SkavauNetflix says users can cancel service if HBO Max merger makes it too expensive
Jokes on them, I already cancelled my Netflix and hbo accounts because of the rampant enshittification of both services.
What has Netflix enshittified? Ad supported viewing is a completely different tier and arguably they have provided even more value by bundling in mobile games that are completely ad and micro transaction free. Price increases don’t even count as enshittification.
It does if you inflate the price of the base tier, then add a new lower tier at the old price. With ads.
Or if you have less content and charge more.
Or if you stop making content with creatives having control and instead make it based on producer led content.
Or if you start changing up the cover art of different content and sprinkle it in different categories to give the appearance of more content.
Or if you claim to be about freedom of speech and not judging content based on being offensive or controversial, but then fire workers that you feel are offensive or controversial.
Or if you start buying your competition with the intention of having less competition.
It does if you inflate the price of the base tier, then add a new lower tier at the old price. With ads.
That’s not enshittification that’s a price increase. They’re not obligated to keep the same price point forever.
Or if you have less content and charge more.
Not enshittification because that’s literally how the industry works. Now imagine they have literally all the content, won’t you be crying it’s a MONOPOLY, KILL THEM ASAP?
Or if you stop making content with creatives having control and instead make it based on producer led content.
Not enshittification.
Or if you start changing up the cover art of different content and sprinkle it in different categories to give the appearance of more content.
Wow person learns how algorithms and categories work. What a revelation.
Or if you claim to be about freedom of speech and not judging content based on being offensive or controversial, but then fire workers that you feel are offensive or controversial.
Not enshittification.
Or if you start buying your competition with the intention of having less competition.
Didn’t you just say above you wanted more content?
This is just people crying about something they don’t like. If you don’t want to use the service don’t use it.
What has Netflix enshittified?
Their content.
I’m not sure that’s really enshittification. It’s not so much a way to deteriorate the service to make money as it is an attempt to accommodate the habits of the viewers. I totally agree that we’re getting super bad content that’s only mildly entertaining if you’re doing 2-3 other things while watching, but that’s the demographic they believe they have.
They consider their product to be “Second Screen,” which mean it is meant to be consumed while you are on your phone. Matt Damon recently talked about the rules of making a Netflix video, and one of them is that you have to repeat your plot objective several times, so the people who are “watching” while on their phones will get it.
They also mandate the use of certain cameras and lenses and other equipment, to ensure that their productions have a similar look across the platform.
They have lots of other rules that compromise quality and artistic integrity in favor of branding and profit.
That counts as enshittification to me.
Also, enshittification is not in spell check.
Every broadcaster and platform has a list of approved cameras, and always has done. That isn’t enshittification, that’s ensuring technical quality.
SwedneckIt’s just a matter of what it is. The end product is still garbage, but to me enshittification is the process of making the platform worse by one way or another monetising the users, like adding ads and promoting content that while not in the interest of the users will retain them (such as ragebait on Faceboo). In this case they make the content worse because they believe it will attract customers.
Is it irony to quote all the enshittification steps and then demonstrate you know nothing about enshittification by saying they’re good things?
If they were value-added features, we could opt-out and pay the same (plus inflation) without them. None of the extra shit has any value to my house, for instance.
I never implied they’re good, I implied it’s not enshittification. There’s a difference.
If they were value-added features, we could opt-out and pay the same (plus inflation) without them.
This doesn’t even make sense because they were added to your account at no charge. That means they would actually have to decrease the price if you want to exclude them.