That's OK. I've already removed Netflix
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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How do you watch TV shows and movie now ?
I personally buy the shows I want and rip them to my media server. It seems to be about $10/season, $10-15/movie, which I think is cheaper in the long run than paying for no-ads on these streaming services.
On top of that you get to keep the blu ray artworks and extras so pretty worth it i might say
Yup, and I can lend them to people as well. If I recommend someone, there's a good chance I have it, and there's also a good chance it's not on whatever streaming platform they use.
Line must go up at any cost.
And people will bitch and moan on the Internet, pay up, and repeat the process next time they try this.
The stock is doing good so there must be plenty of people thinking Netflix is essential. And I guess it is if you have no tech skills at all.
I don't have a subscription myself, but if I want to watch something they have, I'd rather pay up than spending my time trying to figure out how to pirate it.
For me, it's less about technical ability, and more about how I spend my time.
But all you have to do to pirate it is to visit a website…
Every time I hear something about Netflix I always wonder how it is even still running. Still wild to me that they had the entire monopoly on streaming and fucked it up anyways.
Seriously. I was subscribed from the time they first started streaming... And then years later they remove the entire rating system, and replace it with a system clearly intended to confuse and manipulate their users into thinking they have better and more plentiful content.
I dropped Netflix then and there, and never looked back. They stopped being a great service at that specific moment.
In their defense, they didn't fuck it up (at first), media publishers saw there was money in streaming and decided that they wanted a bigger slice of the pie. When everyone is trying to take the whole pie for themselves, no one ends up with any pie.
However pretty much every move they have done in the past 5 ish years has been fucking it up.
No they screwed the pooch hard in the beginning. They could have bought up rights to basically everything for pennies compared to what it is worth now because of the leverage they had before any of those media publishers had options elsewhere.
Netflix was literally in the position to tell them what the price was back then and now they have nothing to bargain with because the market is saturated.
But wouldn't them buying all the rights to "basically everything" incentivise them more to jack up prices and include ads since the user base has no legal alternatives ?
We will never know considering what they did instead.
Netflix didn’t fuck their monopoly up. They just didn’t have an eternal technological moat. Their monopoly had an expiration date which is why they shifted to content generation.
Nowadays the problem they face is that there isn’t enough people on the planet to grow forever, so in order to keep growing they have to squeeze harder.
Their content is terrible tough, there they did drop the ball.
There are over 8 billion people on the planet and Netflix is an international company. If they decided to not fuck around and find out they could have had the majority of that market for pennies and held it well past today.
They had the monopoly on a golden platter and fucked it up. If they were smart they would have cemented that position.
Maybe a lot of their content is terrible but Delicious in Dungeon is a work of art!
I think they make like 200 shows a year, so sometimes they actually make good stuff by accident
I don't watch a lot of TV so it's enough for me. Although to be honest if my partner ever gets smart and leaves me I'll drop all streaming and just use i2p. 😆
I already have a Jellyfin setup like that but that also means I can watch that stuff from Netflix. I heard you can use i2p for torrenting (only Linux ISOs, of course) instead of a VPN, is that what you mean? I currently use a VPN for that.
i2p is a bit like Tor. Both are overlay networks, meaning that they use the "normal" Internet as their lowest layer. They use similar method of obfuscation using multiple hops.
i2p doesn't rely on special nodes, I think, which Tor does. i2p also does not connect to the "normal" Internet (basically).
Like with Tor there is no need for a VPN (or rather, little need for a VPN... probably both i2p and Tor are safer than any VPN, but nothing is 100% safe, so some people use double VPN, or Tor over a VPN).
Tor is not designed for torrenting. It assumes TCP connections - mostly for web stuff - and doesn't handle torrent well. They also don't want you bogging down the system with your filthy porn. 😆
i2p solves this by forcing you to send data for other users in order to download anything. This helps make your traffic harder to track and helps the overall network. It also means that downloads are slow. Very slow. Like, basically start your download and come back in a day or two. Not a problem if you have four or five downloads in progress, but it makes spontaneous watching impossible.
Anyway, I'm hardly an expert but this is my understanding!
My Netflix is called rutracker, your Netflix is called The Pirate Bay
My Netflix is called Jellyfin With Suspiciously Acquired Media From Dubious Corners of the Internet.
I LOVE this bit:
"will stop measuring its success in new subscribers, but in growth byr egional revenue."
We're hitting our self defined goals JUST fine guys!
Cool, I was planning to cancel this month anyway. I just finished ripping all of our DVDs and Blurays, so I have quite a bit of content ready to go. I have told my wife and kids I'll buy whatever they want, within reason, and rip it to our private streaming service. I think we'll end up saving quite a bit of money eventually this way, and we have no ads with our self-hosted video service.
Not only no ads but shit you actually want to watch and all right there no hopping from this service to that service to watch a frickin show
Yup. The main issue is exclusives, but most of those suck anyway. I told them we'll give it a few months and see where we're at.
But between the two, I'm spending $40/month to avoid ads, so it's probably cheaper to just buy what we want to watch instead.
A 5TB portable hard drive only costs as much as three months and can hold most of the stuff you ACTUALLY wanna watch. To be fair, DVDs and BluRays can get expensive but at least that's yours forever and you don't have to worry about the studio suddenly deciding you need to subscribe to THEIR bullshit too. If it's not available outside of streaming, well Gabe Newell said it best.
Yup. If I can get it legally to own, I will. If I can't, I'll find other methods...
I used Netflix because they had fantastic selection, a pretty decent UI, and good features on their apps. We recently went on a road trip, and both Disney+ and Netflix had "expired" our downloads (which we had downloaded like 2 weeks prior), so our kids couldn't watch most of what we had planned for during the trip. So their features are lacking, pricing sucks, and selection is more limited than when I signed up.
So yeah, if I'm going to have crappy selection anyway, I'll just buy what I want and save the monthly sub.
What is Netflix?
Is it that thing that shows up before I watch whatever the fuck I want on one of the dozens of free streaming sites?
Arrr matey.
I have a media server that I use and if I'm going to watch something I think that's the only way to go. With things being the way they are though I'm starting to think that we should just return to books. The "content" industry is just a gambit to extract money from people while turning their brains off.