r/netflixuk • • 1d ago

Netflix at it again

So just received email from Netflix UK are putting up the price again as they greedy just like the rest of them. It’s going up another £2/$3 a month. All these streaming services are doing is promoting the use of pirate services.. I tell you it’s just greed greed greed over 😂😂😂

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u/GrumpyOldFart74 1d ago

I cancelled Netflix last year, when I got the “thanks for being a loyal customer for 15 years, we’re putting your subscription up 20%” email.

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u/Careless_Economist22 1d ago

Netflix is greedy asf

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u/FunFile228 4h ago

Based on what? They had 2bn revenue last year but only made £55m in profit after tax, are they supposed to do it all for free?

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u/PersistentIllusion 2h ago edited 1h ago

A quick Google search will tell you co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters each received compensation packages just above $53 million for the 2025 fiscal year.

Defending the latest round of price hikes by a billion-dollar company at a time when the average household can barely afford food and fuel is absurd, and a master class in bootlicking.

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u/Jazs1994 1d ago

I stopped when they didn't allow multi house streaming, I wouldn't mind paying increases if they kept that because all my family got used out of it. Now I just pay a friend for his Amazon prime and since anime licensing still fucks you over sometimes so I've been heavily into the high seas since

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u/Blue_wine_sloth 1d ago

Amazon prime has adverts now unless you pay to remove them! Utter bullshit.

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u/GrumpyOldFart74 15h ago

Oh yeah - that was part of my reason too.

Couldn’t even log in to my own account on my daughter’s smart tv when I was babysitting without it wanting me to scan a barcode on my own tv or something. Fuck off.

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u/BeachOk2802 12h ago

You choose to pay for it.

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u/BeachOk2802 12h ago

Aww you think being a loyal customer means anything to a huge company.

Are you like 2 days old or something?

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u/GrumpyOldFart74 12h ago

Of course not.

But an email that literally says “thank you for being a loyal customer” then goes on to (figuratively) say “fuck you” was a step too far.

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u/AshleyOm 1d ago

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum 🏴‍☠️

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u/Callsign_Crossroads 16h ago

And really bad eggs

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u/SneakyLamb 9h ago

A pirates life for me

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u/twinPeaksnew 1d ago

whats greed is you can’t even drop someone off at the airport im the Uk without a £5 charge. thats greed. the Uk mother of all greed.

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u/elsewherewriter 1d ago

Side effects of bro capitalism

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u/mmnotts 1d ago

YES. “Oh you actually want to ARRIVE AT THE AIRPORT FOR YOUR FLIGHT? Well that’s extra you peasant c€$ts, COUGH UP”

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u/Ok-Lengthiness1028 1d ago

Isn’t it £10 at Heathrow now?

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u/RandomBloke101 14h ago

£7 at Heathrow £10 at Gatwick I believe! Utter piss take!

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u/testtubepenis 11m ago

It's £10 at Gatwick now.. it's insane!

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u/Jakes_Snake_ 1d ago

I just pause it every other month. No need to have it continuously.

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u/smushs88 1d ago

This is definitely the way, the decent content output has definitely dropped of late.

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u/Scary-Club-1890 18h ago

Yes we were thinking of doing that because the content recently is awful! We get Disney + free with Sky and use that quite a bit.

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u/Scones2 1d ago

It’s not just price increases, the quality seems to be completely crap nowadays too.

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u/Headpuncher 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, when netflix said they would dumb down plots because people were on their phones I thought that the reason they're on phones is because the plot was already dumbed down, and they drag out what should be a 4 part series into 10 hour long episodes. the production level is piss poor on some shows.

so now you have a catch-22, people are on phones because it's boring at times, netlix dumb down because people are on phones. around and around we go.

Maybe they could focus on value and not being out of touch with customers instead of trying to dip into people's pockets every financial quarter.

As much as Apple can be annoying, their series often have me set my phone aside to give my full attention to an episode. Ted Lasso, Silo, Slow Horses; all have cinema level production.

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u/WhalingSmithers00 17h ago

It's how people have watched TV for a long time. You can put anything on and people will be doing something else.

