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by NoOneNew 1539 days ago
You fail to recognize one important factor. Those that did cancel dont show up to these comment threads anymore.

Me being one of them for I think I'm about to hit the 2 year mark soon on being sans-Netflix.

Any show I like and publicly does well, cancelled on season 3. Shows that have been popping up are utter trash. I was thinking of doing a month when Cowboy Bebop dropped... yea... I'm glad i didnt. I'm waiting for Witcher season 3 to drop, then I'll get it for a month and cancel it.

Their business practices are staying from, "deliver awesome content in an awesome way" to "squeeze blood from a rock".

Back in the day, Marco Polo was their shit tier show and it was awesome. The netflix exclusives that were coming out 2 years ago were trash and I could see the writing on the wall that it wasn't going to get better. What I hear about lately, it's all a fucking joke. They're hitting the theres a quality in quantity mindset and the numbers are showing that it's not working.

Maybe if they placed more focus on good movies and shows instead of the business models LITERALLY EVERYONE RAN AWAY FROM TO GET NETFLIX IN THE FIRST PLACE... they might be complaining that there aren't enough good writers and filmmakers out there because they already bought up everyone. That's a better and much more respectable problem to have instead of being a silicon valley bro who worries about "scale" during every conversation.

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Yep, I tapped out on netflix too. Never said anything about it to anyone that didn't live with me. Pretty quiet and mundane decision, more like a realization it just wasn't worth it anymore.
I think we will drop it soon too. We pay for four or so streaming services and the number of times I fire up Netflix and fail to find anything I want to watch is immeasurable. I figure the best bet with these services is to periodically drop one or two for a few months until they add new contact, then bring it back to replace another one. Pointless paying for them all but only watching a select few things.