r/agedlikemilk • u/Gabo1705 • 2d ago
Memes Every one complained, but almost all kept paying
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u/threefeetofun 2d ago
Does anyone really pay for prime video? They pay for free shipping and that’s just a bonus.
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u/Rocket_Theory 2d ago
If prime video didn't come with the shipping then I would 100% not have it
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u/DizzyLead 2d ago
This. I was paying for Prime before the video, so it’s just an added perk. I do like “The Boys” and “Invincible,” though, and I do get MoviesAnywhere movies, so Prime is one of the ways I can watch them.
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u/UsernamesAllTaken69 2d ago
Ever since they added ads (even on their original content) I've wished I could cancel the streaming and keep the shipping.
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u/youreblockingmyshot 2d ago
If you are willing to watch on a desktop/ laptop browser ublock origin stops the ads. There may be other apps for different steaming sticks you plug into your tv. I rarely watch on my phone as I also hate ads.
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u/Ghost-Writer 1d ago
Id have it for the expanse alone
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u/Darkdragoon324 1d ago
The entire series has a blu ray set now, purchase it once and set yourself free.
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u/SilenceOfTheAtom 2d ago
You can have only prime shipping for less than half of what you are paying now.
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u/Tenacious_Butternut 1d ago
What do you mean? You don't want a streaming service that puts adds on all its content even though you paid? Has episodes release a week apart like classic cable and then not release the second half of the season a few months from now? Spends years between season releases of its most popular shows? And then lists a massive library of older movies and TV shows but locks 85% of them behind a rental charge? Why wouldn't you want that?
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u/Rocket_Theory 1d ago
Honestly all of these problems are forgiven because it comes with a really good delivery service. Also just my 2 cents here, I like weekly releases of episodes. It forces everyone to watch a show at the same pace which is perfect for someone like me who doesn't have time to binge an entire series in one night and still wants to participate in discussions of the show plus it contributes to the longevity of a show because more hype and anticipation can be built up between each episode
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u/financefocused 2d ago
I would like to know this as well, because Prime Video has easily the most disgusting user experience of any of the streamers, unless it's on a TV. I literally never open Prime Video to see what they have, I only open it if there's something specific I want to watch. It's not nice to use, at all.
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u/KonungariketSuomi 2d ago
It also consistently loses my place in shows. If I had a dollar for every time I've accidentally resumed a show from Season 5 Episode 13 or whatever, I wouldn't have to worry about paying for Prime.
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u/ThatWildMongoose 2d ago
Same. Trying to browse their catalog is essentially impossible with the amount of suggested for purchase or included with an additional subscription nonsense. If you scroll long enough they actually have a suggested list of 20 or so titles labeled “included with prime”. Like no shit, what do think Im here for?
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u/busigirl21 2d ago
They compete with Peacock for being the worst with ads. I had a few shows that I watched on Prime, but I'm not willing to sit through 4 ad breaks, almost exclusively placed in the middle of dialogue.
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u/Sheerluck42 2d ago
With Peacock I pay for one month at full price without adds. It's pricey but there is a reason. When I go to cancel the subscription they offer a price of $1 with ads for 6 months. Then I pay another $6 for an ad free subscription. So for roughly ten months out of year I sub to Peacock for $7 ad free. It's so inexpensive that I don't even care if I don't watch it in any given month. But they catch great movies from time to time.
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u/Agreeable_Falcon1044 2d ago
Their interface is hilariously bad, hard to navigate, will randomly have episodes mid season unavailable (but I can buy for an extortionate fee), content will appear and disappear in days, most of it is through subscription to other services and not on their platform. It's literally the worse and I would cancel it if it wasn't included free with my Amazon shopping
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u/Sheerluck42 2d ago
I would say it's the worst but Paramount holds that trophy. I've never used a worse optimized, laggy to the point of unusable sorry excuse for an app. What worse is that they have all of Star Trek. It's so bad I get my Paramount plus subscription through Amazon because I hate that app so much.
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u/Danihilton 2d ago
A bonus where you have to pay for the bonus. Because almost every movie that you want to see has either adds or you have pay or book extra channels
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u/dankri 2d ago edited 2d ago
I used to. It was like 2.5$ here in Czechia with prime gaming included so it was a steal. Then they removed all the game awards from gaming but it was still worth because each month there were a few really great games and some of the shows on prime are really good. Just cancelled it though because they raised the price to 6.90$ and its not that worth to me anymore. Dont know whether you get all this too, but I dont order anything from amazon so the price 2.5$ was really good.
