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What has Netflix enshittified? Ad supported viewing is a completely different tier and arguably they have provided even more value by bundling in mobile games that are completely ad and micro transaction free. Price increases don't even count as enshittification.
Is it irony to quote all the enshittification steps and then demonstrate you know nothing about enshittification by saying they're good things?
If they were value-added features, we could opt-out and pay the same (plus inflation) without them. None of the extra shit has any value to my house, for instance.
I never implied they're good, I implied it's not enshittification. There's a difference.
This doesn't even make sense because they were added to your account at no charge. That means they would actually have to decrease the price if you want to exclude them.
These were standard and they compromised…unless pay more. They are still making money. They can still afford to employ talent and pay wages. They can still choose to be fair to their employees and customers. But no. Give less, remove features, raise prices is the approach they repeatedly take.
If I bought a dvd its didn’t come with a ban on sharing it. They have conditioned lots to think this is acceptable. It’s not you are the customer. You give them money and it’s still not enough for them.
Netflix doesn't really control the content that other creators allow on their service, so point 3 is moot
They kind of did though. When Netflix decided to produce their own content, studios understood that Netflix would prioritize it's own content in the algorithm so they all scrambled to make their own platforms.
If Netflix had been content staying a distributor, we'd all still have everything available all on the one app.
It does if you inflate the price of the base tier, then add a new lower tier at the old price. With ads.
Or if you have less content and charge more.
Or if you stop making content with creatives having control and instead make it based on producer led content.
Or if you start changing up the cover art of different content and sprinkle it in different categories to give the appearance of more content.
Or if you claim to be about freedom of speech and not judging content based on being offensive or controversial, but then fire workers that you feel are offensive or controversial.
Or if you start buying your competition with the intention of having less competition.
That's not enshittification that's a price increase. They're not obligated to keep the same price point forever.
Not enshittification because that's literally how the industry works. Now imagine they have literally all the content, won't you be saying it's a MONOPOLY, KILL THEM ASAP?
Not enshittification.
Wow person learns how algorithms and categories work. What a revelation.
Not enshittification.
Didn't you just say above you wanted more content?
This is just people crying about something they don't like. If you don't want to use the service don't use it.
Whoa are you a bot or something? There's a proper disconnect from reality in your comments.
Idk. All those things deffo sound more shitty to me.
Their content.
I'm not sure that's really enshittification. It's not so much a way to deteriorate the service to make money as it is an attempt to accommodate the habits of the viewers. I totally agree that we're getting super bad content that's only mildly entertaining if you're doing 2-3 other things while watching, but that's the demographic they believe they have.
They consider their product to be "Second Screen," which mean it is meant to be consumed while you are on your phone. Matt Damon recently talked about the rules of making a Netflix video, and one of them is that you have to repeat your plot objective several times, so the people who are "watching" while on their phones will get it.
They also mandate the use of certain cameras and lenses and other equipment, to ensure that their productions have a similar look across the platform.
They have lots of other rules that compromise quality and artistic integrity in favor of branding and profit.
That all counts as enshittification to me. It sure isn't good for the future of film as an art form.
Also, enshittification is not in spell check.
Every broadcaster and platform has a list of approved cameras, and always has done. That isn’t enshittification, that’s ensuring technical quality.
As to a house style, again that is longstanding and common. ABC, for example, favours pastel colours for sets and costume. This goes back to Technicolor and their visual control from the 1930s. Nothing new.