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Get ready to pay more for Netflix’s priciest plan.
Subscribers to Netflix’s Basic and Premium plans will be paying more, with prices rising to $11.99 and $22.99 per month in the US.
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“As we deliver more value to our members, we occasionally ask them to pay a bit more,”
But you’re not doing the first half, so you can’t do the second half…
If I was actually paying for half of the streaming services I have, I would cancel them all. They are all shit. Maybe I’d keep Disney+ for my kids, but Netflix is a waste of money nowadays.
Netflix announced that starting today, users on its $9.99 per month Basic plan will now have to pay $11.99, and those paying $19.99 per month for Premium will have to pay $22.99
That’s insane. The only way those price hikes could possibly be justified is if the majority of movie/show creators had their catalogues available on Netflix. But they don’t because everyone and their mother wants their own fucking streaming service, ruining streaming for everyone.
No thanks. I got a library card and access to my entire county’s book/audio-book/movie/show catalogue for free through Libby and Hoopla. As for everything else I can’t find there… Yarr.
I always upvote library advocacy
Cue all the “that’s it, I’m out” comments. Seems like no one actually ever leaves.
I cancelled all my streaming subscriptions last month. Netflix, Disney, HBO.
I’m a full time pirate now with iptv and I’m a member of a forum where you download from each others mega cloud.
With my 1Gbit connection it is fun to download again
Can’t leave if you never started
That’s how late-stage-capitalism works. companies just exist to maximize profits, unnecessary scale, or simply make more profit for their shareholders. It’s not for the customer. As soon as the innovations stop and the market is cornered by the competition, it’s just maximizing profits until the wheels fall off, f the user.
According to my email history, I cancelled in March 2022. So there’s one person.
I left. Only thing I have left is Hulu and I’m about to boot them too.
For anyone looking to bail - get a nice VPN and sail the high seas instead! I use protonvpn for $120 per 2 years ($5 per month) they also have free servers you can try out but they’re super slow. Another good one is mullvad for €5 per month (doesn’t get cheaper with longer plans, but €5 a month isn’t bad). Be wary of vpn reviews though because I know a lot are sponsored.
Protonvpn and mullvad are based in Switzerland and Sweden, respectively, and both countries have great privacy laws. Been using protonvpn for a while and haven’t had any issues personally.
For getting into torrenting, I definitely recommend the arr suite (radarr for movies, sonarr for tv, some others for other uses) and qbittorrent for actual torrenting. Also very good idea to stick everything in docker containers, you can route them through a gluetun container that uses your VPN so even if you shut your VPN down systemwide those are still protected. The arr suite helps with managing what you get, getting better qualities, automatically getting new releases, etc.
Plex is great for viewing your content and such, can either do one time purchase or a subscription, $120 for lifetime which is the same as paying for 3 years of subscription I think? You can also use Kodi which is free and open source but imo more annoying to setup and has a worse layout.
There’s plenty of guides online for setting things up, but make sure to never torrent without a vpn unless it’s non-copyrighted
Obligatory Jellyfin > Plex recommendation and TRaSH-Guides plug
Jellyfin is a completely self-hosted Plex alternative that works really well. Plex has been around longer and thus has more dedicated apps, but Jellyfin can’t ever disable your account or block the server you pay to run it on .
I’ve been using Jellyfin for over a year and have no complaints.
Any opinions on the morality of it? We only just got better agreements for writer profit sharing, so while previously we could say “it was never supporting the creators anyway”, I’d argue that it’s slightly more supportive of the industry than it used to be, especially if the actors’ strike yields fruit.
We aren’t obligated to pay for the service that is responsible for the writers lack of profits in the first place. We also shouldn’t get used to renting everything online and not owning anything.
There’s still virtually nothing going to the writers. If you want to support writers, you can send your favorite ones 10% of the amount you save and it will be 100x more than they would have made off you otherwise.
Anyone who complains about this: If you didn’t cancel your acccount back when they cracked down on account sharing it’s your own fault.
They saw that they made more profit this way and now they gonna keep squeezing as much as possible.
It’s not too late tho but i doubt enough will jump the ship to make a change
It’s almost like streaming models aren’t sustainable for anybody involved. ;)
They were when they didn’t need to also make their own content before everyone and their mother became one.
Thanks for the heads up. I just cancelled my subscription. I had premium but $23 per month is ridiculous.
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I think the issue is that Netflix always had a lot of debt and thought they could grow a lot more. They had a really solid income, then suddenly their catalog was shrinking thanks to the million other streaming services while they simultaneously started declining in subscriptions right when the cost of debt skyrocketed (even if some of their debt is still at lower rates).
Not that I’m cheering on the price increase by any means, nor am I currently a subscriber. Still though in some way I can see why they’re doing it and have a feeling we’re just at the tip of the iceberg in how bad tech corporate services are going to get for a bit.
On an unrelated note, VPNs and/or I2P are cool things to check out.
Edit: One thing too to bring up is that password sharing may still be a breeze. If you set up a VPN - not a commercial one but you setup yourseld on either on a VPS or on your home network - as long as anybody is on it they’ll look like they’re from the same household.
Netflix, what are you trying to do? I can’t cancel my subscription in protest if it’s still cancelled from the last time you did something boneheaded.
Is this a monthly thing now?
Seems like
Why does anyone still give them their money
Because my parents pay for it and it still works in my and my brother’s houses despite the no password sharing thing. We are still frequently using it in 5 different households and Netflix has yet to tell us we’re being charged extra for doing so.
So glad to have escaped netflix. Shitty Corp got its model stolen by dozens of services and they deserve the abject failure they caused by alienating their customers.
Fuck you netflix, you’re the comcast of streaming services.
Oh, you’re still paying for Netflix? Well… sucks to be you!
Bye bye Netflix. Onward to the high seas.
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Lol glad I canceled yesterday and sent an account deletion request.