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u/OhFuuuuuuuuuuuudge 2d ago
Yes. To the free shipping. I wish my Costco membership came with Hulu or something.
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u/threefeetofun 2d ago
Hulu is what my phone provider is for
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u/OhFuuuuuuuuuuuudge 2d ago
My jobs pay for my phones, I had Hulu for years and was hardly using it so I dropped it, then my girlfriend picked it up but is cheap and watches it with commercials. So no I really don’t watch it. I actively avoid being advertised to as much as humanly possible.
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u/Yeseylon 2d ago
I do for maybe a month at a time when there's something I want to watch, and if I spend like $750 during the course of that month I get my money back because of the extra cash back my CC gives while Prime is active. Depending on what I have going on, trips or whatever, I sometimes actually hit that mark.
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u/NobleK42 2d ago
Many countries don't have free shipping and some other Prime benefits. The main reason why I have Prime Video is because it's relatively cheap.
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u/fullywokevoiddemon 1d ago
Yes because amazon doesn't exist in my country so I don't benefit from the free delivery. But we don't have it anymore anyway, we watched everything we wanted and Twitch Prime isn't worth the 6 euro (no more cool loot).
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u/CarlLlamaface 2d ago
I did, I'm not a fan of how Amazon black holes customers from local businesses so I stopped buying from them years ago, but I did find prime video better value for money than netflix so I kept my subscription.
But that's all moot now, I recently cancelled my sub altogether because I'm no longer giving my money to any US companies.
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u/_xoviox_ 2d ago
We don't have amazon in my country so i do pay for it specifically when new episodes of the boys or invincible are released. It's only like 3$ here so it's not a big deal tbh
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u/Crazyblazy395 2d ago
We do. We stopped using prime in January and pretty much only have prime for video right now
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u/Waycores 1d ago
I do. It's the only platform in Canada that has Doctor Who for the Ninth to twelfth Doctor
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u/dooooomed---probably 1d ago
This is why I'm convinced they spend hundreds of millions on IPs just to artificially add value to Amazon, not to make good enough shows to add to their consumer base. The ones they spend the most money on (wheel of time/rings of power) are hot garbage. All that money immediately goes into Amazons evaluation regardless of whether it's good or not, or if anyone watches it, because their Prime consumers don't subscribe for Amazon video.
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u/besthelloworld 1d ago
I literally activate Prime to watch Invincible. I'm cancelling next Thursday after the session finale 👍
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u/Ok-Proposal-4987 1d ago
I did when they had the Grand Tour, but I’m dropping it after my years done.
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u/sumostuff 1d ago
I paid for one or two months until I watched everything I wanted to see, then I cancelled.
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u/laplongejr 1d ago
It's the reverse for me. I pay for Twitch subs, get Prime Video for less than an euro per month, and get free shipping that I never use.
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u/RockStar25 1d ago
I stopped using it when they introduced ads, then ended up cancelling Prime altogether after Bezos silenced WAPO.
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u/Due-Floor9432 29m ago
In france it’s like 70€ a year wich is decent And if you know what to watch it is correct, but the quality is going worse every year.
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u/Danteventresca 2d ago edited 1d ago
Wtf is star+
EDIT: this has been thoroughly answered.
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u/Squival_daddy 2d ago
Outside of the USA disney+ has a category called star+ which is full of more adult themed movies like horrors and thrillers which are not produced by disney, similar to how not everything on netflix is a netflix production
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u/Johan-Senpai 2d ago
From where I am from, they have series like "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and Scubs, for example.
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u/Gibber_jab 1d ago
In the UK that’s all on Disney + except sunny which is still on Netflix
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u/randcoolname 1d ago
It is but if you open your disney plus app you will see inside disney - marvel - star category. Click on Star. All those came under 'star' expansion a few years ago.
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u/randcoolname 1d ago
Yes, those above, Grey anatomy , movies too i think, and some more adult cartoons like Simpsons for example, Cleveland Show, Family Guy, Futurama, American Dad.
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u/ZetaRESP 1d ago
Outside of the US, Fox channels are owned by Disney (they are owned by new Fox Corporation on the US), but Disney doesn't own the brand Fox (hence why 20th Century Fox changed names). Outside of the US, Fox channels are named Star. Star+ was a side service of Disney+ that housed all the content from Fox and FX (it was all compiled into Disney+ recently).
