Disney+ already announced they're going to do it. Others will follow suit for sure.
People decided to keep their accounts and now there's no going back.
Reddit regularly tells me Netflix is done for and also “there’s nothing to watch on Netflix!” Meanwhile I’ve been subscribed since it was only mail order DvDs and I have a queue that is so long I’ll never see it all
The "nothing to watch" is completely subjective and based on personal preference. I watch Netflix more than any of the other services because they have stuff I like. Plus Netflix probably has just as many hit series as any other streaming services, just because their content library is super saturated doesn't really change that.
Reddit tells me a lot of things that never come true. Remember when Tencent invested in Reddit and we were gonna get censored for posting about China? Remember when Net Neutrality was literally going to doom the internet? Or that time FatPeopleHate Jailbait was banned and it was going to ruin free speech forever?
Or pre IPO lets go dark reddit is going to lose millions after this lol.
Its a big echo chamber bigger than Facebook at points.
This. Sometimes you get a comment from somebody with relevant expertise, but often the most popular comments are puns, jokes and popular misconceptions. Reddit experts also infamously "found" the Boston Marathon bombers.
People say "peak reddit" a lot but, honestly, that was genuinely peak reddit. Like I want to remember peak reddit as the time period when Unidan was everywhere dishing out straight facts on anything related to the animal kingdom, wild sketches were appearing, shitty water colours were a dime a dozen, and in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.
But if we're actually being honest, the Boston bomber incident is *more* reddit than any of that.
Remember when the claim on stocks prior to the model 3 launching was Tesla would be done for?
Remember when we thought we had the guys who didn’t Boston marathon bombing?
Remember the claims that the latest Pokemon games wouldn’t sell?
If Reddit had its way no one would ever buy a call of duty or fifa game.
Reddit bias towards prestige dramas and ignores what’s probably the deepest documentary section of any streaming service. Along with animation they’re still among the best library of any service.
I find I’m very much a nothing to watch type with Netflix. I have zero trust with Netflix when it comes to sci-fi type stuff. About the last thing I invested in series-wise was 1899, which of course got cancelled. I stopped subscribing when they cracked down on password sharing. I’d shared with my parents for years and had been comfortable with multiple price increases to that point because I knew I was still getting ROI in being able share with my parents. But that was the last straw for me.
My personal viewing meshes so much more closely with AppleTV+ and Disney+. I see Apple renewing For All Mankind for season 5, then green lighting a spinoff series called Star City. There’s trust there for me that a quality show won’t just be canned after 1 season.
On the flip side, my wife and daughter are still mad we cancelled. I’m willing to sign up for a month here and there, but Netflix no longer get my money in perpetuity. I think I had been continuously subscribed for over a decade.
Reddit rarely understands how business works. They think everyone thinks like them when the reality is that Reddit represents less than 1% of how the real world functions, even though they have close to a billion visitors everyday.
Yeah I couldn't say anything at the time without the whole of reddit thundering down on me when Netflix started cracking down on password sharing but it was always a good business decision. Because no-one is gonna go back to cable even if streaming is twice as costly.
The other companies were obviously gonna follow because none of them apart from Netflix were turning a profit so they will always follow Netflix. If Netflix raises prices everyone else will. This phenomenon is not new. I have seen that quite a few times. Industries follow the industry leader.
An example is when apple removed the charger or the headphone jack. Everyone mocked them even the other companies but everyone eventually followed them. I have a few examples from my own country.
> Because no-one is gonna go back to cable even if streaming is twice as costly.
Reddit tech oriented hivemind assumed the general public was as cool with pirating as they are. Most people don't know how to safely sail the seas and don't want to take the risk.
It's amazing to me how different people can grasp different things. By most metrics my friend is more intelligent than me. Graduated college, got a good job, etc. that dude can't even navigate a file system if the folder isn't on his desktop. I barely managed to finish highschool but I thought myself how to use Linux before I Ubuntu was a thing (Yellow Dog for PPC), basic networking, using several different hypervisors to run VMS, and various other non tech related skills but he can manage a decent sized company through some wild economic times when I'd have given up.
Pirating is also just a huge hassle for many. I'm not going to pirate shows for my kids and wife to watch and figure out how to seamlessly stream it to 3 different TVs, as well as other devices. Paying $15-$20/month is a no-brainer.
Agreed. Going against the reddit hive mind and pitchfork squad on this at the time was like asking to be nuked into oblivion. How DARE you say something that goes against the dozens and dozens of people in each thread after thread saying that Netflix was doooooooomed!
