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Re:Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it by ajmurmann on Saturday May 21, 2022 @09:15PM (#31463950)
I keep hearing this $100+ argument all the time, but do you really need all the services simultaneously? As you point out, there isn't that much to watch. So just unsubscribe for a few months, let the new content build up and safe money in the meantime.
Re:Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it by harha on Saturday May 21, 2022 @10:00PM (#31464218)
Well no, but I also don’t want to constantly be switching just to watch one or two shows. The original benefit of Netflix was that you could have a service with a decent selection, no hassle.

If I click unsubscribe, that’s more or less final.

Re:Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it by psyc on Sunday May 22, 2022 @02:27AM (#31465428)
That wouldn’t work for me at all. I’ve been rotating around all the services, one at a time, since sometime last year. I quit Netflix for the first time since ~2007, last September. Nothing watchable that I hadn’t seen. I resubscribed for the last season of Ozark. When that was over, I looked around for what good stuff they’d added in the last 7 months and found squat. Promptly canceled again.

I’m fast approaching the time when I won’t be subscribed to anything most of the time, and occasionally sign up for one to watch one show.

Re:Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it by bentcorner on Sunday May 22, 2022 @03:06AM (#31465648)
While that makes a lot of sense, that's a difficult sell when you have multiple people in a household.
Re:Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it by chihuahua on Saturday May 21, 2022 @11:12PM (#31464555)
Yeah, this is not rocket science. Subscribe to one service at a time. Switch to another service when you want to watch something different. It's not like the old days where switching from cable to satellite TV was a huge hassle.