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“Lower-priced”? Haha, nope. Anything with ads should be free. The idea of paying—and still being harassed with garbage—is so sociopathically stupid that only a
by _zzaw 4y ago
“Lower-priced”? Haha, nope. Anything with ads should be free. The idea of paying—and still being harassed with garbage—is so sociopathically stupid that only a marketer would imagine anyone falling for it. I hope they fail.
And it goes without saying that if ads start showing up in my current plan, I’d drop Netflix that very day.
My overall sense is that people are approaching a breaking point with ads, subs, and overly extractive monetization schemes. I expect more of an attrition situation than an inflection point, but the results—piracy, aggressive ad-blocking, and simply spending less on greedily priced apps and services—will not be pleasant for the marketing and media industries.
- Traster 4y agoNetflix is charging $10 a month at the moment. If it can't generate $10 of revenue per user by showing adverts then what do you expect them to do?
- PenguinCoder 4y agoI expect them to not do business that is unprofitable. If they want to show $5 worth of ads a month to a $5 subscription, that's their perogative. But they will show a lot more. I won't be one of the $5 subscribers, because I don't believe I should be paying for a service just to be double dipped and shown ads too. It's why I don't have cable, it's why I don't use Hulu. If $10 a month is not profitable then yeah, Netflix needs to raise prices. But don't raise prices and give me an inferior, shittier product. I deal with enough of that for shit I can't control.