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this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
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Is there a way to poison the well so badly and so irrevocably that corporations won't dare use generative AI for anything? Can we somehow trick these overgrown chatbots to speak ill of their masters in the form of direct-to-stream advertisements?
Ask Musk. He managed to do it on accident.
No they won't ๐ดโโ ๏ธ
Rejecting Netflix fixes things for you and me, but the article says Netflix has 93 million ad-supported subscribers. I'm really worried about the amount of influence advertisers have on our society, and it's only getting worse. Even if you and I can be above the direct influence of these ads, many people are not, and those people are influencing you and me. This produces a dangerous secondary influence that can reach most of society, and just fills everyone's mind with lies, for hardly any cost.
YoHoHo Arrrrghhhhhh!!!
If I down vote this does it show my disappointment of netflix or the OP? ๐ค
Nice ahoy mateys!
Jellyfin
Not to me, they fucking won't
I was looking to cut down on subscriptions and picked Netflix as an experimental one. I haven't missed it at all. Things like this make me less likely to occasionally reactivate for a couple of months as I was originally planning.
I wonder when they'll see a big enough effect to break their current run of fucking over their customers.
I also thought I'd miss Hulu and Netflix a lot more than I do. What used to irk me so badly was how utterly shit Netflix is when you just want to sit down and find something new to watch. Their front page would be list after list of things like "Hot New Comedies" "Best Independent Films of 2025", "Classic Action Flicks" and somehow it always felt like the same 30 or 40 movies randomly shuffled together. So I'd spend 15 minutes scrolling through the same slop in different orders, get frustrated and search for a movie that I remembered wanting to watch, only to find that it was on none of the services I was subscribed to, and cost $8.99 for a single watch of a 20 year old movie.
We had been Netflix subscribers since the very start when they delivered discs through the mail. Kinda sad how they went from having virtually anything you could think of to watch (and having a halfway decent recommendation algorithm to boot!) to where they are today.
My kids have missed it more than me (which I don't) but they're easy to distract with one of the other streaming services I still have. The last price hike did it for me.
Bye Netflix, hello plex.
Edit: hello Jellyfin, as helpful users have mentioned the enshitification of plex to me.
I have some bad news for you
You seems unaware of plex enshitification. Bye bye plex, Hello Jellyfin.
I was! Thanks for the info, Iโll be checking out Jellyfin instead.
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And canceled my sub
The sooner people realize that the subscribers are nothing more than super-slow-boiled frogs to them, the better.
They are the slow moving hand reaching for your wallet.
Between that, price hike, and some weirdly low quality content because you don't use this or that browser, netflix really wants people to stop their subscriptions it seems.
99% of people won't care besides passive complaining at the water cooler, unfortunately
High seas baby!
There is surely a recognisable pattern here in which people leave because of this shit and to keep the flow of money going up they then have to further reduce quality by increasing ads.
I deleted my facebook a few weeks ago and signing in for the first time in years gave a look at what it became and it was unrecognisable.
Netflix is the worst of the streaming channels these days.
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byeeeee
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