Technology

I'm sorry, did you say Netflix is going to be pirated aggressively for the few shows that aren't complete slop?

No they won't 🏴‍☠️

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ cmon people, stop making netflix relevant

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.

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

Don't pirate, we're awesome!

Here, watch these ads!

Hey, where are you going?

Enshittification marches on

I was looking to cut down on subscriptions and picked Netflix as an experimental one. I haven't missed it at all. Things like this make me less likely to occasionally reactivate for a couple of months as I was originally planning.

I wonder when they'll see a big enough effect to break their current run of fucking over their customers.

Well piracy is the only way then.

I can't tell from the article what the AI side of this is? Are Netflix offering to make adverts for customslrs using AI? Are they just showing adverts in general from customers, including AI generated ones?

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but I've read the article twice and still don't know 😂

~~plex~~ jellyfin ftw!

Is there a way to poison the well so badly and so irrevocably that corporations won't dare use generative AI for anything? Can we somehow trick these overgrown chatbots to speak ill of their masters in the form of direct-to-stream advertisements?

Bye Netflix, hello plex.

Edit: hello Jellyfin, as helpful users have mentioned the enshitification of plex to me.

And canceled my sub

Haven't had Netflix since the password debacle. Never even missed it. 🏴‍☠️

Not to me, they fucking won't

Ahhhh, man moving away from corps just keeps on giving (or in this case, doesn’t enshitify while proprietary ones do).

If I down vote this does it show my disappointment of netflix or the OP? 🤔

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com Piracy ftw!

Got rid of netflix when they started their ad tier. NEVER going back.

Haha, the kicker is that it's pure greed. With their prices they don't need it and could improve it with what the community wants, but $$$, hey... been away for nearly 2 years now, thought of tipping my toes in again but with that they can f... right off.

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.

Not to me.

One use for AI would be to eliminate all ads. The AI giveth and AI can taketh away. Lol

Jellyfin

Half of new Netflix subscribers opt for the $8 per month option rather than ad-free subscriptions, which start at $18 per month, the company says.

Damn, when did it get so expensive? Assuming that's USD. That's a decent amount more than Disney+, right?

Aside from 🏴‍☠️ there are simply too many legitimate pay streaming options in 2025 for Netflix to think they can do this. This will end like an arrogant urban cowboy being flung off a mechanical bull and I'm all for it.

Hey Netflix, the amount of Ads 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