Bold move for a platform with nothing to watch.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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You'd think this doesn't work but it does
Netflix has done the math. They know they will make up the difference.
🏴☠️ (for legal reasons this is a joke)
You shouldn't joke about these things, man.
I accidentally set up a home server running Plex/Jellyfin, and now I control all my media without paying £18 per month (and probably due to rise soon, like the US pricing) to a company that only has a handful of things I like and regularly takes away content, plus prevents account sharing.
You wouldn't want someone else to accidentally do that, would you?
without paying £18 per month
yes, now I'm paying 10 times more.
Don't mind it though, experience is better in every way possible besides occasional maintenance need, but it's definitely not for everyone.
Could be done cheaper, but it's tradeoffs all the way as with everything in life.
Yeah i bought a small computer off of eBay, installed Proxmox and all this weird software started downloading and categorizing media. It was terrifying.
Weird. Similar thing happened to me. One day I was thinking, "Damn. These streaming services are getting too expensive. I may have to get back to sailing the high seas if this keeps up." I shit you not, all of a sudden my home server is sucking up all kinds of movies and TV shows and streaming them to my living room. It's like The Brave Little Toaster if the toaster were actually a Dell PowerEdge and it went on a long journey to find the master (me) as much high quality media as possible.
Pirating is not really much cheaper TBH...my media server, including power, has to run for something like 6-7 years without upgrades or repairs to break even with what Netflix would cost in that same time frame. It's not about saving money, it's about not giving it to them.
to break even with what Netflix would cost in that same time frame
Sure, if you only watch Netflix stuff, but not Disney, Hulu, Peacock, Max, etc etc etc.
But also, if you're willing to give up a little content and a some quality, it's cheaper than Netflix. A lot cheaper, if you insist on not having ads in Netflix.
If I still watched TV, I the risk of me doing that accidentally is very high.
🏴☠️
Didn’t… didn’t they just do this?
Man, ad free is gonna get fucking expensive over time. I can already see how they will weight the ad tier at “just $9.99” at some point when ad free 4k is $31.99 or something crazy.
People will remain subscribed because a $2 increase every few months doesn’t feel as bad as a $30 increase in one go.
Frogs in boiling water and all that…
"The ad-free tier. Look man, don't even ask about cost. This is one of those situations where if you have to ask, you can't afford it."
Was taught that if someone asks the price, they're concerned with wanting to pay it.
I find the paid with ads tier so confusing. Kind of defeats the purpose of paying.
55% of new Netflix signups between Oct-Dec 2024 were for the ads tier though.
@overload @return2ozma we periodically sign up for it when my kids remember something on there they like watching. The children's accounts don't show ads.
Huh, that's an interesting workaround.
Also, depending on which device you use to watch: if you download the movie/episode and play it, you won't see ads. Not every of their apps lets you download, but depending on which app (on which device) you can use, that's also a neat workaround for non-children-titles