I was waiting for this one. Netflix kills the legacy Basic plan and gives you to pick between a shitty ‘with ads’ plan (crowing that you’ll save 35%) or nudging you towards the more expensive Standard.
Fortunately, the child (our only Netflix viewer) has just started watching a lot of iPlayer and for the first time doesn’t care about the propect of losing Netflix. So we will be switching to the ‘no plan’.
@craiggrannell I had the base plan with ads for a couple of months and, at least in Italy, there are no ads in the kids’ profile.
I don't know if this is a global thing: in Italy there's a law that says that TVs targeted to small kids can't have advertising and maybe they are forced to do it here for this reason.
@dzamir It’s the same here: no ads for kids. But it guarantees that we as adults in this house won’t use it at all after that point. Frankly, I’ve been trying to wean the child off of Netflix for ages anyway, and she’s currently found stuff she likes on iPlayer. She was all >shrug< when I said I might cancel Netflix, for the first time. So I’ll take advantage of that and sign back up in the future if there’s something specific we want to watch.
@craiggrannell queue someone pointing out that the BBC license fee is much more expensive and only serving leftist (but also somehow government) propaganda 🤣
@BonehouseWasps Hmm. That might give it a stay of execution if the child rebels. But I’d like to convince her to switch services and shows more often. See more of what’s out there. She’s very bad at doing that with TV and games. (She reads basically everything put in front of her though.)
@craiggrannell My plan to save money with Netflix is to subscribe for 1 quarter each year, catch up on what is new and then cancel for the remaining 3 quarters.
Approaching the end of the initial quarter, but will I remember to cancel…
@CTD We’re heading for the same. The only service currently with permanence is Apple One, because the kid uses Arcade quite a lot. But if Apple goes for an upsell with TV+, I’ll bin that too.
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