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For me it's the other way around. Netflix is on the other side? Cancel 'em.

jakelazaroff 9y ago
I'm willing to bet there are quite a few zeroes between the decimal point and the other digits of the percentage of people who will actually practice what you're preaching here.
tempay 9y ago
I applaud you and anyone else who does this but I fear too many people sit on the other side of caring more about having Neflix now than maintaining the open internet. I know I won't be able to persuade my partner that we shouldn't watch Netflix anymore because of an issue she doesn't care about.
- quickthrower2 9y ago
  Maybe you can persuade your partner with: 1. Cancelling Netflix saves money. and ... 2. Watching less TV gives you more free time to get outside, exercise etc.
vkou 9y ago
If you want a text-only web, with no major content producers on it, you already have that. Just disable your browser's multimedia plugins. Or use Lynx, or some other browser of the 90s. The open parts of the web will still work. Anyways, Netflix, Google, Apple, and Microsoft (probably - they aren't making their votes public) support this, so this is a great time to cancel your subscriptions and stop using their products.
- wolfgke 9y ago
  > If you want a text-only web, with no major content producers on it, you already have that. And that (the web as it is) is exactly what I want. And I want that the media companies who cannot accept that the web is free of DRM to stay away from it.
  - KGIII 9y ago
    That's not your decision to make. They own their sites and content. You are, of course, free to ignore it. If you don't like a site, use the back button. You can complain, of course. What you can't do is control others. That's something the web is good at working around.
    - wolfgke 9y ago
      > That's not your decision to make. They own their sites and content. They try to spread DRM-malware over the EME interface onto the user's computers.
      - KGIII 9y ago
        And you have the options to not use it. You don't get to decide what other people do with their property. That's pretty much against the reasons the web is here. You can complain, if you want. That doesn't appear to be helping but you're free to do so. My strategy is to avoid it where reasonably possible. I let other people do what they want with their stuff.
  - rimliu 9y ago
    I will gladly take DRMed netflix over ad-ridden crap that "free" web gives us. It seams that people are using "walled garden", "free/not free", "user hostile" without giving any thought. It sure cannot be user hostile when there are no users, can it?

I'm willing to bet there are quite a few zeroes between the decimal point and the other digits of the percentage of people who will actually practice what you're preaching here.

tempay 9y ago

I applaud you and anyone else who does this but I fear too many people sit on the other side of caring more about having Neflix now than maintaining the open internet. I know I won't be able to persuade my partner that we shouldn't watch Netflix anymore because of an issue she doesn't care about.

quickthrower2 9y ago
Maybe you can persuade your partner with: 1. Cancelling Netflix saves money. and ... 2. Watching less TV gives you more free time to get outside, exercise etc.

vkou 9y ago

If you want a text-only web, with no major content producers on it, you already have that. Just disable your browser's multimedia plugins. Or use Lynx, or some other browser of the 90s. The open parts of the web will still work. Anyways, Netflix, Google, Apple, and Microsoft (probably - they aren't making their votes public) support this, so this is a great time to cancel your subscriptions and stop using their products.

wolfgke 9y ago
> If you want a text-only web, with no major content producers on it, you already have that. And that (the web as it is) is exactly what I want. And I want that the media companies who cannot accept that the web is free of DRM to stay away from it.
- KGIII 9y ago
  That's not your decision to make. They own their sites and content. You are, of course, free to ignore it. If you don't like a site, use the back button. You can complain, of course. What you can't do is control others. That's something the web is good at working around.
  - wolfgke 9y ago
    > That's not your decision to make. They own their sites and content. They try to spread DRM-malware over the EME interface onto the user's computers.
    - KGIII 9y ago
      And you have the options to not use it. You don't get to decide what other people do with their property. That's pretty much against the reasons the web is here. You can complain, if you want. That doesn't appear to be helping but you're free to do so. My strategy is to avoid it where reasonably possible. I let other people do what they want with their stuff.
- rimliu 9y ago
  I will gladly take DRMed netflix over ad-ridden crap that "free" web gives us. It seams that people are using "walled garden", "free/not free", "user hostile" without giving any thought. It sure cannot be user hostile when there are no users, can it?