• ThePowerOfGeek
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    206 days ago

    Exactly. I finally cancelled Netflix a few weeks ago. It’s too expensive and there’s very little I want to watch on there any more. The shitty way they were trying to push you into more expensive plans was just the shit icing on the turd pie.

    I’m now looking at Disney+ and Prime Video because there’s hardly anything on those too that I like.

    • @nogooduser
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      5 days ago

      I ditched Disney+ when they added 50% onto the price. The exit questionnaire was annoying as it had one answer that lumped in “can’t afford it” with “too expensive” which implies it’s a “me” problem when it was definitely a “them” problem.

      I would have ditched Amazon Prime when they added adverts with an optional 50% price hike to remove them but my wife didn’t want to lose the prime delivery.

      The intention is that we subscribe to Disney+ for a few months a year and catch up on what we missed.

    • @[email protected]
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      106 days ago

      I hate the UI of prime video with a passion. From time to time I look for something to watch on it but I have the impression they try to keep me from causing traffic. After some minutes I give up and wonder why I didn’t cancel yet.

      • ThePowerOfGeek
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        176 days ago

        Yeah, they really broke it a video of years ago. It used to just show videos covered by the prime subscription. Then they started showing additional sub-services you could sign up. That was annoying but not too bad. But now they show you all sorts of stuff that doesn’t come with prime. That really pisses me off - not least because my kids still have a hard time differentiating the ‘free’ stuff from the ‘requires extra money’ stuff.

        • @nogooduser
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          25 days ago

          There’s a prime only browsing section but but you don’t seem to be able to limit the search to only return prime included stuff.

          • ThePowerOfGeek
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            25 days ago

            Yeah, and in my experience they buried that pretty fast down so it required don’t scrolling to get there each time.

            • @nogooduser
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              15 days ago

              It’s right on the top bar in the latest UI. At the same level as choosing movies or tv shows. It’s very easy to get to in fairness.

              • ThePowerOfGeek
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                25 days ago

                That’s good. They must have changed it then. Because when I was looking for it a few months ago it was buried under several rows of paid content.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      35 days ago

      My wife has put on a few different Netflix original shows over the holidays, and they’re all sooo stupid. Their supposed best shows are complete garbage.

    • @proudblond
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      16 days ago

      Kids make it complicated for sure, but we managed to drop Disney. Honestly I’d prefer they were on screens less anyway.