Netflix
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Why people recommend it
“Some apps are great (Netflix, AppleTV) and are smart enough to turn off the iPhone screen.”
“Some of the most effective mechanisms in history for shifting people away from copyright infringement have been iTunes and Netflix.”
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“They actually got it right, a reasonable price for a bunch of stuff”
“Netflix which is probably the only one better than YouTube”
Caveats and dissent
“Good luck getting a 4k stream from any streaming service on Linux”
“I had Netflix until they switched to their own content and started raising rates, so I dropped it.”
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“the Netflix app stopped being able/allowed to stream to any device that has some kind of remote”
“Netflix region locks a whole lot of content or removes it after some time.”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead 4 mentions
- Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled 3 mentions
- What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription 3 mentions
- A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" 2 mentions
- Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent 2 mentions
- I reverse-engineered Netflix's 4K restrictions 2 mentions
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All comments 40
“Good luck getting a 4k stream from any streaming service on Linux”
“I had Netflix until they switched to their own content and started raising rates, so I dropped it.”
“the Netflix app stopped being able/allowed to stream to any device that has some kind of remote”
“Netflix region locks a whole lot of content or removes it after some time.”
“You can turn it off”
“Some apps are great (Netflix, AppleTV) and are smart enough to turn off the iPhone screen.”
“my experience is with netflix, and i never found issues canceling”
“Some of the most effective mechanisms in history for shifting people away from copyright infringement have been iTunes and Netflix.”
“whatever the Youtube App (330MB) and Netflix (183MB) are wasting my phone's space on”
“the MBAs at the top of the pile in Netflix”
“Netflix doesn't let you watch high definition video on Linux anyway”
“although less obvious companies such as Netflix and Spotify also had appalling conditions.”
“My family still watches Netflix but I stopped”
“Netflix's copy is a crappy blurry transfer”
“I used to pay for Netflix but now that there's so many different streaming services”
“They actually got it right, a reasonable price for a bunch of stuff”
“Netflix, Spotify, MS have apps I see breaking on the regular”
“We cancelled our Netflix when it became something like 15€ per month”
“only to watch Blu-Ray, Netflix and stream from my PC to TV”
“horrendous AI upscaling they tried last year”
“Better than Netflix (and others) imho.”
“Once it got to $15-16 (I forget), I cancelled it.”
“Netflix lets you in Safari”
“Better quality streaming than netflix, no forced ads”
Oura, Netflix, Brain.fm, Wise, Tidal, Claude, Safari, WhatsApp
“it's not worth the price”
“Netflix and almost all banking apps work fine.”
“It keeps freezing and then going back a second and video quality goes down.”
“Netflix is $25/mo for their top tier streaming alone”
“I am paying the same price for my sub via Apple”
“on Netflix and Disney+ (yet)”
“Netflix still refuses to play 4K on some browsers with hardware DRM support”
“WTF I pay for 4K and I dont actually get”
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’s just such an intuitive interface for a TV EDIT: I just looked it up and apparently the wii netflix chan
“Cancelled Netflix for the same reason, as well as their draconian attitude towards”
“Netflix has been checking accounts against public IP addresses and local networks for ages”
“youtube + disney+, + netflix and one or two rotating services”
“for us nerds there is hidden stats for nerds option.”
“Spotify (and netflix etc..) have become very hostile to exposing their catalogue over API”
“the service was going downhill fast”