{"slug": "netflix", "name": "Netflix", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 6, "commenters": 52, "warners": 27, "score": -13.705, "rising": -0.64, "first": "2025-11-09", "latest": "2026-10-25", "why": "Some apps are great (Netflix, AppleTV) and are smart enough to turn off the iPhone screen.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 6, "neutral": 17, "compare": 2, "warn": 28}, "spark": [1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Some apps are great (Netflix, AppleTV) and are smart enough to turn off the iPhone screen.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "netflix.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.netflix.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Netflix"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 794167008, "item_id": 49635438, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49635438", "by": "drewg123", "date": "2026-09-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Some apps are great (Netflix, AppleTV) and are smart enough to turn off the iPhone screen.", "excerpt": "3+ year old XREAL Air AR Glasses. I bought them to code more effectively on my laptop at my then girlfriend (now wife)'s house. The display was too pixely and distracting for me to code on. However, its plenty good enough for videos. For videos I mostly use it with my phone (16 pro). Some apps are great (Netflix, AppleTV) and are smart enough to turn off the iPhone screen. Others (VLC, HBO) leave the screen on and bu", "context": "", "use_case": "watching video with AR glasses", "switched_from": "", "story": "iPhone Duo"}, {"id": 779663137, "item_id": 48728946, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728946", "by": "JoshTriplett", "date": "2026-06-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Some of the most effective mechanisms in history for shifting people away from copyright infringement have been iTunes and Netflix.", "excerpt": "> Not really, no. The current kerfuffle is primarily over illegal streaming of live sports. The blocks need to be in place very rapidly to have any effect. They really don't. As has been repeatedly rediscovered in a thousand other cases: 1) a modest amount of friction will make most people not do it, 2) you will never stop everyone, and collateral damage will be too high (\"the optimal amount of fraud is not zero\", ht", "context": "", "use_case": "Video streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage"}, {"id": 764351168, "item_id": 47771948, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771948", "by": "LorenPechtel", "date": "2026-04-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They actually got it right, a reasonable price for a bunch of stuff", "excerpt": "Yeah, and I think it's pretty much impossible to solve. Look what happened with Netflix. They actually got it right, a reasonable price for a bunch of stuff which would end up appropriated based on demand (they needed to have the disk to rent.) And how you have a bunch of players trying to compete in the space, each with it's exclusive content to try to make you choose them. And look what's happened with Google's \"ne", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A new spam policy for \"back button hijacking\""}, {"id": 734451169, "item_id": 45903198, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903198", "by": "kiwijamo", "date": "2025-11-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Netflix which is probably the only one better than YouTube", "excerpt": "They limit the buffer to around 30secs or so like all other streaming services but otherwise 95%+ of the time it just plays smoothing with no buffering at all from start to end. YouTube is generally in the top 3 of the video streaming services I use. Even on 4G wireless (which I occassionally use) it works well enough which is impressive as other video steaming services struggle (with the sole exception of Netflix wh", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 803745472, "item_id": 50234092, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234092", "by": "fernie", "date": "2026-10-25", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Good luck getting a 4k stream from any streaming service on Linux", "excerpt": "Good luck getting a 4k stream from any streaming service on Linux: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39257581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42685008 Your only options are to sail the high seas or use Android TV.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Root shell on Samsung TV"}, {"id": 803634016, "item_id": 50227126, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227126", "by": "so-gala-massey", "date": "2026-10-25", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I had Netflix until they switched to their own content and started raising rates, so I dropped it.", "excerpt": "Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I stopped watching broadcast/cable TV 20 years ago. I had Netflix until they switched to their own content and started raising rates, so I dropped it. I now rent DVDs from a place about 15 minutes from me. I also have Kanopy for free. Here\u2019s the opinion: stop watching. That\u2019s the only way to send a message. Read a book. Rent a dvd. Or play a game. Or draw. Or visit friends and ", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming video", "switched_from": "", "story": "America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?"