It’s like they are trying to irritate people into canceling their accounts.
Imo, this one might actually be worse than the account sharing and cause people to quit. As soon as you have people messing around with their subscription version, it’s all too easy to just say “nah, I actually don’t want this anymore”.
The thing I don’t get (I do - it’s greed, FYI) is why the fuck they even care? If I’m paying for 2 or 4 screens on my Netflix account, why the fuck does it even matter which address they’re playing at? Netflix were about to sting me because my stepkids (who are with us half the time) were using my account while at their dad’s.
Believe it or not, Netflix finally drove me to Plex. I’d been holding out, still using Kodi, but decided the money I was saving could go towards a much nicer setup, and it did. A pair of HP DL380 G7s, Proxmox - the works.
Now my stepkids use my Plex server, and have both happily streamed the latest Black Mirror from it (shit season, BTW - another hump in the downhill shitshow that Netflix has become). And the savings from my cancelled Netflix sub will have paid for it over the next 12 months or so.
Thanks Netflix! Ya dumb cunts.
They made record profits during quarantine, when everyone was stuck at home. Now they have two problems:
- Some of those people have cancelled because they’re now busy.
- They’re expected by shareholders to continue that kind of profit increase forever.
They don’t actually care any more than they ever did, this is just an easy way to get money out of accounts they see as less likely to cancel because many people are using the same account.
how hard was it to do a plex server? did you just use an old pc or what did you use as the host?
I set up mine shortly after cancelling Netflix after the last price increase about a year ago.
Repurposed an old Raspberry Pi 3 that had been a Kodi setup. Added a spare 2TB PS4 external HD. Been working great the last year. But looking to get an actual NAS setup to replace paying for google photos (my wife), more Plex storage, and a python dev server. That’ll run my about $900 though.
The Pi3 with the PS4 HD was less than $130.
After some discussion with the Minister for War and Finance (my wife), we agreed I had a modest budget (~$300AUD) to spend on some old enterprise servers, which I did.
But I’ve seen plenty of posts where people are getting away with their old gaming rigs, and the like.
I may do something similar! Might as well
Seriously, after I did it and set my wife up for it, she asked me why it took me so long to make the move. It’s been a real game changer for my family. It just works.
Piracy my beloved🏴☠️
When I was a poor kid I pirated, went to paying as a working adult, now I am back to buying random DVDs at thirftshops but if they keep this clown thing up, I will sail. These clowns have hard time understanding who controls the money flows here, shiti video streaming service is not a monopoly/utility…
Oh my show is no longer available on my paid subscription? It’s still right here on my server.
“nah, I actually don’t want this anymore.
This was my reaction quite a while ago. We got rid of our account because we just didn’t use it anymore and the price kept climbing.
This is just Netflix desperately trying to claw back some profit. They think they can siphon most people into higher-priced accounts.
I like how they keep testing this crap on the Canadian market.
I dont know if were the best guinea pigs, I mean look at what we pay for telecoms. We’re pretty passive when it comes to being gouged, other countries might not be so potato-like in their response.
I really should thank Netflix for finally motivating me to actually get off my ass and build my home server. After cancelling all of my streaming subscriptions, it really does pay for itself.
I get that they’re being greedy, but provided you’re not set on watching one specific show, why pay for Netflix? Lots of cable TV providers are setting up their own services and taking their shows there instead of Netflix. Most of the Netflix originals either don’t last, aren’t even close to being good, or both; I feel like there hasn’t been more than two or three major hits from them a year in awhile (could be wrong though). In the past they had no big competitors so they could charge whatever, now it just seems like way too much.
(I guess that doesn’t mean the ad-supported tier going away, but who wants to pay and still have to watch ads?)
I can only assume this but this is most likely a response to the C-11 bill that just passed. Netflix was already losing mass amounts of content due to other streaming services. And now our government is mandating that all online streaming have & pay for a certain amount of Canadian content…
Our government is really the one fucking us over when it comes to the internet. From only ever helping monopolies to passing laws on the internet that can only harm users.
That law is in effect in Europe since a long time ago (in fact is thanks to that law that netflix carries so much non north-american content) and netflix didn’t remove any tiers.
Just gonna drop a couple links here, do with them what you will.
Thumbs up for piracy. Once you figure out jellyfin/plex there’s no way back.
