The easiest marks, the ones eating up all the conspiracies and buying the Ivermectin won't leave. The ones that try, because they are starved of their primitive drive to 'own the libs', will wither up and die from lack of the oxygen they need. X will largely become like Slashdot, where conservatives have sorta killed real engagement through bullying and misinformation. With a much better user driven moderation system, it will be difficult for actual scammers and miscreants of misinformation to survive, let alone thrive, on Bluesky. IMHO.

RTFA.

I don't think environmentalists were ever espousing the virtues of all things plastic. Given what was obviously becoming a problem since discarded plastic waste doesn't degrade, conservation minded people tried their hand at working with an industry for a better solution. Unfortunately, the industry already knew it was bogus, but played along to further ingrain their products and meld the public perception of mindless simpletons who think being an environmentalist is somehow a bad thing.

Run away.

The last few years have last a bad taste in my mouth. I figure they have one chance at redemption when the PI 5 comes out by making it cheap and plentiful. If neither is true, it will be a dead platform as far as my house is concerned.

The problem with that analogy is that they aren't just going after people who cost them money. If they only sent notices to people who shared passwords and were heavy users, nobody would care and they would be penalizing the correct people.

Wishful thinking won't bring back my revenue if I get a notice. Our account is already under utilized and I won't be extorted just because my Dad sometimes uses it too, like he has since the start. We pay for X streams, or we don't. I'm also not going to jump through hoops because I want to use the account while traveling or whatever. You grossly underestimate the damage Netflix will do to their own user base if they continue with this policy as its being rolled out. Marketshare is gold. The odds of me coming back after I leave, someone who as been with them since they delivered CD's instead of streamed content, is slim to none.

Could it be they have a new pool of data now? I mean, it's easy to give up what you no longer need.

What's it matter? Their days are numbered anyway. I for one love our new forthcoming Skynet overloards. :P

Netflix is going to be the hand of their own demise. I'm already limited to X number of streams, which isn't going to change, but I'm expected to pay more and/or jump through hoops to use their service? I hope someone who works there reads Slashdot. If/when you get to my account, I will just cancel and you'll lose any revenue from me. And I suspect once I leave, the likelihood of me coming back is extremely low unless they reversed all this nonsense...

I already underutilize the service. I hope their algorithm is at least smart enough not to pressure people who already barely use it just because it might come from two locations.

Wow you learned something from a Bill Burr bit. Good for you.

Direct your incoherent cynicism to the advertisers. I quit Twitter the day that buffoon took over. I have no interest in seeing or being subjected to hate speech and will not actively participate in a medium that allows it to occur. I'm free to make my own decisions. I even stopped participating in article comments on Slashdot for 4 years when one would constantly see posts with giants swastikas and racists words in the comments. I don't know about you, but I'm glad that doesn't occur as often any more. I understand that free speech does not mean freedom from consequences. Clowns like you defend this like its complicated and I have no doubt you'd be a hypocrite in a moments notice should it suite you. Like would you champion the Nazi and his rights to scream hate speech on a street corner at 2am or the police who bundled him up and took him away for disturbing the peace? I read your other posts where you pretend Twitter should be treated like the town square. Why do you pretend its a left issue to not want to be subjected to hate speech and online harassment and bullying? Make no doubt, the market will decide. And then you will blame the market or the people who manipulate the market or whatever hair brained thing you can come up with or are being force fed on the propaganda you decide to consume.

Good day.

The fact that extremely biased news sites, religious and shopping channels get funded through these fees should also be considered. In fact, I recommend you cut the cord for this reason alone. People have been asking for ale carte for ages now, and its completely technically possible, but the industry has been resistant. Now they are raising fees to further shoulder the burden on their remaining customers, which will only speed up the pace of the exodus. Good riddance. Some of us don't want to fund channels that run contrary to our beliefs and they give you no means to accomplish that goal without cutting the cord completely.

I'm not being alarmist when I say this has played a role in the fraying of tribes in the US. Even advertisers can no longer keep some outlets in line because this revenue is never at threat. It's way past time to change that IMHO.

I guess he had to learn the hard way that racists and Nazi's aren't good for business. I must say I am having a certain level of Schadenfreude with this saga however.

Hopefully he doesn't drag out the road to bankruptcy too long.

This should have been looked at ages ago before they were effectively blacklisting Pearl Jam for speaking out...

The US knows well the dangers of market share consolidation and the anti-trust solutions. It's time for a revival. The artificial inflation the companies with majority market share have used to make up for lost covid revenue and forecasting should be a rallying cry for the whole world, not just the US.

So they want the people who generate the most views and content (and therefore ad revenue) to pay for the right to do that? Do they sell bridges too?

I never even got the chance.

With this pattern, and a techies ability to remember things of this nature like an elephant, Google is going to find it harder and harder to be taken seriously in any new spaces. I imagine this reputation is why GCP hasn't been wildly successful.

It sure was nice while it lasted.

You will be missed old friend.