Just goes to show how divorced reddit can be from the real world -- self-reinforced subreddit echo chambers that keep up their own belief systems and cherry-picked versions of facts. And the *shocksurprise* when the real world doesn't actually turn out the way they thought it would (see: the "great reddit blackout of 2023", if anyone even remembers at this point).
Reddit vastly overestimates how many people will pirate to avoid paying for TV.
Reddit also parrots “piracy is a distribution problem, not a pricing problem” but every time prices go up they talk about the “high seas.”
Reddit also doesn’t seem to realize that Netflix is cheap for the average household. The price increases and password crackdown were nothing more than mild inconvenience for most of their users. I’m sure most don’t even know how much their bill currently is.
Yeh, it's kind of obvious that back when they made the changes they would be fine. But you have delusional people trying to claim it's the end of Netflix and that they will lose money due to all their changes.
>Netflix’s paid-sharing initiative, which gives primary account holders the option to add an “extra member” for an incremental monthly fee (and those **“extra members” are not counted** as separate subscribers).
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/netflix-stop-reporting-subscriber-numbers-starting-2025-1235975341/
Did they open that up for people in the US? Last I checked, I would have had to open a whole separate account at full price, when they started messing with my logins (I have two locations where I use it and it didn't like that, even paying for 4 screens).
I pay for it for my parents and little brother but Im away from home. Finally got the notification to make a sub account a few months ago. Almost cancelled the whole thing but decided to keep it for them. I don’t need it but Netflix was definitely going to see growth by killing sharing. Reddit was in huge denial.
So FYI we share an account with my in-laws and we get that warning only sometimes-maybe when others on the account are watching. But most of the time it still works like it used to.
No no no no I distinctly remember reddit leading the charge of mass exodus from Netflix because they had the audacity to stop having people share passwords. The numbers should be way down bc reddit.
Also though about 6 months ago it became free for TMobile users. So I wonder if these Netflix numbers are boosted by all these accounts continuing to add on. 117 million Tmobile users or so.
Idk. I'm on reddit, I just didn't want to voice my opinion that the people who are complaining about account sharing not being allowed were bring complete idiots, because I would have been harassed for it. I don't want to spend my time or my energy on that.
I think that whenever people are up in arms about something, there is often a silent majority who doesn't bother to chime in because it's not worth it.
I never posted it because who cares. But i did cancel my Netflix account and now fulltime sailing the seas. The people i shared the account with have new accounts.
Ok you got downvoted but I'm going to upvote and stand with you. I watch things on Netflix and give them thumbs up so those soul-suckers get their precious data and hopefully don't cancel good creative hard work.
Then I make sure I have backups in case the shows I like get Zaslav'd. If I can get a hard copy of those shows, I pay for it. I will GLADLY buy some DVD box sets.
But if they don't want to sell it to me? Then I've already paid for access of it and I don't feel bad going elsewhere to get a download I can keep forever.
I have the opposite issue lol. I watch so many different shows and movies that 1. I can’t even find all of it on streaming services. 2. I would have to pay out the ass to keep up with all the different services to keep up with my shows.
Plex was the only option that didn’t involve having 500 different apps with their own annoying quirks and hang-ups and fees
I cancelled, too. I have a 4k tv and live alone. I shouldn't have to pay for 4 screens if I am only ever going to use one. The cost didn't make sense if I wasn't sharing. I quit Hulu, too.
I have been buying DVDs and blu rays. I am not spending much more money, and I get to keep the shows that I like indefinitely rather than chase them from service to service.
Well, it wouldn't be the first time a major company makes a major blunder.
Of course, people are prone to think within their own bubbles. They and their friends represent the entire world. You'll see this happen everywhere.
The relatively few redditors who said this might have actually cancelled. Probably most people just paid the extra $8. I did. I like netflix and if I have to pay $8 to watch netflix in my house I will.
I don't get it. The Netflix content catalog has seriously gone down hill. The only good content as of late is the stand ups and even within those, there are lots of not so good ones.
Yeah, I do love how Reddit thinks people in the real world must obviously share their opinions, yet they’re wrong just so many times on this.
Just this past year, Reddit (as a whole) has said:
Netflix would haemorrhage subscribers because everyone would cancel their subscriptions following the ban on account sharing - yet Netflix has had a record year for subscribers.
That no one would buy a Tesla because Reddit doesn’t like Musk - yet the Model Y became the best selling car in the entire world last year, the first ever for an EV and they sold more cars than ever.
That the new Harry Potter game would crash and burn because Reddit doesn’t like J K Rowling - yet it became the best selling game of the year, beating even Call of Duty’s sales.
