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Definitely a part of it for some. Me, I cancelled due to the low quality of their catalog. A decade or so ago, they had a really strong library of media. Now t

Definitely a part of it for some. Me, I cancelled due to the low quality of their catalog. A decade or so ago, they had a really strong library of media. Now they don't. What they spend their money on, I find to be severely lacking.

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i2shar 4y ago
Few months ago I rage quit Netflix because their shows would start autoplaying and nothing I did could disable that. I couldn't read one synopsis distraction free or browse without having to constantly click my GTV remote just to stop the friggin thing from playing. WTF! I'd like to think there were more like me who voted by cancelling their subscriptions. I hope PMs at Netflix who forced this onto their users lost their jobs.
- WelcomeShorty 4y ago
  Sign in to Netflix. Click the down arrow next to the Profile box. Choose Manage Profiles and select a profile. Under Autoplay controls, uncheck Autoplay next episode in a series on all devices. Also uncheck Autoplay previews while browsing on all devices. Choose Save.
  - i2shar 4y ago
    Had done that (obviously), didn't work on Chromecast with GTV. Had called customer support and filed a technical ticket. Nothing happened. Too late now.
fmajid 4y ago
Same here. There is literally nothing I want to see on Netflix since The Witcher season 2 ended. Same with Disney+. Oddly enough Amazon has the most compelling content, and I'd pay for Prime even if they didn't offer streaming, so it's essentially free for me.
RajT88 4y ago
They published some shareholder statement years back saying "The quality of the programming does not seem to correlate with how much most users consume". So there you go. I found the same, 10 years back I would read about something amazing and critically acclaimed -- and they'd have it! Now rarely do they. But, my wife and I still watch a lot of Netflix. It is the service which seems to have many things she wants to watch and a good amount of things we both want to watch. Things only I want to watch I mostly find on Hulu and HBOMax. Or I have to watch them the old fashioned way because they are too obscure to be on a streaming platform.
- amerkhalid 4y ago
  It is same situation at our home. My wife finds plenty of things to watch on Netflix. I rarely do. When we want to watch something together, we are renting on demand movies or even driving to redbox and picking up some snacks at the same time.
  - hiptobecubic 4y ago
    I noticed yesterday that nine of the top ten shows on US Netflix were squarely aimed at women; Better Call Saul was the exception and it was in last place. Netflix is slowly turning into a weird mix of "high production quality Lifetime + HGTV" and imported dramas from places with strong media like Korea.
  - CryptoBanker 4y ago
    +1 here. My wife loves their romantic reality shows and the Asian dramas. I on the other hand haven’t watched anything on Netflix by myself in years
- thaumasiotes 4y ago
  > They published some shareholder statement years back saying "The quality of the programming does not seem to correlate with how much most users consume". That's not particularly informative, though. It could be true right now. "Users" is not a group with a fixed population. If they drive their content quality into the ground and hemorrhage users as a direct result, it would still be true that the quality of the content was uncorrelated with the amount that users consumed. Instead, quality of the content would correlate with number of users. But the users are always people who are willing to deal with whatever the current content is! What's weird is that, as a flat-rate subscription service, they're already aware that increasing number of users is good, while increasing the amount of content that users consume is bad.
Natsu 4y ago
All this makes me realize that we have Netflix and haven't really watched or enjoyed it since, I think, the Expanse. I guess we watched the Squid Game, too, but I thought that was terrible. Like a low grade ripoff of an old (and much more intelligent) manga called The Liar Game.
- buildbot 4y ago
  The expanse was sci-fi then Prime Video though?
  - vmception 4y ago
    When it was on scifi the funding was done by splitting syndication rights with scifi, amazon and netflix Scifi dropped out because they didn’t think enough people watched it, their inferior cable model has no way of collecting data on what actual humans do, and when they would do it especially by being limited in airings things at a set time This effectively cancelled the show since it didn’t have funding And then amazon/jeff bezos picked it up completely after a major fan campaign
    - remram 4y ago
      SyFy?
      - vmception 4y ago
        Yes them
  - zerocrates 4y ago
    I think maybe it was on Netflix outside the US?
    - Natsu 4y ago
      It's also possible that I'm simply confused and forgot which service I watched it on because it was a while ago.
edgyquant 4y ago
Seems like most content is dubbed foreign stuff now days, which I’m not at all into watching. The only thing they have at the moment I watch is Ozark and that’s ending on the 29th.
- maroonblazer 4y ago
  You're not interested because of the dubbing? Then just switch to subtitles. Or do you not have the patience to put up with subtitles? Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, there's considerable high-quality content coming out of other countries. I love that Netflix brings that to the U.S., otherwise I'd never know of it or be able to watch it.
  - DubiousPusher 4y ago
    It's funny because I used to sound just like you. But now I am much more sympathetic to the above comment. I spent a lot of my youth enjoying films by a bunch of foreign filmmakers including: Ozu Bergman Fellini Suzuki Clouzot Bresson Kurosawa Mizoguchi Costa-Gavras Herzog Renoir and on and on I especially loved the films of Jean Pierre Melville, Masaki Kobayashi and Anrei Tarkovsky. And yet, when I am done with a long day of work and chores, I cannot stomach anything with subtitles. Exhaustion plays a part in it. It just feels like work after a long day. And I wouldn't want to have that experience of any of the movies I loved back then, seeing them as a chore to be tolerated.
    - maroonblazer 4y ago
      I was referring less to films and more to TV. At the end of a long day of work and chores I cannot stomach a 90-120 minute film, regardless of what language it's in. I much prefer 30-60 minute content. At that length subtitles are much more digestible.
    - the_af 4y ago
      As someone not from an English-speaking country, most of the things I watch anywhere are subtitled. I'm really puzzled by people with no stomach for subtitles or who would only watch stuff in their native language. Subtitles + original language of other cultures is so much better. It's not tiring at all, either.
7speter 4y ago
And to combine your observations with the parent of this sub thread: Netflix raised an insane amount of debt to fund all the projects a lot of people didn’t ever end up watching, and continued to keep raising subscription costs to cover the payments on that debt they raised. I don’t really know if it could’ve turned out differently after other media outlets decided they wanted to make their own exclusive streaming services.

