lost subscribers to their no password sharing policy.

What, we're just gonna gloss over how absolutely dogshit their in-house "Netflix Originals" media has become?

It's also because their current shows suck, and because any shows that are actually good get shitcanned after season 2, because Netflix sees less consumer growth after two seasons.

Their saving grace is stuff like Black Mirror but to be fair that didn't start out as a Netflix original and Charlie Brooker has tight control over his property.

When they started Netflix Originals, they knocked a bunch of them out of the park, now they just make weak trash with bad CGI, costumes, and makeup.

Stuff like 13 Reasons Why or The Witcher are just straight up irredeemable trash.

they lost subscribers to their no password sharing policy.

In what world? They gained subscribers when they did that lol.

Their content sucks, and people are starting to cut ties, but don't pretend it's because people were upset they couldn't share their accounts.

Sadly they had a net increase in subs after the policy change.

Whenever businesses try to 'pin' raising prices of an already profitable product on anything, we know the real justification is this:

"We know people are going to pay it and it will make us more money. That's why we do it. We're just saying it's something else for the useful idiots who think businesses are their friends."

They actually got more subs (in most countries), its just that theyre bloating up, and compeition is happening which atm is making for a better or worse depending on how you look at it, situation for the consumer.

Kind of a shame cuz they'll occasionally release something like Beef, but it's not worth the 1 or 2 shows a year for me.

Honestly the quality is much worse now and it's noticeable. The worst thing is when it's really obviously because they've been calculating the best way to minimise costs on their best shows. Both top boy and sex education had their final seasons this year and both were rife with issues and numerous key actors just AWOL. Clearly Netflix has 3 season contracts and is playing hardball on the 4th season so people are just missing and everyone else just has to cover the slack leading to messy finales. I once thought nothing was worse than abrupt cancellations. Turns out dogsh*t endings are worse.

https://bendblockbuster.com/

you know that this premise is wrong, right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

Nah.

It's pretty easy to hop out

Build her a Plex server and install Radarr and Sonarr. It's quite special. You can even configure it to automatically download movies and shows when she favourites them on Plex.

I'm in the same boat. She's convinced that using twice it every 6 months is worth it. I don't even know what we pay for it these days, $14.99? Not worth making a big deal about at this point. We did cancel Hulu (better than Netflix,
imo) and paramount some months ago, so I'll take that and deal.