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Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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Re: Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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Post by 12907835202 »

I don't understand why people are in such uproar over netflix pricing. $10 a month is an incredible price for what you get.

There's not alot you can do for $10 these days. You can barely grab lunch in lots of places.

And you're talking about a whole month where many people use it for hours every evening?

Imagine Netflix was $1 or $2 to unlock for 24 hours. I think alot of people would consider that fair. Many would pay the same to tip to someone who took 30 seconds to serve them let alone a couple of hours of entertainment.

But then that can easily escalate to $30-60 a month without batting an eyelid.

If you barely watch Netflix at all, maybe less than 5 times a month, then $10 might seem excessive. But then are those people the ones putting in the effort for a Plex server? Presumably it's not worth the effort either.

Re: Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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Post by autoexec »

thewebcount wrote: post #709
autoexec wrote: post #654

Earlier quoted context omitted.

their catalog isn't as good as it used to be. They've cut a ton of content for seemingly zero reason recently (including their own shows like westworld). What I like best about HBO is that they have an A-Z listing of every show they have (something people have been asking Netflix for since day one of their streaming service) and how peaceful it is to use their platform. You can browse without anything auto-playing, y…

> how peaceful it is to use their platform. > You can browse without anything auto-playing What? Has this changed recently? I mainly use their AppleTV app, and sometimes their web app. With the AppleTV app, there are a bunch of thumbnails that look like DVD covers. When you swipe over to one of them, at first nothing happens, but just as you're about to move to the next one, the one you're on expands shoving everythi…

It doesn't help that their software changes so much from device to device. It's been pleasant to use on phone, PS5, and roku but I haven't tried apple+

Even when you're using the same device they A/B test on us. Netflix recently introduced a weird sound effect as their main ad loads (it plays after their usual intro sound effect) but other's I've spoken to hadn't heard it.

Re: Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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Post by that_guy_iain »

Netflix’s subscriber count has been going down for a while. It spiked during Covid because people had to stay home and just watch netflix. With inflation, etc it’s very much possible that is just the number they would have lost anyways. In fact, we don’t know if the password change reduced this number because of some people bought one after sharing.

Re: Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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Post by rogers18445 »

I don't understand what people are doing to be able to assert that a streaming service is more convenient than piracy. For me, piracy is more convenient than streaming by a significant margin.

Visit one of the very public torrent sites such as rarbg, search or browse for something of interest, copy magnet URI, switch to terminal window, type aria2c "[magnet uri]". Just minutes later have the file in working directory. Now you can play it with MPV and have instantaneous seeks and no garbage web players.

Re: Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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Post by acuozzo »

ModernMech wrote: post #492
acuozzo wrote: post #342

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Can you offer a full throated defense of why you feel it's okay to pirate media in 2023 -- NOT OP -- In the general case, no, but consider the cases of: 1. "Altered media" e.g. (1) Star Wars, (2) THX 1138. 2. "Remixed media" e.g. (1) Terminator 2 not having its theatrical CDS mix, (2) Earthquake not having its SENSURROUND mix 3. "Omitted media" e.g. (1) Halloween not having its original mono soundtrack, (2) The Exo…

This is an argument for changing the law, not violating the law.

Consider my argument here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35716469

Re: Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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Post by naet »

Jenk wrote: post #79

Netflix have really dissapointed me. I've been a subscriber since before streaming, and have even been content paying the subscription fee during the "breaks" of not using their service for up to months at a time because I so badly want(ed) them to succeed. I also understood the difficult situation they were facing when the producers of content were makkng ridiculous demands on their distribution, or worse, just pull…

I stopped watching new Netflix shows after they left too many unfinished. I might consider it if it was a finished series, but it was too frustrating to start watching something, have it end a season on a cliffhanger, and then get cancelled before things got resolved.

I think they lost a lot of customer goodwill with those frequent cancellations. Even if they didn't want to finish the series, investing in a short special episode to wrap some things up might have kept more of that alive and made me more willing to invest my time in a newer series.

I'm not an expert but it really seems like Netflix is doing self inflicted damage with some recent decisions. Maybe an exec failed upwards and ended up in charge of some policies they shouldn't have been trusted with...

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Post by bazmattaz »

decafninja wrote: post #608
alerighi wrote: post #603

Of course. Around 10 euros that divided by 4 means 2.5 euros a month per user (or 2 divided by 5, it's unlikely that 4 people are watching at the same time) is a fair price, the cost of 2 coffee, you say screw it I pay so I can just take my remote and watch whatever I want. Reason why they made success. For more than that, for example you have to pay a full subscription of 10 euros, you consider going back to piratin…

I don't miss the days of torrenting. The thing that still stands out in my mind is having to slog my way through tons of pornographic advertising and popups to find a single actually working torrent link.

I torrent all the time. Those types of websites are long gone and these days as blockers in browsers block all other ads on torrent sites.

I pay for Netflix and Prime but torrent all the US content because they’re not available in my country. If they were available for a fair price maybe I would stop torrenting but they’re not

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Post by bazmattaz »

rogers18445 wrote: post #724

I don't understand what people are doing to be able to assert that a streaming service is more convenient than piracy. For me, piracy is more convenient than streaming by a significant margin. Visit one of the very public torrent sites such as rarbg, search or browse for something of interest, copy magnet URI, switch to terminal window, type aria2c "[magnet uri]". Just minutes later have the file in working directory…

Sounds like a lot more steps than clicking play on a web app. You also have to do that for single episode of a new tv show as it gets released as opposed to clicking play on a web app

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Post by riley_dog »

rogers18445 wrote: post #724

I don't understand what people are doing to be able to assert that a streaming service is more convenient than piracy. For me, piracy is more convenient than streaming by a significant margin. Visit one of the very public torrent sites such as rarbg, search or browse for something of interest, copy magnet URI, switch to terminal window, type aria2c "[magnet uri]". Just minutes later have the file in working directory…

Wait until you discover the *arr apps...

Re: Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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Post by r00fus »

bmelton wrote: post #558
rrrrrrrrrrrryan wrote: post #530

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why all the streaming services are constantly trying to hype up their one "must watch" show. If you aren't watching it now , you're left out of the conversation, and nobody will want to talk about it in three months.

Are they though? Netflix in particular is famously bad at actually promoting their hot new stuff. I suppose they may do it more on-platform and just assume it's enough, but it seems like (and this is just from my memory, which is maybe wrong) that the ads for streaming services generally fall into the "look at all this stuff we have and maybe I won't even tell you what show I'm giving you a clip of right now" kinds o…

I suspect what Amazon did with wheel of time and rings of power to be a less brutal method: weekly episode release. Disney does this too.

If they have enough “must-watch” shows that are staggered then you lose out unless you’re paying constantly.

It’s what they want: gets them som earned media/socialmedia hype, and prevents the binge+drop discount watching approach.

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