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i2shar 4y ago

Few months ago I rage quit Netflix because their shows would start autoplaying and nothing I did could disable that. I couldn't read one synopsis distraction free or browse without having to constantly click my GTV remote just to stop the friggin thing from playing. WTF! I'd like to think there were more like me who voted by cancelling their subscriptions. I hope PMs at Netflix who forced this onto their users lost their jobs.

WelcomeShorty 4y ago
Sign in to Netflix. Click the down arrow next to the Profile box. Choose Manage Profiles and select a profile. Under Autoplay controls, uncheck Autoplay next episode in a series on all devices. Also uncheck Autoplay previews while browsing on all devices. Choose Save.
- i2shar 4y ago
  Had done that (obviously), didn't work on Chromecast with GTV. Had called customer support and filed a technical ticket. Nothing happened. Too late now.

fmajid 4y ago

Same here. There is literally nothing I want to see on Netflix since The Witcher season 2 ended. Same with Disney+. Oddly enough Amazon has the most compelling content, and I'd pay for Prime even if they didn't offer streaming, so it's essentially free for me.

RajT88 4y ago

They published some shareholder statement years back saying "The quality of the programming does not seem to correlate with how much most users consume". So there you go. I found the same, 10 years back I would read about something amazing and critically acclaimed -- and they'd have it! Now rarely do they. But, my wife and I still watch a lot of Netflix. It is the service which seems to have many things she wants to watch and a good amount of things we both want to watch. Things only I want to watch I mostly find on Hulu and HBOMax. Or I have to watch them the old fashioned way because they are too obscure to be on a streaming platform.

