Hm I also cancelled about a month ago, after more than 10 years. I noticed there was good quality content on YouTube I was watching more.
I think the tipping point was that I got sucked into quite a few low quality crime documentaries, which were not doing anything for me, and probably hurting.
The Madoff one was actually good, but there were 10 others that in retrospect I regret watching.
Even Tiger King was like that. It's more colorful, but ultimately a waste of time ... If you look into it, basically all the characters there are very bad people (i.e. they abuse both animals and people).
IMO it's kinda poisonous to watch too much of that stuff. To take it lightly and brush off other people's misfortunes as entertainment.
I wonder if more people are realizing this and tuning out of those shows, too. I noticed I was watching a bunch of true crime stuff and after a while realized I was really just wasting my time since I didn't really learn anything new and I was just introducing "bad people" into my life in some ways. There was no net gain for me, other than feeling smug that there are bad and dumb people out there doing bad, evil things and that I don't interact with them, thankfully.
I also just cancelled, I guess you and me cancelling at the same time was too much.
I was amazed by how bad their Web UI is. After I've watched a movie, if I want to remove it from "My List", I have to go to the list and find the movie in it (it's randomly re-ordered every day), before I can click the "remove from my list" button. Even Amazon Prime Video lets me remove a movie from my list right after I've finished watching it.
And I can't change the order of titles on my list. Why does it get randomly re-ordered repeatedly? And the thumbnails change occasionally, which makes it even harder to find what I'm looking at. What's the point, other than being gratuitously hostile to the user?
The other thing is that most of the content is just filler. Whenever a show or movie is marked with the red Netflix logo, to me it means "this probably sucks". Netflix probably thinks its something for their customers to get excited about "Ooh, produced by Netflix!" but it's the opposite.
Netflix doesn't want you to choose what you want to watch, they want to pick what you watch for you. They constantly push certain shows over and over again across nearly every category they show you while hiding shows and entire categories of content from you that they don't want you to see.
Every new thing they release is "trending" and "top 10" and "most watched" and "featured" and it will show up over and over again in the other categories because they want the numbers to look good. They don't want their new stuff to compete with old stuff, but as we've seen, pretty much everybody is watching "friends" and "big bang theory" on an endless loop anyway.
Netflix has had some good shows, but the more annoying they get the closer I get to giving up on them. You can always find netflix originals elsewhere after all
I think the tipping point was that I got sucked into quite a few low quality crime documentaries, which were not doing anything for me, and probably hurting.
The Madoff one was actually good, but there were 10 others that in retrospect I regret watching.
Even Tiger King was like that. It's more colorful, but ultimately a waste of time ... If you look into it, basically all the characters there are very bad people (i.e. they abuse both animals and people).
IMO it's kinda poisonous to watch too much of that stuff. To take it lightly and brush off other people's misfortunes as entertainment.