why bother when you cancel every show after the second season?
And every recommendation category is that same 20 programs in a different order.
Got crave TV and CBC gem instead.
Also: pirating like a madman.
Because they randomly cancel shows for no reason
why bother when most series get cancelled only after 1-3 season anyway, and its only 8episodes plus extremely long hiatus times between seasons.
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.
‘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?
It's getting harder to even find shit worth pirating so... Going outside?
Forcing me to relearn how to fucking read. Hate it.
Going outside is nice.
I picked up gaming again and started to actually play games I bought. Psychonauts is amazing.
I chose TTRPGs. Outside is still way too scare and full of way too many parking lots
No idea how many movies or TV shows you consume, but there's enough unseen by me to last me a decade as is.
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.
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.
Hard to get invested when they're all 6 episode seasons, 2+ year breaks, and canceled after 2 or 3 seasons.
Fuck Netflix. Capitalist hell machine.
We could have free streaming via public library systems, or something else that's not a profit driven malice, but this is the bad place.
We need to revisit copyright laws. Life of the author plus 70 years just encourages people to make money off work they had nothing to do with. 15 years then free domain.
15 years then free domain.
That's what I always say. Weirdly, a lot of people who don't have anything copyrighted themselves argue for longer copyright.
Disney is largely responsible for the life plus 70 years rule. And they're still trying to maintain control over steamboat willie!
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.
15 years max! I was thinking 5 lol
I finally canceled my Netflix in favor of going full Plex. They upped their subscription price for the last time and I was sick of it.
I cancelled and went Jellyfin recently. High-five friend! It was the price hike and reality slop for me.
Maybe if they make Three Body Problem S2, 4 episodes, instead of 8, it will solve it. Or they could cancel Kaos again, or try running a washed up comedian, Im sure that will increase engagement. Actually, I think I want an Ad for my paid service, every 15 seconds. yeah. do that.
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.
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.
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.
Well yeah. You open the app and they just try get you to watch whatever they want you to watch. I want to watch what I want me to watch.
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
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.
Is netflix out of touch?
No, it's the customers who are wrong.
Fuck Netflix and its practice of cancelling shows at their second season. May it crash and burn when the AI market turns.
Because every time you open it, it's an assault on the senses. There's no sense of discovery.
I go to netflix looking for particular titles, and watching them. I'm not browsing around it or anything.
I cancelled because they made this behavior less straightforward and easy.
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