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Get ready to pay more for Netflix’s priciest plan.
Subscribers to Netflix’s Basic and Premium plans will be paying more, with prices rising to $11.99 and $22.99 per month in the US.
Netflix announced that it’s password crackdown “exceeded expectations”
I am so disappointed in you, US consumer.
I canceled my Netflix when this happened. I wasn’t really using it, but friends and family were. At least three of them created their own accounts when I canceled mine.
Same.
Of course they’re going to say that. They won’t provide hard data to prove it, but by saying it they can keep doing it and make it look like a positive PR move.
They’re a publicly-traded company, they have to prove it. And they have.
They’re a publicly-traded company, of course they’re going to provide hard data to prove it: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001065280/62b73aad-65fc-436d-9ab9-d622dc3eb462.pdf#page=12
I cancelled after the last hike, and my family has access to my plex server with great quality and reliability, and a simple request system. But they barely use it. They just got their own Netflix after I cancelled the one we shared that I was paying for.
Finally got fiber at my home and created many accounts for my family on my emby server. Wanted to give them access to my overseer server but I don’t trust it’s very secure. I will just let them access it and make requests when they visit.
I think a reverse proxy really helps with the security concerns
Do you use sonarr/radarr/jackett? I can’t seem to find any good indexers that actually work
Sonarr radarr prowlarr
Accounts with IPTorrents, AlphaRatio, and TorrentLeech
All my stuff comes from them
Awesome thanks!!!
Looks like IPT and TL are invite only or you can pay money… Is that how you got in or did you get an invite? Seems kinda sketchy sending them money for a seedbox I’ll never use. AT is inv only.
I got an invite for IPT from a friend, was my first private tracker. I think the others I got during open registrations they had.
I’ve got invites, you able to seed back for 2 weeks?
If multiple invitees have bad ratio, the inviter can have their account disabled. So usually invite sharing with strangers goes along with proof of past ratio.
There was a subreddit for it, maybe there’s a lemmy community
That would be awesome if I could get invites! I just set up a headless Ubuntu Server that will always be on and I can set up my seed ratio to infinite.
I’m rocking ProtonVPN pro with fiber so I have 1000Mbps up/down without vpn. Not exactly sure what the max up with that is.
As for proof I don’t have much. My only current one is 49gb downloaded v 53gb up
DM’d
Yes what a bunch of dolts paying for the services they use instead of mooching off of others.
Well now they get to pay even more because Netflix realized what big suckers their customers are so… Congrats on being taken advantage of?
Right? Bunch of suckers paying for services. Everything should be free. Everyone should work for me and expect nothing in return.
You missed the part where they’re raising the prices, huh? I can’t fault you, it’s a hidden detail in the headline all about it. It’s hard to see it when you resist reading at all.
Bye bye Netflix. Onward to the high seas.
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The only reason I keep it is because my son watches Number blocks and other educational videos there. But I did downgrade from 4K to HD and I’ll likely downgrade again at the next price hike.
Or you can download all of your kids shows and host it on a Plex or jellyfin server for them.
Management every time they increase the price.
Piracy is always a service issue. It never went away, and it will never go away. Why should I spend the little money I have on a service that repeatedly jacks up prices, while also killing your favorite shows, or losing licences to stream other content?
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The monthly savings for other people to switch to your plan just increased!
Netflix announced that starting today, users on its $9.99 per month Basic plan will now have to pay $11.99, and those paying $19.99 per month for Premium will have to pay $22.99
That’s insane. The only way those price hikes could possibly be justified is if the majority of movie/show creators had their catalogues available on Netflix. But they don’t because everyone and their mother wants their own fucking streaming service, ruining streaming for everyone.
No thanks. I got a library card and access to my entire county’s book/audio-book/movie/show catalogue for free through Libby and Hoopla. As for everything else I can’t find there… Yarr.
Is this a monthly thing now?
Netflix, what are you trying to do? I can’t cancel my subscription in protest if it’s still cancelled from the last time you did something boneheaded.
Could always call and demand they cancel even harder.