amerkhalid 4y ago
It is same situation at our home. My wife finds plenty of things to watch on Netflix. I rarely do. When we want to watch something together, we are renting on demand movies or even driving to redbox and picking up some snacks at the same time.
- hiptobecubic 4y ago
  I noticed yesterday that nine of the top ten shows on US Netflix were squarely aimed at women; Better Call Saul was the exception and it was in last place. Netflix is slowly turning into a weird mix of "high production quality Lifetime + HGTV" and imported dramas from places with strong media like Korea.
- CryptoBanker 4y ago
  +1 here. My wife loves their romantic reality shows and the Asian dramas. I on the other hand haven’t watched anything on Netflix by myself in years
thaumasiotes 4y ago
> They published some shareholder statement years back saying "The quality of the programming does not seem to correlate with how much most users consume". That's not particularly informative, though. It could be true right now. "Users" is not a group with a fixed population. If they drive their content quality into the ground and hemorrhage users as a direct result, it would still be true that the quality of the content was uncorrelated with the amount that users consumed. Instead, quality of the content would correlate with number of users. But the users are always people who are willing to deal with whatever the current content is! What's weird is that, as a flat-rate subscription service, they're already aware that increasing number of users is good, while increasing the amount of content that users consume is bad.

Natsu 4y ago

All this makes me realize that we have Netflix and haven't really watched or enjoyed it since, I think, the Expanse. I guess we watched the Squid Game, too, but I thought that was terrible. Like a low grade ripoff of an old (and much more intelligent) manga called The Liar Game.

buildbot 4y ago
The expanse was sci-fi then Prime Video though?
- vmception 4y ago
  When it was on scifi the funding was done by splitting syndication rights with scifi, amazon and netflix Scifi dropped out because they didn’t think enough people watched it, their inferior cable model has no way of collecting data on what actual humans do, and when they would do it especially by being limited in airings things at a set time This effectively cancelled the show since it didn’t have funding And then amazon/jeff bezos picked it up completely after a major fan campaign
  - remram 4y ago
    SyFy?
    - vmception 4y ago
      Yes them
- zerocrates 4y ago
  I think maybe it was on Netflix outside the US?
  - Natsu 4y ago
    It's also possible that I'm simply confused and forgot which service I watched it on because it was a while ago.

edgyquant 4y ago

Seems like most content is dubbed foreign stuff now days, which I’m not at all into watching. The only thing they have at the moment I watch is Ozark and that’s ending on the 29th.

maroonblazer 4y ago
You're not interested because of the dubbing? Then just switch to subtitles. Or do you not have the patience to put up with subtitles? Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, there's considerable high-quality content coming out of other countries. I love that Netflix brings that to the U.S., otherwise I'd never know of it or be able to watch it.
- DubiousPusher 4y ago
  It's funny because I used to sound just like you. But now I am much more sympathetic to the above comment. I spent a lot of my youth enjoying films by a bunch of foreign filmmakers including: Ozu Bergman Fellini Suzuki Clouzot Bresson Kurosawa Mizoguchi Costa-Gavras Herzog Renoir and on and on I especially loved the films of Jean Pierre Melville, Masaki Kobayashi and Anrei Tarkovsky. And yet, when I am done with a long day of work and chores, I cannot stomach anything with subtitles. Exhaustion plays a part in it. It just feels like work after a long day. And I wouldn't want to have that experience of any of the movies I loved back then, seeing them as a chore to be tolerated.
  - maroonblazer 4y ago
    I was referring less to films and more to TV. At the end of a long day of work and chores I cannot stomach a 90-120 minute film, regardless of what language it's in. I much prefer 30-60 minute content. At that length subtitles are much more digestible.
  - the_af 4y ago
    As someone not from an English-speaking country, most of the things I watch anywhere are subtitled. I'm really puzzled by people with no stomach for subtitles or who would only watch stuff in their native language. Subtitles + original language of other cultures is so much better. It's not tiring at all, either.

7speter 4y ago

And to combine your observations with the parent of this sub thread: Netflix raised an insane amount of debt to fund all the projects a lot of people didn’t ever end up watching, and continued to keep raising subscription costs to cover the payments on that debt they raised. I don’t really know if it could’ve turned out differently after other media outlets decided they wanted to make their own exclusive streaming services.