I'm all for services making a reasonable profit and being able to fund new shows and such endeavors...

But we're rapidly getting into an environment of "soaking viewers for all we can get out of them" simply to feed the fucking shareholders ever larger payouts.

Thank you Milton Friedman. 🖕

🙄 🤡 🖕

YAHAR!!!!! HOIST THE MAIN SAILS!!!!

They want the old cable tv days back, but worse

This gem might need an update.

“[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,” Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, per the publication.

Amy, I want you to be honest with me, are you an alien.

Because on planet Earth we do not, if fact, pay as much attention to the ads as to the things we're actually interested in. Famously our brains even produce this fascinating effect to spare us from the bullshit you're shoving into our eyeballs.

Netflix will what now? Sorry, I was busy canceling my netflix account.

Kidding, I canceled it ages ago when the $10 version became SD-only with ads.}

Why do we keep paying people like this to enshittify everything?

They show me an ad, and they are out. It is that simple. Luckily, my life does not depend on streaming.

i just subscribe to the netflix tier that serves all streams as torrents

If I pay for a service and get ads, that service is dead to me forever.

94 million people decided $10 a month savings was worth watching ads rather than doing without. Fuck em. They are the reason many things only have an ad supported tier. Pay for stuff or pirate it, but don't use ad supported tiers when you have a choice.

“[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,” Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, per the publication.

In terms of attention, she's either lying or admitting that members barely pay attention to their content.

Yarrr

Between that, price hike, and some weirdly low quality content because you don't use this or that browser, netflix really wants people to stop their subscriptions it seems.

I've gone back to books.

"Millions of former subscribers will cancel their accounts in 2026"

FTFY

Pirating has never felt so good. Normally I'm indifferent to it but now I'm enjoying it.

Is this feature coming to Sonarr/Radar + Jellyfin? /s

So the dead Internet extends to streaming.

Also anyone else interested in just crazy an ai add what will be.

Soon may the Pirateman come,

To bring us movies, games, and... Rum.

Each day brings us closer to either Cyberpunk 2077 or Bladerunner

The sooner people realize that the subscribers are nothing more than super-slow-boiled frogs to them, the better.

ads will continue until subscriptions improve

Soo... the ad income is higher than the energy costs of gen. AI? They lied about the pennies per visit? 😢

Also, 🏴‍☠️

I recently setup my own Jellyfin server with qbittorent search plug-ins and its so easy. Netflix is really playing with fire here cause people will leave when pushed enough as it's becoming so easy to switch. You can just hop on your friends server too

🤮 Glad I deleted my account years ago and use kodi to host my own library

There is no way this doesn’t wind up making an ad that's misleading enough to get Netflix and/or the advertiser in trouble

Well, time to cancel finally I've gotten used to torrenting again anyway

I've cancelled my subscriptions to only subscribe to the platforms owned by our national broadcaster even if there's one of them I don't watch any shows on, fuck those American platforms.