Join, and cancel the next day.
I have herd you will get the money back and one month free.
While pretty useless it will show up in the churn metrics.
“As we deliver more value to our members, we occasionally ask them to pay a bit more,”
But you’re not doing the first half, so you can’t do the second half…
For anyone looking to bail - get a nice VPN and sail the high seas instead! I use protonvpn for $120 per 2 years ($5 per month) they also have free servers you can try out but they’re super slow. Another good one is mullvad for €5 per month (doesn’t get cheaper with longer plans, but €5 a month isn’t bad). Be wary of vpn reviews though because I know a lot are sponsored.
Protonvpn and mullvad are based in Switzerland and Sweden, respectively, and both countries have great privacy laws. Been using protonvpn for a while and haven’t had any issues personally.
For getting into torrenting, I definitely recommend the arr suite (radarr for movies, sonarr for tv, some others for other uses) and qbittorrent for actual torrenting. Also very good idea to stick everything in docker containers, you can route them through a gluetun container that uses your VPN so even if you shut your VPN down systemwide those are still protected. The arr suite helps with managing what you get, getting better qualities, automatically getting new releases, etc.
Plex is great for viewing your content and such, can either do one time purchase or a subscription, $120 for lifetime which is the same as paying for 3 years of subscription I think? You can also use Kodi which is free and open source but imo more annoying to setup and has a worse layout.
There’s plenty of guides online for setting things up, but make sure to never torrent without a vpn unless it’s non-copyrighted
Obligatory Jellyfin > Plex recommendation and TRaSH-Guides plug
Jellyfin is a completely self-hosted Plex alternative that works really well. Plex has been around longer and thus has more dedicated apps, but Jellyfin can’t ever disable your account or block the server you pay to run it on .
I’ve been using Jellyfin for over a year and have no complaints.
Any opinions on the morality of it? We only just got better agreements for writer profit sharing, so while previously we could say “it was never supporting the creators anyway”, I’d argue that it’s slightly more supportive of the industry than it used to be, especially if the actors’ strike yields fruit.
We aren’t obligated to pay for the service that is responsible for the writers lack of profits in the first place. We also shouldn’t get used to renting everything online and not owning anything.
There’s still virtually nothing going to the writers. If you want to support writers, you can send your favorite ones 10% of the amount you save and it will be 100x more than they would have made off you otherwise.
I’ve probably been subscribing to Netflix for a decade now, but this is the largest price increase they have ever done on the basic plan, and this is the first time I have seriously started to consider cancelling.
I need to go through my list and figure out what I really want to watch, and then just binge it. (I have never binge watched anything, but this is giving me an actual incentive to)
Or… Just… 🏴☠️
I canceled four years(?) ago and haven’t looked back. The quality to crap ratio of their originals was so high and the back catalog was evaporating. Everything I wanted I could get on DVDs at thrift shops and rip to my Plex library or watch on Hulu (which is provided free with my cell plan).
Oh hey. Another reason to no go back to pick up a Netflix account.
Cue all the “that’s it, I’m out” comments. Seems like no one actually ever leaves.
I cancelled all my streaming subscriptions last month. Netflix, Disney, HBO.
I’m a full time pirate now with iptv and I’m a member of a forum where you download from each others mega cloud.
With my 1Gbit connection it is fun to download again
That’s how late-stage-capitalism works. companies just exist to maximize profits, unnecessary scale, or simply make more profit for their shareholders. It’s not for the customer. As soon as the innovations stop and the market is cornered by the competition, it’s just maximizing profits until the wheels fall off, f the user.
Can’t leave if you never started
I left. Only thing I have left is Hulu and I’m about to boot them too.
According to my email history, I cancelled in March 2022. So there’s one person.
Thanks for the heads up. I just cancelled my subscription. I had premium but $23 per month is ridiculous.
Same. Apparently, I had an account with them for 10 years too. Guess it’s about time I build a Plex or Jellyfin server.
It’s almost like streaming models aren’t sustainable for anybody involved. ;)
They were when they didn’t need to also make their own content before everyone and their mother became one.