If this is true, then somebody is already hurting.
Apparently price hikes did not hurt netflix though, so presumably peasants are cutting other merchants.
A small W but good to see that people denying these parasites profit.
If only more people would be more willing to sail the high seas to deny them all of the profit.
it’s a service issue and some people still can’t turn on a PC much less set up usenet.
There will always be a market for install app and gib card details plz.
Yar harr fiddly dee dee
no they started pirating because of the ridiculous number of
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I mean, Scream Box is a streaming service (ish), so one could say it’s a screaming service.
I think its more reflective that the price of streaming services continues to rise, while the value proposition does not. So why subscribe to all services at one time? You can only watch one at a time.
and on top of that inflation everywhere else is causing people to have less discretionary funds.
(Also, piracy is just so piss-easy for $5/mo)
Stremio & torrentio are free. Not sure if it works on googleTV. It doesn’t on roku
It works on Chromecast, Fire stick, Nvidia Shield, and anything else using Android. It also works on Windows and Linux.
I recently discovered I can just have Kodi on my Fire TV use SFTP to login to my seedbox and download my shows from there.
Referring to a VPN with my price, not private trackers. Sorry for the confusion.
Which VPN are you using atm? I am also looking for one as I am behind cgnat and can’t open ports.
ProtonVPN.
Setup a Digital Ocean droplet in Amsterdam, years ago. LOL, not even sure how to login to it, because I don’t have to touch it.
OpenVPN -> connect -> thepiratebay.org -> Tixati -> done
Yeah, I could be more secure, do it better, good enough for me to steal movies and books.
normies are not redicalized enough but these media parasites working OT on pushing them to sail.
Exactly. I finally cancelled Netflix a few weeks ago. It’s too expensive and there’s very little I want to watch on there any more. The shitty way they were trying to push you into more expensive plans was just the shit icing on the turd pie.
I’m now looking at Disney+ and Prime Video because there’s hardly anything on those too that I like.
My wife has put on a few different Netflix original shows over the holidays, and they’re all sooo stupid. Their supposed best shows are complete garbage.
I ditched Disney+ when they added 50% onto the price. The exit questionnaire was annoying as it had one answer that lumped in “can’t afford it” with “too expensive” which implies it’s a “me” problem when it was definitely a “them” problem.
I would have ditched Amazon Prime when they added adverts with an optional 50% price hike to remove them but my wife didn’t want to lose the prime delivery.
The intention is that we subscribe to Disney+ for a few months a year and catch up on what we missed.
Kids make it complicated for sure, but we managed to drop Disney. Honestly I’d prefer they were on screens less anyway.
I hate the UI of prime video with a passion. From time to time I look for something to watch on it but I have the impression they try to keep me from causing traffic. After some minutes I give up and wonder why I didn’t cancel yet.
Yeah, they really broke it a video of years ago. It used to just show videos covered by the prime subscription. Then they started showing additional sub-services you could sign up. That was annoying but not too bad. But now they show you all sorts of stuff that doesn’t come with prime. That really pisses me off - not least because my kids still have a hard time differentiating the ‘free’ stuff from the ‘requires extra money’ stuff.
There’s a prime only browsing section but but you don’t seem to be able to limit the search to only return prime included stuff.
Yeah, and in my experience they buried that pretty fast down so it required don’t scrolling to get there each time.
It’s right on the top bar in the latest UI. At the same level as choosing movies or tv shows. It’s very easy to get to in fairness.
That’s good. They must have changed it then. Because when I was looking for it a few months ago it was buried under several rows of paid content.
This was always the plan
Next step is only annual contracts.
Next step is only annual contracts.
This would destroy their subscriber bases. Not even cable required an annual subscription and there were many more hoops to jump through to subscribe and cancel.
This will only increase until there is sufficient backlash or, god forbid, Government oversight. These CEOs are getting hooked on the concept of being paid continuously for the same widget. Not only will these services get more predatory, but subscription models will continue to proliferate even into unlikely and surprising places.
That’s my official end of year, forward looking, very lukewarm take for 2024.
Was it BMW that was trying to charge a subscription for seat warmers and automatic car starters that were built into the car already? They got serious push back and rolled back fast. Haven’t followed in a while wouldn’t be surprised if they were back to that model already.
Yep. BMW.
Wait till you see the subscription pricing on the turn signals; it’s no wonder their drivers never use them!
