40 months of PIA is $80. So for $2 a month, you can have it all with no ads and no region locking.
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What's PIA?
Pain in advance or otherwise known as prepay.
The shittiest VPN company that you shouldn’t trust ever.
I don't trust anyone, but I haven't heard bat things about PIA. That was just the first one I looked up. Did something happen that we shouldn't trust them? I know Nord is now suspect.
Bad things about PIA? Apart from the fact it was bought 5 years ago by Kape Technologies, a former malware distributor, involved in state sponsored espionage and mass surveillance, who also owns Cyberghost, Express VPN and Zenmate plus a plethora of VPN review sites and social network channels that promote its own products as top notch?
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Private Internet Access is a VPN service.
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Pia?
I'd take a PIA for $2 per month
Remember to use streamio so you don't have to download shit. 😉
Summary:
- Netflix is discontinuing its cheapest ad-free subscription tier, starting with the UK and Canada, with more countries expected to follow.
- Netflix has begun notifying users about the last day they can access the service on the Basic plan, prompting them to upgrade to the Standard with ads or more expensive Standard/Premium plans.
- In Canada:
- Original Basic plan price: $9.99/month
- New Standard plan price: $16.49/month
- New Standard with ads price: $5.99/month
- Increase from Basic to Standard: $6.50/month (65% increase)
- In the UK:
- Original Basic plan price: £7.99/month
- New Standard with ads price: £4.99/month
- New Standard plan price: £10.99/month
- Increase from Basic to Standard: £3.00/month (37.5% increase)
- The Basic plan ($11.99/month) is no longer available for new US subscribers.
- Netflix's ad-supported tier now has 40 million global monthly active users, up from 35 million a year ago.
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Netflix removing subscribers. What is their plan, zero subscribers?
Is it opposite day?
They've tested the waters, and people will most probably wind up staying, as their password crackdown demonstrated.
Do you have any data that shows Netflix didn’t lose subscribers in markets where they cracked down on password sharing? I keep seeing people saying this is the case, but all the news stories I’ve read say that Netflix is only adding subscribers in the cheaper markets (like India and South America).
Subscribers are subscribers are subscribers, the total is up so even if they lost some in the US/European market, the rest of the world makes up for it.
Emerging markets pay around $6 a month for Netflix. Basically the “password crackdown” markets are subsidizing the new subscriptions where Netflix is trying to gain a foothold. It’s the typical “get ‘em hooked, then start raising prices.”
I don't have a source, but it wasn't that Netflix didn't lose subscribers, it was that their revenues grew. Part of that was charging subscribers more, but a lot of that was the new ad-supported plans netted them more money than basic ad-free plans. Which is probably why they're now sunsetting the basic ad-free plans.
That could be true, I was going on the fact of what they reported and how their stock jumped up because of what they said as well.
They'll never mention how many people left though (unless that info is out there too?)
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Shit like this is why I don't feel bad at all for pirating.
They raise their rates by 65% so they can continue to pay Hollywood actors to make crappy forgettable movies for the service
Care to share what site you use to pirate? I haven't been in that loop for a while, but all these pricing increases for all these streaming services is driving me back.
Check out FMHY (Free Media Heck Yeah) they have a subreddit (I think) and a website. There's absolutely everything there for pirating.
In before "Removed by Mod"
Whoops, am I not supposed to?
Lemmy.World defederated from an instance known as the instance that has all the piracy. Then pushback from the userbase caused them to refederate. Then they defederated a SECOND time. Despite pushback from users AGAIN theystay defederated from them to this day.
So it wouldn't surprise me if they removed it.
123moviestv.net , bflixhd.to, yts.mx look for them through yandex search engine and not the google , google blocks them
for anime zorotv.to/home ,https://9anime.com.pl/
Kodi and RealDebrid
rentry.co/megathread
links to pirate pretty much anything
Usenet. 44 years and still kicking.
Do it, do it! One of us, one of us! 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
May I ask why you pirate crappy forgettable movies?
Don't forget the 5 BILLION dollars they just gave to WWE, a company that regularly goes to Saudi Arabia. A country so backwards in human rights that they don't allow women to work. So WWE's answer to this was to create a tornament just for the women. Called "The Great Moolah Classic". Only problem with that is, it happened just as the MeToo movement was happening. Now in case you're unaware, womens pro wrestling from the 1950s through the 1980s was dominated by "The Great Moolah".
Btw, I'M not saying she was great. Far from it. Thats just her stage name.
But if you were a woman, and you wanted to get into womens wrestling between 1950-1985 you NEEDED to go through The Great Moolah. Here's the problem though.
You had to live in a camp, where she controlled every aspect of your life from training through retirement. What she did with this control was appalling. She forced them to prostitute themselfs out to not only the male wrestlers, but also the rest of the general public in the area.
These women then had to give 100% of the money to Moolah, or else they'd be beaten.
And that's the tornament they tried to give as the consolation prize for women not being allowed to wrestle in Saudi Arabia. Oh, and when they were forced to change the name, almost IMMEDIATELY, they changed it to The Mae Young Classic. Mae Young was Moolah's best friend, and one of the people who would help beat the other women. That's still what it's called today. When they first introduced the trophy for it, the trophy was intentionally made to look like a vagina. "Here's your make believe trophy for winning a make believe tornament, as a consolation prize for very real restrictions on making very real money, and we shaped it like your genitals. Snickers, who sponsered the tornament balked when they saw their logo would be on that trophy, and they were forced to redesign it to something more generic. The tornament continues to this day.
And that's what Netflix just paid 5 BILLION dollars for. Either 3 or 5 years. I forget which.
Holy shit, do you have some more info or refs for this, this sounds unbelievably fucked up.
From the book The Chronicles of Mad Maxine and from Dark Side of the Ring S01E06.
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Also, on the "standard with ads" tier, they've removed the ability to chromecast.
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The peasants will pay... Sad reality.
Is it that the decade of 0% interest rates and angel funding for startups lulled us into unrealistically thinking we could get unlimited everything for 9.99 per month, or is it that companies are suddenly starting to rip off people?
As an end consumer it's impossible to gauge what is a proper price for entertainment.
As with many things, it really is likely a mixture of both. Very possible that 9.99 was unrealistically low, but the current streaming market and "inflation" smoke screening is also enabling some real squeezing of consumers.
Not me! I gave all these streaming assholes the boot years ago.
Netflix has been profitable since 2003. This is greed.
It's probably the latter.
"Delivering shareholder value" has destroyed numerous companies, and I doubt it'll stop soon.
It's simple really
Is the boss a multimillionaire?
No: No problem
Yes: They're charging more than they need to
If that happens,i'll trakt + jellyfin the hell out of all their shitty shows. Just for kicks.
Netflix has no way to continue growing aside from increasing prices. That is a bad sign. They will just keep squeezing people. Your best bet is to stop subscribing.
Genius MBA thinking of our time
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We now have a collection of maybe 400 DVDs (not pirated, legally purchased). Sure, everything we watch is reruns, but there are no commercials.
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