}, {"id": 801171680, "item_id": 50073230, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073230", "by": "throw0101c", "date": "2026-10-13", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the Netflix app stopped being able/allowed to stream to any device that has some kind of remote", "excerpt": "> I have an AppleTV because I never want to plug my TV into the internet. I just need a box that can stream videos. One annoyance is that the Netflix app stopped being able/allowed to stream to any device that has some kind of remote (or where you can enter a username/password in some way): * https://lifehacker.com/tech/netflix-is-killing-casting-from-your-phone * https://help.netflix.com/en/node/100131 It'd be nice ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "New Apple TV 4K"}, {"id": 797326481, "item_id": 49832905, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832905", "by": "hypendev", "date": "2026-09-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Netflix region locks a whole lot of content or removes it after some time.", "excerpt": "Exactly this. Streaming services have become the worst of all worlds. As an EU citizen, even tho I pay for Netflix and Prime, I cannot access most of the content there as even tho it exists on the service because it's not available in my country. Amazon prime has 2 good shows and just a bunch of D-tier movies or some 35+ year old ones. It's mostly worthless. 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I had Netflix until they switched to their own content and started raising rates, so I dropped it. I now rent DVDs from a place about 15 minutes from me. I also have Kanopy for free. Here\u2019s the opinion: stop watching. That\u2019s the only way to send a message. Read a book. Rent a dvd. Or play a game. Or draw. Or visit friends and ", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming video", "switched_from": "", "story": "America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?"}, {"id": 801171680, "item_id": 50073230, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073230", "by": "throw0101c", "date": "2026-10-13", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the Netflix app stopped being able/allowed to stream to any device that has some kind of remote", "excerpt": "> I have an AppleTV because I never want to plug my TV into the internet. I just need a box that can stream videos. One annoyance is that the Netflix app stopped being able/allowed to stream to any device that has some kind of remote (or where you can enter a username/password in some way): * https://lifehacker.com/tech/netflix-is-killing-casting-from-your-phone * https://help.netflix.com/en/node/100131 It'd be nice ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "New Apple TV 4K"}, {"id": 797326481, "item_id": 49832905, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832905", "by": "hypendev", "date": "2026-09-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Netflix region locks a whole lot of content or removes it after some time.", "excerpt": "Exactly this. Streaming services have become the worst of all worlds. As an EU citizen, even tho I pay for Netflix and Prime, I cannot access most of the content there as even tho it exists on the service because it's not available in my country. Amazon prime has 2 good shows and just a bunch of D-tier movies or some 35+ year old ones. It's mostly worthless. Netflix region locks a whole lot of content or removes it a", "context": "EU citizen", "use_case": "video streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits"}, {"id": 796592816, "item_id": 49787051, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787051", "by": "layer8", "date": "2026-09-21", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "You can turn it off", "excerpt": "You can turn it off: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102. Does that setting not work for you?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"}, {"id": 794167008, "item_id": 49635438, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49635438", "by": "drewg123", "date": "2026-09-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Some apps are great (Netflix, AppleTV) and are smart enough to turn off the iPhone screen.", "excerpt": "3+ year old XREAL Air AR Glasses. I bought them to code more effectively on my laptop at my then girlfriend (now wife)'s house. The display was too pixely and distracting for me to code on. However, its plenty good enough for videos. For videos I mostly use it with my phone (16 pro). Some apps are great (Netflix, AppleTV) and are smart enough to turn off the iPhone screen. Others (VLC, HBO) leave the screen on and bu", "context": "", "use_case": "watching video with AR glasses", "switched_from": "", "story": "iPhone Duo"}, {"id": 785790000, "item_id": 49111875, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111875", "by": "mirmor23", "date": "2026-07-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "my experience is with netflix, and i never found issues canceling", "excerpt": "you are right, but that does not negate the friction that people felt at the time. my experience is with netflix, and i never found issues canceling, and as a matter of principle, i do not subscribe to services unless there are no alternatives (e.g. i pay for amz shipping, my own email domain). compare canceling a service sitting at home to driving to the video store, depositing dvd/vhs, and still having to check if ", "context": "", "use_case": "video streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores"}, {"id": 779663137, "item_id": 48728946, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728946", "by": "JoshTriplett", "date": "2026-06-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Some of the most effective mechanisms in history for shifting people away from copyright infringement have been iTunes and Netflix.", "excerpt": "> Not really, no. The current kerfuffle is primarily over illegal streaming of live sports. The blocks need to be in place very rapidly to have any