You do not subscribe ,you should use pirate and do not feed these imperialist oligarchs
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If you’re feeling generous, sign up for the cheapest plan and then pirate everything.
Someone already did and is doing :) 😀
The main reason I keep subs for any of it is because we have a Roku TV in the living room and anything more complicated than just pushing the Netflix button is more than my wife is willing to deal with. She already doesn’t like the Google TV box with the same apps on the other TV because she thinks it’s too complicated, but she puts up with it “because you like it”. If I had a way to install Stremio on the Roku, I could probably slowly convince her over to it, but that depends on how often her occasionally obscure TV preferences are already cached by RD.
My elder parent was able to work Stremio + debrid just fine after we set it up.
Plex is just as simple as Netflix, you just have to do the heavy load and setup a server and download them. Not hard, just a little extra work.
To the high seas, me hearties!!
Cancelled last week when I realized that I watch it almost never, the content I did consume was essentially filler, and the price was double what I originally subscribed for. I haven’t picked anything else to replace it yet but I think it’s finally reached the point that they are worse than the competition by a significant enough margin to matter. They really burned a lot of innate advantages. Thank you Mr. Doctorow for the correct terminology to address the situation!
I cancelled for similar reasons years ago. My wife noticed immediately and reinstated the account under her credit card. I guess she likes their brainrot.
I’m so old I remember when Netflix streaming was only $7/month. And you had to use an Xbox 360 for it.
Emby: “17 people in 5 countries are watching your media. Nice.”
Curious how you handle routing to your server/box, do you use something like cloudflare tunnels? Trying to get a seamless option for friends too but with jellyfin
I have a domain name, one of its subdomains uses a clodflared tunnel to send traffic back to the emby server. No port forwarding on my router.
Cloudflared tunnels are pretty easy to set up for this purpose.
So my users just navigate to sub.domain.com.au, and are presented with an emby login screen, and I manage the users in emby. It works on most smart TVs too.
This sounds very doable, will give this a shot. Thanks!
If you have any trouble setting up CloudFlare tunnel, let me know with a PM. They have changed their UI layout AND the name of some of their UI menu items, which is super annoying because the current UI doesn’t match any recent written or video guides, and so now it’s very easy to miss certain important aspects of the setup of the tunnel and mapping the tunnel to a subdomain.
I can at least give examples of what a working config tunnel path looks like and help troubleshoot.
Appreciate that I might take you up on that :) btw do you also use with tailscale or independently?
No, I don’t use tailscale operationally.
I have installed it on one of my servers to try to understand it, but it’s not in active use. One day when I have the time I’ll try to do more with it. I’d prefer to mode away from CloudFlare because I prefer foss where I can, but I’m not enough of a purist to insist on it when there’s something else that’s easier to use, and free.
Sail the high seas, then.
Especially if it’s a great TV show or a movie and you really want to keep it.
the main reasons are: cancelling seasons of good shows after 1,2, or 3 seasons, just to boost subscription numbers.
limiting how much people can watch it on different devices, and increasing prices, with decreasing quality.
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Didn’t they announce they were going to enforce this years ago? That’s around the time I stopped giving them money
This one was always in place, the one they started enforcing a few years ago was the multiple households rule, which was slightly more draconian. I.e I paid for 4 screens, but then they decided the 4 screens all have to be in one physical household. Share it with your mum who lives 100 km away? You crazy?
Incidentally, that’s when I cancelled it. I was ok being limited to 4 viewers at a time (which also cost extra), I usually had 2-3 at the same time, rarely 4. But being limited to one physical location? Fuck that.
yes, but they probably do it in steps, at first you can have only a handful, and not unlimited, and now its 1 person/account/device.
Just one reason their stock price is down. They no longer report subscriber numbers — you can probably guess why. It’s strange to me that a public company can just hide data from investors that might reveal when a company isn’t doing so hot.
It’s also stupid they would clamp down like this on ad-supported plans. Advertisers want eyeballs, and this means less of them. Reminds me of Reddit moving to a log-in only model.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/07/15/with-netflix-down-45-from-its-highs-viewer-engagem/
I will never understand investors. Anyone with half a brain can put two and two together when a company starts hiding anything. Investors have no idea what they’re doing, they just trust the customer will make them money, get angry when they’ve been duped, and will do it again.
Not all investors are in it for the long run. Some just expect a short boost or go short betting on a loss.
In this case, the ads are probably bringing in less per viewer than the service costs, so having non-paying viewers is still a net negative.
Clamping down on this is probably a worse negative in the long run, but investors only care about this quarter.
Considering how many streamers are encouraging people to sign up for the ad-supported plans, I think they’re making more money from the ads. Of course, they’re double-dipping just like the cable companies used to do. Charging for a subscription, and then making even more money by showing you ads. The OP’s screenshot is like how they used to charge for each cable descrambler box in a home. Wanna watch in both the bedroom and the living room? Pay up!
It’s just greed.
