It’s like they are trying to irritate people into canceling their accounts.

Imo, this one might actually be worse than the account sharing and cause people to quit. As soon as you have people messing around with their subscription version, it’s all too easy to just say “nah, I actually don’t want this anymore”.

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    I already dipped. By the time I cancelled I wasn’t using the service enough to justify paying for it monthly, anyways.

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    I like how they keep testing this crap on the Canadian market.

    I dont know if were the best guinea pigs, I mean look at what we pay for telecoms. We’re pretty passive when it comes to being gouged, other countries might not be so potato-like in their response.

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    Lol, so we got people to remove family accounts, paying more because they can’t share anymore. Then people probably downgraded because it’s not worth it more than $10 for one person. And now they’re killing that too, so there’s no reason to use Netflix?

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    I really should thank Netflix for finally motivating me to actually get off my ass and build my home server. After cancelling all of my streaming subscriptions, it really does pay for itself.

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    We left Netflix after I decided I didn’t want to understand their rules.

    “Number” of streams was easy to pay for and made sense. We paid for extra screens, so our parents could have easy access.

    There are too many streaming options and services worth subscribing to these days, and more than any one person could watch so, well, not a problem.

    Do I miss netflix, nope.

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    Just canceled mine when they enforced the no non household sharing. Now sailing with the pirates.

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    Most people I know will be subscribed to one streaming service and switch every few months to get the shows they want. I’m expecting most streaming services to become a lot more “user hostile” as they try to squeeze out every penny.

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    I had actually thought about signing up for the basic plan because it is just me who likes it, but I was put off by the low quality.

    Well - I guess now I’ll be officially sticking to Plex.

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    I get that they’re being greedy, but provided you’re not set on watching one specific show, why pay for Netflix? Lots of cable TV providers are setting up their own services and taking their shows there instead of Netflix. Most of the Netflix originals either don’t last, aren’t even close to being good, or both; I feel like there hasn’t been more than two or three major hits from them a year in awhile (could be wrong though). In the past they had no big competitors so they could charge whatever, now it just seems like way too much.

    (I guess that doesn’t mean the ad-supported tier going away, but who wants to pay and still have to watch ads?)