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Americans quit streaming services as cost of living continues to climb, report finds
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Prices will increase so shareholders don't lose any money, and morons who go, "Durr... what do I care? They provide a service I like and I have so much money I can afford to be an idiot feeding an unsustainable economic distortion in perpetuity!" will just keep right on paying the increases, and the division of the K-shaped economy will continue to grow.
There's no way way to boycott or frugal your way out of price increases while enough bougie yuppie shitheads are willing to eat any shit a company is willing to shovel them at any cost as long as they can use it as a status symbol.
well if you have money issues, streaming services should be the last thing you buy anyways. just pirate it or watch on a streaming site that does it for you, or watch clips on Yt, they pratically give out the whole story on YT anyways.
Whoever thought streaming is a sustainable long term platform got it wrong but made a lot of money convincing everyone otherwise.
I thought it would've been because they keep getting less value for money, since the services keep raising prices and fisting more ads into people.
I'm not American, but I'm doing my part!
That plus they’re full of trash.
Shoutout Dropout tho.
THIS JUST IN: PEOPLE WITHOUT MONEY SPEND LESS
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One of my manager at work asked me why I quit streaming. Like legit what the fuck do people think is going on rn?
Next report: "Netflix gains 10 million new subs, price increases, Netflix buys Iran"
Has Netflix tried not going to Starbucks as often, or not eating Avocado Toast?
They just upped the price again and added more commercials, instead.
Yep, and we’re about to dump them.
Yarrrrrrrr me maties
maybe just give the kid one doll for Christmas?
Have you seen their job ads? My job which is in business operations is paying $480k. In the real world it pays about $80-100k.
Wasn't their big deal for years "we pay you well but fire your if we think you're not worth it any more" which might just be saying the quiet part out loud.
That or maybe enough got cut and were all shocked Pikachu that they backed away from it.
Either way I don't really understand why they continue to have tech company status. They were definitely pioneering streaming but you can build a streaming service in a couple months using AWS to solve the harder problems.
I don't know man, after using Netflix, Disney, and Paramount (and jellyfin) apps on my TV, it's wild how much more responsive the UI is on Netflix compared to everything else.
On your first paragraph, every place will drop you in a heartbeat these days.
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No more bread, no more circuses. What comes next?
The threat of someone in a weird dress will tell your kid "it's okay to be gay", which is "literally pedophilia", and if you push back against it, they'll say "um, ackchually, I meant «political pedophilia», which is still very bad because these children are being stripped of their right to make up their mind whether it's okay to be gay". (This actually happened in Hungary.)
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Guillotines
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A VPN is way cheaper and a bittorrent client is free.
My Jellyfin server is doing great. My only constraint is my free disk space
Jellyfin is the way. Streaming only made sense when prices were low and all the content was basically in one place.
I'll just keep growing my personal library.
Disk space (cost) is a genuine problem nowadays
Yea, fucking AI making it too expensive to be a data hoarder. I have to keep making hard decisions on which media to delete.
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Don't worry. I've never had any and life is fine. 👍
I'm sure Netflix, Hulu, and similar services will compensate for subscriber losses in the usual manner: by continuing to increase their prices and further screwing over their remaining subscribers. You know, the time-honored cable/satellite TV strategy.
In fact, that's already been happening for several years. Which is why (along with them offering mostly shit content that I never watched) I cancelled almost all my streaming services a couple of years ago.
I just got a notice from them saying they’re increasing prices and “are here for me if I have questions “.
Uh huh.
I have a question:
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU RAISING PRICES EXPECTING PEOPLE TO STAY SUBSCRIBED IN THIS ECONOMY, NETFLIX?!
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I think the next big thing is affordable local entertainment. What's old is new again. I could be wrong.
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because of financial concerns
Yeah, I am calling bullshit on that explanation. The services that were enjoyable just a few years ago are now absolutely dog shit. Low quality shows, unexplained cancellations, increased number and length of ads, release schedules meant to keep you on forever, password and location crackdowns, VPN rejections...
It's become a garbage product, even if people had tons of disposable income they'd think three times before subscribing again.
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Doritos lost marketshare because they cost $7. Consumers are acting on economic realities.
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It's not even an economic issue for me. It's an issue of "why the fuck would I pay for a service and still receive ads?". These companies just keep getting greedier and offering less. Why should I pay for a worse experience than a pirate streaming site?
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I know several people, mostly older people, who have gone back to old-timey, off-the-antenna TV. I suspect this will become a trend.
why? the ads are 40% of the airtime.
even with ad service streaming, you are only seeing like 10-20% ads.
Because over-the-air is free?
Like free-free.
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