Netflix’s ad-free plans will start at $15.49 per month instead.
  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    431·
    11 months ago

    Make absolutely sure you’re not paying Netflix when you cancel your account!

    Those fucking assholes still pulled from my PayPal account after I cancelled my account on the site… I couldn’t even log in as “there’s no account with this email” (yes I used the correct one) and yet I had been paying them for a year and a half after that without realizing…

    • Blaidd@lemm.eeEnglish
      71·
      11 months ago

      Sounds like you got hacked and someone reactivated your subscription

    • kinsnik@lemmy.world
      8·
      11 months ago

      the more they remove, the more i’ll be using my plex server (or Jellyfin if Plex also enshitifies itself)

      • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world
        142·
        11 months ago

        Plex has already been enshitifying itself for years. Their own streaming channels, ad supported streaming, their creepy activity log sharing, banning servers run on entire hosting services, cracking down ever more on piracy. Hell I’ve seen reports where they banned people hosting on their own residential connections and sharing with friends and family, then emailing those friends & family and falsely informing them their host was running a commercial piracy service. And next month they become a store for movie and TV rentals.

        Really it’s time to just bite the bullet and swap to Jellyfin.

        https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/18/24043706/plex-store-movies-tv-shows

      • yukichigai@kbin.social
        4·
        11 months ago

        They’d have to do a hell of an enshittification to completely ruin Plex, if only because there are old versions floating around that will let you run a server without ever logging in to Plex itself. Though at that point it’d probably be easier to switch to Jellyfin.

  • twinnie@feddit.uk
    26·
    11 months ago

    This company represents the worst aspects of capitalism now. They’ve got anCEO whose only objective is to get shareholders to vote for his insane annual bonuses, and he does that by trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of his customers. It won’t be long before they start cutting costs on providing content so everyone’s going to be paying more for less.

    I cancelled Netflix a while ago but it’s a shame because I quite liked being a legal customer for everything. Now I’m a conscientious objector.

  • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    19·
    11 months ago

    Of course they are. A few years from now, there’ll be no ad-free plans at all. Across any streaming service.

    • CarbonIceDragon
      81·
      11 months ago

      I imagine there probably will be at least an expensive one, because there are probably some people out there willing to pay more for an ad-free service than the ads and normal fee would add up to, but not willing to use the service with ads. Might not be many people, but I doubt having one more plan costs the company enough that it wouldn’t make them slightly more money to have one

    • Wild Bill@midwest.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      Which one’s that? Genuine question, been looking into different VPNs and it’s impossible to choose one that’s worth the price.

      • tyrant@lemmy.world
        9·
        11 months ago

        I’m a huge fan of mullvad. $5 a month and very well regarded by the privacy community

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    I wish I could browse Netflix without an account. That’s one thing that I haven’t found as good about Stremio, discoverablity.

  • Omega@lemmy.world
    8·
    11 months ago

    Wait, I thought they already did this. They switched me to the Premium tier a few months ago and I couldn’t switch back, so I canceled. I assumed it was that way with everybody.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    11 months ago

    “Our profit growth percentage is not increasing fast enough, Surely there must be more we can squeeze out of the plebs.” - Netflix Executives, probably.

    In other news, all Netflix tiers will now stream at 480p, unless you pay an additional premium of $18.99 a month. Because fuck you.