Are the gains self reported? They are probably lying then.
what about stremio+torrentio+RealDebrid?
When you open the app without an account, the animation it shows still says that it doesnt have any ads
Normal, people show again and again that they dont give a f about the prices, so they go up and ppl still subscribe.
prices will go up until ppl start to cancel
all that to be locked out of anything higher than 720p if you dare use a privacy friendly operating system 😂 right, I’ll be holding onto my money then
Even Asahi Linux literally had to deal with this just to get 1080p:
This is why I keep insisting that Kodi (and other open source “media center” solutions) really only work for people dedicatedly ripping their own large collection of physical content, or for pirates.
I would kill for an all in one, “single pane of glass” way to browse and watch even just only my legally obtained media library (personally ripped discs amd multiple streaming services). But at absolute best I still have content from different sources all squirelled away in their own separate menus, and if I use something like Kodi for the rips I’m stuck at 720p for streaming (assuming the unofficial plugin for Netflix decides to work that day).
And not even proprietary closed source stuff gets it right. With a chromecast dongle (or whatever they’ve relabeled it now) at best I can search for a specific piece of content from the main menu, and then it’s a crapshoot if say, the Amazon Prime content found by the search is included with my sub or a separate cost. It’s a crapshoot if the “link” will just open the associated app or actually take me to the fucking content in the associated app.
I don’t get why these streaming services think people care about the brand at all. The less I have to think about the service itself, the more likely I am to ignore how infrequently I use it. The more I have to deal with friction getting to the content, the more I have time to think about if the subscription is even worth the cost.
Even using Firefox on Windows 10, 720p! I cancelled a while back and now I just download stuff.
This is incredibly misleading. They lost users in high paying regions and gained in lower paying countries.
Lots of people want their chance at being American™ before the country collapses into a different culture
Wasn’t $7.99 the price for standard at some point? I mean, it was easy to predict but they really did just add the option with ads to make it as expensive as the version without ads and then make every other option way more expensive
$7.99 was the only price at some point. Then they reduced the quality of the service and increased the price.
Streaming only launched at 9.99 iirc
I remember when streaming was super new and the service was AMAZING. As time passed; everything got much more expensive, movies and series were removed and now, even ads are displayed to you even though you pay for their service. The reason for the streaming service was BECAUAE of them having no ads. Now all streaming services has gone to shit :/ giving you 720p upscaled but saying its 1080 HD or 4k. Just lies… Too expensive to pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services to get the movie you want to watch because one service doesn’t have what you want to look at.
I don’t do ads. Seeing them after years of not has a profoundly negative effect on my brain. A slight fog akin to waking up after using Benadryl as a sleep aide, and a hazing of attention capacity.
I’m not going to pay for that impact on my thinking. It certainly won’t improve the world to have more of it.
God, I have so many of these annoying catchy lines in my head. If I can’t access anything I’ll just use that Goldberg website to get some classics to read.
I had those syndromes too, until I have quit doing it
Stop it, before it is to late! Please, this stuff is poison to your brain! You suffered enough.
Haven’t seen an ad in over a decade, except by accident, which is jolting. The stuff in my head is from the 90s…
I see, the damage is already done 🫣
But it seems like you stopped doing it at about the same time as me 😄 only, that I only experienced few years of 90s 🤔
Back then ads were quite nice tbh, like they’d actually put effort into it to make it catchy and funny or beautiful. And TV was worth watching. Like the discovery channel was amazing.
I remember TV only enshitificated, except in the state sponsored channels, there we had only a single ad-break in the middle of a movie and none in the night
It’s been a long time, but I remember most of those Goldberg “classics” being pretty short, one-note affairs.
And then Schiavone exclaimed, “There it is, the spear! This one’s over folks, one, two, three!”
“If that gentleman needs a chiropractor, my brother in law just set up shop downtown,” said The Brain.
Just FYI, currently in Sweden I pay the equivalent of about $10 for the standard tier without ads.
They only recently increased it to the close to $10. Currently I am OK paying that since my kid is actually using Netflix frequently.
As soon as the price goes higher, or they introduce ads in any way or once they start peddling their shitty mobile games on the child account, we’re out.
They already started to not have non-English audio for a few pretty popular movies, which is a weird move and makes it less usable for us as well.
