But but but but but how are they going to pay for all that CONTENT™ they're creating (the vast majority of which nobody gives much of a shit about, due in large part to Netflix arbitrarily canceling most of it after only one season, if even that much)?
*eye roll*
Yeah, my sister (not the one with whom I live) had Netflix for years, but she's dropping it when her current subscription runs out, due to not being willing to pay $20 per month for it. My other sister (the one with whom I live) had Netflix years ago, but dropped it due to not being willing to pay whatever arbitrary price increase they'd bumped it up to way back then, which was significantly less than $20 per month.
So, really, it's no wonder they're hemorrhaging customers at this point. And, indeed, including ads on a paid service (even if it's "cheaper," they're still wanting people to pay for advertisements, which is idiotic and has always been idiotic) and trying to monetize password sharing is only going to make matters even worse for them, not better. And I am not going to lose the tiniest bit of sleep over it.
(As for me, I've never subscribed to Netflix, and the only time I ever had cable was for a period of one year, back when I first moved to WA from NC in 2004. After the "promotional price" ended and Comcast tried to jack it up to like $90 per month or whatever it was at the time, I told them to drop the cable and leave me with just basic Internet. Even "just basic Internet" was still way overpriced, of course, but I wasn't going to do without Internet. *shrug + sigh*)
The thing of it all, though, is that any alternative that may come along which claims to do what Netflix used to do, without all the bullshit that Netflix is doing now... if such an alternative were to ever become as popular as Netflix used to be, it will then eventually fail for the exact same reasons that Netflix is currently failing, i.e. greed. And then the cycle will repeat, ad infinitum, ad absurdum, ad nauseam.
Which is funny, because that's how Netflix started: as an alternative to cable, due to all the increasingly bullshit stuff that cable was doing.
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*eye roll*
Yeah, my sister (not the one with whom I live) had Netflix for years, but she's dropping it when her current subscription runs out, due to not being willing to pay $20 per month for it. My other sister (the one with whom I live) had Netflix years ago, but dropped it due to not being willing to pay whatever arbitrary price increase they'd bumped it up to way back then, which was significantly less than $20 per month.
So, really, it's no wonder they're hemorrhaging customers at this point. And, indeed, including ads on a paid service (even if it's "cheaper," they're still wanting people to pay for advertisements, which is idiotic and has always been idiotic) and trying to monetize password sharing is only going to make matters even worse for them, not better. And I am not going to lose the tiniest bit of sleep over it.
(As for me, I've never subscribed to Netflix, and the only time I ever had cable was for a period of one year, back when I first moved to WA from NC in 2004. After the "promotional price" ended and Comcast tried to jack it up to like $90 per month or whatever it was at the time, I told them to drop the cable and leave me with just basic Internet. Even "just basic Internet" was still way overpriced, of course, but I wasn't going to do without Internet. *shrug + sigh*)
The thing of it all, though, is that any alternative that may come along which claims to do what Netflix used to do, without all the bullshit that Netflix is doing now... if such an alternative were to ever become as popular as Netflix used to be, it will then eventually fail for the exact same reasons that Netflix is currently failing, i.e. greed. And then the cycle will repeat, ad infinitum, ad absurdum, ad nauseam.
Which is funny, because that's how Netflix started: as an alternative to cable, due to all the increasingly bullshit stuff that cable was doing.