• Chozo@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Weird, Netflix used to compete with piracy so well that many people stopped pirating altogether, by offering a more convenient service at a reasonable price that was hard for even the most stubborn of pirates to refuse and resulted in a massive boom for its own industry. I wonder what could have changed that caused the people to leave Netflix and return to piracy. Hmm. I wonder.

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      10 months ago

      It’s a mystery! I’ll never understand why the week after yet another price hike, I quit because of the price hike. I guess I just act randomly in response to price hikes.

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        10 months ago

        My issue was cutting out the sharing. I was paying for 4 screens at a time. Why should they care which 4 screens are being used?

        Once I realized a decent VPN was $5/month, that I could get TV shows without the 35% time addition of commercials, and stop worrying about what I get going away, the issue wasn’t that Netflix was bad, it was just worse than the alternative.

        edit: not that Netflix has commercials, but the fact one could get anything without them as well (like paying for cable…)