I'm going to buck the trend here and say I might try subscribing for a little bit to see if it's worth the cost. My parents have been Netflix subscribers since

I'm going to buck the trend here and say I might try subscribing for a little bit to see if it's worth the cost. My parents have been Netflix subscribers since before they did streaming, and I've never paid a dime for Netflix (though I've been subscribed to Prime for a few years, and have tried other subscription streaming services in the past). Netflix is probably 40-70% of my legal streaming though (though IIRC it's also a little bit more expensive than Prime, which also offers free shipping, so it's not a direct comparison). I'm in my late 30s now and living in a different country than my parents. Is it easy to be outraged that they're cutting off access to something that has been free (for me) for over a decade? Sure. But emotion aside, it might honestly just be time to consider subscribing and seeing how much it costs, and give it a cost-benefit analysis on its own merits (past usage terms aside). If I decide against it, I'm really just out of the cost of a few months, and realistically its brought more value to me over the last 10 years than it could reasonably cost in a few months. I do want Netflix to survive because they really did validate the idea of streaming for all the services they're now competing with.