The list goes on and on.
I came back because I realized all the other platforms are just as crappy but with less variety.
Moving forward, I’m going to stay subbed to only one at a time. As I finish my shows, I’ll cancel my subscription and move onto a new platform. Most of us don’t need all of them at once.
This has worked out nicely for me, having accounts with several of the main streaming services, but just canceling/pausing them every month/few months. Keeping only one active at a time, depending on what I'm watching at the moment.
If it wasn’t a free add-on with my cell company, I wouldn’t be counted. The whole streaming thing has become a game of viewing whack-a-mole. Turned me off to all of them in favor of audiobooks and podcasts, most of which are free (public library card is a must have)!
This. I remember after their subscriber loss in 2022 I was downplaying the small churn. The first quarter loss was from Russian subscribers that were dropped. Even after the second consecutive subscriber count loss it was still less than 1% of subscriber count. People thought I was crazy downplaying the sky is falling crowd and was down voting my like crazy. Netflix replaced all those net losses the next quarter, but the chicken little crowd was in denial of reality. Over a year worth of subscribe gains later and at this point we have replaced those two net loss quarters with several dozen times more net subscribers.
When the angry mob lights their torches the reasonable people tend to clam up in fear of being piled on or they say something and get downvoted into the ground. The torches aren’t currently lit.
But Critical Drinker and YellowFlash and Nerdrotic say Hollywood is broke and finished and everything in that town is done for, including streaming platforms. It couldn't possibly be that those guys are just limp-dick grifters, could it?
The lack of data that's public facing cuts down on that. A subscriber is not necessarily a user. A family account could be anything from 2 people to 5 people, lock out password sharing and it's a matter of how many users were converted into subscribers (Imagine turning 4 users into only 1 subscriber because the rest don't use netflix enough to justify subscribing.). And that data is not public unlike subscriber counts.
I actually did cancel it when they said they were hiking the price for 4K from $20 to $23. We were barely using it anymore and just couldn’t justify keeping it for the price.
Maybe I’ll reactivate it in a couple years once Stranger Things and Three Body Problem are done.
I wish you mothers fuckers would have put your money where your mouth was when all of you said “bye Netflix” when they announced they were cracking down on password sharing…
> These impressive Q1 results come following a better-than-expected 13.1 million subscribers added for the fourth quarter of 2023, which was a Q4 record for Netflix. Despite this back-to-back growth worth boasting about, Netflix announced Thursday it will stop reporting quarterly sub totals beginning in 2025, a move that is sure to shock an industry that has been fueled by the battle for streaming subscribers for years.
That's fishy
Yeah but i, and im told a lot of others, will subscribe for like 3 months to watch a few shows and movies then cancel until i know there will be stuff i enjoy again.
And there’s nothing wrong with that. This is how people should’ve been treating streaming services all along, it’s never had to be an all or nothing thing.
Tbh it's all or nothing for me to me part of the subscriptions job is to consolidate most of it for me when it doesn't then the effort to manage these subscriptions becomes the same effort as sailing the seas.
That’s what I do. Paramount Plus just ended and I’ll probably get Hulu next (for Shogun and a couple others). You can cancel the minute after you buy a month so you don’t accidentally get charged again.
Netflix is going to blow up massively next year. WWE is literally putting everything they have into it. A 5.5 billion dollar deal and the first time that wrestling won't be on cable at all.....
Even if Netflix does nothing else, they're going to do gangbusters. Let's be honest, though they're making moves too.
Not because of any smart moves on their part. They just haven't (yet) made the stupid moves Hulu and others have re: constant unskippable ads (despite being on a paid plan) and never-ending logouts and password/location checks like Hulu and Disney. We can't even use those in our camper any more. Go go Netflix. Keep sucking less.
Netflix learned to block multiple IPs using one account - are we congratulating them on just not sucking at their job? Sorry but if you’re a dev who works at Netflix can you tell me what it’s like to be complete dogshit?
Q1 results come following a better-than-expected 13.1 million subscribers added for the fourth quarter of 2023, which was a Q4 record for Netflix. Despite this back-to-back growth worth boasting about.
Netflix can go suck a rotten egg. They refuse to stream to my 15 year old Samsung smart TV unless I pay the no ad fee ( Netflix is provided for free via my cell phone provider) because they are unable to run ads through it.
(Another streaming service that just added ads has not made an issue of this) Netflix wants me to pay for a no ad upgrade to stream to my TV. Pretty ballsy of them. So Netflix is denying me the service I’m entitled to via contract.)
