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Enshittification marches on
One use for AI would be to eliminate all ads. The AI giveth and AI can taketh away. Lol
Haven't had Netflix since the password debacle. Never even missed it. 🏴☠️
Same, no regrets
I'm sorry, did you say Netflix is going to be pirated aggressively for the few shows that aren't complete slop?
Hey Netflix, the amount of people are willing to endure for a paid subscription is ZERO and it will always remain so. In fact even the stupid games advertised on the top of the landing page made me use Netflix less and less, and now that they stopped password sharing I don't use it at all
Not to me.
Netflix was canceled even before twitter. It was nice until 3-4 years ago, when the quality of their service started to fall.
I've had Netflix on-and-off since the DVD in the mail days. I tried Amazon Prime for the shipping years ago, when they first started playing with streaming. Those are the only two I've had.
I have neither now, and if it turns out I can't get the few shows I want to watch through other means, then I just won't watch anymore. Passive media isn't especially valuable to me. I have other forms of entertainment, including games, and the old stand-by, books. Outside is fun, too, when the weather isn't crap.
"other means"
Amy Reinhard sounds like an asshole
~~plex~~ jellyfin ftw!
Couldn't pass up the opportunity to dunk on Plex, huh?
The change about streaming outside my home left me salty. The fact that they changed the deal made stop recommending them. So yeah.
And Im sure as a host you already have a Plex Pass? Probably life time?
You also could have just praised Jellyfin
I had lifetime for streaming outside my home, Yeah, I'm sure.
Canceled two years ago. Not coming back.
I can't tell from the article what the AI side of this is? Are Netflix offering to make adverts for customslrs using AI? Are they just showing adverts in general from customers, including AI generated ones?
I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but I've read the article twice and still don't know 😂
the streaming leader announced that it has created interactive mid-roll ads and pause ads that incorporate generative AI.
interactive mid-roll ads
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Thanks! Somehow missed that, but I still don't really understand the details, like how and whyit incorporates generative AI, and if these are for Netflix or for Netflix ad customers.
My reading is that some of the ads will be generated via AI maybe to be customised to the account of the person viewing it. I suspect that won't last very long at some point it'll come up with an amusing failure and then it'll get switched off.
!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com Piracy ftw!
Is there a plugin for Stremio that provides a kid's profile function? That's the only thing keeping me from canceling my Netflix subscription.
Half of new Netflix subscribers opt for the $8 per month option rather than ad-free subscriptions, which start at $18 per month, the company says.
Damn, when did it get so expensive? Assuming that's USD. That's a decent amount more than Disney+, right?
Actually not much more I think disney + ad free tier is like $16 now. Though I don't think they- charge extra for 4k so there is that.
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Got rid of netflix when they started their ad tier. NEVER going back.
Haha, the kicker is that it's pure greed. With their prices they don't need it and could improve it with what the community wants, but $$$, hey... been away for nearly 2 years now, thought of tipping my toes in again but with that they can f... right off.
Damn. Can't believe a media company would be driven by greed.
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Either they have great technology, or they have great entertainment,” she said. “Our superpower has always been the fact that we have both.
Please. Your software is an image carousel and a video player.
Their software is the best in the industry. Even on a gigabit connection I've had issues with both Amazon Prime video and Disney plus.
Both of those platforms have issues where their servers just seem to get bored and stops sending data, like they just forgot about you And you have to refresh the page to play any more of the video. As soon as you do that it starts playing again so it's definitely not a network issue. I've had this problem on both the website and the smart TV app.
Jellyfin does all that and more.
We're no longer in the days of competing with a USB stick and hoping the TV will play whatever format it's in, or using VLC and a laptop.
They don't even show you ratings for the stuff, because they want you to waste your time watching the junk tier shit they can still afford.
Eh to Netflix's credit, both their backend and frontend are much better than their competition. Much better ux, and streams much more consistently. We pick up a sub for a month here and there. But AI ads will make me never go back.
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🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ cmon people, stop making netflix relevant
Yo ho ho (and a bottle of rum)!
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Well piracy is the only way then.
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