You're on a .nl instance and complaining about shows being in German or Swedish!!

We've cancelled our Netflix subscription almost a year aggo and back then it was already getting faaaaar too boring.

Good shows that only get one or two seasons:
Oh great, thanks a lot assholes. Now I'm invested in these characters without any closure. <= it was like that all the time. Fuck that, I'm not paying for demos. Or big corpos that suck up to fascism.

We're cancelling this month. I realised I only watch one show. I have acquired the show and put it on jellyfin.

If you use seerr along with the arr stack, you can actually explore all the new releases and back catalogue of the major platforms. Hook it up to usenet and for a couple of bucks a month and a little home server you have everything you need in probably max 10 minutes wait time.

usenet server + usenet provider + an ember subscription all come to less than one streaming service

I cancelled because they made this behavior less straightforward and easy.

Being deaf, I have to use subtitles anyways, so about half of what I watch on Netflix is non-English, and it's been great

I've gotten to the point that I just subscribe to whatever service for like a month of there's something I want to watch.

At the height of the pandemic I had like five services and realized that I was just opening an app, browsing, then opening the next and browsing ad nauseam.

I bought a few DVDs and Blu-rays for my background noise and can go to the library if I get real bored.

‘cause they’ve enshittified.

We went from cable cutting to piracy to streaming services that were relatively inexpensive and ad-free back to services that emulated cable - expensive and full of ads, so guess what’s next?

Oh but they added WWE shit and had it take up so much space I think they thought that I wanted it or something? Just like when they tried getting into mobile games before that.

How long before they start bragging about paying some billions for exclusive sporting access that I also don't gaf about but is extra shitty because the whole reason is to remove choice from those that do care about it, not provide any extra value.

It's getting harder to even find shit worth pirating so... Going outside?

Wait until they make a subscription for that too.

I chose TTRPGs. Outside is still way too scare and full of way too many parking lots

Netflix and D+ inspired me to finally get my arr stack going and now for less than the cost of 1 Netflix subscription I am able to stream anything I want from my remote box. So thanks for that, I wouldn't be here flying my 🏴‍☠️ without their service getting so shitty and expensive that I went well out of my way to set this up and now I love it.

15 years max! I was thinking 5 lol

And at least one of those episodes is filler

The German and Swedish stuff is good.

Dark. Excellent

Girl with the dragon tattoo. Great.

I would argue this with "but what about franchises getting slopped up with content that doesn't fit the original narrative/characterizations?" But then I look at what Disney has done with Star wars and marvel and realize I don't really have leg to stand on.

No idea how many movies or TV shows you consume, but there's enough unseen by me to last me a decade as is.

I paid for a lifetime account to a private usenet server. Less than 1 year of any streaming service.

Going outside is nice.

I picked up gaming again and started to actually play games I bought. Psychonauts is amazing.

Your point?

I’m on a Dutch instance because I’m Dutch. Doesn’t mean I want to see non-english content.

I read really fast, but if I want to read I grab a book (which I do often, I read 100-200 books a year). When I want to watch a movie or show I’m looking for a different experience. Subtitles are annoying because they cover part of the picture, they often spoil jokes and they distract from the actual movie. Dubbed is even worse.

The subtitles are too distracting. They ruin the experience.

After 20 years of achieving virtually no forward progress, they just gave up on trying to optimize for individual users' preferences.

Netflix: here's a giant heap

My friend, I don't want to gainsay, but we are way past that point already.

Or stop removing features to punish the poor.

How are the wanting me to pay 4 extra dollars a month to cast, and making me sit through 4 commercial breaks on a 22 minute show. Fuck them.

Little Cesar's and Arizona are the only companies in the US with any integrity.

Disney is largely responsible for the life plus 70 years rule. And they're still trying to maintain control over steamboat willie!

Little Cesar's and Arizona are the only companies in the US with any integrity

Do you have a moment to hear about our lord and savior Costco?

My kids just watch the same three things over and over, if they're allowed to, anyway.

I replaced my monthly Netflix cost with a DVD player and one trip to a second hand store.

why bother when most series get cancelled only after 1-3 season anyway, and its only 8episodes plus extremely long hiatus times between seasons.

or have miniseries, which plagues all streaming services, at only 8episodes is not that interesting, plus the large amounts of time between seasons. thats why some seasons in some shows seems very Cheaply produced.

streaming is pretty expensive to maintain by a company. its a loss lead when they have shows, jsut to get people to subscribe.

Because they randomly cancel shows for no reason

Do you read many books in English? I don't even notice they are on the screen.

However what i do find distracting is when the dubbing into English and the subtitles don't match, or the subtitles are out of time with the speech.

Is 200+ books a year a lot? If so, yes. I notice them because they are covering part of the picture.

Don't forget the massive cliffhangers every time. It would be fine if a show would run for 2 Seasons if at the end its all neatly packed up. But no.

The OA finishes with them warping to our world and then just stops and this kind of shit.

My laptop is 4:3 so I don't have that problem. Also there is a VLC trick (menu) -> Settings -> (Show All) -> Video (open fold) -> Filters (open fold) -> Cropadd -> Add 75px to the bottom.

Basically I'm recommending not to throw out half a world of culture just because of subtitles.

Got crave TV and CBC gem instead.

Also: pirating like a madman.

How does that help with Netflix on my TV?

There’s still plenty of content to watch left, so no need for any of that anyway.

It doesn't. No problem. You do you, but you are missing out.

its worse bro, my homepage shows an AD right at the top of the home screen now.

And I think.. last year, Netflix hosted one of the sports finals, and the feed kept cutting in and out, it was SO bad.

I only have netflix rn cuz I wanted to see season 3 of 1670(Was mid). Cancelling it soon now, cuz I am over it. Ad on the home screen for fuck sake.

Forcing me to relearn how to fucking read. Hate it.

why bother when you cancel every show after the second season?

And every recommendation category is that same 20 programs in a different order.

It actually was pretty good at steering users towards their preferences in its earlier days.

I don't know, I never found it very good myself?

Netflix had a million-dollar engineering challenge to improve their recommendation algorithm, awarded the prize, then did not implement it. Literally because it was hard.

They were going to run another challenge, then it got scuppered due to privacy concerns. Without violating privacy, it was hard. There was no effort to resurrect the engineering challenge in a way that would accommodate this issue.

Netflix doesn't do a good job, and that's mostly because they don't value the outcome of improved recommendations, given that it is a monumental and non-trivial engineering challenge. And they don't want to.

All of their actions show this.

You can branch out, that should be impossible unless you watch stuff 24/7 and are 40+, use an app like trakt to get shown more stuff you typically don't see. If you use something like stremio, the default view barely shows different content.

I mostly go off recommendations from friends or from reading about stuff online or YouTube shorts and then torrent whatever sounds interesting. The quality of what's getting put out has just gone to shit with a lot of it just being derivative of things that have come before if not just straight remakes or if it is something new the writing is crappy.

I have an infinite backlog, tons of great stuff out there, a lot of great stuff just never got popular enough to be recommended or stopped being talked about once it finished. I recommend stremio + torbox or some other debrid service, you'll see a lot more stuff that isn't popular currently (unlike browsing torrents and yt channels) and it'll all load quickly since it's most likely cached already.

Can't trust reviews, I've seen some 3/10 shows/movies I loved, some 10/10 ones I hated, from critics who I thought had the same taste as me.