I cut the cord when netflix was just mail order CDs. The moment they started their bullshit with password sharing, I canceled my sub and never went back. Hulu got the axe too. If you live long enough, you either die a hero, or become the villain. Nextflix decided to become the villain.
Everyone in 2027:
I mean… it’s entertainment. It’s not like they are offering some basic utilities. Buy it if you think it’s worth it, don’t buy it if you don’t. Plenty of cheap alternatives on TV or in a library. I really don’t remember Netflix of Apple promising to entertain everyone as cheaply as possible. They were always there to make money.
Or sign up for a month, binge, cancel.
I have every major steaming service, usually wait for a super deal like AMC + for $30 for 12 months. HBO max is included with my phone plan, peacock with my internet bill, paramount plus with another service I subscribe to, Amazon with Amazon prime subscription, I got more then I need with streaming service. Actually pay for Netflix and Apple plus
Arrrrrrr.
Don’t even know how to hit the high seas anymore
Pay? Lol.
Running your own Jellyfin instance full of items gathered upon the high seas.
I’m a Luddite
I’m still absolutely unaware of what the “fediverse” is, or how lemmy works
I took two months to figure out how to Chromecast to a TV when something changed and I couldn’t follow basic instructions from Google
And yet, even I am able to easily find sites to watch the shit I want to that requires paying shitty 'Murican companies (mostly I enjoy SBS and ABC stuff, because I live in Australia and they have wonderful offerings for all who live here for free)
Worse than that, since they killed the sharing off now a Netflix account isn’t your account, it’s an account you buy for one “household” location using one internet connection.
If you try to sign in to netflix on hotel tvs it won’t let you, because that isn’t part of your “household.” If you have multiple internet connections in your house you can have that same issue inside your own home, because Netflix will decide the internet connection you use most is your “household” connection and the other one doesn’t count as being in your “household” even if it’s in the next room.
If you travel a lot or have an atypical internet setup in your own house Netflix will deny you access and tell you to buy a subscription for that location.
besides the sharing, netflix cancelling alot of shows after 1,2,3 seasons is enough not to subscribe to it, plus the enormous amounts of time between seasons.
Back in my days, seasons would end for summer and you knew the cliffhanger would be resolved next season in the fall lineup
Used to have 1 service with damn near everything.
Now there are 30 and none of them have much worth watching.
Right back to “500 channels, and nothing’s on.”
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Host your own service with damn near everything 🏴☠️
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
The Pirate Bay’s rates haven’t changed for twenty years!
who tf uses the pirate bay in 2026
I mean, it’s a perfectly functional free public tracker that can be thrown in with a handful of other free public trackers in prowlarr which when added together, cover about 98% of all my media needs. I don’t go to the pirate bay, but I would imagine my arr stack probably uses it from time to time.
Why not? I’ve been out of the loop.
full of malware
That’s what filters are for
Row, row, row your boat…
… you guys are paying?
🏴☠️
Jellyfin gang 🏴☠️
Normies dont like my answer of “Just steal” when they complain about stuff like this.
- hear about show
- wait 2 days
- download show for free via torrent
- watch show uninterrupted at 1080p and high bitrate
- gg
Why would you wait 2 days?
Probably saying that that’s how long it takes to propagate to their trackers
Sonarr usually picks it up on the same day for me
Some shows are online before it’s even done airing because people have cracked the streaming platform and can download directly as soon as it drops. Hour long show that premieres at 9pm? If it’s popular, it’ll be online by 9:15.
I was for a while. Cut the “cable” in 2003 and was happy to pay a few bucks for a streaming service here or there, more convenient than pirating. But now… well I cancelled them all and am right back to where I was years ago. They are so happy to kill the golden goose.
There are a few, still decent streaming services, the small time ones, like curiosity stream, but yeah by and large yo ho ho.
That reminds me … I have curiosity stream.
edit: lol, they almost tripled their price, too!
…
Holy shit… I told myself I’d go to Curiosity Stream once they accepted different payment methods than credit cards but DAMN SON! That price…
Edit: Oh wait… that’s annually… okay, I’m still with it.
Edit2: And I got them mixed up with Nebula, that’s where I really wanted to go… damn.
I’ve got Nebula. Took 'em up on a deal on an annual sub when Tom Scott started his new series on there.
It’s…fine.
It’s nice to watch channels like Mr Mobile without adverts, but channels like Not Just Bikes and Mustard already run on YT without ads. Sure, there’s an ad for Nebula at the end their episodes, but it’s right at the end, so is easily skipped.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s loads of stuff on there, but discovery isn’t particularly easy, and most of it is USA-centric, which doesn’t really interest me.
I finally got around to remembering to try out Nebula, and I get disappointed because most of the time I forget I have it. Like you, a lot of what I watch is already on YT, and my wife has a grandfathered (for now) premium account which we can share, so I already have ad free YT.
I agree on the discovery too. It feels like I have to work to find something that strikes my fancy if it’s not from someone I’m already familiar with.
Not sure if creators having easier access would make it better, and I like seeing what channels are real creators and not AI, but I find once I find someone I like on Nebula, I just watch them on YT instead. I’d really like to support them, but I’m struggling to feel the added value a bit.
When your premium dies, install ublock origin and sponsorblock
Already running ublock on everything I touch. It’s so weird when I go on someone else’s computer or phone and see ads on YT!
I was running something with sponsor block in the past, whatever app it was that needed that MicroG utility to install/update, but once that stopped working with Chromecast, i quit bothering with that, but I did love it.
Edit2: And I got them mixed up with Nebula, that’s where I really wanted to go… damn.
I have the lifetime sub for that one … so at least no price increases :D
Oh that’s per year! Not quite as bad as I thought
Dropout is one I have no issues paying for too
Valid. I love paying for dropout knowing its cheap, ill like what they put out, and Game Changer exists
i used to sign netflix about eight years ago, before they start getting to greedy it worth it, it use to have everything i want to watch in a single place and with support in everything i got (TV, smartphone, computer, casting devices)
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No, that’s the evolution of venture capitalism.
Step 1: groundbreaking service comes in that fills a market hole
Step 2: people flock to service
Step 3: service gets VC funding to continue operations, subsidising the users
Step 4: service gets “copied”, competitors crop up, use VC funding to eke out their own marketshare while making things worse for everyone but themselves
Step 5: expansion plateaus as interest in service generalises (basically, everyone who could be interested, is already using it)
Step 6: VC funding depletes, company has to start making a profit - leading to price hikes, which is followed by other players in the market as that’s how capitalism works
Step 7: price hikes not being enough, service tries to capitalise on their userbase (think restricting features to a higher paid tier, introducing new tiers that strip away features, introducing ads, etc.)
Step 8: market is saturated with plateaud services, user movement is minimal, and everybody hates it because it’s expensive, and reintroduced the same problem the initial innovative service meant to fix.
Which is why i call it vulture capitalism: born to feed the vultures.
It replaced linear tv with video on demand
VOD was a thing before streaming tho
And it was terrible, expensive, and did t work half the time.
Nah, it worked pretty well. Streaming was just more convenient, and came too soon after VOD became widely available.
Sure, but Netflix was not venture capital as far as I know. It started with mailing subscriptions then grew into greatness and now, it’s shittier than ever.
You know wrong.
Even in the early days (97-01), they’ve used venture funding (approx $80mil) for the DVD mailing business.
And the reason they didn’t really go the VC funding way later is because they had an IPO in 2002, which meant instead of relying on VC funds, they took on massive amounts of debt to allow the takeoff of streaming.
