Netflix is trying to grow ad revenue quickly.
  • ansiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    38 minutes ago

    Netflix peaked when it was supporting shows like Dark and Mindhunter and drove off the cliff since. My wife will subscribe for a month to watch a new season of a show like You and then cancel it again. That’s versus back in 2017 when I just had the subscription all year.

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    22 hours ago

    Hey Netflix, the amount of people are willing to endure for a paid subscription is ZERO and it will always remain so. In fact even the stupid games advertised on the top of the landing page made me use Netflix less and less, and now that they stopped password sharing I don’t use it at all

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    23 hours ago

    I’ve had Netflix on-and-off since the DVD in the mail days. I tried Amazon Prime for the shipping years ago, when they first started playing with streaming. Those are the only two I’ve had.

    I have neither now, and if it turns out I can’t get the few shows I want to watch through other means, then I just won’t watch anymore. Passive media isn’t especially valuable to me. I have other forms of entertainment, including games, and the old stand-by, books. Outside is fun, too, when the weather isn’t crap.

  • nuko147@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    22 hours ago

    Netflix was canceled even before twitter. It was nice until 3-4 years ago, when the quality of their service started to fall.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    2 days ago

    Either they have great technology, or they have great entertainment,” she said. “Our superpower has always been the fact that we have both.

    Please. Your software is an image carousel and a video player.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Eh to Netflix’s credit, both their backend and frontend are much better than their competition. Much better ux, and streams much more consistently. We pick up a sub for a month here and there. But AI ads will make me never go back.

      • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Lemmy is the king of the disingenuous argument, as though somehow admitting that yes, Netflix is the gold standard for pay-to-stream, it somehow dilutes the argument against AI ads.

        • Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          …it somehow dilutes the argument against AI ads.

          I didn’t think it diluted the arguement. They were just disagreeing with the prior poster. At the end, they even state:

          But AI ads will make me never go back.

          • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            2 days ago

            Yeah, I was agreeing with the person I responded to, and my comment related to the person they were responding to. Obviously this format can leave that a little unclear. Basically, two comments up from mine was this disingenuous argument that Netflix is trash, and that’s just wrong, but it’s an argument I see used about any number of things here on Lemmy, and to me, it dilutes the argument, because you’re clearly coming from this place of bias right out of the gate.

            I just think it’s okay to say a product itself provides a good service, but that they’re fucking it all up by injecting shit into it, to the point that, regardless of how quality the product may be, the injected shit is so repugnant that I would abandon this quality product for it.

    • Limonene@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      Rejecting Netflix fixes things for you and me, but the article says Netflix has 93 million ad-supported subscribers. I’m really worried about the amount of influence advertisers have on our society, and it’s only getting worse. Even if you and I can be above the direct influence of these ads, many people are not, and those people are influencing you and me. This produces a dangerous secondary influence that can reach most of society, and just fills everyone’s mind with lies, for hardly any cost.