Right. So promptly stopping funding Ukraine while grand standing about peace is really just capitulation and giving Russia exactly what they want.
But you’re right. They wanted all of Ukraine. Guess they’ll come back next year for the rest of it.
Lol well. When I saw this I knew the model would be censored to hell, and then the ccp abliteration training data repo made a lot more sense. That being said, the open source effort to reproduce it is far more appealing.
I feel like this is all grand standing. “Look I’m being tough on them” meanwhile working to broker a peace deal that gives Russia everything they want.
Idk why you’re getting downvoted. This right here.
Sure sure. Hahah a fair point.
Yep. It’s def a trend of, take over and then price gouge everyone.
In a word, enshitification. I’m currently on a de-googling journey and it feels so good every service I cut.
Lol all good and fair points.
I just focused on premium because that’s what I had prior to cancelling. So totally just focused on what directly impacted me. I should have included both and called out the removal of ‘basic’ and forcing users to either pay more for standard or accept ads
Frankly, across the board it’s just standard enshitification.
I think my other thought is I don’t think you should have to be rich to be able to stream a higher bitrate. Sure maybe it costs more storage / bandwidth but I don’t think it should be something only rich people can afford.
Ah I see you’re learning from the latest installment of the United States government.
I’ll turn this into a corporate selling point!
“Hey look, we decreased the price of premium by 17% over a 12 year period. (as compared to our standard plan)”
As kbal pointed out, the standard plan has increased 125% as well. So your original statement really doesn’t track with that.
Yeah, which is even more insane. Probably should have graphed that.
I don’t or at least didn’t read your original comment as “eat the rich”, but I agree. Rereading it I can kind of see the sentiment a bit, but ultimately Netflix 4k isn’t a “rich” kind of thing. Call me crazy but I think their profits show the price increase is just greed. And sure, make it be more than the standard plan, but that doesn’t account for the meteoric price increases.
It’s a banana Michael, how much could it cost…? Ten dollars?
I had family members getting blocked when they were legitimately travelling for work. (Travel nurse) It’s really bad and makes it so hard to use even when you’re paying for it. Which. Is. Insane.
I can assure you, any features they’ve added, have not accounted for what they’ve removed and the price increase.
I think 4k started to get added in 2014. Originally the premium plan was required for 4 screens vs the regular 2 screens.
"Netflix has been on a roll, driven by subscriber growth and price hikes. For the fourth quarter of 2024, the company reported net revenue of $10.2 billion, up from $8.8 billion in the year-ago period, while net income more than doubled to $1.9 billion. Netflix shares have soared 102% over the last 12 months as the company widens the gap with competitors. "
https://m.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/netflix/net-income
I think 4k was always the offering for premium. And yes, multiple screens, but then it became ONLY in the same household, so that isn’t tracked here as well (features removed – or disallowed)
The removal of basic and replacing it with a slightly cheaper ad free supported tier was all done to push people to purchase standard, which I agree, has started to rise at a faster pace recently as well.
Also doesn’t take into account the sharing account purge. I would guess that’s easily a +50% increase if we assume half of everyone using Netflix was sharing an account that then couldn’t. Could be higher.
Could probably base a rough figure for that on subscriber count change after the restrictions were put into place.
But yeah. Anyone who thinks the app / stock model isn’t going to be heavily censored…
Why else would it be free? It’s absolutely state sponsored media. Or it’s a singularity and they’re just trying to get people to run it from within their networks, the former being far more plausible.
And I know, I know, the latter isn’t how llms work. But would we really know when it isn’t?