If I see a netflix ad I cancel. Just like I did with hulu+ (the paid service), no way am I going to pay a video streaming to waste my time and bandwidth with ads.
Similarly first time I see a youtube ad, I'll cancel my youtube premium subscription.
Similarly first time I see a youtube ad, I'll cancel my youtube premium subscription.
If anything the need for piracy or ad blocking led to a lot of people learning tech skills they would otherwise be completely uninterested in.
Netflix already contains advertising, btw. Its content does, such as product placement (a good example of which being Nokia in the original The Matrix though not Netflix specific). Heck, even Disney+ is advertising: for their merchandise. My kid digs 'Mini Mouse'.
What I am not interesting in is wasting my time on ads. I sort of accept it on Prime because I got Prime cheap, and its Prime Video products only. They're testing my limits though, I can tell you that much, and I can also tell you the ads are usually not appropriate for me (although I do have Prime for the Prime specific content, I find it on my own). The moment Netflix starts to waste my time with ads, it becomes less valuable. Because ads is the reason I avoid cable TV. I CBA with wasting my time on BS I don't want (to see). Its the reason I got Netflix in the first place. It makes the product less convenient, and pirating is already very convenient. It just feels better to pay for something while watching the people you paid for acting.
I think WWW and streaming ads are too different to allow much meaningful cross inference.
On a web page with ads the ads are visible while you are trying to read the content, sometimes even overlaying it, and sometimes making noise and playing distracting animations.
On streaming (and on broadcast) the ad breaks usually alternate with the content or occur between acts in the content. When the content is actually playing the ads are not there.
This makes a huge difference. When an ad comes on between acts in a show, I simply pick up a book or my iPad until the next act starts in the show. I've always got things I want to do that I can make progress on in 2 or 3 minute segments so it is no big deal.
If I have to reach for my credit card to view your content, you have to put the ads away. There is no in between for me. If you pull out ads on me, I will drop your service.
Youtube has ads for the lower tiers, yet you’re still subscribed.
This article is explicitly not arguing that Netflix should show ads to existing subscribers like yourself.
The article also argues that Netflix is constantly bumping up their prices, and this would further justify that by making the higher tiers seem more attractive.