I have T-Mobile pays for the very basic Netflix as part of the deal. I just canceled the ultra HD package ($11+) more a month. There is no way I could outright get rid of Netflix so I just stuck with the basic account for now.
Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it
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#442How about Netflix has this user created content like YouTube. It’s free with ad supported but for users who has paid plan the ads are removed. I would keep a paid account if the user created content in Netflix becomes popular like YouTube!
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The question is asked like it is some sort of gotcha, but there are clear answers for both the general proposals floating around: (a) wealth tax. Every year each household with over $XX million in net worth pays y% of the amount above the threshold in taxes. No refund if your net worth goes down in subsequent years. (b) treat unrealized capital gains as income. Each year you pay income taxes on the increase in the va…
Walk me through it. Year 1, I own 10,000 shares at $0.1 each. I'm taxed 25% of $1000, or $250. Year 2, my super smart investment pays off and I own 10,000 shares at $100 each. I'm taxed 25% of an "income" of $999,000, or $249,750. Only, I don't have enough cash to cover the bill, so I sell about a quarter of my stock, leaving me with 7,500 shares. Year 3, the stock goes bust down to $0.2 per share. I write off a loss…
> Only, I don't have enough cash to cover the bill, so I sell about a quarter of my stock, leaving me with 7,500 shares.
Don't forget you're also taxed on that sale, so you'll have to sell more than that.
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I feel like Netflix always kind of had an issue with poor taste. They have crappy reality shows and pseudo-documentaries about how the aliens build pyramids. A metric fuckton of content that caters to people with below average intelligence. In addition to this content being unhealthy because you either don't learn anything, or are actively being fed falsehoods, I think it just gives the platform a poor image. It's ki…
I suspect the data teams have a lot of sway at netflix right at the top exec levels. I know this anecdotally since I am close to someone who has approached Netflix and was told it wont work for them. Their reasoning was as simple as it can get. Their data showed what shows people liked in terms of genres and runtimes. That might seem reasonable for short term gains until you realise how silly it is for longevity.
Blind allegiance to data is a grave mistake. Numbers are meaningless without context. But if you misunderstand the context that is producing the numbers, you end up being much worse informed than without the data at all. I fear that people take data and whatever default interpretation as gospel and are loathe to go against it. Faux objectivity is an acute danger that we must all be on guard against.
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The half of advertising is effective trope hasn’t been true on the internet for over a decade. Advertisers on the internet know exactly how effective their advertising is.
Most of the internet ads I see are for stuff not available in my country, and if they even bother to translate, it's pretty random what language they choose. Just my IP adress or browser heathers should tell em both. That's assuming the product category is something I care for. If they know exactly how effective their advertising is, they have too many dollars they want to get rid of.
Ad networks don’t get paid for targeted ads unless you do something. In the case of Google, you click on them and in the case of Amazon affiliates, you buy something. They aren’t paying for ads based on how many people see the ad.
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Netflix losing subscribers is a false narrative. Had they not pulled out of Russia, they would have posted a net gain.
No it's not. While it's true that that suspending their service in Russia costed them 700,000 subscribers, Netflix is projecting that they will lose 2,000,000 users this quarter. [1] [1]: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20...
Yes it is. GP is talking solely about what's already happened: -200,000 after having cut off 700,000 from Russia, which is a net gain of 500,000 outside of Russia.
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#448I don’t get it; they lost a ton when they banned Russia but if you take that out they did get subscribers overall. Oversold?
The numbers are:
* +500,000 outside of Russia
* -700,000 due to cutting off Russia
* = -200,000 so far that's already happened
* +2,500,000 previously projected future
* -2,000,000 now projected for the future
The last two bullets are what the article is about.
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HBO seems to do it.
They do, but it's very expensive and very slow. That kind of development culture requires discipline and quality control. People like to throw this 'you can't cater to everyone's tastes' bit whenever talking about culture/film/game development. But everyone knows there is fast food and there is michelin. The latter requires a lot of hard work, and it is very hard to replicate at scale.
HBO is hit and miss too--though I agree that the "best" of their catalog is better than the best of any other streaming service (to say nothing of broadcast TV).
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#450Netflix just has nothing interesting, and you have to sift through endless mediocre movies. Once I'm done with Arcane and then Love, Death & Robots, I'll unsubscribe. Just simply not worth it.