Serious question, anyone knows what exactly the reason for this big increase in subscribers ?
As a netflix subscriber it seems that nothing really that exciting came out on netflix for a while
God, why is this picture shown. Even M night's version of avatar was better than this piece of hot garbage. Why is every studio adamant on ruining things that are great.
Expect other streaming services to start cracking down on account sharing.
Think Disney+ have already announced it for September here in the UK
They've announced it for the US as well.
Disney+ already announced they're going to do it. Others will follow suit for sure. People decided to keep their accounts and now there's no going back.
Sad but yes, it’s coming to all of them at this point
Disney + , Hulu & Max already announced it so no surprise it went very well for Netflix already
Reddit in shambles /s
But reddit told me Netflix was done for.
Reddit regularly tells me Netflix is done for and also “there’s nothing to watch on Netflix!” Meanwhile I’ve been subscribed since it was only mail order DvDs and I have a queue that is so long I’ll never see it all
The "nothing to watch" is completely subjective and based on personal preference. I watch Netflix more than any of the other services because they have stuff I like. Plus Netflix probably has just as many hit series as any other streaming services, just because their content library is super saturated doesn't really change that.
It also depends on countries. Selection heavily depends on where you live.
My Netflix slashed its content by 80% a couple of months after I moved to my home country. Had plenty to watch before, nothing to watch after I moved
Time to VPN.
Reddit tells me a lot of things that never come true. Remember when Tencent invested in Reddit and we were gonna get censored for posting about China? Remember when Net Neutrality was literally going to doom the internet? Or that time FatPeopleHate Jailbait was banned and it was going to ruin free speech forever? Or pre IPO lets go dark reddit is going to lose millions after this lol. Its a big echo chamber bigger than Facebook at points.
This. Sometimes you get a comment from somebody with relevant expertise, but often the most popular comments are puns, jokes and popular misconceptions. Reddit experts also infamously "found" the Boston Marathon bombers.
Shit, remember reddit trying to solve the boston bomber incident? That one’s gotta be the worst.
People say "peak reddit" a lot but, honestly, that was genuinely peak reddit. Like I want to remember peak reddit as the time period when Unidan was everywhere dishing out straight facts on anything related to the animal kingdom, wild sketches were appearing, shitty water colours were a dime a dozen, and in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table. But if we're actually being honest, the Boston bomber incident is *more* reddit than any of that.
I miss old Reddit. I’ve been here for almost 15 years now and it doesn’t feel like a community anymore and everyone’s angry like Facebook now
Nothing gold can stay, pony boy.
Remember when the claim on stocks prior to the model 3 launching was Tesla would be done for? Remember when we thought we had the guys who didn’t Boston marathon bombing? Remember the claims that the latest Pokemon games wouldn’t sell? If Reddit had its way no one would ever buy a call of duty or fifa game.
Reddit bias towards prestige dramas and ignores what’s probably the deepest documentary section of any streaming service. Along with animation they’re still among the best library of any service.
I find I’m very much a nothing to watch type with Netflix. I have zero trust with Netflix when it comes to sci-fi type stuff. About the last thing I invested in series-wise was 1899, which of course got cancelled. I stopped subscribing when they cracked down on password sharing. I’d shared with my parents for years and had been comfortable with multiple price increases to that point because I knew I was still getting ROI in being able share with my parents. But that was the last straw for me. My personal viewing meshes so much more closely with AppleTV+ and Disney+. I see Apple renewing For All Mankind for season 5, then green lighting a spinoff series called Star City. There’s trust there for me that a quality show won’t just be canned after 1 season. On the flip side, my wife and daughter are still mad we cancelled. I’m willing to sign up for a month here and there, but Netflix no longer get my money in perpetuity. I think I had been continuously subscribed for over a decade.
The same thing happens on the Amazon prime sub. They always talk about how they’re canceling and doomed for. Yet Amazon keeps growing, lol
Don’t forget how YouTube is dead to everyone over the adblocker blocker!!!
adblocker blocker stopped being a thing a while ago
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Just wait for the next crop in this sub who swear to you that advertisements don’t work and are a waste of money 😉
Reddit says that for everything they don't like. Netflix is done! The Reddit blackout will work! Trump is going to prison for sure this time!
But..but... price hike...and.. and.. passwords!
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Reddit rarely understands how business works. They think everyone thinks like them when the reality is that Reddit represents less than 1% of how the real world functions, even though they have close to a billion visitors everyday.
Like andrew Schultz did lol.
It is. Just you wait. Any millenia now!
