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I already cancelled my account. Netflix is too expensive already. Why would I pay more?

And the enshittification continues..

$20/month for shit content. Dead to me.

There you go biting the hand that feeds you again

Wait, so their excuse for hiking prices before was that they were losing money because people were sharing their accounts, so they "had to" hike the prices for those who subscribed to "compensate" for that. Now that they succeeded in their crackdown on password-sharing, which means more subscribers in theory, they figured that they still need to hike prices again? Someone please show me the logic here?

Netflix forced to raise prices due to thinking of bigger number. You can really apply this to most things lately.

Netflix, if you're paying any attention here, there will be no raising prices to drive me to the ad tier. Either the ad free version is worth it or I'll continue my life without Netflix. I'll never go back to the cable ad experience.

Didn't they just raise prices "due to the writers strike"?

if they need to raise rates this much this often they are crap at forecasting and or (more likely) they are just full of shit and are just making up excuses to generate revenue after seeing how many people tolerated the password crackdown.

Tighten the straps, then tighten the screws. Repeat.

Does it seem like all business models are the same nowadays?

Pretty happy i dumped these guys. Now every time Netflix News hits i get to revel in my decision instead of being anger at being fleeced.

Piracy has only gotten easier so...

I am so surprised about this, who could have seen that coming /s

I'm ready to cancel. Their programming has been getting worse over time anyway.

People let them get the tip in, is it any surprise that they are going balls deep now?

Say it ain't so! Who could have known?

I've been a Netflix subscriber for a long time. The ease of use, the broad catalog of weird foreign films and shows, and the kid-friendly content have kept me on board after ditching Hulu, Disney+, and pretty much every other streaming service. And I have the disposable income to make the convenience worth it, even though I'm fully capable of, shall we say, sailing the high seas.

If they do this, I'm dropping Netflix. It's just not worth it anymore.

Netflix should take the departure of people like me as a canary in the coal mine. If I leave, then other long-term, formerly-happy customers will depart, too. This will be the start of a death spiral.

May as well make it 100 per month. Bunch of greedy fucks 🤡

Netflix acting like they got content worth paying any amount of money for 🤣

How has HBO been consistently $15 a month for decades it seems, and now suddenly this model requires everyone to hike their prices to hell and back? I think I would be willing to believe that $15/mo is the magic number, except that everyone is rocketing past that now. Now it's just garbage corporations turning a quick buck for executives and shareholders, as subscribers we aren't getting any more for our money - there's no feature release or massive influx of content. What a shit system we have.

Mullvad VPN is 5 bucks a month

There is little reason to keep any streaming service for more than a month per year. Sub, binge, cancel, move on.

There's not enough worthwhile content on any of them to maintain an ongoing subscription.

chuckles in not paying and still accessing the same content

I don't know why, but I'm still able to use my parents' Netflix account. Maybe it's because I turned off automatic updates on my TV before the crackdown started.

I think they're overestimating their demand. I like them less now, and they may raise prices again? 🤔

I think they are lying about getting more subscribers.. they lost more than they gained.. now they need to reis the cost because of the loses

So I have to check because I haven't noticed this have, they actually implemented this crackdown for everyone everywhere, because I'm successfully sharing my Netflix password with my parents and nothing seems to have happened yet.

The original plan was to keep going with Netflix until they actually shut down the account because I'm only really maintaining it for my parents, but Netflix have ruined it by not doing anything.

I cancelled in May. I don’t even miss it, lol

Urgh. The only people in our house who watch it are the kids for cake based reality shows and Lego animation. So as soon as they raise the prices it's getting cancelled.

NordVPN was $2.5 / month for a 2 year subs.

I was about to cancel my Netflix when I saw that I’m grandfathered into $10/month for ad-free. The only thing I find worth watching there are K-Dramas these days and that’s roughly the cost of a Viki Rakuten account, so I’ve decided to keep it…for now.

The second anything requires me to change from my current sub, that’s a wrap.