Netflix is starting to raise prices in some countries as growth spurred by its crackdown on password sharing starts to fade.
The film and TV streaming giant said it had already lifted subscription fees in Japan and parts of Europe as well as the Middle East and Africa over the last month.
Changes in Italy and Spain are now being rolled-out.
In its latest results, Netflix announced that it had added 5.1 million subscribers between July and September - ahead of forecasts but the smallest gain in more than a year.
The death spiral continues
AllDebrid is still €3 a month so 🤷♂️
Hmm, it appears if we squeeze tighter, more blood will come out. Surely there is no natural limit to this principle.
Netflix’s content has gotten so much worse too. I don’t think there are many people left that have a subscription for more than one or two shows. And this seems to be a trend across all the different apps. Makes me glad I set up automatic torrenting for everything I’m interested in, and all it costs me is $5/month for Proton VPN
For added convenience, skip the VPN and get a seedbox. If you consider the cost savings in hardware you spend even less.
Recommendations?
Any recommendations? Can you link jellyfin directly to a seedbox?
Many seed boxes allow you to install Jellyfin and the Arr stack on the seedbox itself. Some even make installation a one click operation.
I don’t know about you but content has gotten better for me.
Ranma 1/2, Squid Games, Super Mario Bros Movie, new season of Arcane. I felt like every 1-2 months, there was always something interesting.
Also note that I don’t pay for Netflix. I do own stock.
BUY MORE NETFLIX SUBSCRIPTIONS…
lifted subscription fees
So they’re not charging anything?
You know what? I’m gonna Sonarr and Jellyfin even harder
You know what it means
I love that they think upping prices will keep people around to pay those prices?
About once a year, we get a Netflix subscription for about two months. Catch up on everything we want to watch, then cancel it.
After 6 months, Netflix forgets about you. Does that mean we count as a new subscriber every year? How many people like us are inflating their new subscriber number?
Obviously Netfilx wants to tell the stock holders how many “new subscribers” they have every quarter. Nobody stopped to think what those numbers actually mean.
TBH it has been working so far…
Yeah, Lemmy loves to talk about how this won’t work and they’ve moved to Plex, but overall it’s been working great for Netflix.
Eventually the bubble will burst and people will start to drop Netflix, but that’s a way off.
The price is still elastic because many people have another streaming service they can drop. But as they all raise prices, they’ll all be whittled down to just one. And then possibly none.
No doubt but if people would be a little more proactive… We coulda already squeezed the corpo trash
The Pirate Bay will always be with us.
It’s not me, Netflix, it’s you.
Netflix is good streaming Gets expensive and sharing increases Banish Sharing and can’t get more users Raises prices and won’t get new users.
They would have been better off lowering the price by 10-20% after carrying out the ban to pick up many of the users they lost.
I was celebrating the signup / binge / cancel pipeline, but now I’m realising: a next step they could use to prevent that would be putting caps on your watch time, like “you only get 20h of content a month” or something.
Wouldn’t be a surprise to see this. I’m callin it now lol
They’ll call it a “fair use policy” and the exact limits are secret
Spotify is trying this with their audiobook subscription service.
The company is under pressure to show investors what will power growth in the years ahead, as its already massive reach makes finding new subscribers more difficult.
LOL i think the only potential “new subscribers” remaining are the people who never had and never will have a netflix sub. at this point one of the many reasons i’ll never sign up is because fuck shareholders in general
Just idea that they expect growth where there is none is strange. This business are at the limit and have no way to grow faster than economic situation of many people around the world gets better.
Sad part is fir them it is better to destroy service trying to increase growth in meaningless ways, than to just find a way to keep the business that is working.
Idea of infinite growth is ruining us.
The for profit model was probably created by idiots. Just because something like the market and economy are complex doesn’t mean it was put together by smart people.
Capitalism is cannibalism. Cannibalism of resources, of your job, of your society.
Idiots put the system together and idiots are holding it together.
Yeah, but I’ve yet to see a detailed alternate proposal. When people talk about anarchism it gets really handwavy really fast, and the other kind of socialism has history of being vapourware.
… or gulagware.
No, vapourware. If their thing worked but also had remote prisons this would be a totally different (and ethically abstract) conversation, so that’s not the important detail.
In practice, their thing didn’t work, and still ran on market-style money transactions, albeit with multiple currencies and a lot of random red tape. And then a huge unofficial market cropped up as well to close the gaps from it not working.
What kind of details can you not fathom in a functioning sustainable system? It shouldn’t be more difficult than “more! MORE AT THE EXPENSE OF EVERYBODY ELSE!”
I’m having a bit of trouble following that. Are you anti-socialism and complaining that it’s just stealing, or pro-socialism and asking me what details I’m missing?
Friendly reminder that the high seas are always an option. Download stremio, install the torrentio addon, and you are good to go.
Only use torrents if you know what you’re doing. In the developed world, this usually ends with a very expensive letter in your mailbox.
Using a VPN solved this problem for me. If you don’t want to pay for a VPN, then use OpenVPN Connect.
How does that get around paying? You don’t pay for the clients but their servers.
Whoops! I forgot to mention that I have a tech friend that gave me a free profile/account that I use with the OpenVPN client.
So, if you don’t want to pay for a VPN get someone to give you access to theirs for free?
I had, simply, forgotten that my friend had given me a free account.
I guess Canada must be undeveloped, cause I’ve never seen one of those “expensive letters” in my mailbox
You can get a VPN or seedbox to avoid those letters. They are a lot cheaper than a single streaming service.
Absolutely my dude, stremio is fantastic. The only reason I still have Netflix is for my youngish kid and I haven’t found parental options for stremio yet
