Data Is Beautiful

Which is strange because you would think keeping the price low enough to sway customers away from other services or low enough it's forgettable (gym membership style) or just low enough to keep people from canceling would net them more customers and make up for the lower rates.

But no they keep increasing and driving more people away which in turn causes them to raise rates again this is a death spiral.

AFAIK netflix doesn't pay dividend, so the shareholders see nothing of that. the top managers probably pocket it all. the shareholders have to gamble on the stock value or buybacks to make profit (except the ones who are also top managers, of course)

Yeah I agree with this. But then you have all the things thetyve taken away as well (account sharing etc...) and I could make a chart that shows the true price increases as well.

I think, frankly, all you have to do is look at Netflix's ever increasing annual net income for a very similar chart to above. They are price gouging, despite any additional costs they may have

Furthermore, their content library hasn't gotten better. They don't have a lot of the aaa content they used to have. So yeah, people started licensing it for more, and in a lot of cases Netflix said, nah we'll just have a shittier library.

I have hulu (thru TMobile) , prime, Netflix (thru TMobile), max (thru att fiber), apple tv (thru TMobile), paramount (thru Walmart), and none of them would play 4k on my Linux PC because it's linux. What's even the point of going thru legal means? I'm super happy with jellyfin, realdrbrid,and stremio

I do. I like a lot of their stuff though, so for me it's still worth it.

Just pirate everything jfc

Me. There's plenty of good stuff on there, it's just a hassle to sort it out to what you like.

I watch a lot of stuff on there, probably half are rewatches of favourite shows. But my Netflix is €8.99 a month for ages so it's not bad.