effect. They really don't. As has been repeatedly rediscovered in a thousand other cases: 1) a modest amount of friction will make most people not do it, 2) you will never stop everyone, and collateral damage will be too high (\"the optimal amount of fraud is not zero\", ht", "context": "", "use_case": "Video streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage"}, {"id": 776809122, "item_id": 48550570, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550570", "by": "xp84", "date": "2026-06-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "whatever the Youtube App (330MB) and Netflix (183MB) are wasting my phone's space on", "excerpt": "Interesting. Honestly I had never considered that angle. Given that they really ought not to need anything but simple navigation of lists and grids to build a streaming app that is actually usable and fast, not whatever the Youtube App (330MB) and Netflix (183MB) are wasting my phone's space on... now I'm wondering if this forced parsimony imposed on the developers could be a reason to give Roku a try again. I admit ", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming app", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal"}, {"id": 773950529, "item_id": 48371908, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371908", "by": "piltdownman", "date": "2026-06-02", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the MBAs at the top of the pile in Netflix", "excerpt": "Even worse, the MBAs at the top of the pile in Netflix and other streaming services refusing to license the music for TV series' they have bought out and geolocked. This isn't just swapping like-for-like with stock music, it's a pervasive form of Stalinist Revisionism - with certains edits and scenes altered or completely removed when they relied on the track in question. As a fastcompany article notes, \"...streaming", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"}, {"id": 773303840, "item_id": 48331490, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331490", "by": "nozzlegear", "date": "2026-05-29", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Netflix doesn't let you watch high definition video on Linux anyway", "excerpt": "No I don't think it's disingenuous \u2013 indeed, it seemed to me that you were being disingenuous. My actual argument is that you're confusing Netflix's use of DRM for \"Apple's implementation,\" without acknowledging that you'd have this exact same problem on Windows and Android devices. That Linux doesn't have it is just testament to the fact that hardly anyone, comparatively speaking, actually uses Linux as a daily driv", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"}, {"id": 768740353, "item_id": 48046272, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48046272", "by": "port11", "date": "2026-05-06", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "although less obvious companies such as Netflix and Spotify also had appalling conditions.", "excerpt": "Sibling comment does a great job, but I just wanted to add that their Terms and Privacy Policy are simply not compatible with privacy-friendliness. I used to analyse PPs to detect usage of data brokers, and I\u2019ll confidently say that these 2 have some of the worst policies out there, although less obvious companies such as Netflix and Spotify also had appalling conditions. If a policy is compatible with data brokerage", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Proton Meet"}, {"id": 766151669, "item_id": 47884479, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884479", "by": "dh2022", "date": "2026-04-23", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "My family still watches Netflix but I stopped", "excerpt": "In my experience tech changed the way it is displayed in this article. Tech products really degraded in the past year. YouTube is now unwatchable because of ads every 4-5 minutes, google search is similarly un-usable (I switched to Bing and it is ok for now, but if it gets worse I already know its replacement). I used to love using Excel-it is now unusable as well (I switched to libreOffice on my work computer where ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "How the Tech World Turned Evil"}, {"id": 765879168, "item_id": 47867448, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867448", "by": "Brian_K_White", "date": "2026-04-22", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Netflix's copy is a crappy blurry transfer", "excerpt": "The ground truth that I never click on Stargate on Netflix is completely at odds with the actual truth that I love Stargate and want more of it and things like it. What the ground truth usage data is completely ignorant of is that Netflix's copy is a crappy blurry transfer, and so I got dvds instead.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"}, {"id": 765202065, "item_id": 47825129, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825129", "by": "sbarre", "date": "2026-04-19", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to pay for Netflix but now that there's so many different streaming services", "excerpt": "Yes totally agreed. I pay for streaming music and for Youtube because the costs make sense to me for what I get. I used to pay for Netflix but now that there's so many different streaming services I have returned to the high seas because we just don't watch enough shows (maybe 3-5 shows a year?), yet they are spread across different services that all cost $20/month now, so the costs don't make sense for us. For books", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"}, {"id": 764351168, "item_id": 47771948, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771948", "by": "LorenPechtel", "date": "2026-04-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They