Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads
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.
https://www.techradar.com/streaming/thanks-a-bunch-netflix-its-windows-app-is-about-to-lose-downloads-but-gain-adsOpen linkView original on reddthat.com
Back to the high seas, mates. Yarrr.
Back to? Never left!
The ultimate hack to get the download feature back for free. Without Netflix!
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
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.
Absolutely unacceptable. Glad I got rid of Netflix a long time ago
Can confirm
Highly subsidized by my phone carrier and watched by my whole family.
But this is the antepenultimate straw.
Ah gee wizz seems like every time they annoy the shit out of people they make more money cause people keep signing up.
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.