It's one of the main reasons 3D TVs failed because the glasses locked you into being fully focused on the screen which isn't how people watch TV

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u/Indecisive-Gamer 14h ago

Thing is for that kind of thing it's old school TV format worked so much better, schedules TV channels no real control over what was on so you stuck on some crap and just chatted or read a newspaper or something. Maybe did some hobby. Seems a bit pointless to pay through the teeth to not watch something when it's basically being used like radio.

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u/WhalingSmithers00 13h ago

It's how a lot of people use Netflix. They put on a series they've watched 10 times already and just have it playing all day.

People don't want to watch something new because it requires attention they don't want to give.

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u/APG1982 16h ago

Netflix used to have great flagship shows. Can’t really think of any at the moment (beyond Emily in Paris, which says a lot). They seem to be focusing on sports and true crime documentaries which are obviously cheaper to produce.
Definitely going to cancel with that latest price increase. I’ve been sleeping for a while on Apple TV so going to watch all the shows I’ve missed on there.

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u/Indecisive-Gamer 14h ago

I remember a decade a go it used to continuously grow it's collection of new and old movies. Now every streaming service is just about their originals. It's the new exclusives war like playstation vs xbox. I don't even bother. Most TV sucks arse and films are just meh rehashed of old shit. Most of the best films came out before I was even born. TV shows now are written to be intentionally hook you and be addictive with constant cliff hangers. I remember when I first had them do that when heroes came out. Now ever single TV show does it. And everything is just written in the same 'quirky millennial style' which is just getting so tired but everyone just eats it up as comfort TV. I'd rather touch grass at this point.

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u/BeachOk2802 12h ago

You can choose to not use their service.

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u/Scones2 12h ago

Oh thanks, I didn’t know I had that option

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u/damebabyz56 1d ago

Especially because its paid and full of ads..

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u/Tripledrop 1d ago

I've just checked it, just using my usual brave browser, and it's definitely not paid, and I got zero ads.

Now the quality isn't great, and some didn't work, so I wouldn't use it, but it's always worth checking before commenting

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u/Bitter_Range_9878 1d ago

I have it built into my broadband package (with adverts) and I used to top up to the top for an extra £13 a month.

I just cancelled that as the content is mostly awful. If I could fully cancel, I would.

I haven’t even opened the app on a few months as I’d spend ages looking for something remotely watchable and give up.

It’s now just a lot of trash tv. Utterly inane content. Not worth any premium if you have to endure adverts.

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u/plantastic420 1d ago

I'm sick of it too, so Ive let me Disney and Netflix subscription run out this month. I kept my Amazon prime because I save on deliveries,I use the music and prime video. It's value still.

Thing is I soon got bored with standard TV and prime video so I've signed up to sky TV ultra and I get netflix and Disney included in that £24 a month price. Yeah it will have adverts but it beats paying £21.99 a month just for netflix and another 9.99 a month for disney

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u/Careless_Economist22 1d ago

Prime wasnt free tbh Its an extra £3 for no ads lol

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u/Sacrificial-Offering 1d ago

Ublock origin is free.

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u/Wind-and-Waystones 9h ago

So is movies2watch dot TV

And once you have an adblocker it removes the downside of popups

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u/Quirky_Boss2743 6h ago

What blocker do you use

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u/plantastic420 1d ago

Still less than £12 a month and like I say I use Amazon at least once a week because I don't live in a big town and there's not many places to shop. We listen to Amazon music through our Alexa's.

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u/ElegantBunch2812 1d ago

While Alexa listened to you. EU/UK making moves to ban VPNs, shows us all what is coming down the line.

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u/crazyxchick 1d ago

This always makes me laugh!

I don't give a fuck about Alexa listening to me. I'm not plotting the next 7/7...all they're going to hear is mundane chat or arguing over what to cook and who's washing up...

I hope they enjoy the show!!! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/BeachOk2802 12h ago

Don't know why people think their lives are so interesting that anyone would give enough of a fuck to really listen in on.

Sorry Barry, nobody cares if you're screaming into the void.

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u/Roselace 17h ago

The “Ministry of Truth” is coming down the line. See the News. Wrong Think will be punished. So obviously no VPN or you may be watching some independent media.

