cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15542273
Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away.
Netflix must realize that it's a huge frustration for people who relied on offline downloads to watch content without internet access: on planes, trains, and campsites, and anywhere else where Wi-Fi is unavailable or unreliable.
There's a small chance that Netflix will change its mind if it gets enough complaints, but the streaming service seems determined to add as many money-making features as possible, while taking away genuinely useful ones.
11 Comments
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 2y
Back to the high seas, mates. Yarrr.
KillerTofu@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Back to? Never left!
Schorsch@feddit.de · 7 pts · 2y
The ultimate hack to get the download feature back for free. Without Netflix!
southernbrewer@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
What's the point of installing the app then? Just use netflix in a browser if you're going to use netflix. The only reason you even needed the stupid app was to use the download feature
nehal3m@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 2y
I think the app allows for a higher quality stream because non-native browsers don't support the DRM required for higher quality streaming. It's bullshit but here we are.
stevestevesteve@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
Absolutely unacceptable. Glad I got rid of Netflix a long time ago
stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 2y
Can confirm
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Highly subsidized by my phone carrier and watched by my whole family.
But this is the antepenultimate straw.
Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Ah gee wizz seems like every time they annoy the shit out of people they make more money cause people keep signing up.
CareHare@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Netflix is really pushing the "boil a frog" theory to its limits...and sadly, so far, it seems as if its users are fine with it.