Part of it is greed. Part of it is that television and physical media subsidized a lot of streaming’s content and now that money is gone. There has already been a collapse of some types of movies and TV shows because the economics that led to their golden age are no longer there.
Netflix used to get streaming rights for pennies because production companies made their money through other sources. Now those income streams are dead.
the biggest reason is, them cancelling too many shows too soon. after 1-2 season, the show ceases to ecist. 3 if you are lucky and its thier way of forcing its end.
One of the reasons I stopped watching Netflix shows was because all the ones I got invested those were cancelled just after one season.
blood of zeus, sandman(eventhough its mostly finished, it felt like it wash rushed and cheaply made.) castlevania is one of the ones they kept around longer, who knows when nocturne will get renewed? the show isnt as good as the first series, albeit they have some foreshadowing for season 3.
Stranger Things finally ended and the price for no ads went over $20 per month. That’s what made me finally quit.
They aren’t stopping reporting subscriber numbers, what are you talking about? They’re dropping from reporting it twice a year to just once a year. Annual growth is really all that matters after all. What matters far more is revenue, profit, and cash flow - all of which are still reported regularly.
Stock prices falling after earnings calls is basically the norm because no matter how well they go, even beating expectations, some people wanted more - and you can’t ignore the market manipulation by big players who try to manufacture drops so they can increase their position. Spook people to sell and drop the price so they can buy more at a reduced price.
Netflix met or exceeded their targets as they have basically every single time for years. Their revenue grew double digits, their margins are getting healthier, and their viewing hours increased.
Advertisers want eyeballs, and this means less of them. Reminds me of Reddit moving to a log-in only model.
Not sure if you’re being rhetorical, but I’ll answer anyways. The reason Reddit wants you to log in is to better track you, no duh. The reason that makes them more money is because better data means better ad targeting, and better ad targeting can be translated to results like a better click through rate. When a platform has that, they can incentivize more advertisers to spend more money on their platform.
That way, each time they sell an ad, that ad can be more expensive. It’s undeniable that demanding logins will be bad for the number of ads they sell, but if they can sell higher quality ads, they’ll make more money at the end of the day.
This whole thing is the core driver behind privacy being eroded at scale, because ad targeting has proven effective, and so advertisers want to advertise on the platform with the best targeting. So everyone wants to spy on their users the best and build the best targeting.
It’s also easier to control scraping by requiring an account.
To be fair, too many people are using your account. 0 people should be on it.
my thought exactly:)) 1 is already 1 too many
That would be the ideal for Netflix. Everyone subscribes and pays, but no one uses it.
Gee, maybe that’s why it’s so hard to find anything good to watch on Netflix now.
If it works for gyms …
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Ironically, I’ve been finding myself using Netflix again after years (stayed subscribed for the wife and MIL) to watch One Piece, a show about pirates, since I can access it at work and also because they skip both the intro and recap unlike Plex which only skips the intro.
People who live in Germany: don’t. You’ll get caught.
Or just learn to VPN
If youre stupid enough to use torrent without a VPN maybe.
I dont think there is a single case in Germany where a person was punished for downloading. Its always uploads that get you.
I don’t know about torrent downloads, but for “obviously illegal” streaming and IPTV offerings, customers also will get bonked. For example [German]: https://www.bms-rechtsanwaelte.de/wirtschaftsrecht-blog/illegales-iptv-streaming-strafbarkeit-nutzer
Who remembers netflix’s “Love is sharing a password.” tweet?
Love is sharing good torrent trackers.
Or usenet indexer.
Can you love me an invite? :)
Exactly this. I had Netflix for a while and didn’t pirate for like, 5 years. Then they started cranking up the price, dramatically reducing available movies including old movies that I wanna rewatch, and telling me my family is not allowed to use the product I purchased. So fI just stopped and went back to the high seas with a renewed passion for making my own media library as extensive as possible, and giving access to friends, family, anyone remotely trustworthy.
Ya’ll are still paying for this shit? LOL.
I pay for Netflix and share with my sister in laws family and they pay for Hulu and Disney plus. Good trade off imo
None of that is a good trade off when you’re giving money to those shit companies.
I pretty much have every major streaming service and cable. I’m a sucker for tv content
It’s ok if you want to pay and share with others. Some people here are just a bit too extreme.
I pay only for Canadian services, the rest is from the sea, it’s MY way to do it.
Absolutely nothing wrong with that, I used to hit the high seas heavily
Stremio + torrentio addon and Alldebrid. Just 3 bucks a month.
What’s the point of debrid of you have torrentio? It seems to have basically everything.
I’ve never fully saw the value of debred, maybe I’m missing something.
The point is the almost guaranteed speed. With a debrid service I can stream and watch a 4K BluRay remux immediately with Stremio + Torrentio, no waiting, no buffering, no hitches. Sure a new or popular movie will work well without debrid but a lot of times older movies don’t stream well without a debrid especially high bit rate files.
Instead of torrenting on my ISP network or paying for a VPN, I pay for a debrid and they give me a high quality fast link to download without torrenting.
