🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ cmon people, stop making netflix relevant
You actually want most people to pay for this crap so stuff still gets made for us to pirate. Thanks, rubes!
Either they have great technology, or they have great entertainment,” she said. “Our superpower has always been the fact that we have both.
Please. Your software is an image carousel and a video player.
Is there a way to poison the well so badly and so irrevocably that corporations won’t dare use generative AI for anything? Can we somehow trick these overgrown chatbots to speak ill of their masters in the form of direct-to-stream advertisements?
Ask Musk. He managed to do it on accident.
Well piracy is the only way then.
No they won’t 🏴☠️
They will. We just won’t see them when we watch their shows.
Rejecting Netflix fixes things for you and me, but the article says Netflix has 93 million ad-supported subscribers. I’m really worried about the amount of influence advertisers have on our society, and it’s only getting worse. Even if you and I can be above the direct influence of these ads, many people are not, and those people are influencing you and me. This produces a dangerous secondary influence that can reach most of society, and just fills everyone’s mind with lies, for hardly any cost.
No different than the decades of ad supported broadcast television.
YoHoHo Arrrrghhhhhh!!!
If I down vote this does it show my disappointment of netflix or the OP? 🤔
The OP. They’re just the messenger.
Nice ahoy mateys!
Jellyfin
Not to me, they fucking won’t
I was looking to cut down on subscriptions and picked Netflix as an experimental one. I haven’t missed it at all. Things like this make me less likely to occasionally reactivate for a couple of months as I was originally planning.
I wonder when they’ll see a big enough effect to break their current run of fucking over their customers.
I also thought I’d miss Hulu and Netflix a lot more than I do. What used to irk me so badly was how utterly shit Netflix is when you just want to sit down and find something new to watch. Their front page would be list after list of things like “Hot New Comedies” “Best Independent Films of 2025”, “Classic Action Flicks” and somehow it always felt like the same 30 or 40 movies randomly shuffled together. So I’d spend 15 minutes scrolling through the same slop in different orders, get frustrated and search for a movie that I remembered wanting to watch, only to find that it was on none of the services I was subscribed to, and cost $8.99 for a single watch of a 20 year old movie.
We had been Netflix subscribers since the very start when they delivered discs through the mail. Kinda sad how they went from having virtually anything you could think of to watch (and having a halfway decent recommendation algorithm to boot!) to where they are today.
Kinda sad how they went from having virtually anything you could think of to watch (and having a halfway decent recommendation algorithm to boot!) to where they are today.
They’re not entirely to blame - once other companies saw that this streaming thing actually made money, they pulled all their stuff and put it on their own services, leading to the cable 2.0 we have today.
Everything else that sucks about them now, though, yeah, they’re to blame.
My kids have missed it more than me (which I don’t) but they’re easy to distract with one of the other streaming services I still have. The last price hike did it for me.
Bye Netflix, hello plex.
Edit: hello Jellyfin, as helpful users have mentioned the enshitification of plex to me.
Tried Jellyfin because of Plex enshittification…
…stuck with Jellyfin for the better performance!
I have some bad news for you
You seems unaware of plex enshitification. Bye bye plex, Hello Jellyfin.
I was! Thanks for the info, I’ll be checking out Jellyfin instead.
Eh, tbh it still does the core basics of streaming my content and Metadata management, so I don’t really care about enshitification of ‘extra’ features that I never use. It’s still the easiest way to share media
They absolutely destroyed the iOS app. Barely usable now
You think the enshittification will stop at the extra features you dont use?
Yes, because the core mechanics of their platform is media metadata management and streaming. As long as those work, and my users don’t have to pay anything (because I have a plex pass lifetime already), then it has no effect on me or my users.
All that extra stuff can just be turned off.
They are pushing to make users pay as well
Not quite. Only if users want to stream from a server that doesn’t have a plex pass, in which case the user needs a plex watch pass.
If you (the server owner) have a plex pass, all users (even free accounts) can stream from you without a pass.
If you (the server owner) do not have a plex pass, then the users need a plex watch pass to stream from you.
Essentially, they’re making sure one side or the other has paid, but free to free is being stopped.
Local stream isn’t affected by this either, only remote streaming. As someone who has had plexpass for 12 plus years, it doesn’t affect me or my users.
https://gizmodo.com/plex-is-going-to-make-you-pay-for-its-best-free-feature-2000578442
From what I have been reading they are planning to charge all users who are streaming remotely… Even if the host is paying.
“If you want to watch you library away from home you’ll have to pay. It also affects anyone you share your home library with. They will have to pay if they are not Plex Pass subscribers themselves. Plex will offer a Remote Watch Pass tier for $2/month or $20/year.”
Now, I am not saying this is by any means a big amount of money or making a judgment call about the reasonableness of them charging for what services… But it definitely seems like they want to ensure they are getting cash from everyone who ever touches Plex. Again, $2 a month is very little, but that’s on top of the charges for the host
And lets be real here for a second. It costs actual money to develop and update Plex. All these people being butthurt about no longer being able to watch everything for free are entitled as fuck. It’s okay to pay developers for their time and expertise. A carpenter expects you to pay them. A painter also expects you to pay them. A software engineer expects to be paid for their work, and they won’t if people use their software for free. If you don’t want to pay for it, download your own shit, and if you’re hosting for a lot of users, tell all the users to download their own shit.
And canceled my sub
The sooner people realize that the subscribers are nothing more than super-slow-boiled frogs to them, the better.
They are the slow moving hand reaching for your wallet.
Between that, price hike, and some weirdly low quality content because you don’t use this or that browser, netflix really wants people to stop their subscriptions it seems.
99% of people won’t care besides passive complaining at the water cooler, unfortunately
High seas baby!
There is surely a recognisable pattern here in which people leave because of this shit and to keep the flow of money going up they then have to further reduce quality by increasing ads.
I deleted my facebook a few weeks ago and signing in for the first time in years gave a look at what it became and it was unrecognisable.
Netflix is the worst of the streaming channels these days.
Yup, I’m finishing off a couple shows and it’s on the chopping block. Easy choice
byeeeee
