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Yeah - I dumped Cable decades ago and recently dumped Netflix. They notified me they were dumping my membership tier and they offered me a deal - a cheaper deal but with ads. To go back to no ads would have doubled what I was paying. That's not how you treat a loyal customer so I left them to their greed and am now just indoor antenna TV. I may look into YT but I doubt it. I just do not believe in paying for TV. I watch a lot DVD's these days.
You are 100% entitled to your opinion, but you pay for tv if it's free with ads, you just pay with time and attention instead of money...
Of course, if everything you want to watch is on DVD you can get it from the library or whatever, which is amazing!
I can't say Netflix is without greed, as they raised their fees and lost a million subscribers their stock price kept going up. On the face of it they look like an entertainment company, but they're not, and neither are the big networks. They're companies designed to make money for their shareholders. Network TV is window dressing for commercials, and now so are most of the streamers. It feels like TV and movie production should be getting cheaper with technology, but it's not, it's getting more expensive. Part of the equation is that money needs to be made to make content (insert snake eating its tail), and most streamers are becoming more and more niche or going more and more broad, like network TV. I can guarantee you that Netflix is trying to become more broad like network, on the TV side. They're also gobbling up inexpensive foreign (non-US) material as they're very much a global presence now. I'm sure this will not appeal to people who have been used to getting high-end premiere content for a decade for super cheap and ad free. Like most things tech related (they're run like a Silicon Valley tech enterprise) the cost to the consumer never reflected the reality of the bottom line because they were pumping in capital. Since they couldn't eviscerate the work force in Hollywood they're passing the actual cost plus their profit on to you. Unfortunately, if you like what "they" offer you have to pay them what they ask as this is not a European model or PBS.