Already got Jellyfin setup, so no worries for the future on my end.
mobile games might be the one good thing theyve been doing, pretty sure they released some solid ones, like hades port
Fuck them for licencing games behind a monthly subscription. I want to buy Into the Breach, not get a video subscription I won’t use to be able to play it.
Thats wild , didn’t know that, you cant own hades on ios or play it offline
On android theres prob cracked apks at least
Currently on sale for 8$ https://store.steampowered.com/app/590380/Into_the_Breach/
I have it on PC, but I want to play it on the go. The only way to (legally) get it on mobile is via Netflix. I’d buy it, if I could, it’d be worth it
Steam Deck?
Don’t have one, unfortunately. And I don’t think I’ll get enough use out of one to justify buying it
Yeah I was playing it while I cancelled my sub over the account sharing restriction. The only thing I missed, really.
I think you’re looking at it the wrong way. It’s just an extra that you have for “free”, not a dedicated gaming subscription. I also live in Europe and my Netflix is cheap, so I will have the subscription by default (cause a lot of people in my family watch it), which means I get to try the games for free. You can always just go buy them if you want, from the store.
No, you seeing it wrong.
The subscription is the ONLY way you can get that game, making the whole subscription a necessity if you only want to game that one game.
Like with YouTube, where you have to pay YouTube music as well, even if you have apple music payed by your daddy already
Remembering how Subset Games is notoriously anti-mobile I looked into it. Turns out, as usual, they did not intend to release a mobile port, just like with FTL. They have an FTL iPad port, but refused to release an Android port due to piracy concerns, claiming it wasn’t worth the effort to bother with the port. But Netflix approached them and sponsored the mobile ports for Into the Breach. In other words, if not for Netflix, the game would not have been playable on mobile at all. This likely applies to all the other Netflix exclusive games, they don’t buy licenses, they sponsor the ports.
And even if they were just buying licenses and making games available only through Netflix, then go complain to the game devs, not Netflix. Devs are the ones who agreed to it when they were offered money.
Even greedy Amazon is providing games that don’t require a constant subscription to play even after you cancel Prime.
Never used Prime, so can’t comment.
I cannot. Mobile games are exclusively licensed by Netflix: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NGP.IntoTheBreach&hl=en-US
On desktop, I’ll of course go for the actual purchase
Hmm, didn’t know that one was exclusive to Netflix. It’s not a universal thing or a rule, cause San Andreas Definitive Edition, for example, is available for purchase for $20. Probably depends on what the game publisher agreed to.
You can play hades on mobile now? It was already tough on PC, I can’t imagine how difficult that would be on mobile touch controls.
You can use a controller. I got further in Dead Cells on my phone with the Backbone One than I did on my Steam Deck. Maybe the same would be true with Hades - it’s a shame the Netflix version doesn’t (or didn’t; I haven’t checked in months) support cross-save.
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Sadly I still pay for a service I don’t use because I have members of my house who are relucant to embrace the change. I, on the other hand, am more than happy with my Jellyfin and assorted apps to provide my content from whichever source I choose, now if only I could cadjole the others into embracing the freedom of the high seas.
How do your house members prefer this service over jellyfin, if you are running it anyway 🤨?
At this point your guess is as good as mine. I e also set up Jellyseer for discovery and ability for users to request stuff but still a reluctance to move.
🤯
I was in a similar situation, I just told them I’m cancelling the account when they added the extra charge for extra users, and they’re free to make their own account if they want.
There was a bit of complaining, but it turns out no one missed Netflix enough to come back.
If only there was a good way to get kids content
I get them using sonarr and usenet as well as an indexer that lists those releases in german.
Sometimes sonarr is smart enough and sometimes I have to grep em manually using prowlarr. But with smart filtering, it is done pretty fast.
For English releases, it works flawlessly.
The only thing missing are youtube series, but those can still be grabbed from YouTube directly (let’s see for how long still), hope more release groups would upload YouTube series to the usenet, hate it that YouTube has no series/episode sorting.
Stremio + real debrid. My 6 year old can navigate around on his own now.
Think of them as patrons of the arts
All that for JUST NETFLIX. What incredible bullshit people are having to deal with.
Already bailed when they blocked account sharing…
Was watching a movie on Netflix with a friend a while back and it didn’t even support subtitles for her…
