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I only have Netflix left and that is because my daughter loves her storybots. Once she has enough of them, it's going away.
I spent $0 and use free streaming instead. Pluto.tv, Tubi, Roku, and YouTube have plenty of shit to watch, not to mention other options. I had been a Netflix and Prime subscriber from the beginning (like, back when Netflix only shipped DVDs) but both companies kept getting shittier and charging more so I ditched them.
If this is true, then somebody is already hurting.
Apparently price hikes did not hurt netflix though, so presumably peasants are cutting other merchants.
A small W but good to see that people denying these parasites profit.
If only more people would be more willing to sail the high seas to deny them all of the profit.
it's a service issue and some people still can't turn on a PC much less set up usenet.
There will always be a market for install app and gib card details plz.
Spotify was the only service I had. Lost my job, cut back. Thought I'd be fine with some ads. Not like THAT I wasn't.
Thankfully I downloaded all my music first. Been too lazy to find a FOSS alternative to play it all.
I have Prime (for delivery savings) and still steal the shit they play. If I like it, I keep it. If not, I delete it. Backed up onsite and offsite. Fuck 'em. $100/yr. to Google gets me plenty of storage.
LOL, nothing new to me. I'm in an amazing, high-tech version of 1999. Fuck it. I'm stealing it. Again.
Can confirm. Got rid of everything this year except the YouTube Premium family plan. It gives us all the music of Spotify, tons of free movies and TV shows YouTube offers for streaming without ads, and of course all other YouTube videos without ads. You also get to play YouTube videos with your phone off, which is nice if you just want to go to sleep listening to something. And you get to add five different people, so we have me, my wife, my daughter and both mothers-in-law on the same plan. It's been really cost-effective. We're paying a fraction of what we paid before with a similar level of professional content that I actually care about watching (YouTube doesn't make most of the shows and movies they offer, so they tend to be ones they think people already like).
For me, the main issue is the quality of content.
I have access to several streaming services, although all of them I pay for as part of some bundle where the streaming service isn’t my main motivator for subscribing. Netflix is bundled with my cell phone plan, Prime I use for delivery, Apple TV+ which is bundled with Apple One I use for news, music, and HomeKit secure video, and lastly HBO Max that I get with my cable subscription. I also ended up with one year of Hulu for free, but I forget where that came from.
I’d have no concern giving all of them up because I pay for a Usenet account. Combined with Radarr and Plex I have access to anything I want to watch.
Despite all this content, scrolling through my activity in Plex I haven’t watched a single movie released in 2024 since May when I watched the Dune: Part Two.
I don’t think people are motivated to subscribe to a service where the subscription doesn’t get you much of anything new. You might as well go to Goodwill and pick up some used DVDs and Blue-rays.
You had me at Usenet 😎
Usenet for me as well and my 32.7 TB NAS.
Not fatigue but service issue.
we have prime but streaming is not the primary reason although its a nice bonus basically. Mainly because of my wife though. Left to myself I would likely drop it.
Anecdotally Netflix is the best. Hulu, Peacock, Paramount, Disney and HBO. Are okay but feel like late 90s cable with a couple of good shows each month. We get these services when there's deal but cancel after it's over.