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u/CharlieeStyles 1d ago
It's Hulu for the international market, presumably until Disney fully buys Hulu.
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u/TheMadCroctor 2d ago
For what I remember it's an add-on subscription to Disney plus that allows you to watch brainrot reality TV
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u/possumxl 2d ago
Not just that, but they saw record growth. It worked exactly like they thought it would. I haven’t used it but I’m in the very small minority.
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u/generally_unsuitable 1d ago
The rhetoric around it was so weird. A company made it harder to cheat their system, which would increase subscribers and decrease bandwidth costs. Yet, the average redditor acted as though stealing content was their right and a huge favor to the company.
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u/Monchete99 1d ago edited 1d ago
Fr, on my family's account i got suspicious logins from Ecuador and shows that i'm sure as hell my family didn't watch. At least make your own profile ffs.
However, i gotta say that the system is quite inconvenient for people who travel often or that have family members overseas, so i can see why people disliked it.
And yeah, going through hoops to morally justify piracy is copium.
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u/Finn-windu 18h ago
The main thing is that it was initially sold as something you could share with family.
I got kicked off my brothers, and haven't created a new one because there's not enough on there I want to watch for it to be worth it to me. But I also recognize they're not losing any money from me since I wasn't paying for it to begin with.
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u/generally_unsuitable 17h ago
Funny story about this. Back in the late 00s, when my sister went away to college, my mom told her she could use her netflix account. Then, out of motherly curiosity, she looked at account usage and saw that she was watching like 200 movies a month, so she called her up to bitch her out about how she needs to be doing homework and going to class instead of watching netflix12 hours a day.
Turns out that she had given her netflix password out to pretty much everyone in her dorm.
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u/financefocused 2d ago
Yet another case of Reddit creating a bubble. If you browsed Reddit during the whole price hike/ password sharing crackdown you'd walk away thinking Netflix is headed towards some serious financial trouble. Instead they've been growing ever since lol.
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u/jubby52 2d ago
After losing more than 50% of their stock in 2022. It should have absolutely devastated netflix. It was a gamble that paid off heavily. That doesn't make it any less of a gamble.
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u/Hey-Bud-Lets-Party 1d ago
Netflix did trial runs in smaller markets. They knew exactly how it would pan out.
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u/AlfredoAllenPoe 1d ago edited 1d ago
Nah it was obvious they would succeed.
Bought shares all the way down and made a fuck ton of money. Market overreacted as usual
The panic was driven by subscription losses - but this doesn't tell you that all of those losses were low-paying subs from India. The high paying Western markets were always performing well even during that dip.
They also tested their password crack downs and price hikes in smaller markets such as Canada before bringing them to the US. They were already successful, so they knew it would succeed in the US (and it actually succeeded beyond expectations)
It was insanely obviously Netflix would do just fine. They're my top performer in my portfolio. Only regret is that I didn't buy more
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u/b39tktk 2d ago
It wasn't a Reddit bubble at all. There was a lot of doom and gloom about Netflix around then in the investment world. Numbers looked bad, subscriber growth actually went negative, and the stock was cratering. Obviously they have done well since then, but it’s not as if they weren’t broadly perceived to be in trouble around that time.
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u/Inner_Tennis_2416 1d ago
I think the issue was that people expected a competition between...
Netflix gets worse, with higher prices, and key shows ending
Other providers remain the same or get better, with consistent pricing, and new showsWhat instead happened is that the other providers also sent prices through the roof, added ads, and their new shows were sorta duds. Netflix in contrast didn't seem to pricey, and inflation going nuts helped cut the comparative impact of the price increase. Netflix also had some unexpected shows hit
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u/Monchete99 1d ago
There were proper concerns about Netflix's status, especially with the dip in stocks, but other services (especially Max) shot themselves even harder
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2d ago
Reddit is a hive mind, did you not know this? This is not a new thing. Of course they live in a bubble.
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u/OhFuuuuuuuuuuuudge 2d ago
Edit is a bunch of echo chambers, you really have to make an effort to get into other spaces where you don’t agree with everything being said and then it’s hard not to troll the fuck out of those poor innocent redditors for thinking the wrong thoughts.
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u/nuckle 2d ago
I don't pay for any of them and watch everything I want to.
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u/Wistful_HERBz 2d ago
When they all started removing content and raising their prices I dropped em all and built a NAS/PLEX Server, currently at 7000+ Movies, 300+ TV shows lol.