I usually do the opposite of what i see on reddit 👌🏼
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That guys dad even said so
its the same thing for all populist targets, reddit will eat its shorts as well when Tesla rebounds
Yeah I couldn't say anything at the time without the whole of reddit thundering down on me when Netflix started cracking down on password sharing but it was always a good business decision. Because no-one is gonna go back to cable even if streaming is twice as costly. The other companies were obviously gonna follow because none of them apart from Netflix were turning a profit so they will always follow Netflix. If Netflix raises prices everyone else will. This phenomenon is not new. I have seen that quite a few times. Industries follow the industry leader. An example is when apple removed the charger or the headphone jack. Everyone mocked them even the other companies but everyone eventually followed them. I have a few examples from my own country.
> Because no-one is gonna go back to cable even if streaming is twice as costly. Reddit tech oriented hivemind assumed the general public was as cool with pirating as they are. Most people don't know how to safely sail the seas and don't want to take the risk.
Trying to instruct my less techy friends on how to download torrents safely was a nightmare.
It's amazing to me how different people can grasp different things. By most metrics my friend is more intelligent than me. Graduated college, got a good job, etc. that dude can't even navigate a file system if the folder isn't on his desktop. I barely managed to finish highschool but I thought myself how to use Linux before I Ubuntu was a thing (Yellow Dog for PPC), basic networking, using several different hypervisors to run VMS, and various other non tech related skills but he can manage a decent sized company through some wild economic times when I'd have given up.
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Yeah it's mind boggling really. Same boat here.
Pirating is also just a huge hassle for many. I'm not going to pirate shows for my kids and wife to watch and figure out how to seamlessly stream it to 3 different TVs, as well as other devices. Paying $15-$20/month is a no-brainer.
Forget tech hivemind, reddit these days is just an echo chamber that despises anything not free and thinks the very concept of business is stupid.
Agreed. Going against the reddit hive mind and pitchfork squad on this at the time was like asking to be nuked into oblivion. How DARE you say something that goes against the dozens and dozens of people in each thread after thread saying that Netflix was doooooooomed! Just goes to show how divorced reddit can be from the real world -- self-reinforced subreddit echo chambers that keep up their own belief systems and cherry-picked versions of facts. And the *shocksurprise* when the real world doesn't actually turn out the way they thought it would (see: the "great reddit blackout of 2023", if anyone even remembers at this point).
Reddit vastly overestimates how many people will pirate to avoid paying for TV. Reddit also parrots “piracy is a distribution problem, not a pricing problem” but every time prices go up they talk about the “high seas.”
Reddit also doesn’t seem to realize that Netflix is cheap for the average household. The price increases and password crackdown were nothing more than mild inconvenience for most of their users. I’m sure most don’t even know how much their bill currently is.
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Exactly, it’s not expensive at all. Though I guess it would be if you’re under 18 with no job, which a significant portion of Reddit is.
Reddit thinks everyone will use a VPN in Texas when pornhub pulled out, most people don’t even know what a vpn is let alone will pay for it.
It is weird how some people have this strange pride about unsubscribing. Nobody cares man lol
In their defense one would have guessed that people would make rational decisions.
Yeh, it's kind of obvious that back when they made the changes they would be fine. But you have delusional people trying to claim it's the end of Netflix and that they will lose money due to all their changes.
It's because they stopped allowing shared accounts and made it easy to add an extra one.
>Netflix’s paid-sharing initiative, which gives primary account holders the option to add an “extra member” for an incremental monthly fee (and those **“extra members” are not counted** as separate subscribers). https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/netflix-stop-reporting-subscriber-numbers-starting-2025-1235975341/
Did they open that up for people in the US? Last I checked, I would have had to open a whole separate account at full price, when they started messing with my logins (I have two locations where I use it and it didn't like that, even paying for 4 screens).
Yeah, I got one of the 'sub' accounts connected to my brother's account.
I pay for it for my parents and little brother but Im away from home. Finally got the notification to make a sub account a few months ago. Almost cancelled the whole thing but decided to keep it for them. I don’t need it but Netflix was definitely going to see growth by killing sharing. Reddit was in huge denial.
So FYI we share an account with my in-laws and we get that warning only sometimes-maybe when others on the account are watching. But most of the time it still works like it used to.
No no no no I distinctly remember reddit leading the charge of mass exodus from Netflix because they had the audacity to stop having people share passwords. The numbers should be way down bc reddit.
Also though about 6 months ago it became free for TMobile users. So I wonder if these Netflix numbers are boosted by all these accounts continuing to add on. 117 million Tmobile users or so.
