done.

Sure sure. Hahah a fair point.

Yep. It’s def a trend of, take over and then price gouge everyone.

In a word, enshitification. I’m currently on a de-googling journey and it feels so good every service I cut.

Lol all good and fair points.

I just focused on premium because that’s what I had prior to cancelling. So totally just focused on what directly impacted me. I should have included both and called out the removal of ‘basic’ and forcing users to either pay more for standard or accept ads

Frankly, across the board it’s just standard enshitification.

I think my other thought is I don’t think you should have to be rich to be able to stream a higher bitrate. Sure maybe it costs more storage / bandwidth but I don’t think it should be something only rich people can afford.

I’ll turn this into a corporate selling point!

“Hey look, we decreased the price of premium by 17% over a 12 year period. (as compared to our standard plan)”

As kbal pointed out, the standard plan has increased 125% as well. So your original statement really doesn’t track with that.

Yeah, which is even more insane. Probably should have graphed that.

I don’t or at least didn’t read your original comment as “eat the rich”, but I agree. Rereading it I can kind of see the sentiment a bit, but ultimately Netflix 4k isn’t a “rich” kind of thing. Call me crazy but I think their profits show the price increase is just greed. And sure, make it be more than the standard plan, but that doesn’t account for the meteoric price increases.

It’s a banana Michael, how much could it cost…? Ten dollars?

I had family members getting blocked when they were legitimately travelling for work. (Travel nurse) It’s really bad and makes it so hard to use even when you’re paying for it. Which. Is. Insane.

I can assure you, any features they’ve added, have not accounted for what they’ve removed and the price increase.

I think 4k started to get added in 2014. Originally the premium plan was required for 4 screens vs the regular 2 screens.

"Netflix has been on a roll, driven by subscriber growth and price hikes. For the fourth quarter of 2024, the company reported net revenue of $10.2 billion, up from $8.8 billion in the year-ago period, while net income more than doubled to $1.9 billion. Netflix shares have soared 102% over the last 12 months as the company widens the gap with competitors. "

https://m.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/netflix/net-income

I think 4k was always the offering for premium. And yes, multiple screens, but then it became ONLY in the same household, so that isn’t tracked here as well (features removed – or disallowed)

The removal of basic and replacing it with a slightly cheaper ad free supported tier was all done to push people to purchase standard, which I agree, has started to rise at a faster pace recently as well.

Also doesn’t take into account the sharing account purge. I would guess that’s easily a +50% increase if we assume half of everyone using Netflix was sharing an account that then couldn’t. Could be higher.

Could probably base a rough figure for that on subscriber count change after the restrictions were put into place.

I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!

I’m unsure. I use jerboa, maybe it’s that. But search doesn’t really search the content of posts. I.e. how I can google something, include reddit in the search terms, and find a relevant post(s)

Now. Fuck google, but I want to be able to do the equivalent with Lemmy posts.

Discord is the worst. The siloing of tons of information that should be publicly searchable and accessible via a public forum, but instead it’s siloed off into this closed wall with shitty search.

I actually wish Lemmy was better searchable as well. I think Lemmy could be way better and drive adoption if it had a cross instance search engine / indexer.

Oh yeah. And not just big. Like big in a this truck has no usable space kind of big and long. So long.

They put pcp alongside shrooms and LSD. That’s insane.

I plan to recoup the cost in cancelled subscriptions.

Yep. Just ordered 4 12tb hdds for a zfs setup