You’ll have to pay more to go ad-free.

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I hate companies as much as most, but ad supported plans are a nice addition. The only downside, Netflix can remove the free tier at anytime. What free tier some might ask, I heard that there could be an ad free tier coming.

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I’ve been on the ad free free tier since they raised prices and started cancelling the great shows after one season.

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I hate that they do raise prices over time. These companies get tin these contracts for sports and with specific companies that raise their own expense and hurts consumers. That and these companies had always wanted to charge more either way.

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Yeah, no thanks

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I will never pay money to a system that charges it’s users to see ads. I literally won’t even go to a theater anymore.

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i’ve never bought netflix and went to visit some friends who had it. since they sleep until noon i had the morning to kill so i tried the netflix-- reminded me of the old days of flipping through hundreds of tv channels trying to find something to watch and finding nothing. “people pay for this shit?” was the initial thought

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Another really frustrating thing for me is it’s never obvious what language anything is in until you start watching it. Sometimes not until a few minutes in. Even if it’s dubbed or has decent subtitles, some things just don’t translate well to English (usually humor), so there’s a lot of shows I’m interested in watching but I just don’t “get” if that makes sense.

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There is so much fucking nothing on Netflix.

There was something called Car Crash: Who’s Lying on the list the other day, and from the description and image, it genuinely looks like a police training video that accidentally made it’s way onto a mainstream streaming service.

Their documentaries are all utter dogshit as well, designed for people with an IQ of 80.

The only things still going for it are Mike Flanagan’s stuff, 15 seasons of Taskmaster and the odd horror movie that I otherwise wouldn’t have heard of. As good as Jellyfin is, it doesn’t really have much in the way of recommendations.

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It’s because netflix’ strategy has been to use the vast amounts of analytics they have to design shows that are so incredibly specialized and focused on targeting unseen metrics that they are entirely devoid of substance.

Even buying into their logic that one could do that, they essentially overfit the data. Find a trend? More trend more betterer more moneyer. Doesn’t work very well.

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15 seasons of Taskmaster

fwiw, their official channel has uploaded 17 series of TMUK on youtube to date. along with all the three CoCs as well as numerous new year special one-offs, 2 series of TMNZ with the 3rd being released weekly, 1 series of TMAU, and full series of some scandinavian taskmasters.

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Aside from the occasional hit show, the real product is the illusion of choice.

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They phased out their “not gonna suck” plan like 12 years ago.

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