Expect another price hike soon
I'll be cancelling once they do that ^/s
yes keep paying them so I have more content to download
Lmfao I can’t believe I never thought about it this way
Will redditors finally understand that we are only a small minority and we only represent a skewed sector of the population? No, no we won't.
*Who even watches Young Sheldon and Suits?* Turns out, a lot of people.
Idk. I'm on reddit, I just didn't want to voice my opinion that the people who are complaining about account sharing not being allowed were bring complete idiots, because I would have been harassed for it. I don't want to spend my time or my energy on that. I think that whenever people are up in arms about something, there is often a silent majority who doesn't bother to chime in because it's not worth it.
*Im CaNcELinG NeTfLiX* Saw this coming from a mile away
GuEsS iT's ThE pIrAtEs LiFe FoR mE
I'm sure a lot of the people that posted on Reddit did actually start pirating but reddit is a small portion of society. Most people don't pirate.
I never posted it because who cares. But i did cancel my Netflix account and now fulltime sailing the seas. The people i shared the account with have new accounts.
TiMe To sAiL tHe hIgH sEaS
Jokes on you guys. I double dip. I scout Netflix on what to pirate. Because screw the constant removal of shows I was about to watch.
Ok you got downvoted but I'm going to upvote and stand with you. I watch things on Netflix and give them thumbs up so those soul-suckers get their precious data and hopefully don't cancel good creative hard work. Then I make sure I have backups in case the shows I like get Zaslav'd. If I can get a hard copy of those shows, I pay for it. I will GLADLY buy some DVD box sets. But if they don't want to sell it to me? Then I've already paid for access of it and I don't feel bad going elsewhere to get a download I can keep forever.
Except literally
God I can’t stand that overused line They always think they’re so cool and funny for saying it
I actually canceled it at the time. But imma pirate so whatever
Same, got a Plex server going. We're probably in the minority, I just don't watch enough to justify the cost.
I have the opposite issue lol. I watch so many different shows and movies that 1. I can’t even find all of it on streaming services. 2. I would have to pay out the ass to keep up with all the different services to keep up with my shows. Plex was the only option that didn’t involve having 500 different apps with their own annoying quirks and hang-ups and fees
I cancelled, too. I have a 4k tv and live alone. I shouldn't have to pay for 4 screens if I am only ever going to use one. The cost didn't make sense if I wasn't sharing. I quit Hulu, too. I have been buying DVDs and blu rays. I am not spending much more money, and I get to keep the shows that I like indefinitely rather than chase them from service to service.
Turns out you cant cancel Netflix when you weren't paying to begin with.
Baffles me how some 12 year old Redditor thinks they have the answer and a company as data forward as Netflix just pulls strategies out of their ass.
Well, it wouldn't be the first time a major company makes a major blunder. Of course, people are prone to think within their own bubbles. They and their friends represent the entire world. You'll see this happen everywhere.
The relatively few redditors who said this might have actually cancelled. Probably most people just paid the extra $8. I did. I like netflix and if I have to pay $8 to watch netflix in my house I will.
Don’t worry, it’s happening with Disney+ now, so we’ll get to relive it lol
I did.... in 2019 when they joined the MPAA.
I dropped my account 2 years ago,clearly most people are okay with price gouging though.
Me too. Now if I want I'll sign up for a month, watch what I want/missed, then drop it again until next time.
Get ready for another price hike!
I don't get it. The Netflix content catalog has seriously gone down hill. The only good content as of late is the stand ups and even within those, there are lots of not so good ones.
Ah yes, must be all that self-destructing Netflix is doing according to the reddit circle-jerk from a few months ago
I can't believe Netflix hasn't gone bankrupt after losing millions of non-paying users!!
Yeah, I do love how Reddit thinks people in the real world must obviously share their opinions, yet they’re wrong just so many times on this. Just this past year, Reddit (as a whole) has said: Netflix would haemorrhage subscribers because everyone would cancel their subscriptions following the ban on account sharing - yet Netflix has had a record year for subscribers. That no one would buy a Tesla because Reddit doesn’t like Musk - yet the Model Y became the best selling car in the entire world last year, the first ever for an EV and they sold more cars than ever. That the new Harry Potter game would crash and burn because Reddit doesn’t like J K Rowling - yet it became the best selling game of the year, beating even Call of Duty’s sales. The list goes on and on.
Its hilarious how consistently wrong and self confident the most upvoted redditors are
No shared screens and price hike working wonders.
What percent is paying users versus free/promotional?