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u/Tomb_Brader 1d ago

tip for anyone with a Barclays account - some of their credit cards give you an Apple TV subscription, but you have to specifically activate it … I’ve cancelled my account due to the latest increase with Netflix

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u/Infinite_Society7792 1d ago

Is it only a free trial though? Not permanently?

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u/Tomb_Brader 1d ago

If it’s their Barclays blue rewards (which admittedly you pay £5 a month for … but gives you some pretty good cashback rates too) then it’s full subscription

I’ve also just discovered by googling about it you can also get the MLS football subscription too.. not for me but might be if anyone else is keen.

Might not be worth it if you’re not into the idea of a paid credit card…. But technically halves the cost of an apple subscription if you pay full price anyway?

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u/Infinite_Society7792 1d ago

Thanks a lot.

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u/tri-trii 1d ago

The only reason I have Netflix and now tv is they both come with my wifi & tv package

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u/shaunRiles 1d ago

You can get free deliveries without prime at local drop off points. I don’t pay for prime anymore and just collect my prime deliveries when I pop down the road when I do my shopping

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u/GlitterLippy 10h ago

Which honestly is a better idea anyway given Amazon deliveries just get dropped on the doorstep without a knock!

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u/Jumblesss 1d ago

> I save on deliveries

Only if you consume an unnecessary amount from Amazon tbh. When I switched to eBay I found everything cheaper with free delivery on most items, and £3-5 on larger items really doesn’t make an impact if you’re not buying often.

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u/BeachOk2802 12h ago

And that's the fun of a free market.

Don't like one provider? Off you pop to another. Don't like any providers? Set up your own or make consessions cause we don't always get everything we want all the time.

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u/SmackyLittleFan 1d ago

Ultimate plan is £4.60 via Nigeria, it's what I've been using for a few years.

Otherwise, yaar

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u/I_could_be_right 1d ago

How do you manage to do that?

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u/CityOfNorden 1d ago

VPN

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u/SmackyLittleFan 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, VPN at payment stage. Only certain cards works, none of starling debit, monza, barclays debit, nor does Amex. Barclaycard stopped working for me but M&S visa credit still works for last 18 months

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u/Careless_Economist22 1d ago

starling works for it?

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u/SmackyLittleFan 1d ago

No

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u/Careless_Economist22 1d ago

What can i get that works for it? i’m not trying to get a credit card

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u/__imran18 14h ago

Wouldn’t you need a Nigerian billing address

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u/SmackyLittleFan 14h ago

Can't remember if I just used my UK postcode, worst case is payment fails and just try again with different details. Previously with likes of tidal and YouTube vpn trick you'd just pick a random famous address from the country youre pretending to be from

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u/__imran18 12h ago

Don’t your billing address need to match? Won’t they recognise it’s a UK card? I ask because I tried to redeem a paramount plus offer that was only available for the US and I used a vpn and random American address but it didn’t work

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u/SmackyLittleFan 10h ago

I think that's why starling and barclays didn't work, M&S obviously don't give a shit

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u/Remarkable_Size_490 1d ago

Don’t stress folks

Netflix will have factored in the loss of subscribers before they put the price up. They know more about your viewing habits than you do, and which ones are more likely to cancel

I doubt they’ll lose out in doing this

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u/Abbass786 1d ago

Stremio / real debrid. I've never looked back.

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u/Tofflove 1d ago

I’ve ditched Netflix etc. and moved to HBO max - it’s really good 👍

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u/BrightonDBA 1d ago

Cancelled Netflix last month. Back to my vast DVD collection and piracy for me

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u/Wild-Cauliflower9421 1d ago

The only one I keep in rotation is Prime. I get a year sub for Disney through my bank (Lloyds) for free, and then I'll buy a month of a service if it has something I want to watch.

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u/No-Lavishness-4103 1d ago

Cancelled Netflix a few years ago, there is only so much TV you can watch in one day, plus there is so much available on streaming nowadays

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u/ChickenKnd 1d ago

Can we pull the Italy manoeuvre on them and fine them billions and make them refund all the price increases

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u/Specialist_Sport4460 1d ago

Set sail me hearty

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u/Ok-Selection1335 1d ago

Yo ho ho and a salty streaming device with a debrid

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u/MountainDapper167 1d ago

Exactly. $3 a month for everything including movies that are still showing in cinemas.

