As a long time Netflix user I'm thinking long and hard about the $10 per month increase. I was already thinking about cutting it off at $7.99 per month. I'm always combing through the bottom of the barrel for something to watching from Netflix. Their UI is intentionally horrible to produce the illusion that they have a lot of content.
Netflix is a giant library of B movies and shows that were from the 80's and 90's. They started venturing into animations and now old sitcoms. Netflix used to have one or two decent titles that I'll finish watching on the weekends and the account collects dust for a few months. These days every time I open up Netflix it's like how many more hours am I going to spend looking through the titles for something new.
There are other things Netflix does that I don't appreciate. I've been bitten many times where I'm watching a series and Netflix decides to pulls it without warning. Their recent crusade with VPN has been fairly disruptive to my work flow. If I have to pick Netflix versus keeping VPN, it will be VPN.
I will likely just go buy an antenna to watch public TV for the latest shows. It's all the same to me anyways. TV serves as background noise to help me do work. That is the only value Netflix really brings.
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As a long time Netflix user I'm thinking long and hard about the $10 per month increase. I was already thinking about cutting it off at $7.99 per month. I'm always combing through the bottom of the barrel for something to watching from Netflix. Their UI is intentionally horrible to produce the illusion that they have a lot of content. Netflix is a giant library of B movies and shows that were from the 80's and 90's. They started venturing into animations and now old sitcoms. Netflix used to have one or two decent titles that I'll finish watching on the weekends and the account collects dust for a few months. These days every time I open up Netflix it's like how many more hours am I going to spend looking through the titles for something new. There are other things Netflix does that I don't appreciate. I've been bitten many times where I'm watching a series and Netflix decides to pulls it without warning. Their recent crusade with VPN has been fairly disruptive to my work flow. If I have to pick Netflix versus keeping VPN, it will be VPN. I will likely just go buy an antenna to watch public TV for the latest shows. It's all the same to me anyways. TV serves as background noise to help me do work. That is the only value Netflix really brings.