Telling Netflix to GFYS

[Karl12]

Netflix is a marriage between Big Tech and Big Media... abomination offspring is to be expected.

Well said.. and would also suggest the grandparents of both are 'military intelligence'.

Didn't see this mentioned yet about 'Netflix' - did you see one of its co-founders was Marc Bernays Randolph?

Probably just a colossal coincidence that his great-uncle was Edward Bernays who literally wrote the book on 'propaganda'.

You’ve heard of his uncle Sigmund, so how come you’ve never heard of him? In this classic episode from The Corbett Report archives James dishes the dirt on Edward Bernays, Freud’s American nephew. Learn how to break societal taboos, get the public to demand poison in the water, and prep the way for an overthrow of a foreign government from the man who literally wrote the book on propaganda!

Meet Edward Bernays, Master of Propaganda

[Chiefsmom]

Isn't it called "bait and switch?"

And Yeah, I thought that was illegal.

[argentus]

I'm in a different zone than you all, but I most definitely understand your angst.   Where I live, my choices are $2800/year for DISH, local "cable" that doesn't have a lot of useful channels, but there are a hundred or so throwaways, or the choice we are currently using:

IP TV box that gets almost everything, but there is no overall guide, plus, it buffers freqiemtly, but it's cheap. AND  Da Da duuuuum, $16 per month NetFlix.  I don't get any ads.   I think that would finish it for me.   So far, I am entertained.   I can get my sports and network garbage on the IP, and movies and a few interesting series on NetFlix.    I can't stand U.S. "NEWS" stations.   The political crap is overwhelming, and who hasn't already made up their minds?   So, I watch BBC, which, for the most part is like an unsmiling person accompanied by a ASL person telling me what was blown up yesterday, with a side order of UK weather, sports and a smaller dash of UK politics.   PERfect.

[Maxmars]

I'm in a different zone than you all, but I most definitely understand your angst.   Where I live, my choices are $2800/year for DISH, local "cable" that doesn't have a lot of useful channels, but there are a hundred or so throwaways, or the choice we are currently using:

IP TV box that gets almost everything, but there is no overall guide, plus, it buffers freqiemtly, but it's cheap. AND  Da Da duuuuum, $16 per month NetFlix.  I don't get any ads.   I think that would finish it for me.   So far, I am entertained.   I can get my sports and network garbage on the IP, and movies and a few interesting series on NetFlix.    I can't stand U.S. "NEWS" stations.   The political crap is overwhelming, and who hasn't already made up their minds?   So, I watch BBC, which, for the most part is like an unsmiling person accompanied by a ASL person telling me what was blown up yesterday, with a side order of UK weather, sports and a smaller dash of UK politics.   PERfect.

I hope I'm wrong, but the days of "no ads" are disappearing... imagine that "ads" are now a thing to be threatened with!  You actually have to pay "more" to exclude solicitation... back when this was new they would have maintained "never!"

It is amazing how little resistance they publicly recognize... trying to maintain that they need the ad revenue to operate... when the operating cost is what you're paying them for in the first place.

Lies.