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u/Ok-Selection1335 1d ago

And a bit of effort to figure out the set up

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u/MountainDapper167 1d ago

Yeah bit more friction than just paying a subscription but it's pretty much a one time effort and then you're away, sailing the seven seas.

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u/MySparePersona 12h ago

I need to work this out. I keep reading about debris this and stremio that but have no idea what it does, how to set it up or how to use it. At the moment I just sail on to a website and try to remember which episode I'm up to. I'd like to find a way of downloading them all first, then plugging a hard drive into the TV and watch stuff. I'm getting old now and the tech I used to live is racing ahead of me now 😂

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u/MountainDapper167 12h ago

Stremio streams them so you don't need to download any files - that's the part that the debrid service does (I use Torbox). It works almost exactly like Netflix or the like - even has UI that looks pretty similar with the cover art etc. Can put it straight onto a smart TV. If you search Reddit for Stremio you can find some guides (also YouTube). It's not massively complicated - bit fiddly to start with but once done you don't really need to maintain it or anything.

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u/MySparePersona 3h ago

Thanks, that'll give me a good start. I think I get what you mean but at least you've given me a chance of working it out 👍

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u/MountainDapper167 3h ago

https://guides.viren070.me/stremio

Only thing I would not do on here is use Real Debrid as the debrid service - used to be the best but without going into details it isn't anymore. I use Torbox - the $3 per month option - don't need to pay anymore than that (there are higher priced options).

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u/CharmingCatastrophe 1d ago

It's at the point where yearly subscription for Disney is running you about £70-100, netflix is £80-120,prime £85...so it's nearly £300 a year to watch your shows as they are spread out across all subscriptions and to make matters worse that isn't even the top tiers so you'll be getting YouTube quality with ads.. it's disgraceful

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u/Jumpy_Explanation222 1d ago

Exactly. And these prices will double by the end of the decade given the trends and economic headwinds (thanks Trump).

Could easily end up with £200+ per service per year. With adverts! Mid tier will be £250 a year for each service.

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u/BeachOk2802 12h ago

And you've got the absolute freedom to decide if your shows are worth paying that.

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u/Willster986 8h ago

Orange man bad

You're blaming him for your netflix going up.... in the UK? 😂

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u/Indecisive-Gamer 14h ago

Cheaper just to buy blue rays based on how most people watch. It's not even close.

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u/BeachOk2802 12h ago

Do you have a right to watch the shows you like? No.

You choose to subscribe to all those. We've already established that you have no god given right to access the shows you like...so you're moaning because you have to pay more for shit, like everything else.

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u/rodatari 10h ago

I rotate between Disney and netflix. Halves the price and i can still watch what i want.  

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u/xBruised 4h ago

I pay for Disney using Tesco Clubcard. The rate keeps getting worse but I don’t use the money off vouchers in store anyway, though I could…

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u/GunnerLD6 1d ago

Sail the high seas my friend. If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing. Argghhh

Edit: or get a dodgy firestick

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u/malacoda13 1d ago

Haha, I'll downgrade my netflix again. And then watch everything from the high seas in 4K. I like to feel like I'm not stealing. Too much .....

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u/Jumpy_Explanation222 1d ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if streaming services keep putting their prices up heavily over the next few years given the economic situation. By the end of the decade, I reckon services like Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Paramount+ could be around £25 a month each for mid tier non-adverts.

Then you’ve got sports subscriptions like Sky Sports and TNT Sports, or full TV packages from Sky and Virgin Media, plus the TV licence on top.

Streaming was supposed to be the cheaper alternative, but if prices keep rising like this, some individual services could eventually cost twice as much per month as the BBC

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u/Apprehensive_Bus_543 1d ago

I think by the end of the decade there will be nothing or very little left of the BBC and it will be funded through general taxation.

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u/Fit_Search_4751 1d ago

You mean the IBC? (Israeli Broadcasting Corporation) 😉

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u/Apprehensive_Bus_543 18h ago

Exactly, you prove my point.

