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Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete (adguard.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Netflix, once a pioneer of ad-free viewing that offered a break from traditional TV norms, is now contemplating launching free ad-supported versions of its service in markets like Europe and Asia, Bloomberg reported.

The plans to offer a free ad-supported tier, albeit in select markets, suggests that pivot towards monetizing user data, in other words — making users and not the extensive library of award-winning shows a product, might be well in the pipeline.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I just wish they could bundle all the subscriptions into packages or bundles and I could watch the shows at pre-determined times.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stop it. Executives don't understand sarcasm and you've doomed us all!

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago

It's okay.

Executives got were they are by being smart and making good decisions, not by listening to idiots on the internet.

[–] jubilationtcornpone 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They could even provide an electronic box (for a nominal fee, or course) that shows me a menu of all the shows and movies that are available and what times they are going to play. That way I wouldn't have to search through a bunch of streaming services. It could all just be in one place.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

Why not sell a book that has that information at grocery stores?

[–] CaptDust 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they could add some kind of auto scrolling view that informs what is playing at those times? That'd be handy, sometimes I can't find anything to watch.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

I'd probably end up watching that more than I watch the shows.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Cool thing about this is they could assemble these bundles into parallel live streams we could simply flick between to find what we prefer to watch. If they run into a problem of people flicking away when ads run then just align the ads to run at the same time on each “channel” if I can call them that ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They could bundle in my idea of having a telephone in your house, not a cell phone more like a land phone