Furious Netflix users have threatened to cancel their accounts as the streaming service announced it was hiking its prices for millions of customers in the UK.
Users will now face monthly fees of up to £17.99 to access the service – an increase of £2 per month.
Film fans have blasted the decision, calling Netflix ‘greedy’.
Taking to X (formerly Twitter), users have criticised Netflix for providing a worse service at a higher cost, claiming that the streaming service is full of ‘filler content’.
Others have threatened to turn to illegal streaming sites, or digital piracy, in response to Netflix’s decision.
Furious Netflix users have threatened to cancel their accounts as the streaming service announced it was hiking its prices for millions of customers in the UK
Film fans have blasted the decision to increase subscription prices in the UK, with some calling Netflix ‘greedy’
Netflix has announced that the premium ad-free subscriptions will hit £17.99 in the UK, £2 a month higher, while a basic plan will increase £1 a month to £7.99.
The company also says it’s raising the price for its most expensive streaming service by $2 to $23 per month in the US – a 10% increase – and its lowest-priced, ad-free streaming plan to $12 – another $2 bump.
On X, several commenters say that this price increase has been the final straw in their decision to leave the service.
‘I think it is time to cancel. Another price hike for a declining service is just not worth it’, one user said.
‘This is like the 3rd time in 2 years they’ve increased prices. I’m officially going to cancel. Its been real Netflix’, added one commenter, while another said: ‘Netflix being greedy again’.
One commenter even joked that Netflix should ‘hurry up with the last season of stranger things so I can cancel this’.
Some commenters on X went further, angrily expressing their frustration that the quality of content on Netflix was not worth the price being demanded.
‘F*** Netflix’, one X user furiously wrote.
‘Another price hike? For what, a bunch of filler content.’
Another X user laid out their step-by-step reasoning why other customers should quit the service:
‘1. Netflix is 99% s***. 2. The 1% of stuff worth your time can be watched over the course of one month every year,’ they tweeted.
‘3. Cancel Netflix, sign up for one month a year, and get everything you want from them for $22.99. 4. Buy tickets to indie films with the money you save.’
Frustrated customers say they are no longer prepared to pay an increased rate for Netflix’s streaming service
While some Netflix customers were content to cancel their subscriptions and miss out on the streaming services’ content, many suggested that they would be turning to illegal streaming to fill the void.
Many fans cheekily referenced the Disney film series Pirates of the Caribbean, sharing pictures of Johnny Depp as the pirate captain Jack Sparrow, in a nod to digital piracy and infamous illegal streaming site The Pirate Bay.
‘Back to the seas we go’, suggested one X user, while another cryptically wrote: ‘Yo ho, yo ho’.
As more streaming services increase their prices or introduce adverts into lower-cost subscriptions, rates of digital piracy have been on the rise.
Research from Muso published this year found that film piracy increased by 38.6 per cent in 2022 compared with the previous year, while visits to piracy websites for TV content grew by 8.8 per cent, totalling 215 billion visits.
Some angry film fans took to social media to encourage others to quit, citing a low quality of content on the platform as a key reaso
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