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We’ve switched to only subscribing to a single service at a time. When we get several items to watch on a service and exhausted our current service, we cancel the current and restart the “new” one.

I suspect with Netflix’s recent crackdown on sharing, this will get much more common and their recent gains in membership will reverse.

They just don’t have that much good stuff coming out, nor do many of the services.

Currently really enjoying Hulu on their 1.00/month plan from Black Friday. Many many shows and movies we’d not seen.

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Now that we’re past the prestige TV era and back to regular 90’s TV writing quality, it isn’t like there are must-see-tv events on streaming services, like a shared societal experience a la Game of Thrones. It is so easy to switch and catch up later.

I’ve canceled most of my streaming services other than Hulu with Disney at this point. The reason I haven’t canceled Hulu with Disney is that I’ve shared the password with a family member who likes it. “I have to coordinate pulse-width-modulation on my subscriptions” is the only stickiness that these services actually have at this point, I think.

OTOH, Netflix is still in business, so maybe I’m wrong. Shrug.

This seems like the obvious and sensible thing to do. If this is too much for people, the next best thing is to just stick to one. For me this is Netflix, but the day they start showing ads at the price I'm paying, is the day my subscription count goes to zero.

I've had trials on all the others, and they just don't interest me. Some are actually bad, like Apple TV+'s interface and frankly boring content, or Amazon Prime's paid content inside an already paid for service. Netflix has always stood apart in terms of quality (in all areas), but it's already pricey.

I am definitely not going back, but it's only slightly related to the sharing crackdown. I paid for my own subscription, but don't want them tracking where I watch from. Their job should be simple: send me the data for the video I want to watch. Anything beyond that is an overstep.

Maybe but Netflix has an incredibly low churn rate. I think it was under 3%. While the other services are like 6-8%. I’d think people will keep Netflix as the default and rotating through others as a secondary content source.

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