actually got it right, a reasonable price for a bunch of stuff", "excerpt": "Yeah, and I think it's pretty much impossible to solve. Look what happened with Netflix. They actually got it right, a reasonable price for a bunch of stuff which would end up appropriated based on demand (they needed to have the disk to rent.) And how you have a bunch of players trying to compete in the space, each with it's exclusive content to try to make you choose them. And look what's happened with Google's \"ne", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A new spam policy for \"back button hijacking\""}, {"id": 764183697, "item_id": 47761481, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761481", "by": "bonesss", "date": "2026-04-13", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Netflix, Spotify, MS have apps I see breaking on the regular", "excerpt": "I published my first website in 1995 (and while it wasn\u2019t even a little popular, eventually a spammy gay porn site popped up with the exact same joke name, leading to a pretty odd early \u201cwhat if you search for your own site\u201d experience). If you put 2026 media players (with modern bandwidth), on the manually curated small-editorial web of \u201895 it\u2019d be amazing. We used to have desktop apps, these SPA JS monstrosities ar", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A new spam policy for \"back button hijacking\""}, {"id": 763436592, "item_id": 47714787, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714787", "by": "port11", "date": "2026-04-10", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "We cancelled our Netflix when it became something like 15\u20ac per month", "excerpt": "In Berlin we\u2019d just go to the local movie rental shop (think Blockbuster). Wednesdays they would rent the latest Blu-Ray titles for 1.50\u20ac, 1\u20ac for DVDs. Done and dusted, the service was amazing and we\u2019d talk a bit with the lady there. I really miss that shop. Now we use the library or buy cheap DVDs second-hand at a shop that employs people that would struggle to be hired. We cancelled our Netflix when it became somet", "context": "", "use_case": "Video streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Netflix Prices Went Up Again \u2013 I Bought a DVD Player Instead"}, {"id": 763375009, "item_id": 47710938, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710938", "by": "BeetleB", "date": "2026-04-09", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "only to watch Blu-Ray, Netflix and stream from my PC to TV", "excerpt": "Libraries are the single reason I got back into video games after a multi-decade hiatus. I played very few games from 2002 to 2017. Didn't want to keep buying new computers, and did not want to bother with consoles (graphics was better on PC than a non-HD TV). In 2010 I bought a PS3, but only to watch Blu-Ray, Netflix and stream from my PC to TV. Did not play games on it. Then in 2016/2017, on a whim, I decided to ch", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Netflix Prices Went Up Again \u2013 I Bought a DVD Player Instead"}, {"id": 763360800, "item_id": 47710050, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710050", "by": "mschild", "date": "2026-04-09", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "horrendous AI upscaling they tried last year", "excerpt": "Most movies and tv shows are available for similar prices on blue rays, often in 4k versions. While the resolution may be higher on streaming, the bitrate is often significantly worse. Beyond that Netflix has done upscaling in the past with middling success. Nevermind the horrendous AI upscaling they tried last year. https://futurism.com/netflix-ai-upscaling-old-shows-horrific", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Netflix Prices Went Up Again \u2013 I Bought a DVD Player Instead"}, {"id": 763352993, "item_id": 47709562, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709562", "by": "donohoe", "date": "2026-04-09", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Better than Netflix (and others) imho.", "excerpt": "Not a lawyer but... if you have the DVD its legal to make a backup digital copy. I am thinking the same thing. Most recent movies are available for under $20 per DVD - and there are tons of deals. You can get the 4 lego movies for $5 on DVD on Amazon right now. A \"Tom Cruise 10-Movie Collection\" is $12. You get the idea. Get the DVD. Make a legal backup. Keep the physical DVD in storage. You now \"own\" the movie (or T", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Netflix Prices Went Up Again \u2013 I Bought a DVD Player Instead"}, {"id": 760735728, "item_id": 47545983, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545983", "by": "jmyeet", "date": "2026-03-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Once it got to $15-16 (I forget), I cancelled it.", "excerpt": "Speaking from experience, I had Netflix for years without thinking about it, starting at $8/month. At that price I didn't care if I watched it or not. Then it went to $10, $12, etc. Once it got to $15-16 (I forget), I cancelled it. I now sign up for 1-2 months a year to catch up on shows I like and just rotate which streaming services I have. Yes, this is anecdotal. It's hard to find data on how common rotating strea", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent"}, {"id": 760729152, "item_id": 47545572, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545572", "by": "bonyt", "date": "2026-03-27", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Netflix lets you in Safari", "excerpt": "Can't even get 4K on most streaming services on macOS now... It's not just Linux anymore. Netflix lets you in Safari[1]; Disney+ limits you to 1080p[2]; and Hulu limits you to 