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I know it's very spotty (pun not intended), it doesn't have some music I like and I wouldn't call my tastes particularly esoteric. However, for enough people in
by NamTaf 6y ago
I know it's very spotty (pun not intended), it doesn't have some music I like and I wouldn't call my tastes particularly esoteric. However, for enough people in English-speaking countries it has enough even outside of pop that anything that's missing is a long-tail situation.
Spotify and Netflix are the two things where when I say I don't have an account for them I generally expect a weird look.
- dleslie 6y agoI've cancelled my netflix account a few times; and I might be about to do it again. It lost its enormously deep catalog some years ago, where I found oddities like (untitled), and the recent spat of original content has been disappointing. Moreover, it's lost its appeal as a safe platform for kids' content; given that while I can limit my children's access to certain shows with a passcode, _I cannot hide_ the shows! Only someone without kids would design a catalog with parental locking that cannot filter locked content. My wife finds the aggrandizing of violence and cruelty found in American television to be distasteful, and I find it boring; and so we often find ourselves looking elsewhere after loading Netflix and finding mostly violent content. We do enjoy their cooking shows; but we're having better luck with Disney+ and Curiousity Stream for general family entertainment.
- drilldrive 6y ago>I've cancelled my netflix account a few times; and I might be about to do it again. At what point is it "cancelling" instead of "renewing your subscription"?
- dleslie 6y agoRenewing is automatic and without service interruption; cancelling involves a service interruption. I'll go months at a time without Netflix available in our house because there's nothing desirable to watch on it.