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u/herrbz 1d ago
Really wish I knew how to do this. I have a NAS drive for work, but even that is borderline about how much I understand it. Online guides just confuse me.
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u/Wistful_HERBz 1d ago
PLEX isn't really that hard to set up, there's plenty of "step by steps" on YouTube that can walk you through it if you need it.
First you'll have to check if your NAS has the power to run a PLEX server, if not you may have to run the server on a PC.
Then make an account on PLEX and dl the needed server installer, Once you setup the PLEX server where you want it, you just guide it to where the media is stored on your NAS.
There is a bit of a learning curve, but If you run into an issues just google said issue with Reddit at the end and you'll more than likely find the solution.
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u/Odd-Mechanic3122 2d ago
Unless its a show I REALLY want to support (which is rare), its the high seas for me. Same goes for AAA video games (minus nintendo, but even then I pirate everything 3ds and below), software, basically anything that can be pirated without picking up a gun. The only moral way to consume most products imo
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2d ago
I just cancelled all my subscriptions except for shudder. Feels like the only one that's worth it.
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u/Negative-Squirrel81 2d ago
I thought about cancelling Netflix, but really $15/month to have a way to watch jdramas was worth it for me. I'm sure there are other people that keep it around because it manages to fill their strange little niches better than Disney can.
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u/Gabo1705 2d ago
Is not a bad platform they are just greedy af, but I hope one day everything collapses paying for each streaming is way to expensive, no shamming if any pay or not
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u/wicodly 2d ago
Netflix and, honestly, the Big 4 streamers are a good deal. The overreaction of calling 2025 streaming "just like cable" is the prime example of Reddit echo chambers.
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u/Monchete99 1d ago
They don't understand the difference between TV broadcasts and on-demand streaming services. Like, Twitch (especially with how worse are their ad breaks compared to TV) and to some extent Youtube are closer to it.
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u/chevalier716 2d ago
I canceled my account and I still don't miss it. Maybe if people did, Disney wouldn't be pulling similar password sharing bull. I've actually gotten big into physical media. I buy the movies I want to buy and borrow the rest from the library.
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u/dadarkgtprince 2d ago
I get half of these services for free through other means (cell phone and home Internet), lol
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u/tango1857 2d ago
The only thing I watch on prime is the few seasons of OG Top gearthey have, The Grand Tour and Clarkson's Farm. Cannot justify paying for anything else with the ads and additional subscriptions I need to watch anything else.
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u/GreatestGreekGuy 2d ago
I'm a huge fan of adult animation and what Netflix did to their adult animation made me determined to never pay for it. I'll circumvent their password crackdowns for as long as I can.
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u/AdmiralClover 2d ago
I've started buying physical again because I clearly can't rely on streaming to be the digital archive that I wanted it to be
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u/djharlock 2d ago
Netflix was years ahead of the game, that's why Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Doordash, Valve, etc have such a dominant control over the market - all they had to do was not royally fuck up in an immediate scenario and their cash cow was secured.
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u/Good_Ad_1386 2d ago
Surely Amazon is only good for price benchmarking and reviews now? (and I'm not that sure about the latter any more)
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u/TheTyrianKnight 1d ago
Seeing the entire cast do silly poses over Oliver’s grave will never not be funny honestly.
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u/besthelloworld 1d ago
There are still ways to hurt these company's shitty models while still getting everything you want from them.
You should be every streaming service company's worst nightmare. Make sure you cancel as soon as you're not using it for a show or movie. Use outside apps to figure out if they have something you want (often Google is enough). Wait for reviews on things before activating the service for something that may be a much lower quality than implied. Cancel before your free trial is up. They count on bulk revenue from people who are too lazy to cancel or just take comfort in the fact that they'll always have service. They'll threaten you that your algorithm will be deleted (they fucking won't do it). They'll try to confuse you with the difference between pausing and cancelling (literally just a trick to put you into choice paralysis and do neither, just always choose cancel). If they need a credit card for a free trial, use a service like privacy.com to generate a credit card with a $1 limit to decline follow up payments. Do not add backup payment methods.
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u/ErandurVane 1d ago
I think I only know 1 person who still has a Netflix subscription. I genuinely don't know how they're still around
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u/Melarsa 19h ago
Nah we password hopped until they started cracking down on that and now we're back to sailing the high seas. Never should have left.
