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Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)

submitted 6 months ago by ForgottenFlux to c/technology

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Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away.

Netflix must realize that it's a huge frustration for people who relied on offline downloads to watch content without internet access: on planes, trains, and campsites, and anywhere else where Wi-Fi is unavailable or unreliable.

There's a small chance that Netflix will change its mind if it gets enough complaints, but the streaming service seems determined to add as many money-making features as possible, while taking away genuinely useful ones.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (3 children)

They've gone full circle at this point: it's like paying for TV channels and piracy is looking really attractive again, even though Netflix was the reason many people stopped doing that initially (I assume)

[–] pelerinli 5 points 6 months ago

To be honest, I like watching SciFi and superhero movies yet cinemas are too expensive in my country. So, my fiance (Netflix) and I (Amazon Prime) bought thsse services and using together.

But guess what:

No HBO in my country, so no DC for me. Yet they are not selling DC to Turkey neither. So no DC movie for me after 2018(?)
Both Netflix and Prime just puts their content, and forget the rest for Turkey. For example I couldn't watch Mad Max: Fury Road one month ago
They are doing some kind of censorship? You cannot watch too bloody, too sexual, too whatever content while there is no legal censorship on internet content. For example I can watch "Barda" ("at pub") on Youtube but not on Prime.

So yes, why I am paying for TV channels wtih ads?

[–] Dicska 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Back then, when I wanted to watch a film, I checked Netflix first, then amazon video. I only reached for other sources if it was unavailable at both. Now there are way too many platforms to pay for, and they are getting way too shitty to pay at all.

There was a time when I was even feeling good going "clean". Now everything is dirtier than I ever imagined.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, not only are there a dozen platforms that you need to search but they all suck. I have seen so many instances where people download videos for a vacation and then they can't be played. I can't even share screenshots to advertise the shows that you are selling to my friends for free!

Funny enough when I have a video file sitting on my computer it just works, all of the time, super fast. And instead of using services that tell me what streaming platform a given show is on it is easier to use a service that tell me the infohash of the file.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Totally agree!

[–] NutWrench 1 points 6 months ago

Yup. Cable TV was amazing back in the 1980s. Almost no ads and great content (I loved "Night Flight" on USA, especially). But it didn't take them more than 10 years to ruin it.