Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown::Netflix subscriptions are up almost 6 million this quarter, suggesting we’re all just too exhausted to fight this stuff

  • PrincessZelda@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve found sailing the high seas to be far more convenient than using Netflix nowadays. I can watch what I want to watch when I want, instead of finding out a movie I wanted to watch was removed recently

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      1 year ago

      I had a feeling they would but I did leave myself. Only problem is the person I was sharing with made an account so it was a net 0 impact.

      • pacoboyd@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I get the feeling that the kind of person that is on Lemmy is the kind of person that ain’t gonna take no shit and drop it just to stick to the man. I myself dropped Netflix but seems to be a common theme here.

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          1 year ago

          The kind of person on lemmy is probably already self hosting a plex server that has all the content they care about and sharing it with their inner circle

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    1 year ago

    I really wanted to cancel my subscription. I consider piracy to be a moral option against the aggressively repressive sonny bono copyright law. But I can’t pull the rug out from my mom’s feet back home (I live in another state). So instead of getting to cancel in protest like how I want, I still just pay for one Netflix subscription that I don’t use personally.

    • variants_of_concern@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      If you go the piracy route you can get her a lot more content for the cost of some electricity and some usenet indexers, or have a friend willing to host a Plex server

    • MrLuemasG@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You should look into hosting a Plex server for her. My brother set one up after I cancelled our Netflix and our tech-illterate mother loves it. The only change for her was moving from clicking on the Netflix icon on her TV to clicking on the Plex icon.

      • deranger@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        This is the way to go if you really want to be a pro piracy advocate.

        Most people can’t be bothered with the complexities of torrents or codecs. Luckily that’s my shit, and I put together a 4x16TB NAS setup and started hosting a Plex instance for family initially, then added some coworkers. It’s a fun little hobby, and my users are able to save on streaming services.

        Also, I’ve found a majority of users really don’t care much about quality, so I’m able to serve up multiple streams on only 40Mbps upload without noticing any network slowdowns.

    • variaatio@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Oh you aren’t getting it for free. You just pay for it to T-mobile, instead of directly to Netflix. Never yet heard of a company, that offers actual freebies. You just pay for it in the price of the other thing you are paying them for.

      Buy glasses, get second pair for free… … … you pay price of two for one pair and aren’t just very well aware how cheap eye glasses are to make these days.

      • ConditionOverload@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yep yep, I understand this. I just can’t negotiate with T-Mobile pricing do I already knew I’m technically paying for Netflix. But I’m not gonna be able to reduce my T-Mobile bill monthly if I refuse the Netflix so I’m just pretending it’s free as long as I’m not paying “extra”.

  • disgruntledpelican@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    And what actual real alternative is there other than to not use them? Of course people accepted it, there was literally no other option. What is this bs advertising parading as ‘news’?

    • stappern@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      And what actual real alternative is there other than to not use them?

      stremio+debrid.