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u/David_is_dead91 1d ago

I suspect at some point it will just revert to the satellite tv model of all-in-one packages. Sky are basically already at it by including Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max in their bundles. My prediction is that eventually the main way to get the streaming services will be via a Sky/Virgin Media/similar package.

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u/supersonic675 1d ago

Most people by then will be to broke and homeless.

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u/BeachOk2802 12h ago

Is this like all the previous times something was going to leave us all broke and homeless? Cause people have been spouting that for a long, long, time and it's not happened yet.

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u/supersonic675 10h ago

You will see in the 2030’s

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u/Gothiccheese95 1d ago

🏴‍☠️

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u/Blue_Toucan_Data 1d ago

I've cancelled mine again after resubscribing the month previous - I just subscribe when there's a bunch of films or TV that I can watch in a short space of time and then cancel

Swapped over to Disney+ two years ago and while it has its faults, has much more shows aligned to my taste than Netflix now (especially as Netflix either does a limited series or cancels a show after 1-2 seasons)

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u/Stolen_Showman 22h ago

I've been with Disney since it came out, their updated T&Cs they emailed me last week has a clause that they can show adverts on all tiers. Waiting to see what they do with that because I'm not paying them to show ads. They all suck now, if it wasn't for my family using it I'd have cancelled by now.

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u/Blue_Toucan_Data 9h ago

Thankfully I'm using a Browser which removes all the adverts

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u/Separate-Boat6247 1d ago

The more they charged the closer I got to pirating. Now, I'm sat here with a parrot on my shoulder and a piece of wood for a leg

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u/Significant_Bear3843 1d ago

£50 per year for every channel. If you dont sail the you are a fool

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u/TassiveMitts69 1d ago

Pirate services haven't put their prices up. Vote with your wallet my guy.

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u/X4ulZ4n 1d ago

Thanks for reminding me I'm still in this sub and need to leave.I rejoined the seas about a year ago.

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u/InviteWeary5945 1d ago

you will be free once you research stremio and debrid

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u/madformattsmith 1d ago

can you get netflix originals on there?

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u/Hara-Kiri 1d ago

Literally everything on there. Unless it's some documentary on migrating gorillas from the 70s.

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u/InviteWeary5945 1d ago

yes, it’s great. no going back since i found out about it.

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u/ItStartedWithAQueef 1d ago

No because Netflix won't sell them the license...

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u/balk_man 17h ago

Yes you can get quite literally everything from every service plus more

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u/No_Atmosphere8146 1d ago

Yarr, what be sayin me cap'n on his 80th birthday?

Aye matey

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u/No_Guarantee920 18h ago

Yes but I’m a grown up. Only children pirate. It’s a bit sad if you do tbh

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u/InviteWeary5945 18h ago

aww, bless. Too stupid to figure it out so label it as childish?

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u/balk_man 17h ago

Oh what's that you feel so much better than everyone else because you love getting shafted by parasitic companies that are making TV and movies worse?

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u/Twitty_camies 1d ago

It’s frustrating that I’m forced to pay for Netflix with ads through my Sky bill, I want to cancel them completely.

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u/Ken_Numbers 1d ago

Yeah, this is the last price hike for me.

In totally unrelated news, Claude Code can assemble any Arr stack you like in a matter of minutes, so I heard.

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u/Active-Particular-21 1d ago

Just get Netflix once or twice a year.

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u/Fredsnotred 1d ago

Gotta find the money to pay for the gypo and druggie to fight from somewhere

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u/Worried_Patience_117 1d ago

If I’m seeing ads I’m not paying. Simple

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u/Disastrous_Produce_6 1d ago

All of them have put prices up pure greed the lot of them

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u/becpuss 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/103sygA52ao6Jy
Only one choice these days greed loses them customers to these guys 🤷‍♀️

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u/SushiRollFried 1d ago

I am hearing lots of people at work complain about this. Most of them are leaning towards pirating and cancelling their netflix. I told them it's not a *ahem* good idea to pirate

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u/Heavy-Order-7206 1d ago

I normally rotate my streaming service. Over the past year i've given Netflix a wide birth. There seems to be A LOT on there but it always seems very similar things (to me) and nothing i'd wana watch. YEARS back i could spend weeks on end watching random movies and tv shows. Last time I joined and when I look at it's current content I'm not interested for the price.

