things we tried:
- jacking up prices
- adding ads to paid services
- canceling the better shows
- not adding anything meaningful
- making specifically terrible shows that are obviously terrible from the get go
- making the algorithm noticeably worse to cover up for the worse output
- platforming has-been comedians so they can cry about how they aren’t platformed anymore on our platform in a distinctly unfunny and joke-free manner
We’re out of ideas… maybe we should utilize AI?
You forgot limiting quality on web browsers
platforming has-been comedians so they can cry about how they aren’t platformed anymore on our platform in a distinctly unfunny and joke-free manner
No no, I’m sure if they get Dave Chapelle to talk about how much he hates transpeople and sees no parallels between the on-going struggles of the African American and literally ANY other Rights Movement, then I’ll magically start giving a shit about what’s on Netflix!
Tough break big N, maybe I’ll check you out when Steel Ball Run finally gets animated… Or not because I could probably get an uncensored version on a pirate streaming site as long as I use my VPN
no they started pirating because of the ridiculous number of
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I mean, Scream Box is a streaming service (ish), so one could say it’s a screaming service.
Very simple rule fuckers. Ads and free or paid and no ads.
Yar harr fiddly dee dee
Too many services with too low quality content.
Once Upon a Time Netflix premiered a handful of huge shows and movies a season. Then they got addicted to watch metrics and decided everything should be “second screen content” from a firehose.
Now I don’t watch any Netflix original until it’s concluded or has rave reviews, because it’s likely to get canceled in season 1 or just not be worth watching at all. And in the rare case it is great, gets picked up, and have rave reviews, they can still fuck it up like The Witcher.
Every other network is pretty much guilty of this too. I’m so, so over it. They have made me actually long for the option of a singular cable-like license I could get, because they are so shitty at maintaining their services and their catalogs are so poor now.
I just roll my own now and host a Plex server, because fuck em.
I don’t even pirate Netflix shows because there’s a good chance it will get canceled after one season. Why bother, knawmean
Put ads in a service I pay for?
*****cancelled!****"Maybe they should try not being shitty and expensive?
No one has mentioned COVID and habits. Sure we aren’t in lockdown, but it was literally the only thing to do a few years ago and people likely continued due to it be a comfort.
It has changed how we did things. As well as all the enshitifucation.
Sounds like they need to make it 25% more expensive next year. That will fix it!
I gave up on streaming entirely a few years ago, and now just collect physical media of various formats from Ebay, Yahoo Auctions, Amazon, thrift stores, antique stores, garage sales, and estate sales, etc.
Are they including streaming from torrents in their study?
I think unintentialy, but yes. They talk about spending. I don’t know what you usually pay for your torrents, but I don’t think it will change the number much.
From my experience there are two ways to get torrents (aside from piratebay): you either get invited to a hosting site or you pay a big entry fee. There also is stuff like IPTV now which also costs monthly
I recently renewed a 6-month subscription to The Crew (via Kodi.) For unlimited torrent streaming, the cost is only around $2 US per month.
My point is that I have been streaming for years, and I never spent more than $0 on it. So…fatigue? I dont know what they’re talking about.
Streaming is free and great!
Not fatigue but service issue.
I think its more reflective that the price of streaming services continues to rise, while the value proposition does not. So why subscribe to all services at one time? You can only watch one at a time.
(Also, piracy is just so piss-easy for $5/mo)
normies are not redicalized enough but these media parasites working OT on pushing them to sail.
Setup a Digital Ocean droplet in Amsterdam, years ago. LOL, not even sure how to login to it, because I don’t have to touch it.
OpenVPN -> connect -> thepiratebay.org -> Tixati -> done
Yeah, I could be more secure, do it better, good enough for me to steal movies and books.
Stremio & torrentio are free. Not sure if it works on googleTV. It doesn’t on roku
I recently discovered I can just have Kodi on my Fire TV use SFTP to login to my seedbox and download my shows from there.
Referring to a VPN with my price, not private trackers. Sorry for the confusion.
Which VPN are you using atm? I am also looking for one as I am behind cgnat and can’t open ports.
ProtonVPN.
It works on Chromecast, Fire stick, Nvidia Shield, and anything else using Android. It also works on Windows and Linux.
Exactly. I finally cancelled Netflix a few weeks ago. It’s too expensive and there’s very little I want to watch on there any more. The shitty way they were trying to push you into more expensive plans was just the shit icing on the turd pie.
I’m now looking at Disney+ and Prime Video because there’s hardly anything on those too that I like.
My wife has put on a few different Netflix original shows over the holidays, and they’re all sooo stupid. Their supposed best shows are complete garbage.
I hate the UI of prime video with a passion. From time to time I look for something to watch on it but I have the impression they try to keep me from causing traffic. After some minutes I give up and wonder why I didn’t cancel yet.
Yeah, they really broke it a video of years ago. It used to just show videos covered by the prime subscription. Then they started showing additional sub-services you could sign up. That was annoying but not too bad. But now they show you all sorts of stuff that doesn’t come with prime. That really pisses me off - not least because my kids still have a hard time differentiating the ‘free’ stuff from the ‘requires extra money’ stuff.
This was always the plan
There’s a prime only browsing section but but you don’t seem to be able to limit the search to only return prime included stuff.
Yeah, and in my experience they buried that pretty fast down so it required don’t scrolling to get there each time.
It’s right on the top bar in the latest UI. At the same level as choosing movies or tv shows. It’s very easy to get to in fairness.
That’s good. They must have changed it then. Because when I was looking for it a few months ago it was buried under several rows of paid content.
I ditched Disney+ when they added 50% onto the price. The exit questionnaire was annoying as it had one answer that lumped in “can’t afford it” with “too expensive” which implies it’s a “me” problem when it was definitely a “them” problem.
I would have ditched Amazon Prime when they added adverts with an optional 50% price hike to remove them but my wife didn’t want to lose the prime delivery.
The intention is that we subscribe to Disney+ for a few months a year and catch up on what we missed.
Kids make it complicated for sure, but we managed to drop Disney. Honestly I’d prefer they were on screens less anyway.
and on top of that inflation everywhere else is causing people to have less discretionary funds.
Next step is only annual contracts.
Next step is only annual contracts.
This would destroy their subscriber bases. Not even cable required an annual subscription and there were many more hoops to jump through to subscribe and cancel.
This will only increase until there is sufficient backlash or, god forbid, Government oversight. These CEOs are getting hooked on the concept of being paid continuously for the same widget. Not only will these services get more predatory, but subscription models will continue to proliferate even into unlikely and surprising places.
That’s my official end of year, forward looking, very lukewarm take for 2024.
Was it BMW that was trying to charge a subscription for seat warmers and automatic car starters that were built into the car already? They got serious push back and rolled back fast. Haven’t followed in a while wouldn’t be surprised if they were back to that model already.
Yep. BMW.
Wait till you see the subscription pricing on the turn signals; it’s no wonder their drivers never use them!
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- Streaming time grows steadily for years.
- Streaming services insert ads in paid accounts.
- Streaming time decreases.
- “Streaming Fatigue” - yeah, that’s it! Obviously!
Don’t forget the steady fracturing of media licenses across dozens of services, coupled with enhanced enshittification.
Everyone’s focusing so much on exclusivity to draw people in while their service quality quickly jumps straight down the nearest manhole.
It’s just cable with extra steps at this point. More effort, more costly. Not worth it.
I think it’s cable with fewer steps, but of course not as convenient as it used to be.
