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To be fair, too many people are using your account. 0 people should be on it.
my thought exactly:)) 1 is already 1 too many
That would be the ideal for Netflix. Everyone subscribes and pays, but no one uses it.
Gee, maybe that’s why it’s so hard to find anything good to watch on Netflix now.
Emby: “17 people in 5 countries are watching your media. Nice.”
Curious how you handle routing to your server/box, do you use something like cloudflare tunnels? Trying to get a seamless option for friends too but with jellyfin
I have a domain name, one of its subdomains uses a clodflared tunnel to send traffic back to the emby server. No port forwarding on my router.
Cloudflared tunnels are pretty easy to set up for this purpose.
So my users just navigate to sub.domain.com.au, and are presented with an emby login screen, and I manage the users in emby. It works on most smart TVs too.
This sounds very doable, will give this a shot. Thanks!
If you have any trouble setting up CloudFlare tunnel, let me know with a PM. They have changed their UI layout AND the name of some of their UI menu items, which is super annoying because the current UI doesn’t match any recent written or video guides, and so now it’s very easy to miss certain important aspects of the setup of the tunnel and mapping the tunnel to a subdomain.
I can at least give examples of what a working config tunnel path looks like and help troubleshoot.
Appreciate that I might take you up on that :) btw do you also use with tailscale or independently?
the main reasons are: cancelling seasons of good shows after 1,2, or 3 seasons, just to boost subscription numbers.
limiting how much people can watch it on different devices, and increasing prices, with decreasing quality.
Exactly this. I had Netflix for a while and didn’t pirate for like, 5 years. Then they started cranking up the price, dramatically reducing available movies including old movies that I wanna rewatch, and telling me my family is not allowed to use the product I purchased. So fI just stopped and went back to the high seas with a renewed passion for making my own media library as extensive as possible, and giving access to friends, family, anyone remotely trustworthy.
After more than a decade with them, with the little use we hadand they just kept increasing prices every year, so I decided to give them the flick, and we are not missing it.
yes, but this is outlined in the contract and you should know this.
Netflix is still garbage.
yes, but for max devices using the service they make it very clear.
Sail the high seas, then.
Especially if it’s a great TV show or a movie and you really want to keep it.
Netflix is American. So yeah: Garbage IS Garbage.
Nice one! America Bad! Clever, edgy, sexy!
No one is braver than our 16 yo internet warriors bravely spreading the gospel of bad the US(sheitan)A is in obscure internet forums!
You do not subscribe ,you should use pirate and do not feed these imperialist oligarchs
The main reason I keep subs for any of it is because we have a Roku TV in the living room and anything more complicated than just pushing the Netflix button is more than my wife is willing to deal with. She already doesn’t like the Google TV box with the same apps on the other TV because she thinks it’s too complicated, but she puts up with it “because you like it”. If I had a way to install Stremio on the Roku, I could probably slowly convince her over to it, but that depends on how often her occasionally obscure TV preferences are already cached by RD.
Plex is just as simple as Netflix, you just have to do the heavy load and setup a server and download them. Not hard, just a little extra work.
If you’re feeling generous, sign up for the cheapest plan and then pirate everything.
Someone already did and is doing :) 😀
And people always are confused when I tell them I don’t watch shows and movies anymore.
You can still do that without streaming services? Like you don’t need to stop enjoying art cuz of capitalism
🏴☠️ https://rentry.co/megathread 🏴☠️
I think I’ve watched things on like five devices at once on my Jellyfin. Never had this issue.
same on plex, and it was recording shows on live streams at the same time
The stress test I did had 6 transcoding streams going on my Emby server with an Intel Arc A310, without breaking a sweat. It never has more than 3 streams going at a time in normal usage though so I stopped testing at 6.
Just one reason their stock price is down. They no longer report subscriber numbers — you can probably guess why. It’s strange to me that a public company can just hide data from investors that might reveal when a company isn’t doing so hot.
It’s also stupid they would clamp down like this on ad-supported plans. Advertisers want eyeballs, and this means less of them. Reminds me of Reddit moving to a log-in only model.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/07/15/with-netflix-down-45-from-its-highs-viewer-engagem/
They aren’t stopping reporting subscriber numbers, what are you talking about? They’re dropping from reporting it twice a year to just once a year. Annual growth is really all that matters after all. What matters far more is revenue, profit, and cash flow - all of which are still reported regularly.
Stock prices falling after earnings calls is basically the norm because no matter how well they go, even beating expectations, some people wanted more - and you can’t ignore the market manipulation by big players who try to manufacture drops so they can increase their position. Spook people to sell and drop the price so they can buy more at a reduced price.
Netflix need or exceeded their targets as they have basically every single time for years. Their revenue grew double digits, their margins are getting healthier, and their viewing hours increased.
I will never understand investors. Anyone with half a brain can put two and two together when a company starts hiding anything. Investors have no idea what they’re doing, they just trust the customer will make them money, get angry when they’ve been duped, and will do it again.
In this case, the ads are probably bringing in less per viewer than the service costs, so having non-paying viewers is still a net negative.
Clamping down on this is probably a worse negative in the long run, but investors only care about this quarter.
Considering how many streamers are encouraging people to sign up for the ad-supported plans, I think they’re making more money from the ads. Of course, they’re double-dipping just like the cable companies used to do. Charging for a subscription, and then making even more money by showing you ads. The OP’s screenshot is like how they used to charge for each cable descrambler box in a home. Wanna watch in both the bedroom and the living room? Pay up!
Its just greed.
Not all investors are in it for the long run. Some just expect a short boost or go short betting on a loss.
Stranger Things finally ended and the price for no ads went over $20 per month. That’s what made me finally quit.
Advertisers want eyeballs, and this means less of them. Reminds me of Reddit moving to a log-in only model.
Not sure if you’re being rhetorical, but I’ll answer anyways. The reason Reddit wants you to log in is to better track you, no duh. The reason that makes them more money is because better data means better ad targeting, and better ad targeting can be translated to results like a better click through rate. When a platform has that, they can incentivize more advertisers to spend more money on their platform.
That way, each time they sell an ad, that ad can be more expensive. It’s undeniable that demanding logins will be bad for the number of ads they sell, but if they can sell higher quality ads, they’ll make more money at the end of the day.
This whole thing is the core driver behind privacy being eroded at scale, because ad targeting has proven effective, and so advertisers want to advertise on the platform with the best targeting. So everyone wants to spy on their users the best and build the best targeting.
It’s also easier to control scraping by requiring an account.
the biggest reason is, them cancelling too many shows too soon. after 1-2 season, the show ceases to ecist. 3 if you are lucky and its thier way of forcing its end.
One of the reasons I stopped watching Netflix shows was because all the ones I got invested those were cancelled just after one season.
