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“[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.
I've gone back to books.
Spent waaay too much on a single volume illustrated edition of the all Earthsea books. My weekend is going to be lit.
I've just been thinking of going back to Earthsea!
Each day brings us closer to either Cyberpunk 2077 or Bladerunner
So the dead Internet extends to streaming.
Also anyone else interested in just crazy an ai add what will be.
Like when they try to blend the the publicity into a stream, by continuing talking but suddenly it's a commercial. Urgh 🤢
It's like people only do these things because they can get paid. And that's just really sad.
Luckily I haven't paid for a streaming service in years.
I won't watch even streaming when it comes to films, series... It's oh so nice to play back that video all by myself.
Is this feature coming to Sonarr/Radar + Jellyfin? /s
They show me an ad, and they are out. It is that simple. Luckily, my life does not depend on streaming.
Haha, already there. I canceled my Netflix a year ago or so after the amount of cheap self produced stuff got too much and they removed more and more older quality content.
Now, whenever I want to stream I sign up for a single streaming service for a month or two - but the time where I was just subscribed all the time is over.
Ah one reason also was the sharing crackdown, I had kept the subscription long term as my kids used it when they were at my place or my ex-wife's. Nowadays it doesn't work anymore as (for example) the TV my son has at the ex-wife's place never is connected via my internet.
With added commercials, less quality etc streaming got less attractive. Hey, nowadays I regularly go to movie theaters, again.
And if things get worse, somewhere I still have my captain's hat and the wooden leg for sailing the seven seas...
"Millions of former subscribers will cancel their accounts in 2026"
FTFY
Sadly I think you're a optimistic with those numbers. It's probably gonna be a few thousand. The numbers can feel skewed if you only look at Lemmy.
I think it'll be somewhere in the middle. Quite a few people have not had to deal with ads in streaming for many years now, if it's suddenly forced it'll piss off a lot
I don't think they're all going to suddenly pirate again, I think many will just switch to other streaming providers.
If they all start doing the shitty ads, we're fucked.
People might be forced to stop paying for these services, at least at their current prices. The recession might force the needed step back from consumerism. If the average person has 4 streaming services, and tightens their bet to "just" 1, that's a 3/4ths reduction in subscribers across the industry.
The shittyfication goes forward...
Cool. Won't affect me, but good to know.
i just subscribe to the netflix tier that serves all streams as torrents
Same here. Best part is that they even have non-Netflix media in that tier. Love it.
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.
This gem might need an update.
I'm kinda proud of myself, that I skipped Netflix and never took off my pirate hat.
I never took off my pirates hat but I have had a netflix account for about a year...
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It wasn't my account. One of my kids friends signed in to their profile on my TV so I used it every now and again until the password sharing option was taken away.
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
While I am in the same boat as you, you severely overestimate the tech-affinity of the average Netflix user.
Pirating content safely, setting up a media server for it, share it with other people... it is all possible, there is good documentation out there. But aside from having the drive to do this, you also need to invest time to keep it running and maintain it.
The average person out there is happy to pay Netflix money so they don't need to do that.
Edit: add to that also the fact that it is technically illegal in many countries. This is probably also a deterrent for the average person.
