Canceled my 4 screen plan right after this was announced... So not in my experience
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And their revenue is still down and they had the worst day for their stock price ever when they announced this news. People are too tired and stressed out to fight a dying behemoth that used to be good like we're living in a Dark Souls game or something.
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.
too tired? from what im seeing the vast majority of people just don't care. they are fine with thier internet becoming more expensive and handing everything to these companies. most simply think this is the only option.
I mean, that sounds exactly like tired/defeated thinking to me. Frustrating to see it play out, tho.
From my experience, brother in law hates it. Wants to cancel but the kids (2 preteens) watch it a lot and he just doesn't want to use something new that he has to relearn to be comfortable leaving them alone with.
Well I mean The Witcher season 3 came out. yeah it went up.
They're kidding themselves if I'm keeping it after. Again.
You should've just pirated it.
For me, it was I Think You Should Leave's new season that got me to sign up for a month to binge that repeatedly. After we finish the documentary on Homo naledi we've been watching, we'll cancel Netflix and start Max for a month so we can watch the new season of Righteous Gemstones.
An uptick after these changes make sense. People want to continue their comfortable routines. However now that it's draining their wallet, they will probably be on the lookout for cheap/free alternatives.
It's the same with increasing prices. Short term your revenue will spike, but it will bleed as you slowly lose customers because you offer less value.
But the people who were previously paying is where Netflix is playing with fire. They released the customers who were paying only because they were sharing it and didnt want to cause an inconvenience.
I think it's a pretty big gamble by Netflix, it will take time to see how it played out.
I did that for years. Checked usage and found out the other couple people I was sharing with weren't using it anyways.
Cancelled after 10 years.
Sure they might have gained a few subscribers short term, but are they the type to just let the sub roll for a decade straight or will they just watch what they want and cancel until they can re-sub and binge again?
I wasn't sharing my password with anyone but the complete 180 they did on their own policy to chase dollars pissed me off so I cancelled. Been a subscriber since the first year they came out. Oh well.
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.
I cancelled mine and I didn't share with anyone. I'm tired of the crap from these companies. Quite liberating to hit the high seas.
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
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.
Yep, I rolled over and setup a vpn at home so now all my family members can watch Netflix from my home *wink *wink
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.
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.
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 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.
Complacent would be the nicer way of putting it but yea I know what you mean
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.
Honestly, I can't see this lasting for Netflix. I think their subscriber numbers have peaked and will start to decline when people realize how crappy their catalog is.
I hate subscriptions. Too damn easy to forget about. I’ve started subscribing for the shortest period possible and immediately canceling. Sometimes I’ll renew, but generally I just try to get as much as I can out of it in a short period then let it expire
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.
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.
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