I don’t do ads. Seeing them after years of not has a profoundly negative effect on my brain. A slight fog akin to waking up after using Benadryl as a sleep aide, and a hazing of attention capacity.

I’m not going to pay for that impact on my thinking. It certainly won’t improve the world to have more of it.

I remember when streaming was super new and the service was AMAZING. As time passed; everything got much more expensive, movies and series were removed and now, even ads are displayed to you even though you pay for their service. The reason for the streaming service was BECAUAE of them having no ads. Now all streaming services has gone to shit :/ giving you 720p upscaled but saying its 1080 HD or 4k. Just lies… Too expensive to pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services to get the movie you want to watch because one service doesn’t have what you want to look at.

all that to be locked out of anything higher than 720p if you dare use a privacy friendly operating system 😂 right, I’ll be holding onto my money then

Just FYI, currently in Sweden I pay the equivalent of about $10 for the standard tier without ads.

They only recently increased it to the close to $10. Currently I am OK paying that since my kid is actually using Netflix frequently.

As soon as the price goes higher, or they introduce ads in any way or once they start peddling their shitty mobile games on the child account, we’re out.

They already started to not have non-English audio for a few pretty popular movies, which is a weird move and makes it less usable for us as well.

Already got Jellyfin setup, so no worries for the future on my end.