yeah right BBC ,who told you that anyway ?
i just want to point out that the claims in this article are from Netflix ,so take them with a grain of salt
they are in their official quarterly report and not in some press release though aren’t they?
if they lie on that it could have some bad consequences
They also stated
While the company added subscribers, it said average revenue per member fell 3% from a year earlier. That was partly because many of the new sign-ups came in countries where Netflix charges lower prices.
Wonder how many cancelled?
Probably more than they’d like you to know
While I’m not particularly happy about the change it’s not password sharing being banned that will eventually get me off Netflix. For now what keeps the sub going is their good and varied kids show selection with a lot of edutainment. Something I feel the others desperately lack. And any parent who has ever tried sailing the seas instead of paying knows how much of a pain in the ass it is to find good kids content and enough of it to guarantee you have something available when it’s desperately needed to make the day work. Especially when your mother tongue isn’t English. And YouTube is mind cancer for kids in my firm opinion; if you don’t sit and watch with your kids which defeats the purpose of screens as a tool for when you need to cook, clean and work.
The people who shared our sub were mostly family that when we started sharing were students without the means to reasonably pay for it themselves but now they have jobs and some even kids so our family has gone from 1 sub to 3 that I know of.
i totally agree that YouTube is mind cancer for kids. it is like cigarettes it’s damaging to the brain and kids should not consume it until they are older and even then one shall not consume it at all from the start for his own good
https://archive.org/details/vhskids has all our old shows if you want them to see what you grew up with :) It should also have all the old disney shorts which became public domain.
Same here. My children, mainly my daughter, use Netflix MUCH more than my wife and I. So the “just pirate the stuff” doesn´t really apply. If I want to see a specific movie or series, sure. But my kids don´t even watch with the intention of finishing a series or whatever. They browse and watch what catches their eye. That can´t be easily done with pirated stuff. And for me and my wife, it´s kinda similar. We don´t have the time or interrest to watch that many movies. Most of the time, we have like an hour to spare, we plop down on the couch, browse through what new cooking or duocumentaries there are and just watch something.
Now, at the moment, we still use a friends account. Seems like the “Kids” profile still works and on mobile everything still works fine. But as soon as that´s over, I can´t promise that I won´t have to get my own account…as much as it saddens me.
Why not put some kids cartoon channels on the TV?
TV? Like IPTV you mean? Haven’t had regular TV since moving out two decades ago. I could but naturally my kids have all already experienced the “select what you want to watch” era already so putting that genie back is just unnecessary conflict and borderline cruel. And IPTV services also cost money unless you go the free piracy route but then reliability goes out the window in my experience.
I’d just let my kids play with bugs/friends outside then tbh over paying for netflix
Of course they do that as well, but a day is long and I live far out in the woods, nearest friend is at least 5 min by car and they’re too young to bike there alone.
Plus what do you think kids these days talk about with their friend? Hell even I that grew up with cable TV spent most time with my friends talking about and playing out our favorite shows. At that age.
Wdym the nearest friend is far, the bugs on the trees are literally right there! They’re friends too.
Tho good point on the last part. Indeed even as a kid if we weren’t strategizing about how to best drown some ants we were talking about Dragonball Z or Gormiti.
Second-hand and charity shop DVDs are your friends here
Sure for just the content aspect absolutely. But it won’t help them be up to date on the current Pokemon season etc. which will make it harder to be part of the schoolyard small talk.
When they told me I won’t be able to protect my ip address by asserting I was no longer allowed to have a vpn I quit Netflix
I really don’t understand that tech. If you have wireguard on your machine, it shouldn’t be able to leak your IP address in theory. Do they rootkit your PC or some shit?
expected, but not a sustainable growth, there is a finite number of conversions here.
I’ve cancelled but only because very few shows are interesting/ worth watching.
I hate these head lines. It is too early to know if this has an actual impact of subs. Since some might still have a free trial and might cancel after or after a few months of paying.
I’m not particularly surprised. I think a lot of people are using it for free because they can.
They still value Netflix, but why pay for it if you don’t have to.
For some reason I’ve not been kicked off my parents account, but if I were kicked off, I’d subscribe.
why would you bother subscribing?
I’m torn between both sides of this argument. If I lost access to Netflix I wouldn’t be too bothered. But, I also understand that other people see the value in it and would be happy to subscribe if they lost access to an account that was shared with them.
What does Netflix even do beyond gatekeeping? I’m sure there are better ways to discover movies and TV shows
Well I’m not in the states so it has all the shows my wife and I typically binge and leave on in the background while we work.
- Star Trek
- friends
- the office
- modern family
- big bang
- other stuff she watches like cooking shows.
Most of this could be saved to a server and streamed, but Netflix is also dirt cheap in the country where I live. Maybe like $3/month or something like that.
I figure the cost of streaming is less than what I pay in electricity for my home server, so I can just turn that off when not in use to save power.
Idk. This shit is why I decided to get into piracy rather than paying so much to a stupid corporation.
I don’t want to reward their shit behaviour, if anything because if it works others will follow suit and soon enough you will have to do this shit for all subscriptions.
This is good news. Means they’ll leave us alone.
that’s another way to look at it
