To the high seas, me hearties!!
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2026
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the main reasons are: cancelling seasons of good shows after 1,2, or 3 seasons, just to boost subscription numbers.
limiting how much people can watch it on different devices, and increasing prices, with decreasing quality.
Didn't they announce they were going to enforce this years ago? That's around the time I stopped giving them money
yes, but they probably do it in steps, at first you can have only a handful, and not unlimited, and now its 1 person/account/device.
Emby: "17 people in 5 countries are watching your media. Nice."
Cancelled last week when I realized that I watch it almost never, the content I did consume was essentially filler, and the price was double what I originally subscribed for. I haven't picked anything else to replace it yet but I think it's finally reached the point that they are worse than the competition by a significant enough margin to matter. They really burned a lot of innate advantages. Thank you Mr. Doctorow for the correct terminology to address the situation!
I cancelled for similar reasons years ago. My wife noticed immediately and reinstated the account under her credit card. I guess she likes their brainrot.
Exactly this. I had Netflix for a while and didn't pirate for like, 5 years. Then they started cranking up the price, dramatically reducing available movies including old movies that I wanna rewatch, and telling me my family is not allowed to use the product I purchased. So fI just stopped and went back to the high seas with a renewed passion for making my own media library as extensive as possible, and giving access to friends, family, anyone remotely trustworthy.
Been a Netflix subscriber since the early days. Talking getting DVDs in the mail, 3 at a time, watching all sorts of crazy shit, back when they let you have a profile where you could personally 5-star rate and even leave a review for movies you'd watched. Me and a friend got competitive about it, would watch movies all the time, rate and review them, we easily had lists into the 800-1000 range.
Then they deleted all of it with no warning.
But I kept with it, because although I pirate a lot, I still like the convenience of not having to download all the stuff on there, and there's still some decent releases. And I share my account with my ex-wife, so she doesn't have to pay for it. And then when I'm on vacation, usually there's a smart TV or whatever and I can log on to keep watching whatever series I happen to be on at the moment (right now it's Stargate SG1).
But the other day I got a warning about how I'm using a different device, and I had to double authenticate and reenter passwords to "allow" me to watch from my personal computer... and it made my blood boil. Shut the FUCK UP netflix, you dumb mother fucker. I'll watch the service I fucking PAY FOR, on my OWN FUCKING DEVICE, WHENEVER I FUCKING WANT TO.
One more blood boiling moment and I'll just cancel their bullshit all together. I have a gig internet connection, I can just download shit crazy fast, I don't fucking need you anymore netflix. you forget that the slight convenience of not downloading things is the ONLY reason you exist. Stop being convenient, stop being used.
After more than a decade with them, with the little use we hadand they just kept increasing prices every year, so I decided to give them the flick, and we are not missing it.
I cancelled my Netflix several years ago literally the very first time I got an error that too many people were watching or a screen wasn't authorized or whatever the specific "you can't share your account anymore" error was at the time.
The fact that account sharing was tacitly allowed was literally the only thing keeping the value proposition of having the account afloat.
The fact Netflix used to actually use sharing accounts as PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL is wild to me. They leaned healily into it.
Same here. I barely used Netflix and was only paying the bill because I shared the password with family members and didn't want to cut them off.
Once they started being weird about account sharing, there was no reason to keep paying the bill. I was on the top tier too, because they said you could play on 4 screens at once, and I figured it was fair to pay extra since I was sharing the account.
Nobody in my family complained so it's likely they weren't really using it either. So instead of a top-tier account being shared among a bunch of people that didn't really use it, they get nothing.
Sadly their profits increased overall after they cracked down on password sharing https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68850766
I pay for a number of concurrent streams, so "too many at one time" is a legitimate thing. What I disagree with completely is that they want them all in one house. If I pay for 4 streams, they ought to be able to be anywhere. Because I paid for 4.
To be fair, too many people are using your account. 0 people should be on it.
That would be the ideal for Netflix. Everyone subscribes and pays, but no one uses it.
Gee, maybe that's why it's so hard to find anything good to watch on Netflix now.
my thought exactly:)) 1 is already 1 too many
Who remembers netflix’s “Love is sharing a password.” tweet?
This is me when they finally take down piracy and I just can't get the media anymore, since I refuse to give them a cent. I know I'll adapt, and probably be better off for it.
They've been trying to take piracy down since the birth of the internet. It's not going to happen.
This is why I collect blu rays. They can’t take them bitches from me.
Just one reason their stock price is down. They no longer report subscriber numbers — you can probably guess why. It’s strange to me that a public company can just hide data from investors that might reveal when a company isn’t doing so hot.
It’s also stupid they would clamp down like this on ad-supported plans. Advertisers want eyeballs, and this means less of them. Reminds me of Reddit moving to a log-in only model.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/07/15/with-netflix-down-45-from-its-highs-viewer-engagem/
Stranger Things finally ended and the price for no ads went over $20 per month. That's what made me finally quit.
I will never understand investors. Anyone with half a brain can put two and two together when a company starts hiding anything. Investors have no idea what they're doing, they just trust the customer will make them money, get angry when they've been duped, and will do it again.
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yes, but this is outlined in the contract and you should know this.
And people always are confused when I tell them I don't watch shows and movies anymore.
You can still do that without streaming services? Like you don't need to stop enjoying art cuz of capitalism
Sing with me lads
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Do what you want cuz a pirate is free 🏴☠️
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Fuck em. Lots of free media out there. My local library has all sorts of stuff, and that's not even considering what's out on the high seas.
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