<story><title>Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up</title><url>https://www.narcity.com/netflix-canada-got-rid-of-cheapest-ad-free-subscription</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Tangent: As much as it feels like we just have “bundles” like the bad old cable days, I really enjoy getting to change streaming providers every 2-3 months.  My wife and I just Hoover up whatever we’re interested in then move on.  And in a year we’ve got that service back and we Hoover up the last year’s added content that looks good.&lt;p&gt;Lots of ways to measure it but when I think about how much I pay and what my experience is like, I’m doing far better than in the cable days. I’m much happier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eek2121</author><text>I gave up on that nonsense.I have a raspberry pi that rapidly pulls down new torrents for stuff and processes and&amp;#x2F;or copies it to my media center for free....which is another raspberry pi.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve no problem paying for content (I am &amp;quot;upper class&amp;quot;), but companies, especially Netflix clearly haven&amp;#x27;t figured things out.&lt;p&gt;For Netflix, I am mostly referring to the account sharing stuff. I did not share my account with anyone, but false advertising rubbed me the wrong way, so they went from whatever their current top tier pricing is to zero from me. Other huge gripes include streaming quality and number of streams.</text></comment>
<story><title>Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up</title><url>https://www.narcity.com/netflix-canada-got-rid-of-cheapest-ad-free-subscription</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Tangent: As much as it feels like we just have “bundles” like the bad old cable days, I really enjoy getting to change streaming providers every 2-3 months.  My wife and I just Hoover up whatever we’re interested in then move on.  And in a year we’ve got that service back and we Hoover up the last year’s added content that looks good.&lt;p&gt;Lots of ways to measure it but when I think about how much I pay and what my experience is like, I’m doing far better than in the cable days. I’m much happier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>&amp;gt;My wife and I just Hoover up whatever we’re interested in then move on.&lt;p&gt;Probably saner than my chaotic good approach of having gone back to torrenting but donating a subscription worth of money to the Against Malaria foundation to ease my conscience now that I&amp;#x27;m not a broke student any more. I can&amp;#x27;t be bothered with the obnoxious subscriptions and autplay UIs</text></comment>