I’ve been unmotivated in the past but i think it’s time to sort out an alternative.

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
    21·
    17 days ago

    People said this about Netflix a while back and I think they’re profits actually went up so that’s why.

  • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    16 days ago

    I’ve ditched all of them except the Disney/Hulu bundle, and that’s only because Amex gives me back $7 a month of the cost.

    Amazon Prime used to be okay as a Prime customer, but now you can’t watch a 24 minute show without seeing like five ads. I tried to watch an episode of Invincible and there were two ads before the show even started, two in the middle of the show, and one at the end. It’s freaking insane.

    I barely even watch video these days, I get way more mileage out of a good music service like Qobuz or Tidal.

    • rammer@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      16 days ago

      Do your own ironing! It’s quite easy. Heat the iron to the proper temperature. Not too hot. Use steam liberally. Use an ironing board and a sleave attachment. Turn your garment around so you can reach everywhere. Some creases are meant to be there. Make sure they are straight before ironing them.

  • yamanii@lemmy.world
    7·
    16 days ago

    As Netflix constant raises showed, not enough people leave so they will enshitify to the max

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    381·
    16 days ago

    Because for every one person like you and me with zero ad tolerance, there’s hundreds, thousands of plebs who can’t be bothered to drop the service. It’s the inverse of the whale (re. microtransactions) problem.

    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      16 days ago

      I know a few people that actually claim to like watching ads. They have made consumerism part of their identity and they are proud of it.

      • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
        2·
        15 days ago

        Not having commercials has really only been a thing for, at best, like 15 years. Broadcast and cable TV has always had commercials with the exception of specialty channels like HBO and Showtime and a few others.

        Streaming only overtook cable TV in viewership in 2020. Even in 2022, cable and broadcast TV still made up 56% of viewership.

        • Narauko@lemmy.world
          41·
          15 days ago

          Cable TV started out as “pay for your access and you won’t get ads”. It enshitified into its current state, and streaming is literally a rerun. Give it a few more years and you will have price bundles for streaming services where you have to pay for peacock to get Disney. They might even bundle it with ISP services.

          • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
            3·
            15 days ago

            No, cable was developed to deliver standard TV (i.e., programming with regular commercials) to places that couldn’t get broadcast TV. It has always been a subscription service and has always had commercials. It was also always “bundled” with a selection of channels. You couldn’t even choose what came in your bundle until much later.

            • Narauko@lemmy.world
              21·
              14 days ago

              That depends. Yes, the cable standard did carry broadcast TV with commercials, but a big selling point in the beginning was also the existence of cable only paid TV channels that did not have commercials. Premium cable as an offshoot of cable only networks also did not have commercials, it was a major selling point. As the medium expanded and the channel breakdown shifted commercials came back in a big way, and even many premium channels got commercials. Prime examples would be USA Networks, HBO, Nickelodeon, and quite a few more.

  • marx2k@lemmy.world
    18·
    16 days ago

    Wife and I started watching the boys on prime. That’s when I realized Amazon is putting ads in the stream.

    I just ended up downloading all the seasons in an hour and it’s been no ads on Kodi since.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    10·
    16 days ago

    Hulu is treating me with impunity when I reported errors with their apps. Hulu, an eminently cancelable service that a lot of people never paid for in the first place.

    Sail the seven seas, friends. These people deserve despondency.

    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      16 days ago

      Everyone here forgets cable was under threat of piracy until streaming came along. They think the US has cracked down but pirates have gotten more advanced. I just can’t get over these streaming services not realizing if you take away the only safe port then all that is left is piracy.

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
    16·
    16 days ago

    This is just my opinion, but when Google(and… I don’t know, “them?”) started cracking down on the “letswatch” and 123movie sites, streaming was in a good place, so people happily jumped over. Now, in the time between that and the state of things now, some people lost their patience and skill with looking up a movie. Both my mom and grandma were fine with the 123movies and what not. The sites started to go down when Netflix was still alright, so it wasn’t a big deal. Spend a couple dollars, get all the stuff you want and be sure it’s the best quality, and no malware? Fantastic.

    By the time it became this state of affairs, my mom just couldn’t wrap her head around it. I tried to explain some sites are still there, you just may need to search duckduckgo (which she hates for some reason). She never understood torrenting even though we’ve gone over it multiple times. I’ve always liked anime or some shit that was not going to be on Netflix, so I kept using those “skills” and kept up with the changes. Moving to torrenting, a VPN, file converters, learning how to apply subtitles, one by one, over years, it’s not a big deal. You just learn as you do. Having to come back to that after how much has changed ostracized a lot of people.

    The people who aren’t affected by them were never their main focus. They wanted the people who weren’t tech savvy, lazy even. They can’t figure out a torrent, or how to even find it in the first place. They won’t know what to search for to protect themselves and will likely get scared by the first copyright notice. They’re hoping that the majority of their customer base will be like that and feel “trapped.”

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    17 days ago

    Because of the people they loose due to the price hike, more will stay for the new price.

  • _pete_@lemmy.world
    22·
    17 days ago

    Because the “you wouldn’t steal a car” nonsense scares a lot of people off

    Because some people want to support the creators of content but digital downloads from iTunes or whatever are more expensive than getting a month of a streaming service

    Because there is a level of convenience of having thousands of hours of content at your fingertips without having to store content locally or finding it on a “dodgy” website. Setting up torrents / usenet is more work than giving someone your credit card number

    Because a lot of people don’t know where to find content and if they did they don’t know the difference between a 480p avi vs a 2160p HDR DV MKV and get confused with torrents and file formats and how to get them on their TV.

    Because - at the moment - the ads aren’t that bad, I got one ad at the start and one episode in the middle of an episode of Gen V - obviously they’ll add more until it’s as bad as cable but they’re not there yet.