People complained and were up in arms agains password sharing, but not only they didn't cancel their subscriptions, but folks that were kicked out of the shared accounts also started paying.
When Disney+ announced they were banning password sharing, on the same day I cancelled the account and decided not to give them another cent.
I’ve also held out on paying for YouTube because I think it’s worth closer to $10/mo than the ~$20 it’s priced at
The quality has decreased as creators have to find new and more intrusive ways to make money, and it's simply no longer the primary source of video entertainment for me. I'm fine with paying for content, but YouTube is no longer providing the value it once was.
I’d love to see them test a tier where you get something like 10hrs of ad free content a week for $5/month or something like that - it might get users like myself watching more and this upgrading to an unlimited tier. Audible do something similar and now Spotify are rolling out 20hrs of free audiobooks in their premium tier with the idea that people might upgrade.
edit: that's for the individual plan; 5-member family plan is $23 in the US and I'm not sure whether you can pay for a year in advance.
But I don't have Netflix or Disney+ anymore
- many shows are Netflix only, so you can’t get them on $1-2 DVDs - newer movies and shows are certainly not $1-2 per disc - DVD is at most 480p - buying a server is expensive
In order to save money you are proposing an inferior solution that…costs more money.
We’ll absolutely see a resurgence in piracy due to this.
Netflix also announced it's raising the price for its most expensive streaming service by $2 to $23 per month in the U.S. — a 10% increase — and its lowest-priced, ad-free streaming plan to $12 — another $2 bump. The $15.50 per month price for Netflix's most popular streaming option in the U.S. will remain unchanged
But the last couple years have been pretty brutal with shrinkflation, general inflation, rents/housing, gas, groceries, and other streaming services all lightening the wallet. I'm definitely way more picky now about services arbitrarily raising prices this year than any time before, at least, and I'm in a much better position than a lot of people.
Has the AP (the source of the article) always been this editorialized? I'm not sure how one could be a freeloader when someone is paying for the allotted usage of a subscription plan.
I understand now, Netflix limits the usage to those under 1 roof / IP but previously, they sold subscriptions that allowed N people to use the service under an account at a given time. Seems like that is just people leveraging the service they bought...not "freeloading".
As they do this they have to use the YouTube strategy of “adding enough value” by raising prices to keep from undercutting the ad supported service.
Classic television executive thinking and just God awful user experience.
Netflix is quickly becoming the next Comcast.
