I will never understand investors. Anyone with half a brain can put two and two together when a company starts hiding anything. Investors have no idea what they're doing, they just trust the customer will make them money, get angry when they've been duped, and will do it again.

the biggest reason is, them cancelling too many shows too soon. after 1-2 season, the show ceases to ecist. 3 if you are lucky and its thier way of forcing its end.

Stranger Things finally ended and the price for no ads went over $20 per month. That's what made me finally quit.

Advertisers want eyeballs, and this means less of them. Reminds me of Reddit moving to a log-in only model.

Not sure if you're being rhetorical, but I'll answer anyways. The reason Reddit wants you to log in is to better track you, no duh. The reason that makes them more money is because better data means better ad targeting, and better ad targeting can be translated to results like a better click through rate. When a platform has that, they can incentivize more advertisers to spend more money on their platform.

That way, each time they sell an ad, that ad can be more expensive. It's undeniable that demanding logins will be bad for the number of ads they sell, but if they can sell higher quality ads, they'll make more money at the end of the day.

This whole thing is the core driver behind privacy being eroded at scale, because ad targeting has proven effective, and so advertisers want to advertise on the platform with the best targeting. So everyone wants to spy on their users the best and build the best targeting.

Love is sharing good torrent trackers.

Exactly this. I had Netflix for a while and didn't pirate for like, 5 years. Then they started cranking up the price, dramatically reducing available movies including old movies that I wanna rewatch, and telling me my family is not allowed to use the product I purchased. So fI just stopped and went back to the high seas with a renewed passion for making my own media library as extensive as possible, and giving access to friends, family, anyone remotely trustworthy.

I pay for Netflix and share with my sister in laws family and they pay for Hulu and Disney plus. Good trade off imo

my thought exactly:)) 1 is already 1 too many

That would be the ideal for Netflix. Everyone subscribes and pays, but no one uses it.

Gee, maybe that's why it's so hard to find anything good to watch on Netflix now.

The fact Netflix used to actually use sharing accounts as PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL is wild to me. They leaned healily into it.

Same here. I barely used Netflix and was only paying the bill because I shared the password with family members and didn't want to cut them off.

Once they started being weird about account sharing, there was no reason to keep paying the bill. I was on the top tier too, because they said you could play on 4 screens at once, and I figured it was fair to pay extra since I was sharing the account.

Nobody in my family complained so it's likely they weren't really using it either. So instead of a top-tier account being shared among a bunch of people that didn't really use it, they get nothing.

Arrr me mateys year media media is freeeeee and ad-less

Ironically, I've been finding myself using Netflix again after years (stayed subscribed for the wife and MIL) to watch One Piece, a show about pirates, since I can access it at work and also because they skip both the intro and recap unlike Plex which only skips the intro.

Yar-har and fiddle-dee-dee!

People who live in Germany: don't. You'll get caught.

Seriously. Libraries. Support your local library!

sad, AMAZON cancelled the new series for stargate, maybe they thought it only reach a small audience, and not a "Wide enough audience as they claim"

Dude, Jellyfin and Tailscale is amazing.

Not if everyone is on your network. Otherwise it does have some problems

Buckle up my man. Remember how shit programming got during, and then following, the writers guild strike? How many shows just...could not recover?

Imagine if the writers were to strike again. They'd be replaced with AI scabs in a heartbeat.

If you're feeling generous, sign up for the cheapest plan and then pirate everything.

The main reason I keep subs for any of it is because we have a Roku TV in the living room and anything more complicated than just pushing the Netflix button is more than my wife is willing to deal with. She already doesn't like the Google TV box with the same apps on the other TV because she thinks it's too complicated, but she puts up with it "because you like it". If I had a way to install Stremio on the Roku, I could probably slowly convince her over to it, but that depends on how often her occasionally obscure TV preferences are already cached by RD.

I cancelled for similar reasons years ago. My wife noticed immediately and reinstated the account under her credit card. I guess she likes their brainrot.

I'm so old I remember when Netflix streaming was only $7/month. And you had to use an Xbox 360 for it.

The stress test I did had 6 transcoding streams going on my Emby server with an Intel Arc A310, without breaking a sweat. It never has more than 3 streams going at a time in normal usage though so I stopped testing at 6.

same on plex, and it was recording shows on live streams at the same time

Curious how you handle routing to your server/box, do you use something like cloudflare tunnels? Trying to get a seamless option for friends too but with jellyfin

They've been trying to take piracy down since the birth of the internet. It's not going to happen.

This is why I collect blu rays. They can’t take them bitches from me.

This is coming from a person with a Plex lifetime pass for the last 15 years. Fuck Plex and their greed.

I was on the same boat as you, but this year I switched to Jellyfin and could not be happier. It actually feels smoother for me than Plex. Also there are a pot of little quality of life improvements which did not work on Plex for me, like always auto loadng subtitles in my language of choice.

I've switched to Emby. It's a lot easier to set up than Jellyfin, and has an okay interface. Not the greatest, but whatever.

This one was always in place, the one they started enforcing a few years ago was the multiple households rule, which was slightly more draconian. I.e I paid for 4 screens, but then they decided the 4 screens all have to be in one physical household. Share it with your mum who lives 100 km away? You crazy?

Incidentally, that's when I cancelled it. I was ok being limited to 4 viewers at a time (which also cost extra), I usually had 2-3 at the same time, rarely 4. But being limited to one physical location? Fuck that.

yes, but they probably do it in steps, at first you can have only a handful, and not unlimited, and now its 1 person/account/device.

Fair enough- hoist the flag, me hearties.