Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️
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https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-upfront-2025-the-center-of-attention
  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 hours ago

    The problem with pirating Netflix material is that there’s nothing new worth watching on it anyways.

  • sugarfoot00@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    1 day ago

    I didn’t see through to the end because Rossman was making the same point over and over and over and over. But what he didn’t talk about is that Netflix specifically does not provide the highest tier of quality to PCs. That’s to prevent piracy of super high quality streams. The blockage is very much intentional and not without cause. Similarly, Netflix often does not play well with a whole host of Android streaming devices over which they have no control of the stream for exactly the same reason.

    I agree with him otherwise, I just wish he’d have gone into those reasons. Your super fast gaming rig being ‘not compatible’ has nothing to do with its impressive hardware specs.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      23 hours ago

      Rossman was making the same point over and over and over and over

      You gotta pad out your content if you want to churn multiple episodes a week that are hours long.

    • bright_side_@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      Hm, I did not see the video, but I think if I’d pay for a product and get a weaker quality than 1. I paid for and 2. possible on my machine - I would be hesitant to accept a reasoning that has nothing to do with my usage of the service. Is the potential piracy (that happens anyway) outweighing the bad customer experience? What I mean to say is, if I pay for my product, and have capable hardware - I think from the customer perspective I am in a position to complain if I don’t get the quality I paid for.

  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
    47·
    2 days ago

    It clearly says it’s on the paid tier only?

    Not that I care much one way or the other. I’m still frustrated with HBO Max selling me “ad free” and then putting a skippable ad at the start of every video. It’s not ad free if there’s a “skippable” ad! I paid extra specifically so I wouldn’t have to see that.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
      106·
      2 days ago

      I use the Brave browser, so the ads don’t work thankfully, but yes, pirate all the things regardless.

      • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 days ago

        Yeah ad blockers are great for that. I know from experience Peacock with ads will all be blocked if you have an ad blocker. But that only works on my computer not my Roku.

    • SatyrSack
      41·
      2 days ago

      Is there a reason to emphasize “skippable” here?

      • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
        19·
        2 days ago

        Because the app seems to think “ad free” can include ads as long as they carry a “skip” button. Which are still ads.

    • moody@lemmings.world
      26·
      2 days ago

      Netflix made a huge dent in piracy in their early streaming days. It was a convenient, and cheap, service with a ton of good content. Then everyone else started pulling their content from Netflix and built their own streaming services, and all of a sudden watching TV and movies got expensive again.

      Then Netflix started enshittifying its service by limiting streaming resolution, cracking down on account sharing, putting ads in.

      A lot of pirates wouldn’t be pirates if Netflix was as good as it used to be.

        • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
          3·
          15 hours ago

          Free is always less expensive than Netflix.

          But convenience is still king.

          There’s plenty of pirates that stopped pirating and started paying for steaming apps because the apps made following new music or watching your favorite shows a hell of a lot easier than piracy for a while.

          I was a pirate before I used Netflix for this reason, because there was a time when it was more convenient.

          That isn’t the case anymore. I now pirate everything again except music (because my family uses YouTube premium and music is included) and games, because gog and steam are great apps and games constantly go on sale.

          Streaming companies can’t keep up with the convenience and capabilities of modern piracy apps. The *arr stack is just so damn good.

        • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          24 hours ago

          False. I completely stopped pirating music 15 years ago, when streaming services came along that had 99% of what I wanted. The moment they enshittify and their value proposition deteriorates, I will sail the high seas again.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        22·
        1 day ago

        netflix like other streams got GREEDIER as they needed more money to operate thier expensive services.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    2 days ago

    How much money are they making on adverts for low tier customers is what I’m wondering… Like if it’s 10$ for the lower tier and they make 5$ in advert money and I’m paying 16$ for the ad free tier, they’re making more from me than the others…

  • twinnie@feddit.uk
    6·
    2 days ago

    I like how they say that viewers pay as much attention to the adverts as they do to the content.

  • Contentedness@lemmy.nz
    41·
    2 days ago

    Maybe someone can help me out then, I don’t have Netflix but get most things through Qbittorrent’s search function, a buddy recommended me a Netflix show called Chicken Nugget, it’s a Korean show about someone who wakes up one day and they’ve been transformed into a chicken nugget?

    Anyway I tried downloading it last night and it’s there but no seeders.

    Same thing for a Apple TV show called Criminal Record, no episode #2.