Cool. I plan to continue not using Netflix. Seems like this arrangement is working out great for both of us.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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When that happens I'll be gone. I'm already at the end of my rope when pausing to read something on the screen and two seconds later they fill my paused screen with an advertisement. It's starting to seem to me that everything happening in the world today is to deflect from the sneaky invasiveness of company's wanting to sell you their shit.
Time to swap media with your friends on portable hard drives and USB sticks again baby!!!
Y'all still payin for Netflix?
I came in only to ask that same question. Thanks.
I wish I could cancel my subscription, alas I have none.
I'm so angry, I'm not going to give them money three times harder!
I plan to pirate even more :D
Not to pimp out my YouTube channel, but I made a video recently about some streaming alternatives to Netflix that are ad-blocker friendly. (Though I have to describe those things in different terms so YT doesn't nuke the video.)
It's right here if anyone's interested. There are chapters in the description too if you're a TLDW type person and don't want to sit through the whole thing, which I totally understand.
There is a great episode on the podcast “99% invisible” called “enshitification “ that precisely describes this action. Every device or ‘service’ will do this once they feel they have you locked in. The case study was about John Deere and Apple, but applies here too. Interesting that John Deere settled their case and had to pay $99 million.
Sounds like a really interesting concept that podcast invented
Surely they gave credit where credit is due.
Edit: indeed they did.
Hey ! Looks ! This thing it's called jellyfin. It's installed on something that's called Truenas. It's doing the same thing as netflix.
That's just misinformation. I put some shows onto a Jellyfin instance and not a single one has disappeared. Not even an email about something being dropped soon. So that's a core part of the Netflix experience you're just not getting with Jellyfin.
Heck, it doesn't even randomly force me to watch in 1080p or 720p despite being on the 4K plan and the show/movie being available in 4K. It's like Jellyfin isn't even trying.
The last drop in the bucket for me was when Jellyfin didn't show any ads.
Maybe we should fork an Enshittyfin and add these vital features.
There’s also Emby and Plex.
Yeah, and Plex is also enshittifying. Fuck Plex. Go FOSS or go home.
Plex is pumping the gas on going down the drain faster than netflix, netflix just has a head start
Netflix plan to bring even more ads to even more parts of it's service.....and I plan to continue not being a customer.
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I'm glad I unsubscribed to Netflix.
It would be hilarious if all those company killed by streaming platform suddenly crawl back up from hell and make physical rental widely available again.
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Clips is a TikTok-like vertical video stream where users can scroll through excerpts from Netflix series, films, and specials, as well as trailers for upcoming titles.
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Disney+ has "Verts". It's fucking ridiculous.
It's wild to watch these companies chase after one another with no thought. Just "TikTok is popular! Can we be TikTok?!?!???"
You have a product. Do that product well. Fuck!
I mean, do they have to fuck or is that optional?
You get 2 chances at guessing the correct answer tot hat.
CEOs are really herd animals, always looking what the other guy is doing and living in a continuous fear of missing out the next big thing. It sure doesn't help with shareholders breathing down their neck pushing for short term profit and growth.
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Morons… cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face.
Morons or masters of revenue?
We all hate it, but for every one of us who will cancel there’s ten more who will just keep paying no matter how bad it gets.
Just takes one show and a lack of motivation to self host a solution, and these companies own every popular show and nearly the entire pipeline of creation.
Advertisements work so well everybody is trying to put them everywhere to make more money. It’s just that simple. Reddit is effectively full vertical video and photo content if you browse the site without logging in, because a few second video format is enough to slip in a quick ad without triggering people as much as a long format ad does, like infomercials of yore.
If we want the ads gone we need to regulate them away.
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Enshittification is inevitable. The only variable is how long it takes.
Cancel your subscription & come over to the Dark Side! (I do recommend learning some basics beforehand though)
Yes that. Come to the dark side, we have 🍪
The fact that they keep pushing the envelope with more and more ads and higher costs show that people are willing to go along with it. That is sad to think about
No one should be surprised, cable tv played out the same way. Got you hooked on content and then started shoving ads in so often they sped up credits or ran the credits under the commercial break to squeeze just a biiiiiit more out of you
Then they sped up the actual tv shows. It's crazy, and they got away with it.
Goddamn, that's ridiculous. I can't say I seen that one myself, but I also haven't really watched cable in like a decade. I wish I could be surprised or even consider the idea even remotely hyperbolic.
TBS were the biggest offenders. It's only slightly sped up. I only noticed because they were airing reruns of something i had watched 1.2 billion times on dvd. Really fucks with the comedic pacing when they do that. But any amount sped up can make a 22 minute show air in 21:45 or even 21:30... One or two commercials more.
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