I cancelled around the time cuties came out. I put in my reasons that they are obsessed with race/lgbt and with them representation or the message trumps storytelling
I have had a very love/hate relationship with Netflix Originals. Some of my favorite movies and shows ever made were made by Netflix, and I generally enjoy their anime selection. But with how expensive they are getting, and with the drop in quality of a lot of their newer stuff, I absolutely cant justify my own subscription and so I just use the one my family shares. At least for the few times I still watch it.
Same. I've said it before but I know far lefties who dropped because they're parents and they actually want to protect their kids from pedos. Netflix made the decision easy by having nothing of value worth watching.
My wife gave up on Atypical in season 4 because the show started to focus more on the lesbian sister being a lesbian instead of the fucking autistic main character which was the whole point of the show.
Unlikely. The infrastructure of all competition is developed and done. Now they only have to do shows. The billing & streaming stuff will work without further development.
This might only change if Netflix will offer more money than those companies make on their own streaming service. And they probably have to add a bit to that, because it's bad PR to say "Our service failed, we go with the big dogs" (which will then lead Netflix to say, yeah, we payl ess now!)
I've been 100% YARRRR! since 2001ish with usenet, back when you could get it for free, then kazaa and limewire and gnutella then then torrents.
The "convenience" of netflix didn't change anything. I currently have access to 100% of the world's output of content, the day it is released or sooner, I own it forever, and I can share with my friends without limitations, and no ads or other marketing is "suggested" to me when I browse my library. No "legitimate" service offers anything close to these features at any price.
This aint a genie that is going back into the bottle. Fortunately for the media owners there is a frontload of effort to learn the tech and set everything up, which will keep normies from going this route.
Installing a torrent client, using a vpn to avoid the copyright jannies, setting up a media player, downloading subtitles. Can be daunting if you didn't grow up with the technology, just like modern video game controllers are intimidating to boomers but they can understand a 4 button NES controller easily enough.
Then the web trackers searches are in the grayweb so have to browse with enough shields up to avoid AIDS but still keep the JS and 3rd party reference security loose enough that the sites function.
Then its maintaining a media library and getting it from your pc to your viewing location. Nowadays plex and smart tvs make it super easy but it used require an htpc setup which not many people were willing to keep up.
You can teach anyone who knows a bit about computers how to do it all in an hour but most people would rather just shell out for netflix or disney than pay attention to nerd shit for that long.
Not shocked. I think I had been a Netflix sub going back to probably 2008. I cancelled in 2020 a month or so before the height of the Cuties debacle. I mean, this was during the time that everything was closed and I had nothing to do, yet I still wasn't watching Netflix? It was long overdue and the only reason I hung on so long I think was because I had enjoyed it in the past.
It's hard to blame Netflix specifically though. Content has changed and my tastes have changed. When it comes to Netflix I remember about the time I kept getting suggested some show promo with some waffles arranged like a cock and balls. Apparently they thought I would want that. What it really meant is they couldn't find any better. I had a handful of streaming services and used all of them, right now I just let my Prime go away and all I have is Crunchyroll and an ad-supported Hulu sub I get as a "free" perk from something else. I probably use the Crunchyroll enough to keep when my year is up, and I really only use the Hulu occasionally but find the ads so annoying it's more of when I want to put something on the TV and take a nap than watch anything seriously. I've gone back to physical media and with almost every new TV show coming out not interesting me, well it's been cheap.
If people are looking for an alternative they can run on their own computer, Kodi is free and extremely simple and easy to set up. There's also a version you can just burn to a USB stick and run/install. Works very much the same as netflix does on a set-top box. I have it running on a 10 year old spare computer I wasn't doing anything else with.
I've started ripping all my movies and TV shows and throwing them on a NAS (you don't need a NAS and can just put the files on the same box; I just use the NAS for convenience), then point Kodi to the file share. If the files follow a particular naming convention it's able to find movie/episode info online without you having to do anything.
It's interesting that on the heels of Netflix telling their woke employees that it may not be the place they want to work that 150 employees were fired but the msm plays it off as economic problems.
That's probably not far from the truth, but it would be more accurate to say 150 woke employees were let go. Unfortunately, for Netflix they've spent the last 15 years doing everything they can to dis-enfranchise their center and right of center user-base. Now all they're doing by telling their woke employees to leave is dis-enfranchising their left of center user-base.
I wish Netflix all the luck they deserve pissing off the entire spectrum of their potential users. After what they've foisted on the American cultural landscape in the guise of social justice they deserve everything they're going to get.
I cancelled around the time cuties came out. I put in my reasons that they are obsessed with race/lgbt and with them representation or the message trumps storytelling
I dropped Netflix over Cuties as well. Won't even steal it out of principle.
I dropped them when they lost all the
oldgood shows and movies. I couldn't care less about nEtFlIx OrIgiNaLsI have had a very love/hate relationship with Netflix Originals. Some of my favorite movies and shows ever made were made by Netflix, and I generally enjoy their anime selection. But with how expensive they are getting, and with the drop in quality of a lot of their newer stuff, I absolutely cant justify my own subscription and so I just use the one my family shares. At least for the few times I still watch it.
So you're saying Trump made you unsubscribe?
