Netflix

“Netflix works fine. While rooting, this does not replace the app store and these are official apps”

“I am okay giving my data to the billion dollar company of (say) Netflix of Disney+ because I need to be able to log into the service”

“Totally worth it. The non-ads packages are ridiculously expensive now and the ads they show are few and far between.”

“Some apps are great (Netflix, AppleTV) and are smart enough to turn off the iPhone screen.”

“I'm assuming that once their fancy LLM spits out some user recommendations, they are then run through another process to 'commercialise' the results”

“Netflix will happily pull funding for quirky shows that underperform in front of a general audience”

“their expansion and eventual entry to public stock market caused it to be pretty much synonymous with "slop" in TV and movie circles”

“Some of the most effective mechanisms in history for shifting people away from copyright infringement have been iTunes and Netflix.”

“My family has tried the curated "kids" content from the major players: It's junk and not going to be interesting to a teenager.”

“the way you get squeezed year on year for what was standard before e.g. 4K or no ads to be gradually offered worse terms and degraded output quality”

“Their TV shows are definitely better than the movies by far but even then I can't think of one that I watched that didn't decline in quality as time went on”

“Netflix won (at that point) because they made service easy and converted a bunch of customers over.”

“Netflix was ok when it was the only platform. Now that there are 10(?) platforms, and each of them has tiers, it is a service problem”

“Instead of getting access to a vast amount of mediocre at best content I would like to have access to a small amount of good content.”

“For many people it's a higher ROI for entertainment when compared to a lot of other alternatives.”

“The growth was fast for netflix/amazon/paypal/etc and people saw how it was an improvement from the get go.”

“Netflix support for FreeBSD is one reason I've continued to subscribe through price increases”

“having to run a windows vm just to watch netflix in a browser back when their player was silverlight”

“Netflix understands that there are show you watch and shows you put on background while doing something else.”

“Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, Discovery+, Apple TV - they all work well on this old setup.”

“The Wii had the best and most responsive Netflix interface on any system I've used before or since.”

“Netflix killed piracy until the platform fragmented and now you need half a dozen subs to watch everything”

“I have a difficult time trusting their recommendations when those come along with more and more difficult to even know what exists in the rest of the catalog.”

“When Netflix started streaming, they fixed all this. We all stopped BitTorrenting because Netflix was easier.”

“Streaming turned everything to shit. Netflix in 2003-2008 was its golden era: any movie you could think of from the past century was available.”

“today where they optimized out the recommendation algo to the point I haven't found something recommended to be watch worthy in years”

“Netflix has made a lot of the best movies and series of the past few years possible or accessible.”

“Happy to pay a few more dollars per month for Netflix instead of managing ephemeral subscriptions”

“Injecting a huge catalog into Netflix is a win for consumers who want just one subscription”

“Lots of complaints about Netflix, but for the money, combined with Prime, I only miss affordable NHL”

“Netflix prices will probably increase though, and they will probably ruin a lot of golden IP like always”

“Netflix is actually a real company that, like, makes use of IPs and publishes back catalogues”

“Same reason why people pay Netflix despite the low quality of most of their shows and the constant termination of tv series after 1 season.”

“it's enough to subscribe for one month, once or twice per year, to catch up on a few movies or episodes of popular series”

“Netflix running their own studio was a reasonable attempt at regaining some exclusivity, even if it's been executed poorly in many cases.”

“What I really dislike is this bland, characterless, boring, inauthentic, unengaging, but neverending stream of pulp that Netflix is producing and promoting.”

“Hebrew is a very niche language, so it won't fix the core problem that there is no hebrew-native content.”

“so anytime you watch something on NF or YT try seeing if the same content is available in the 2nd language”

“There are no adverts on netflix, and I have a lot of subscriptions, but its still less (pro-rata) than I paid for satelite tv with adverts in the 00s.”

“it's much healthier to spend time playing video games, watching netflix/youtube, than on social media”