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Netflix is planning to raise prices… again (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For background content, I use either Pluto or Live TV on Plex.
It's kinda great that, as an older person, they're replaying all the same stuff what constantly being replayed when I was kid. And there's news and music, etc.

I cancelled my Netflix in 2018. I've signed back in for a single month three times over the past five years to catch up on things I've missed. I had a hard time finding much to watch over those three months.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do those have Ads though? I guess I just assumed they did which is why I haven't bothered. I have a lifetime plex sub if it matters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. It’s like regular tv. Maybe your definition of background content is different from mine. I don’t mind a few commercials.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahh ok thanks, appreciate the reply.

I think our definition is probably the same, I'm just very anti-ad, the idea of being continually manipulated to consume rubs my fur backwards. I'm fine paying for ad free though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m very much with you on anti-manipulation and anti-consumerism but I grew up in a time before the internet and have little issue with an acceptable amount of appropriately paced ads for certain content for a given price.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I hear you, I'm Gen X so grew up on cable tv. But I was also a punk rocker as a kid. As I age I find myself increasingly realigning with the values of my youth lol