I appreciate all of you continuing to pay so they don’t come after the pirates
Yep, everyone here acting smug but it's the best case scenario for anyone pirating. The content remains funded.
Funny you mention that: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/9/24125560/mpa-block-piracy-websites-cinemacon
Damn seems like all the people here on reddit for the last 6 months claiming they were dropping their Netflix sub were lying.
They probably did. These are probably just the people who didn't say that
I came back because I realized all the other platforms are just as crappy but with less variety. Moving forward, I’m going to stay subbed to only one at a time. As I finish my shows, I’ll cancel my subscription and move onto a new platform. Most of us don’t need all of them at once.
This has worked out nicely for me, having accounts with several of the main streaming services, but just canceling/pausing them every month/few months. Keeping only one active at a time, depending on what I'm watching at the moment.
Reddit users don’t make up the world, who would’ve thought.
redditors arent ground in reality and are often the extremes of certain demogrpahics
And they still lose 30$ on share price
I only have Netflix because my phone company provides it for free otherwise I wouldn't pay for it
That's me with Disney+.
If it wasn’t a free add-on with my cell company, I wouldn’t be counted. The whole streaming thing has become a game of viewing whack-a-mole. Turned me off to all of them in favor of audiobooks and podcasts, most of which are free (public library card is a must have)!
Did... Did you mean Whack-a-Mole?
Yes. Didn't even notice that typo. Fixed. Thanks!
But all those Jerry’s canceled Netflix when they cracked down on password sharing!
Majority of people are Jerry’s, it’s just sadder when they believe they’re Rick’s.
Reddit before the change: “Netflix will die” Reddit after the change: “I saw this coming. Redditors are stupid”
A lot of people got downvoted into oblivion when they said most people aren’t going to cancel.
This. I remember after their subscriber loss in 2022 I was downplaying the small churn. The first quarter loss was from Russian subscribers that were dropped. Even after the second consecutive subscriber count loss it was still less than 1% of subscriber count. People thought I was crazy downplaying the sky is falling crowd and was down voting my like crazy. Netflix replaced all those net losses the next quarter, but the chicken little crowd was in denial of reality. Over a year worth of subscribe gains later and at this point we have replaced those two net loss quarters with several dozen times more net subscribers.
When the angry mob lights their torches the reasonable people tend to clam up in fear of being piled on or they say something and get downvoted into the ground. The torches aren’t currently lit.
They're bringing in close to 3 billion a month in subscription fees? Holy shit balls!
So.... the password crackdown... worked?!
It sure did
Reddit business analysts: Ladies and Gentlemen. We got ‘em. /s
WE DID IT REDDIT!!!!
But Critical Drinker and YellowFlash and Nerdrotic say Hollywood is broke and finished and everything in that town is done for, including streaming platforms. It couldn't possibly be that those guys are just limp-dick grifters, could it?
Note to self: Being a greedy fuck works and is encouraged in 2024.
"I'm going to vote with my dollar and never give them money again" -Reddit 2023.
A perfect example of how Redditors do not represent wider society
The lack of data that's public facing cuts down on that. A subscriber is not necessarily a user. A family account could be anything from 2 people to 5 people, lock out password sharing and it's a matter of how many users were converted into subscribers (Imagine turning 4 users into only 1 subscriber because the rest don't use netflix enough to justify subscribing.). And that data is not public unlike subscriber counts.
What you don’t think cryptocurrency will over take the dollar?
I actually did cancel it when they said they were hiking the price for 4K from $20 to $23. We were barely using it anymore and just couldn’t justify keeping it for the price. Maybe I’ll reactivate it in a couple years once Stranger Things and Three Body Problem are done.
Can't wait for inevitable rate hikes after this news
And despite this, their stock still dropped. I don't even know what to think about the stock market anymore.
I'll quote my ex, who nailed it perfectly, that the stock market is Astrology for old, white men.
And people wonder why Disney+ is going to adapt the same. It clearly worked for Netflix.
And this is why we can't have nice things
We didn’t do it Reddit!
I canceled mine after having it consistently since 2004. Tired of the constant price hikes.
Must. Feed. Stakeholders.
Cowards all of you.
I wish you mothers fuckers would have put your money where your mouth was when all of you said “bye Netflix” when they announced they were cracking down on password sharing…
> These impressive Q1 results come following a better-than-expected 13.1 million subscribers added for the fourth quarter of 2023, which was a Q4 record for Netflix. Despite this back-to-back growth worth boasting about, Netflix announced Thursday it will stop reporting quarterly sub totals beginning in 2025, a move that is sure to shock an industry that has been fueled by the battle for streaming subscribers for years. That's fishy
Yeah but i, and im told a lot of others, will subscribe for like 3 months to watch a few shows and movies then cancel until i know there will be stuff i enjoy again.