Ha! Sounds about right
Same. I've said it before but I know far lefties who dropped because they're parents and they actually want to protect their kids from pedos. Netflix made the decision easy by having nothing of value worth watching.
My wife gave up on Atypical in season 4 because the show started to focus more on the lesbian sister being a lesbian instead of the fucking autistic main character which was the whole point of the show.
Is there a chance that Netflix is hoping to ride the wave and see their competition shut down and then Netflix gets to have all the shows again?
Unlikely. The infrastructure of all competition is developed and done. Now they only have to do shows. The billing & streaming stuff will work without further development.
This might only change if Netflix will offer more money than those companies make on their own streaming service. And they probably have to add a bit to that, because it's bad PR to say "Our service failed, we go with the big dogs" (which will then lead Netflix to say, yeah, we payl ess now!)
Maybe in 10+ years something will change.
Who's going to shut down their competition?
I have this weird thing where I keep expecting businesses without customers or money to be forced to close up shop by market pressures.
I know it's unrealistic but it's just a tick that I have....
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/obamas-settle-new-role-as-netflix-producers-1229621/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/obamas-settle-new-role-as-netflix-producers-1229621/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/obamas-settle-new-role-as-netflix-producers-1229621/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/obamas-settle-new-role-as-netflix-producers-1229621/
I've been 100% YARRRR! since 2001ish with usenet, back when you could get it for free, then kazaa and limewire and gnutella then then torrents.
The "convenience" of netflix didn't change anything. I currently have access to 100% of the world's output of content, the day it is released or sooner, I own it forever, and I can share with my friends without limitations, and no ads or other marketing is "suggested" to me when I browse my library. No "legitimate" service offers anything close to these features at any price.
This aint a genie that is going back into the bottle. Fortunately for the media owners there is a frontload of effort to learn the tech and set everything up, which will keep normies from going this route.
...Installing a torrent client?
VPN too, your ISP will hit you hard with "legal notices" if you don't use one.
Not in the UK. I've been pirating literally everything for 20 years and never heard a single squeak.
Lucky dog, it's not like that stateside.
In the US, been pirating for years on multiple ISPs, never gotten any letters. You might just be unlucky, heh.
Had it once with a season of GoT and once with Brooklyn 99. I'll just blame it on my ISP.
But now I just torrent anime on a private tracking site and never had anything.
Installing a torrent client, using a vpn to avoid the copyright jannies, setting up a media player, downloading subtitles. Can be daunting if you didn't grow up with the technology, just like modern video game controllers are intimidating to boomers but they can understand a 4 button NES controller easily enough.
Then the web trackers searches are in the grayweb so have to browse with enough shields up to avoid AIDS but still keep the JS and 3rd party reference security loose enough that the sites function.
Then its maintaining a media library and getting it from your pc to your viewing location. Nowadays plex and smart tvs make it super easy but it used require an htpc setup which not many people were willing to keep up.
You can teach anyone who knows a bit about computers how to do it all in an hour but most people would rather just shell out for netflix or disney than pay attention to nerd shit for that long.
Not shocked. I think I had been a Netflix sub going back to probably 2008. I cancelled in 2020 a month or so before the height of the Cuties debacle. I mean, this was during the time that everything was closed and I had nothing to do, yet I still wasn't watching Netflix? It was long overdue and the only reason I hung on so long I think was because I had enjoyed it in the past.
It's hard to blame Netflix specifically though. Content has changed and my tastes have changed. When it comes to Netflix I remember about the time I kept getting suggested some show promo with some waffles arranged like a cock and balls. Apparently they thought I would want that. What it really meant is they couldn't find any better. I had a handful of streaming services and used all of them, right now I just let my Prime go away and all I have is Crunchyroll and an ad-supported Hulu sub I get as a "free" perk from something else. I probably use the Crunchyroll enough to keep when my year is up, and I really only use the Hulu occasionally but find the ads so annoying it's more of when I want to put something on the TV and take a nap than watch anything seriously. I've gone back to physical media and with almost every new TV show coming out not interesting me, well it's been cheap.
Good to see.
It has been like 6 years since I got rid of my Netflix subscription.
https://piracyrules.ytmnd.com/
The only obstacle for piracy for most people is either finding a safe source or preparing a hardened Linux distro.
If people are looking for an alternative they can run on their own computer, Kodi is free and extremely simple and easy to set up. There's also a version you can just burn to a USB stick and run/install. Works very much the same as netflix does on a set-top box. I have it running on a 10 year old spare computer I wasn't doing anything else with.
I've started ripping all my movies and TV shows and throwing them on a NAS (you don't need a NAS and can just put the files on the same box; I just use the NAS for convenience), then point Kodi to the file share. If the files follow a particular naming convention it's able to find movie/episode info online without you having to do anything.
It's interesting that on the heels of Netflix telling their woke employees that it may not be the place they want to work that 150 employees were fired but the msm plays it off as economic problems.
That's probably not far from the truth, but it would be more accurate to say 150 woke employees were let go. Unfortunately, for Netflix they've spent the last 15 years doing everything they can to dis-enfranchise their center and right of center user-base. Now all they're doing by telling their woke employees to leave is dis-enfranchising their left of center user-base.
I wish Netflix all the luck they deserve pissing off the entire spectrum of their potential users. After what they've foisted on the American cultural landscape in the guise of social justice they deserve everything they're going to get.