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Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up

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Re: Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up

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Post by ipaddr »

mdm_ wrote: post #17

Crave recently did the same thing in Canada, got rid of their $9.99 “mobile” plan, and now the $24.99 subscription is the only choice available for new subscribers. Sucks because all I want to watch is new Star Trek series, which means paying $28/month after tax to watch about 3.5 hours of content.

I wanted to try Crave but I bought an nVidia box instead. Install kodi found some popular addons. Now I can see anything on Crave or any other network from any point in history. I'm watching season 2 of Big Brother, I'm watching shows not available on streaming services. I didn't realize this user experience and availability was possible. I still have netflix, prime, plex and cable but that might give me .1% availability

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Post by charcircuit »

stefan_ wrote: post #55
hermitdev wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hasn't Netflix always been region locked? Pretty sure people using VPNs just for Netflix is a thing.

The streaming service that is now majority self produced content has to have region lock? To everything? The story was always "evil Disney licensing is forcing us" but I guess they lived long enough to turn into Disney.

It's not just Disney. Many companies license their work to different companies to broadcast in different countries. And this licensing scheme continued on into the streaming era.

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Post by barbazoo »

medellin wrote: post #37

Netflix also no longer works when i travel. Went on a short trip to see some relatives in another country and my netflix account is blocked. Contacted support and they said i need to pay for a new account in that country. Netflix is really starting to lose its value for me. But I’m working on setting up a VPN at my house to tunnel all Netflix traffic through and then configure some rpis to send to family members so w…

Netflix produced content has become so irrelevant for me that whenever I want to watch something I look for thumbnails that don't have the Netflix "N" in the corner. For me it's just algorithm generated junk now, it's a shame.

I wish I could cancel it but my partner wants to keep it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Post by aaomidi »

medellin wrote: post #37

Netflix also no longer works when i travel. Went on a short trip to see some relatives in another country and my netflix account is blocked. Contacted support and they said i need to pay for a new account in that country. Netflix is really starting to lose its value for me. But I’m working on setting up a VPN at my house to tunnel all Netflix traffic through and then configure some rpis to send to family members so w…

https://wiki.servarr.com/

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Post by graypegg »

I get it, the ad tier probably makes a lot more revenue per-user than the ad-free basic plan. They’ve done the research (I assume) and I guess came to the conclusion that price-sensitive users will tolerate ads to save money, and the users that would have chosen basic solely because it was the cheapest option without ads will simply switch to the new cheapest ad-free option.

Either way, Netflix actually stands to make more money removing that tier.

However it’s also another barrier to me ever considering paying Netflix ever again. But we’re the minority of people.

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Post by dharmab »

Waterluvian wrote: post #6
passwordoops wrote: post #5

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It's the go-to strategy for us as well, but I'll bet you dollars to donuts this is the next target for some sort of crackdown

You’ll have to call Netflix to cancel and they’ll just pass you around the call Center until they hang up by accident.

FTC is enforcing against companies that do this. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2021/10/...

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Post by xz0r »

medellin wrote: post #37

Netflix also no longer works when i travel. Went on a short trip to see some relatives in another country and my netflix account is blocked. Contacted support and they said i need to pay for a new account in that country. Netflix is really starting to lose its value for me. But I’m working on setting up a VPN at my house to tunnel all Netflix traffic through and then configure some rpis to send to family members so w…

Please open source it.

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Post by gloryjulio »

medellin wrote: post #37

Netflix also no longer works when i travel. Went on a short trip to see some relatives in another country and my netflix account is blocked. Contacted support and they said i need to pay for a new account in that country. Netflix is really starting to lose its value for me. But I’m working on setting up a VPN at my house to tunnel all Netflix traffic through and then configure some rpis to send to family members so w…

They killed all the interest shows for me. I stopped watching when they cut Santa Clarita diet. Bojack horseman was the last complete show I watched.

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Post by Clent »

Gustomaximus wrote: post #59
ecshafer wrote: post #45

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Netflix lost its value for me when they just stopped having good content. I kept it around almost out of habit, but the anti-consumer policies were the straw that broke the camels back. Their self produced movies and shows are on average, abysmal. I might put up with their practices if they made good things.

I was a ~10 year account as we kept for our based and cycled through a second options every month or few. I cancelled on a combination of sharing, as my sister used and that stopped me cancelling earlier, plus general content got more limited for my tastes. Many people seem similar as me, and this is a world where scale matters. I actually wonder if it would be good regulation that government seperated streaming from…

Agreed. I want to pay for content but it's either subscribe to all these services, paying cable like pricing or manage which services I'm subscribed to each month.

The third alternative, the high-seas is cheaper and far less time consuming to manage.

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