sure advertisers pay them billions of $$$ a year to show ad's on their platform, they will make sure they get billions of $$$ a year from customers via subscriptions and after all I've mentioned has been paid off, where does the rest go?, into the pockets of the top 6 people in the company with the majority of it going to the two co-CEO's.
The president of the United States run's the country and for that is given a wage of $400,000 a year. The co-CEO's of Netflix are each given a yearly wage of around $3 million for running a company that has a few thousand employees. Value for money?, not by a long shot.
If a country leader can run the country on a yearly wage of $400,000 then the CEO's of Netflix can most certainly do the same running Netflix. Do they need a $3 million yearly wage? no but greed allows them too hence why prices have to rise.
lol this is why people keep getting creamed every year. Just cancel and send a message. I cancelled a while ago when they did that password move. Netflix are just a pathetic company that will be long forgotten in 10yrs time. It’s always about money, just money and nothing else. This is why the world is going to s**t. Money isn’t everything. Get some pride people and CANCEL.
Netflix, like Apple, has priced themselves out of my household.
I am almost to the point to where if I can't watch it free over the air or internet (like broadcast TV or Tubi), I'm not watching it.
Everyone has to do what works for their family. I'm done with the constant price increases from TV services for no good reason. And I'm done with Apple's training wheel software and expensive sealed box hardware.
I am almost to the point to where if I can't watch it free over the air or internet (like broadcast TV or Tubi), I'm not watching it.
Everyone has to do what works for their family. I'm done with the constant price increases from TV services for no good reason. And I'm done with Apple's training wheel software and expensive sealed box hardware.
I didn't cancel long ago. Actually less than a year ago.
Let's just say "I don't fancy the cut of their jib! Arggg!"