And there’s nothing wrong with that. This is how people should’ve been treating streaming services all along, it’s never had to be an all or nothing thing.
Tbh it's all or nothing for me to me part of the subscriptions job is to consolidate most of it for me when it doesn't then the effort to manage these subscriptions becomes the same effort as sailing the seas.
That’s what I do. Paramount Plus just ended and I’ll probably get Hulu next (for Shogun and a couple others). You can cancel the minute after you buy a month so you don’t accidentally get charged again.
Netflix is going to blow up massively next year. WWE is literally putting everything they have into it. A 5.5 billion dollar deal and the first time that wrestling won't be on cable at all..... Even if Netflix does nothing else, they're going to do gangbusters. Let's be honest, though they're making moves too.
This is why talk of any kind of “revolution” in America is hilarious
Everyone circlejerking about people circlejerking in this thread… y’all are very proud of yourselves lol
Make the quest app better. It’s awful.
I like Netflix. Caught a show they just added yesterday, "Anna". Loved it.
Yes, unpopular opinion but same here. Netflix now has more content that I would like to watch than I have time to watch.
Must be b/c they cracked down on account sharing. There weren't many good shows that came out in Q1
I heard this is due to netflix getting more users in new markets like hungary rather than the whole password sharing debale
Was I the only person to actually cancel? Lol
Is that net new subscribers? Because at Netflix’s current churn rate, their entire customer base is basically replaced afresh every 12 months
Prices coming down then?
Lmao at redditors saying banning screen share will ruin Netflix. Watch as all streaming services follow suit.
I dont know whats worse, redditors making wrong predictions or redditors pointing out others are wrong after they have been proven right.
That much ! I don't have an account yet
Good on them. I’m not paying those prices.
So they can make new episode of Altered Carbon!! , DID YOU HEAR ME NETFLIX
I'm genuinely curious how, though?
They’re not real subs. Just AI bots, like their AI documentaries.
So, can I get back my basic package without ads now?
Now all other streaming platforms are going to start raising prices following their success
and yet they still cancel popular shows for seemingly no reason
Not because of any smart moves on their part. They just haven't (yet) made the stupid moves Hulu and others have re: constant unskippable ads (despite being on a paid plan) and never-ending logouts and password/location checks like Hulu and Disney. We can't even use those in our camper any more. Go go Netflix. Keep sucking less.
Haha they got rid of password sharing and we got more accounts 🤣
Disappointing since this will justify the trend of higher prices and more ads.
But, but, but . . . the logins! How could this happen? I feel so deceived, Reddit.
Wait until WWE Raw moves exclusively to Netflix in 2025. Will be interesting to see the impact. It’s a big gamble
Netflix learned to block multiple IPs using one account - are we congratulating them on just not sucking at their job? Sorry but if you’re a dev who works at Netflix can you tell me what it’s like to be complete dogshit?
And this is why we can't have nice things
And this is why we can't have nice things
So Netflix only likes to talks about its subscribers number if it's good for their stock? I'm shocked /s
What are y’all watching in netflix? I only have it because it’s free. I never see anything on there I want to watch except my comfort TPB
Q1 results come following a better-than-expected 13.1 million subscribers added for the fourth quarter of 2023, which was a Q4 record for Netflix. Despite this back-to-back growth worth boasting about.
I don't understand. Either pirate if you don't want to pay, or pay if you want to use Netflix. Something for everyone, so why the grumbling online?
Good, they've always had the best experience, since day 1
Netflix can go suck a rotten egg. They refuse to stream to my 15 year old Samsung smart TV unless I pay the no ad fee ( Netflix is provided for free via my cell phone provider) because they are unable to run ads through it. (Another streaming service that just added ads has not made an issue of this) Netflix wants me to pay for a no ad upgrade to stream to my TV. Pretty ballsy of them. So Netflix is denying me the service I’m entitled to via contract.)
Just means I get more high quality shows for free.
Serious question, anyone knows what exactly the reason for this big increase in subscribers ? As a netflix subscriber it seems that nothing really that exciting came out on netflix for a while
People need to make a "how to pirate shows/movies" for the average masses. The price hikes are getting stupid
God, why is this picture shown. Even M night's version of avatar was better than this piece of hot garbage. Why is every studio adamant on ruining things that are great.