Netflix subscriptions are up almost 6 million this quarter, suggesting we’re all just too exhausted to fight this stuff
Same reason why people are still on Twitter and Reddit, the majority can’t be arsed to push back against companies. This is why they keep getting away with it and it’s just enabling other companies to go the same route.
Yeah, and the same reason I believe all these micro subscriptions in cars will just go ahead. In 5-10 years, half of the functions of the car will be locked behind subscription gates and it will be normal. Too many people jsut don’t bloody care.
Some things they don’t care about – e.g. Reddit, Twitter stuff – and some things they just don’t feel like they can affect. If they’re buying a new car, and every single car in their region and in their price range is selling subscriptions, then they’re going to feel like they have no choice.
Now, they do likely have choices – they could buy a used car, or they could look outside their immediate region – but those options may not address their pain points (maybe they really, really wanted a new car), or maybe they can’t afford the time to travel, etc., but the fact that less convenient choices exist don’t necessarily make people aware of them, or feel like they’re real options.
When every company you interact with, and every transaction you make, is like this, it takes up all of your spoons for dealing with this stuff. It wears down your resistance, and makes it feel like it doesn’t matter what you want, just what’s being offered.
Yeah, I mean, look at phones. People could just buy used phones. Some do. But the vast majority?
Indeed. Here’s your $50,000 car that casts $1000 a month to operate on top of fuel and maintenance. So really it is a $100,000 car that you put 50k down on and pay off on the installment plan. We are in the enshittification stage of this version of capitalism. We cling to the myth that the system makes our lives better, it did for a long time if you lived in the developed world, but that dynamic has played out. Now we are in the phase where ‘growth’ is mainly found by enshittification.
I mean you’re right, but it’s so fucking exhausting to care about everything wrong in the world. Gotta pick your battles. Personally I have a semi-decent Jellyfin setup, but I’m not going to berate anyone for taking on a netflix sub if the momentary distraction helps get them thru another day in this dystopian hellworld.
While that’s true it’s also true in 1776 most Americans couldn’t be arsed to push back against the king, it only takes a relatively small portion to care a lot and to order a better alternative then when the ball is rolling everyone will jump on
Same reason why people are still on Twitter and Reddit, the majority can’t be arsed to push back against companies.
Or they just want to watching something on their television after work and have other priorities other than some “war against Netflix” that a couple corners of the internet are angry about?
Most typical users on Reddit didn’t understand why the API was such a big deal.
To them, Reddit was the official app that curated a set of posts to scroll through. It was designed to be easy, and the experience was easy.
I know I’m extrapolating this news too far but every time I see news like this it adds on to the reasons why I think this country will never have the will for a general strike. I don’t blame the populace, I just think corporations have decimated our collective belief in majority power so badly that we can’t even go without the latest season of “Is It Cake?” For a couple months to set even a tiny boundary.
I haven’t been cracked down on yet. I feel left out. I’m on the east coast and my friend’s kids on the west coast use it.
These guys ever think the new customers just signed up for the free month and plan to drop the service at the end of the trial?
I dropped them but they kept billing me anyway. Finally got it cancelled last month (hopefully).
How can we honestly know yet? How many people just got a free trial and might stop right after or a month or so later after they decide they don’t want to pay.
I also think it will take more than one month to understand the data. For example, my wife and I cancelled our Netflix subscription months or maybe even years ago at this point. We now just subscribe to one service at a time. This month, we happened to renew our Netflix subscription, so we absolutely get counted in the numbers Netflix is reporting right now, even though we canceled the new monthly subscription pretty much immediately after we signed back up.
We who care are a tiny minority.
My wife was all “ok.”
For my part, Netflix is way less objectionable than Disney. Not that my family doesn’t subscribe to that too. 🙄
I think the crackdown is on certain types of devices and in phases. The first devices locked out were my android/google TV devices. A few weeks later, my xbox was locked out. My android phone still works, but can’t cast to the TV now. Apple TV and ipad still work. Need to try the PC.
I sure didn’t: I’d been a loyal customer since the DVD days but this was the final straw. I cancelled as soon as it was announced and will not ever be renewing. Netflix jumped the shark and is dead to me.
Canceled my 4 screen plan right after this was announced… So not in my experience
If it was up to me, I would have canceled a while ago. My wife, and my mom who shared my plan will be fine coughing up the extra few dollars a month to keep it. I think forums like this get a skewed world view since they’re populated by the kinds of people that would be fine setting up their own media server and just pirating what they want, or just churning services to binge watch what they want from each one every few months. I think Netflix(and other services) know that the average user is just going to keep going, even if the price continues to rise gradually over time.
The one thing that might tip the scales is people that set up their own media server and then share that with family and friends. I’ve got a few family members sharing my Plex, but I can also see that they don’t actually watch much. My niece seems to be the one person that will actually ask me to add content for her, so maybe it’s a generational thing where the people that have already used streaming services for a decade or more will keep going, but they’ll see a drop off of new users as they find something else.
Same here, but it’s disappointing to see how many people just let it go and pay when enough combined push back would work.
Sure, and I canceled mine a couple years ago, but there are a ton of people who can’t be bothered with it and just pay
I don’t see why. Half the shows I like just get canceled prematurely anyway.
My in laws canceled when we pointed out that this had happened, I think a lot less people know about it than you’d think
I rolled back to stremio.io
Cancelled and three users who used my password didn’t sign up. Doubt Netflix would announce this was a failure so here we are.
I had the opposite experience. I canceled and then my moochers signed up for their own.
I canceled and then my moochers signed up for their own.
This was where Netflix planned to make their money back from folks that cancel. I’m sure they ran the numbers and arrived at the “more money” answer when they enforce sharing crackdown.
Did they decide to share their passwords with you?
I’m sure they would if I asked. I could probably even guess it as the sharing was already both ways with other services.
We would still be in the same problem with Netflix blocking other locations though.
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That’s exactly why they did it in the first place
Well yeah, what did you expect people to do?
It’s either be treated with dignity as a consumer or watch an unfinished series.
Obviously you’d pick the unfinished series.
The second they crack down on me I will cancel and set up a PLEX server and just download anything I need. Not that I use it much anyways YouTube is my primary source of video content.
I’ve been looking into the same and goharddrive.com sells used enterprise HDDs for under $9/TB so that’s my plan.
Then why wait and reward this hero that inevitably and predictably turned villain?
I cancelled the minute they announced and I don’t miss it one bit, got to watch Wednesday just like everyone else and picked up HBO.
My Netflix is bundled with my phone plan. A family phone plan with households in 2 states. I effectively lost my Netflix access. I’m in the process of setting up a plex type server.
