You’ll have to pay more to go ad-free.

You’ll have to pay more to go ad-free.

  • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    I will never pay money to a system that charges it’s users to see ads. I literally won’t even go to a theater anymore.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    i’ve never bought netflix and went to visit some friends who had it. since they sleep until noon i had the morning to kill so i tried the netflix-- reminded me of the old days of flipping through hundreds of tv channels trying to find something to watch and finding nothing. “people pay for this shit?” was the initial thought

    • acetanilide@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Another really frustrating thing for me is it’s never obvious what language anything is in until you start watching it. Sometimes not until a few minutes in. Even if it’s dubbed or has decent subtitles, some things just don’t translate well to English (usually humor), so there’s a lot of shows I’m interested in watching but I just don’t “get” if that makes sense.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      There is so much fucking nothing on Netflix.

      There was something called Car Crash: Who’s Lying on the list the other day, and from the description and image, it genuinely looks like a police training video that accidentally made it’s way onto a mainstream streaming service.

      Their documentaries are all utter dogshit as well, designed for people with an IQ of 80.

      The only things still going for it are Mike Flanagan’s stuff, 15 seasons of Taskmaster and the odd horror movie that I otherwise wouldn’t have heard of. As good as Jellyfin is, it doesn’t really have much in the way of recommendations.

      • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        15 seasons of Taskmaster

        fwiw, their official channel has uploaded 17 series of TMUK on youtube to date. along with all the three CoCs as well as numerous new year special one-offs, 2 series of TMNZ with the 3rd being released weekly, 1 series of TMAU, and full series of some scandinavian taskmasters.

  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    4 days ago

    Content hosts are just fucking militant these days about forcing ads onto their users, it’s like they take personal offense to the idea that nobody likes seeing them.

    • JordanZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      There was some article about this a while ago. For Netflix in the US now there is an $8.50 difference in the ad tier and the standard ad free tiers prices. For an example let’s say once a user hits the 50th percentile or higher of hours watched in the ad-free standard tier they would have earned 8.50-??? in revenue from ads if on the ad tier. So half of their ad-free users are losing them profit in this example. It’s that unrestricted top end that is so appealing to them. The more you consume the more ads they show and the more money they make. So this will never stop.

      Edit…clarify something

  • rob200@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    I hate companies as much as most, but ad supported plans are a nice addition. The only downside, Netflix can remove the free tier at anytime. What free tier some might ask, I heard that there could be an ad free tier coming.

      • rob200@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I hate that they do raise prices over time. These companies get tin these contracts for sports and with specific companies that raise their own expense and hurts consumers. That and these companies had always wanted to charge more either way.