Netflix Is Doing Great, So It’s Killing Off Its Cheapest Ad-Free Plan for Good::The company made gains in ad-based subscribers, but the $12 Basic subscription is being put out to pasture later in 2024 starting in Canada and the U.K.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to become another shitty cable company.
I ditched Netflix years ago when the content got worse by the week. Good shows were taken off by rights holders so they could put it on other platforms and what remained sucked. Not to mention Netflix’s proclivity for killing its own shows.
It got to a point where all the new stuff were shitty movies and Scandinavian crime dramas. Hard pass.
With the way other streaming services are going, it wouldn’t surprise me if people jumped back to piracy. I honestly don’t mind paying something reasonable, but all these subscriptions and price hikes do add up.
You know all this is fuelled by the desire for eternal growth, which at the end is unsustainable but human greed has no boundaries I guess. And all the SaaS and in general the subscription model so many companies are trying to promote has exactly the same goal.
I do remember the early days of mobile phones and apps when you were actually able to buy a lifetime license for different apps and get meaningful updates. Now everything turned into a giant SaaS garbage and data collection pile of shit.
Oh no! Whatever will I do?
Continue not subscribing I guess, Netflix can take their price hikes and blow them out of their collective ass.
Yar!!
They hit my mom’s account with the wrong household bullshit when my little cousin who lives down the street tried watching a show. Thankfully I get it free with my phone plan and never use it, so I just gave her my account.
I’m stupidly close to buying an 18 TB HDD from Amazon, setting up Overseerr on my home server on top of the *arr/Plex stack I run, and giving everyone a login. I have gigabit so it’s not like I can’t support even Blu-ray playback. I figure if I set the torrent to delete after 2 weeks of not watching we’ll never run out of space.
Yes, TRaSH is the way! Come my brother, the seas are ours!
Never heard that acronym. Is it torrent client, Radarr, Sonarr, and Homarr? I’ve been running that for a bit now, and it keeps pulling me ever closer to buying a small server rack.
The third season of Witcher is a marvel, it’s completely incoherent shit cobbled together from scenes they had laying around and every scene with not much happening is drawn out for maximum time.
With the entire two last episodes dedicated to setup for the non existent fourth season
Rebel moon is 23% on rotten tomato…
We just can’t have nice things.
Oh no!
…Anyway.
Hoists Jolly Roger
Did anyone ever finish watching Rebel Moon?
It looked cool. I don’t think I made it past 15 minutes. They wanted to tell me a story with words, not show me a story through actions and emotion. I know, it’s early and they needed to establish a background, but I couldn’t take it.
I finished it, so cheesy I had a heartburn after