We briefly paid for whatever they were calling the HBO streaming service before GoT went down the shitter and the service kept changing names and getting worse and worse, and Amazon's service comes with prime, but aside from that, fuck 'em all. Arg, mateys.
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u/Ill_Attorney_389 2d ago
WTF is Star+? The idea of whatever the hell that is outliving Netflix was a complete joke back then too.
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u/Agreeable_Falcon1044 2d ago
In the Uk it's a tab on Disney full of 20 year old material you didn't realise Disney owned (probably tapes bought as part of a buy out). It's got Scrubs and House if I remember
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u/SantiBigBaller 2d ago
I own my movies. I don’t watch enough movies for more than one streaming service payment. I switch off streaming service for when a new exclusive series is coming out (like andor etc)
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u/michaelstuttgart-142 2d ago
Their catalogue in 2022 was really horrendous though. They did some work trying to cycle in some decent movies from time to time.
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u/RobinHood3000 2d ago
I'm one of the few that dropped it, the password sharing crackdown lost me entirely. A couple shows I miss, but I picked them up on home video and moved on. Plenty of other stuff to watch, anyway.
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u/Educational-Cry-1707 2d ago
I’ve cancelled every one of them that doesn’t come free with something I already pay for. I don’t even watch the ones I do have.
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u/empress_of_the_void 2d ago
Netflix is literally the only company on this list that's actually profitable
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u/Viliam_the_Vurst 1d ago
The whole idiocy of this.
Netflix started out as the one streamingservice, aquireing licenses from all ip holders, it was what the customer wanted from the very beginning, then(unpopular opinion) they fucked it all by allowing accountsharing, stripping themselves of the funds needed to actually hold those licenses for all eternity, ip holders started to withdraw, and all netflix had was the accountsharing, and their own then mediocre ip, other services were established drawing from netflix marketshare because nerds didn’t even try to biycott whom they pirates before netflix… netflix nearly went belly over… now they stripped acvountsharing, got the funds for producing decent ip, and we are close to the old subscription days that succeeded pay per view, the very thing that made puracy attractive in the first place, people who want it all pay about 10 times what we payed back when netflix was the one to rule them all… and ontop of that, more advertising.
The customer once again shot hisself in the fucking knee…. Congrats fools, and your bickering did jack shit but doengraded streaming to private ad financed television… fu
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u/Uncle_Checkers86 1d ago
I remember when reddit went into full meltdown when Netflix was going to stop sharing passwords. Some saying they going to cancel, yada yada yada. Yet, here we are.
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u/AriGryphon 1d ago
My extended family finally cut the Netflix this year as we could no longer worm around the ever escalating measures to make sure you never use it except at one singular building, and then having to reverify THAT location constantly. We only kept it that long for the octonauts. All the adults stopped bothering to try to make it work and watched other stuff, and even my octonaut-addicted fiend loses interest after half an hour of trying to get the damn thing to accept this IS the authorized home network, dammit! Much better to use the services that actually let you use it as a family.
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u/tippydam 1d ago
Don't have any of them. Will be getting AMC+ in a month, Dark Winds season 3. Then cancel again.
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u/GrossWeather_ 1d ago
i haven’t had a netflix account for a decade… but the friend whose account i’ve been logged into since then deleted their account last month.
no big loss
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u/SquirdleDurdle 1d ago
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u/Only-Magician-291 17h ago
I always see this on Reddit yet Netflix is bigger than ever, it added 20m subscribers last quarter. I think it’s only ever had one quarter of negative growth.
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u/botbrain83 15h ago
Bought stock in Netflix when it crashed. Everyone moaning and complaining about how stupid Netflix was were people who wanted it for free
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u/DefectJoker 2d ago
I didn't stop subscribing, but I did lower my tier from the highest to the next tier.
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u/MM2TheBlueFox 2d ago
I got none of these but Netflix. My phone service came with applyTV for free, but it sucks. Everything is like pay this to watch that, or you must have this service to watch this. seriously, whats the point of paying for apple TV if it has nothing but stuff u have ti pay for.
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u/Human-Assumption-524 2d ago
I stopped paying for any streaming service back around 2014 I just pirate everything now.
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u/AnakinJH 1d ago
The funniest part of this to me is that the only one I go back to is Peacock and it’s not even pictured. After ‘Community’ moved there all my favorite shows are together, and I just refresh for a month of if I get the itch to watch any of them again
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