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I could get a seedbox running the ARR suite and Plex for cheaper than 1 subscription service per month
Why the fuck would I pay THEM for their WORSE service?
It’s just cable with extra steps at this point. More effort, more costly. Not worth it.
I think it’s cable with fewer steps, but of course not as convenient as it used to be.
I only have Netflix left and that is because my daughter loves her storybots. Once she has enough of them, it’s going away.
I am in the same situation…
A trick I found to lower the costs a bit: since Netflix doesn’t put ads in child programs (and I don’t watch Netflix), I went to the ads sponsored version.
Whaaaaaat? They don’t show ads in the kids section? I didn’t know that. Fucking YouTube kids blasts my daughter with ads all day long. Damn. I’m fucking downgrading then. Thank you so much for that.
New pipe for YouTube…no ads
Not on iPad unfortunately.
Sounds like they need to make it 25% more expensive next year. That will fix it!
I think what would save the streaming industry would be anti-exclusionary legislation. Prevent contracts where shows are exclusively produced for one streaming company. Then streaming platforms compete on cost, curation, and interface, not on exclusive content.
What would be smart is for them to develop a unified platform where they get a percentage of your subscription fee based on the media you watch.
I mean, shit on the music industry for all of their crappy practices, but 100% this. I pay for one music streaming service and have access to any music I want without having to think about which record label released which album. Why is it still illegal for studios to own movie theaters, but not streaming platforms?
Decouple the content creators from the content distributors.
It’s not illegal for studios to own movie theaters. Paramount Decree was struck down a couple of years ago.
Expect it to get worse over the next four years.
Bit that would only benefit consumers and we all live in plutocracies masquerading as “democracy”?
For me, the main issue is the quality of content.
I have access to several streaming services, although all of them I pay for as part of some bundle where the streaming service isn’t my main motivator for subscribing. Netflix is bundled with my cell phone plan, Prime I use for delivery, Apple TV+ which is bundled with Apple One I use for news, music, and HomeKit secure video, and lastly HBO Max that I get with my cable subscription. I also ended up with one year of Hulu for free, but I forget where that came from.
I’d have no concern giving all of them up because I pay for a Usenet account. Combined with Radarr and Plex I have access to anything I want to watch.
Despite all this content, scrolling through my activity in Plex I haven’t watched a single movie released in 2024 since May when I watched the Dune: Part Two.
I don’t think people are motivated to subscribe to a service where the subscription doesn’t get you much of anything new. You might as well go to Goodwill and pick up some used DVDs and Blue-rays.
Usenet for me as well and my 32.7 TB NAS.
You had me at Usenet 😎
Put ads in a service I pay for?
*****cancelled!****"I have none of them left. Same reasons as everyone else, the value is not there and it’s a subscription that ticks money even when I don’t use it.
We are cancelling some services. The value isn’t there, and we need the money. /shrug
I wonder if 2+ years between seasons is also having an impact.
I pick up new shows way less than I did in the past because of this with the ones I do being more tied to whether it is a miniseries or source material I plan to read after the season ends to finish it out on my own.
Personally I think more time between releases is healthier for both the quality of the product and the now not perpetually consooming, consumer.
What really puts me off is that shows get canceled too often nowadays, even ones that do well because the service doesnt want to pay the cast better. So I tend to wait for shows to complete before I even consider them for my watchlist.
I haven’t seen a quality improvement. Only a production improvement which had made the wait even worse when the long awaited seasons flop like The Boys and House of the Dragon.
It’s reason I haven’t bothered to get into shows like Severance despite good reviews, since I don’t want to get hooked into yet another show that will take forever between seasons and not even be a guarantee to be worth the wait.
I want to watch Stargate SG1. I hear people say it’s on Prime Video, so I subscribe. It’s not there. I guess being a filthy European makes me unworthy. So I bite the bullet and get a VPN. Now I’m paying what amounts to twice the price of the usual subscription. I start watching the series and guess what? It’s leaving Prime in a few days. Motherf…
Never better served than with Piracy™!
I recommend grabbing the full collection plus related movies elsewhere.
Check out your local library. Mine has physical disks of a lot of shows. With MakeMKV and Handbrake, and about an hour per disc (computer time- my time is maybe 5 minutes per), I can return the discs and watch the show at my leisure. If you have a ton of disk space, you can skip Handbrake and just keep the .mkv files…
Could have just bought it on dvd, much less stress