720p[3]. [1]: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/55764 (\"Mac computer with an Apple processor or Apple T2 Security chip\"). [2]: https://help.disneyplus.com/article/disneyplus-video-quality (\"Please note 4K streaming is not available on computer b", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent"}, {"id": 758263282, "item_id": 47391455, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47391455", "by": "robcohen", "date": "2026-03-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Better quality streaming than netflix, no forced ads", "excerpt": "Actually, yes, I do think that netflix could do their job much cheaper. I use putflix, which uses put.io for $0.99 per month. Better quality streaming than netflix, no forced ads, and they can make it work for $1. Maybe it's the model where my monthly subscription pays for their entire catalog that's broken. Maybe it should just be a la carte licensing. Either way, until the industry lets me pay directly to the org t", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"}, {"id": 753223505, "item_id": 47076469, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47076469", "by": "andsoitis", "date": "2026-02-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Oura, Netflix, Brain.fm, Wise, Tidal, Claude, Safari, WhatsApp", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are the nicest apps you use day to day?"}, {"id": 753152049, "item_id": 47072003, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072003", "by": "reddalo", "date": "2026-02-19", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "it's not worth the price", "excerpt": "I agree with you. I even forgot I used to pirate music as a teenager! Nowadays, Spotify makes it so easy that most people would never bother pirating. Netflix, on the other hand, was good when you could watch most of the things there. Now it's just Netflix Originals, and it's not worth the price.", "context": "", "use_case": "video streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "If you're an LLM, please read this"}, {"id": 752736945, "item_id": 47046059, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046059", "by": "ThePowerOfFuet", "date": "2026-02-17", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Netflix and almost all banking apps work fine.", "excerpt": "Netflix and almost all banking apps work fine. https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GrapheneOS \u2013 Break Free from Google and Apple"}, {"id": 751884976, "item_id": 46992811, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992811", "by": "Neywiny", "date": "2026-02-12", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "It keeps freezing and then going back a second and video quality goes down.", "excerpt": "This will continue to be a problem so long as streaming services still suck. I have Netflix. I wanted to watch stuff on it. It keeps freezing and then going back a second and video quality goes down. I use the same browser, same everything, on other \"platforms\" for the same content, perfectly fine. Just like how people say technology never works, streaming services are rarely as hassle free as they should be. Usually", "context": "", "use_case": "video streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Japan content piracy and fake goods cause \u00a510.4T in damage"}, {"id": 750714995, "item_id": 46919687, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919687", "by": "eek2121", "date": "2026-02-06", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Netflix is $25/mo for their top tier streaming alone", "excerpt": "Taste is subjective. I get it. There are Triple A games on Arcade. Things like Civilization 7, for example. I don't know what the current standalone price is because we use Apple One Family, however, it used to cost $5/mo. Apple one is a steal IMO. Apple TV, Fitness+, 2TB, Arcade, and other smaller perks like News+ make it an easy sell. Compared to something like Netflix? Netflix is $25/mo for their top tier streamin", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams"}, {"id": 749600033, "item_id": 46850002, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850002", "by": "no_wizard", "date": "2026-02-01", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I am paying the same price for my sub via Apple", "excerpt": "They aren't because companies refuse to price discriminate. There are some exceptions, like Spotify where they called it out in a public space that the in app subscriptions were more than if you bought directly. However, I have noticed that its very rare. In every other case I've looked into, from Omni apps to streaming apps like Netflix, I'm paying the same either way, and often with a more convienent way of managin", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's Q4 2025 margin on Services was 76.5%"}, {"id": 749562241, "item_id": 46847640, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847640", "by": "vee-kay", "date": "2026-02-01", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "on Netflix and Disney+ (yet)", "excerpt": "I use an old Amazon FireTV Stick on an old LG LED TV (semi-smart), and neither of them bug me with such fullscreen ads, unless I opt to watch MX content on Amazon Prime (MX is basically third-party ads-funded free OTT content; Amazon Prime requires subscription, and even its standard subscription has occasional ads for Prime content, though Amazon Prime also has a premium pricing tier for ads-free content). I don't f", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"}, {"id": 748872640, "item_id": 46804540, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804540", "by": "Retr0id", "date": "2026-01-28", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Netflix still refuses to play 4K on some