762
This is getting ridiculous (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 days ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
81 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 8 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Netflix is my last bastion of legit media. I was only using Netflix for a number of years and reduced the amount of new media I downloaded to nothing.

I never bought into all the additional services that popped up after it, like Apple and Disney, and just reverted to downloading for the stuff that wasn't available anymore.

I still pay for Netflix though. I pay for myself and my Mum as an additional account. I also pay for a friend from another country so I effectively have 2.5x subs to premium Netflix.

If they add ads, then I'm done with all the bullshit and will just download 100%.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
    •
  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Spotify now has ads on Premium when listening to podcasts. It's infuriating and frankly insulting. Podcasts are cheap as dirt to make compared to music.

    I think I'll cancel Spotify.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Pretty much where I am at.
    Piracy is a service issue, I think Steam proves that.
    If that service isn't viable any longer, time to move on

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Streaming took away my pirate days.

    It was easier to just pay the 30 bucks a month or whatever than to spend the 8-10 hours a month triaging and downloading.

    This was 10 years ago that I turned off my plex server… and I’m looking to scrape her hull and refloat her

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago* (1 child)

    Look into Jellyfin instead of Plex if you're stepping back into it. Plex took VC money and is absolutely enshittifing.

    Jellyfin is a wholly FOSS alternative with near complete feature parity that costs nothing and is only getting better, not worse.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

    I will never understand why Netflix or Spotify dont just chill out a little.

    Netflix can't possibly get any bigger. Its available on basically every device to basically every economically active human on the planet. Its big enough that its used as a description of any streaming service. "Its basically Netflix but for books/anime/games/whatever".

    At some point can you not just give it a rest? Or use the excess money to try and build a new business doing something else?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •