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It added 30 million users since May.
Wow, it’s been over two years since I canceled my Netflix subscription‽ Neat!
Nice use of the interobang
It’s posts like these that make me realize just how disconnected lemmy is from real life.
We’ve become an echo chamber where everyone acts like people aren’t readily willing to put up with all this enshitification.
Streaming services are just cable services anymore. And it’s not gonna change anytime soon because the average person doesn’t care enough to find an alternative.
“Yo ho, yo ho, I’ve never seen an ad.”
Even though I already pay for my mom, and a different geographical location about an hour away, last week when the kids and I tried to watch Netflix we got an unstoppable prompt to upgrade again for another $6.99. I hit cancel and it didn’t do anything. So I closed the app, reopened it, and the pop up again. Couldn’t watch Netflix.
A few minutes later I got an email from Netflix saying thanks for upgrading. They charged me anyway. I cancelled my entire account as a result. They’re never getting another nickel from me.
I feel old for remembering a time when they advertised their service on wii some time after they stopped doing trade in DVDs, which my family was a part of. Back when I’d have the wii set up in my bedroom just to watch my favorite cartoons or the (to me) once new and mysterious Doctor Who (before eventually dropping due to lack of interest). Back when they were pretty much the only streaming service and had just about everything. Back before everything became siloed away into 500 different services that all add up to the price of healthy organs on the black market.
Now you’d be lucky to see me on their platform regardless of whether or not my family has the ad free plan or not (no idea if we do, nor do I care). Let alone any of the other services.
Even ignoring the pricing of these streaming services, having a Jellyfin server these days is basically mandatory for simple convenience sake. You can have everything in a single place on Jellyfin instead of having to deal with multiple services.
If your paid product is worse than free alternative you already failed as a business.
I currently don’t have a spare device or whatever is needed to set up a server, but definitely agree with your point. Best I can do right now is having my shows/movies stored on a 1TB drive that’s almost full and a 2TB drive I have yet to touch, which just works for me.
Your jellyfin server can just be your computer, it just needs to be running when you want to watch the content.
My desktop hasn’t been shut down other than for quick system updates (and it’s Linux so I do mean QUICK) in several months.
It’s hard not to say they’re correct to though. For all the talk about people saying we’ll cut our service, their numbers went up. They got paying members and now they got paying advertisers. Netflix was Victorious here.
You know what they’re actually advertising for this way? Parrots and rum.
And every second new user is one with the ads plan. Congratulations, not paying (buying) once again worked out.
In the last couple months it seems like the number of ads has increased dramatically.
I’m shocked.