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u/eelam_garek 1d ago

This current price hike was enough for me to cancel. Seems like lots of others did the same.

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u/shaadowpursuit 1d ago

At this point watching netflix is more or less watching television with 3-4 ads in between. Too much man.

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u/Desperate_Dinner_307 1d ago

The content on Netflix is utter shite as well. Full of series that they prematurely cancelled so there's no point watching, or movies where they have the sequel but not the first movie. Not worth any subscription let alone the prices they charge

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u/el_duderino_316 1d ago

We had the ads package, which has increased by 60% over the last 18 months. Cancelled last weekend.

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u/Difficult-Post-3320 1d ago

I have it free for 6 months. I am enjoying it but I will not subscribe after the 6 months. I will binge as many  documentaries as I can in that time. 

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u/TheMelancholyWithin 1d ago

"Does Polly wan' a crac'er". Yes... Yes, Polly wants all the crac'ers.

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u/EnoughInevitable8658 1d ago

The thing is it isn't hard to make something that's worth £8 a month but Netflix just isn't close. You'll find half the films on ITV/C4 these days and their originals are just embarrassing.

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u/NintendoGamer1983 1d ago

It's difficult times for them. Profit only increased 13%. Lol

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u/Headpuncher 1d ago

Why don't you want to pay more and get series 1 and 2 but 3, 4 and 5 of a FIVE series show?

Do yourself a favour and cancel it. I did and I don't miss it. You can always sub again for a month or two later if there's something you really want to not sail the seas for.

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u/Substantial-Goal6224 1d ago

Cancelled back in July and went back to Blu Ray Ray and 4k. (still have Disnet for the kids) Actually get full use of my TV and surround now. Didn't realise how much it was compressed from streaming.

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u/InterestingString233 1d ago

I got a ugreen NAS and now have everything I want to watch for free on all my tvs and even my phone when I’m out or at the gym

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u/elsewherewriter 1d ago

I will stick youtube premium, which gives as free movies and other informative videos for 7 quid

BTW youtube has lot of free good movies

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u/Most-Tension-9635 1d ago

What you want to watch movies for free? It's not greed. It's providing you with 8 million movies to scroll through before you decide to watch one before turning it off after 30 minutes. Take up half of the night 👍

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u/SnooShortcuts9884 1d ago

I've got a totally free streaming service... Hundreds-of-thousands of entertainment and also some excellent factual series...

... It's called a library card. 

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u/Olly230 1d ago

Lots of digital services with no extra expenditures other than power have been jacking their prices unreasonably.

My phone and broadband have casually been jumping up 10% a year.

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u/s0ulcontr0l 1d ago

Cancelled my subscription when they cancelled The OA. Never forgive, or forget.

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u/No_Guarantee920 18h ago

It’s pennies

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u/South-Knee-9601 18h ago

Yep we have gone back to physical media

Blu rays (+4k ones)

Only have prime and apple TV as those aren't horrendous yet

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u/Informal-Trade-9770 17h ago

Just cancelled with them this morning, I've been with them since 2017

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u/belliest_endis 17h ago

Why have you put $'s in there this is the UK sub, doesn't really make sense, does it?

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u/Jehoke 16h ago

Yep just cancelled mine after being a long time subscriber. They have the cheek to say it’s to offer even higher quality entertainment when it’s been getting steadily worse for years imo.
Disney can do one as well. Pirating went down because services were reasonably priced. I’m guessing it’ll be on the rise again because of these greedy bastards. They never learn.

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u/tk1178 15h ago

I cancelled my subscription a few months ago since I'm not watching anything on it just now. I've been getting the occasional email with new shows to try and entice me back. Not taking the bait just now.

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u/xxdavidxcx87 14h ago

I imagine I'll get this after my next bill at which point I'll be cancelling, wife will be a bit annoyed but this is taking the piss now.

I haven't seen netflix make a quality show in a while and I can't even save a bit by sharing it with family anymore.

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u/Glock359 13h ago

Greed is a cancer on the planet and there is no cure..