browsers with hardware DRM support", "excerpt": "Right, but the point is that Netflix still refuses to play 4K on some browsers with hardware DRM support. Even getting it to work in Edge was a challenge last time I tried - iirc I got it working via https://github.com/lkmvip/netflix-4K-DDplus", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I reverse-engineered Netflix's 4K restrictions"}, {"id": 748864656, "item_id": 46804041, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804041", "by": "daft_pink", "date": "2026-01-28", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "WTF I pay for 4K and I dont actually get", "excerpt": "Is anyone else reading this like WTF I pay for 4K and I dont actually get and I didn\u2019t realize it!?!?!", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I reverse-engineered Netflix's 4K restrictions"}, {"id": 746500272, "item_id": 46656267, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656267", "by": "jedbrooke", "date": "2026-01-17", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Thanks for bringing back memories of the Netflix Wii Channel. At the beginning it was on a disk. We used the Netflix wii channel until the day they dropped support. Our Wii long outlived its life as a games console by continuing on as a netflix machine. I still miss using the actual pointer to point at things, it\u2019s just such an intuitive interface for a TV EDIT: I just looked it up and apparently the wii netflix chan", "context": "", "use_case": "Streaming on Wii", "switched_from": "", "story": "Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news"}, {"id": 746469264, "item_id": 46654329, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654329", "by": "8fingerlouie", "date": "2026-01-16", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Cancelled Netflix for the same reason, as well as their draconian attitude towards", "excerpt": "Same principle as I use everywhere else, if I pay for it, I'm not seeing any ads, and if I do, I'm no longer paying. Cancelled Netflix for the same reason, as well as their draconian attitude towards \"account sharing\" meaning I have to authenticate every. god. damned. time. I login from my summerhouse. So yeah, i cancelled and dug out the old eye patch. I did the exact same thing when CDs began to have sadistic level", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.'"}, {"id": 745921296, "item_id": 46620081, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620081", "by": "acka", "date": "2026-01-14", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Netflix has been checking accounts against public IP addresses and local networks for ages", "excerpt": "Netflix has been checking accounts against public IP addresses and local networks for ages, at least in The Netherlands. if I use my Dad's account, I get flagged as being \"not on the same home network\" immediately. I think that using a VPN and Netflix detecting that would only make matters worse, like termination of service.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "So, You've Hit an Age Gate. What Now?"}, {"id": 745466691, "item_id": 46591668, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591668", "by": "hadlock", "date": "2026-01-12", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "youtube + disney+, + netflix and one or two rotating services", "excerpt": "The \"smart\" TV in my office is hooked up to a chromecast thing and I interact with the chromecast dongle. My TV has never been hooked up to the TV and in fact I haven't even accepted the EULA. The GUI on the TV is lightning fast, and since it can't update itself (and never will!) it will remain lightning fast. If my 4k HDMI dongle begins to struggle, I will plug in a new device via HDMI. I was not able to win that ar", "context": "", "use_case": "TV streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"}, {"id": 742894928, "item_id": 46430933, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430933", "by": "miyuru", "date": "2025-12-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "for us nerds there is hidden stats for nerds option.", "excerpt": "Netflix's main audience is general public who still cannot differentiate between mbps and MBps. for us nerds there is hidden stats for nerds option. https://blog.sayan.page/netflix-debug-mode/", "context": "", "use_case": "Video streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Stranger Things Creator Says Turn Off \"Garbage\" Settings"}, {"id": 741706097, "item_id": 46356631, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46356631", "by": "Raed667", "date": "2025-12-22", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Spotify (and netflix etc..) have become very hostile to exposing their catalogue over API", "excerpt": "I'm hoping that this metadata leak can revive projects like https://everynoise.com Spotify (and netflix etc..) have become very hostile to exposing their catalogue over API, so i'm glad they've gotten open sourced :)", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scraping of their library"}, {"id": 738628208, "item_id": 46164263, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164263", "by": "raddan", "date": "2025-12-05", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the service was going downhill fast", "excerpt": "Netflix is still \"competing\" with discs at this point, although I would accept that discs aren't exactly winning. Most of the content I watch comes from blu-rays, and with a few exceptions (The Americans, grr), most of the things I want to watch have been released on disc. In fact, there is a small community of film enthusiasts who continue to purchase media outright, e.g., https://www.blu-ray.com. I started using Ne", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"}]}