Yep. It’s a bribe opportunity

I agree, but enshitification marches on.

It seems that there may come a point where screenless and disconnected cars become more and more valuable. That and jailbreaking cars is going to become a requirement.

Graphene OS says no

Hard to maintain. I.e. Nvidia will now try to break intentionally.

Yeah and with everything thats happening. It will be the usual slowly boiling the frog approach all the inflation / price gouging / shrinkflation has taken this far.

Currently they’re already doing it, it’s just a little bit slower and less dynamic: Goal, increase price by 25%

Step 1. Reduce package contents by 33% and provide a coupon for a reduced price by 25%

Step 2. Slowly oscilate the coupon from not available to being a less reduction in price.

Step 3: profit – Increasing the total profit to vary between 8% and 33% more depending on the day.

This example was taken from the new 8 can la croixs, but plenty of other examples. It’s just items that have a fixed size / quantity are harder to shrinkflate. Other stuff just reduce the weight a little at a time.

Rotisserie chicken for only $16.99*

*Surge pricing may apply. (At 6pm we add $4 to the price of our rotisserie chicken because…we can.)

Yeah, the writing is on the wall when it comes to digital pricing of grocery store products. The only way to fight this will be to refuse to shop at places that do it. Or get legislation to regulate it, but good luck getting that to happen, or even enforcing it. Especially with the current administration being bought and paid for by corporations… Sadly it’s doubtful we’ll get enough people boycotting it, especially since at first they’ll just keep the prices the same, when we need to be boycotting the store the moment it happens.

Then when they start switching to changing the pricing dynamically the digital price tags will already be installed across all their stores and there won’t be any way to protest against it besides going to a completely different retailer that doesn’t do it. If that’s even an option, which for the poorest or least capable people, it likely won’t be.

Surge pricing, coming to your dozen eggs at a corporate grocery store near you.

done.

Sure sure. Hahah a fair point.

Yep. It’s def a trend of, take over and then price gouge everyone.

In a word, enshitification. I’m currently on a de-googling journey and it feels so good every service I cut.

Lol all good and fair points.

I just focused on premium because that’s what I had prior to cancelling. So totally just focused on what directly impacted me. I should have included both and called out the removal of ‘basic’ and forcing users to either pay more for standard or accept ads

Frankly, across the board it’s just standard enshitification.

I think my other thought is I don’t think you should have to be rich to be able to stream a higher bitrate. Sure maybe it costs more storage / bandwidth but I don’t think it should be something only rich people can afford.

I’ll turn this into a corporate selling point!

“Hey look, we decreased the price of premium by 17% over a 12 year period. (as compared to our standard plan)”

As kbal pointed out, the standard plan has increased 125% as well. So your original statement really doesn’t track with that.

Yeah, which is even more insane. Probably should have graphed that.

I don’t or at least didn’t read your original comment as “eat the rich”, but I agree. Rereading it I can kind of see the sentiment a bit, but ultimately Netflix 4k isn’t a “rich” kind of thing. Call me crazy but I think their profits show the price increase is just greed. And sure, make it be more than the standard plan, but that doesn’t account for the meteoric price increases.

It’s a banana Michael, how much could it cost…? Ten dollars?

I had family members getting blocked when they were legitimately travelling for work. (Travel nurse) It’s really bad and makes it so hard to use even when you’re paying for it. Which. Is. Insane.

I can assure you, any features they’ve added, have not accounted for what they’ve removed and the price increase.

I think 4k started to get added in 2014. Originally the premium plan was required for 4 screens vs the regular 2 screens.

"Netflix has been on a roll, driven by subscriber growth and price hikes. For the fourth quarter of 2024, the company reported net revenue of $10.2 billion, up from $8.8 billion in the year-ago period, while net income more than doubled to $1.9 billion. Netflix shares have soared 102% over the last 12 months as the company widens the gap with competitors. "

https://m.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/netflix/net-income

I think 4k was always the offering for premium. And yes, multiple screens, but then it became ONLY in the same household, so that isn’t tracked here as well (features removed – or disallowed)

The removal of basic and replacing it with a slightly cheaper ad free supported tier was all done to push people to purchase standard, which I agree, has started to rise at a faster pace recently as well.

Also doesn’t take into account the sharing account purge. I would guess that’s easily a +50% increase if we assume half of everyone using Netflix was sharing an account that then couldn’t. Could be higher.

Could probably base a rough figure for that on subscriber count change after the restrictions were put into place.