And the enshittification continues..
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Horray for end stage capitalism
The enshittification of enshittification continues... Why people want to use it for anything that just means worse is beyond me lol.
Wait, so their excuse for hiking prices before was that they were losing money because people were sharing their accounts, so they "had to" hike the prices for those who subscribed to "compensate" for that. Now that they succeeded in their crackdown on password-sharing, which means more subscribers in theory, they figured that they still need to hike prices again? Someone please show me the logic here?
Capitalism demands perpetual and unlimited growth forever
The logic is there is no other way to increase profits. Netflix has maxed out its subscriber base. They can only ‘grow’ by raising the rent, selling ads, and reducing production costs. They are doing all three. Netflix is not alone. The Great Enshittification is global.
It took a long time for enshittification of cable to make that industry collapse: hopefully this is another case where the internet greatly accelerates that feedback
All my life I saw people (myself included) addicted to passively watching TV and we continued as things got worse and worse. However now they’re breaking the cycle, no more senseless loyalty, no more being a slave to some marketer’s schedule. I have much less interest in dealing with this than I used to, and my kids have never had the same addiction. Do streaming companies know or care that they’re sacrificing their future customer base?
"Yes, but that was LAST week. This is our excuse THIS week."
Logic: “We want more money.”
Netflix forced to raise prices due to thinking of bigger number. You can really apply this to most things lately.
Tighten the straps, then tighten the screws. Repeat.
Does it seem like all business models are the same nowadays?
I mean, it works. Why would anyone do anything different?
It's the sort of model that works untill it doesn't.
And the metric to know how well it works is piracy. Because Netflix don't release numbers for subscription cancellations. The more piracy goes up, the more people can be said to be leaving the paid subscription streaming service.
Piracy, it's a service issue.
After we return back to pre-netflix-heyday piracy levels, all streaming services will slowly be relegated to the same status cable companies occupy today.
The line must go up!
Netflix, if you're paying any attention here, there will be no raising prices to drive me to the ad tier. Either the ad free version is worth it or I'll continue my life without Netflix. I'll never go back to the cable ad experience.
Didn't they just raise prices "due to the writers strike"?
if they need to raise rates this much this often they are crap at forecasting and or (more likely) they are just full of shit and are just making up excuses to generate revenue after seeing how many people tolerated the password crackdown.
Pretty happy i dumped these guys. Now every time Netflix News hits i get to revel in my decision instead of being anger at being fleeced.
Piracy has only gotten easier so...
People let them get the tip in, is it any surprise that they are going balls deep now?
I'm ready to cancel. Their programming has been getting worse over time anyway.
Yay! Another fucking food/crafting competition!
I wake our account up for a month or two a year. They don't have enough quality content to justify a nonstop subscription and haven't since the great streaming market fracture like 5-6y ago.
Say it ain't so! Who could have known?
How has HBO been consistently $15 a month for decades it seems, and now suddenly this model requires everyone to hike their prices to hell and back? I think I would be willing to believe that $15/mo is the magic number, except that everyone is rocketing past that now. Now it's just garbage corporations turning a quick buck for executives and shareholders, as subscribers we aren't getting any more for our money - there's no feature release or massive influx of content. What a shit system we have.
You answered your own question "Now it's just garbage corporations turning a quick buck for executives and shareholders" executives must continually find more profit to appease the shareholders, the only way to do that consistently is raise prices, there are too many people that will just keep paying and paying and the corporations know it.
There is little reason to keep any streaming service for more than a month per year. Sub, binge, cancel, move on.
There's not enough worthwhile content on any of them to maintain an ongoing subscription.
Self hosting forever!!
I think they're overestimating their demand. I like them less now, and they may raise prices again? 🤔
This is what people said with password sharing though.
And they resubbed still
I don't know why, but I'm still able to use my parents' Netflix account. Maybe it's because I turned off automatic updates on my TV before the crackdown started.
Netflix acting like they got content worth paying any amount of money for 🤣
So I have to check because I haven't noticed this have, they actually implemented this crackdown for everyone everywhere, because I'm successfully sharing my Netflix password with my parents and nothing seems to have happened yet.
The original plan was to keep going with Netflix until they actually shut down the account because I'm only really maintaining it for my parents, but Netflix have ruined it by not doing anything.
Seems to be kinda random. It didn't affect me for a while but then it did. Makes sense they wouldn't do it all at once.
I think they are lying about getting more subscribers.. they lost more than they gained.. now they need to reis the cost because of the loses
Millard VPN is 5 bucks a month
My Usenet backbone & indexer cost 5 USD per month as well.
Unfortunately they got rid of port forwarding so it's not great for torrents. AirVPN is the way to go now. It's also only about $3/mo if you do 3 years at a time.
chuckles in not paying and still accessing the same content
Urgh. The only people in our house who watch it are the kids for cake based reality shows and Lego animation. So as soon as they raise the prices it's getting cancelled.
NordVPN was $2.5 / month for a 2 year subs.
Fuck these capitalist fucks.
I re-subscribed to Netflix for the first time in about a year and a half a couple of months ago. After watching a few things periodically, I'm already lukewarm on the content. I just got an antenna so I can watch some local things (news, sports, etc.) and I'm not sure I'll bother with Netflix going forward. I see another cancellation looming in my future, and that'll only come faster if they decide to increase the price yet again. Most of the time I already feel like I'd rather be reading a book than watching TV.
I cancelled in May. I don’t even miss it, lol
They can do whatever they want. I've been done with them for a while. If they put something out worth watching, I'll hit the high seas.