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.
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Cue all the “that’s it, I’m out” comments. Seems like no one actually ever leaves.
I left. Only thing I have left is Hulu and I’m about to boot them too.
Can’t leave if you never started
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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
According to my email history, I cancelled in March 2022. So there’s one person.
RealDebrid with Stremio or Kodi.
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The monthly savings for other people to switch to your plan just increased!
Management every time they increase the price.
I am nearly giddy at the thought of finally cancelling my subscription. It’s been like 13-14 years for me I think.
I cancelled last year after watching Stranger Things. It was literally the only show I’d watched on Netflix in over two years. I’d been paying for a service I wasn’t even using, and even though nobody was sharing a password for my account, the price hikes and sudden change of password policy were enough for me to stop paying them. Obviously I haven’t missed it, since I wasn’t watching it, but I may not have cancelled if not for the price going up each year.
About the same here, just canceled last night before I even knew about this. Got my vessel sea worthy within the last week so I decided it was time. Timing was perfect.
Mind sharing your setup, fellow pirate? I’m considering charting a course of my own. ;)
I’m not this person, but I’d suggest checking out yams.media. Extremely easy way to get plex/jelly/emby, all of the *arrs, and a VPN with very little setup. Also makes managing/updating them super easy.
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Oh hey. Another reason to no go back to pick up a Netflix account.
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.
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?
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.
Oh, you’re still paying for Netflix? Well… sucks to be you!
Their content turned fairly bad. Witcher and Stranger Things were the only reasons to keep it. So why keep it?
Haven’t had it for a while. It was cool in the 00s, started to go bad in the 10s. Inertia can only take you so far.
Hell, even AppleTV free run had more decent content for 3 mos.
Yarr intensifies
tap… tap… tap… what’s that sound approaching?
Just me peg leg, matey
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.
balls lol
You’re proud of this, but you missed out. There truly was a golden age where it was easier to pay $8 for streaming and everyone was happy. Good for you for being Nostradamus and everything, but there was a good ~8 years there where you really could have enjoyed the ride if you wanted.
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.
I always upvote library advocacy