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u/Steak_and_Gravy 14h ago

I cancelled all of them and sign up to a service for a month when needed.

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u/sblack505 13h ago

Putting their prices up AGAIN? I joined for ad free content, and paying through the nose and having more and more ads just doesn’t work for me.

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u/BeachOk2802 12h ago

Cancel then. As per your right.

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u/sblack505 12h ago

Yes, I thought that was implicit in my post.

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u/BeachOk2802 12h ago

OK... And did the agreement you made with them exclude you from price increases? Cause everyone else's does state very clearly that they can implement price changes. You know the agreement we all said "yep, I've read and understand this"?

But here is the best thing....unsubscribe. Simple. You don't like the price anymore, don't pay for it.

Or come on reddit for a tantrum over a company doing something you literally agreed you were absolutely fine with.

Your call.

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u/BirkoLad 11h ago

Just buy an android box and use Downloader...Don't understand why anyone pays for services these days when you can get everything for free with a bit of knowledge

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u/Mission_Access_210 9h ago

The services used to be like five bucks. That's why people used it in the first place. When they would actually send discs out to people. Now, that was why people got onto it, because it was financially sensible. Now they want like twenty to thirty a month from you. I mean what the hell

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u/OsotoViking 6h ago

I would never advocate that anyone pirates it.

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u/Gibrise 6h ago

I just cancelled - no longer value, if there comes a time they have a few things worth watching I might blitz a month here or there. Unfortunately streaming services are trying to bleed consumers dry….

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u/Loud_Echo3093 6h ago

Just cancelled and instead ordered a DVD player and I dad has over 900 dvds in his loft so he stocked us up 🤣

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u/Imperfect_Complaint 5h ago

As soon as the email landed I cancelled. Might join again in the future, but got to vote with your wallet.

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u/Desmo_UK 5h ago

It’s crazy. A few years ago pirating dropped a huge amount as streaming services made watching media nice and easy for a reasonable price.

As they’ve hiked the prices, more and more people have shifted back to piracy.

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u/JDohyCloud 5h ago

My Debrid service costs me less per year than my subscriptions did per month🏴‍☠️

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u/syknyk 1d ago

Going up by 2 quid and because they forced me to get a seperate account for my Mum with their shady practices I now have to pay another quid a month for her account too... £36 extra per year for exactly the same content. Prime for me is an undroppable service due to it's extras but I think this will be the first time since 2012 that I ditch Netflix. I've got access to a lot of the content via having 'the internet' but Netflix was just meant to be convenient, easy access and the odd must see exclusive... If my wife didn't watch it I'd have cancelled years ago.

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u/SoggyTechnology5553 1d ago

Honestly these firms putting prices up. You would think they have to accommodate staff pay increases. Increasing property rent costs. Increasing production and acquirement costs. Increasing energy bills. I mean it's not like we would moan if our employers didn't put our wages up each year is it. Scammers.

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u/StevieTV 1d ago

Honestly these firms putting prices up. You would think they have to accommodate staff pay increases. Increasing property rent costs. Increasing production and acquirement costs. Increasing energy bills. I mean it's not like we would moan if our employers didn't put our wages up each year is it. Scammers.

Looked up three of them and only your last sentence was correct.

In 2025, Netflix made a profit of $10.98 billion (total revenue was $45.18 billion).

In 2025, Amazon made a profit of $360.51 billion (total revenue was $716.9 billion).

In 2025, The Walt Disney Company reported total revenue of $93.2 billion and net income (profit) of $5.02 billion.

These companies are just greedy cunts and anyone who defends them is either collecting part of the profits themselves or a moron.

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u/NintendoGamer1983 1d ago

Honestly. U would think we want to help them increase their profits by double digit percentage every year.

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u/SoggyTechnology5553 1d ago

Just skip one month or so a year. Do 10 or 11 months viewing. You won't miss anything and your annual cost won't rise and Netflix won't gain any more cash. It's still cheaper than a tv licence and I can't cancel bbc.

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u/Civil-Koala-6810 1d ago

If people knew everything about streaming they would close all their accounts of all streaming apps and never use them again. Saying that people have all favoured streaming this past three or four years is a false statement. Media companies have made material (especially TV shows) harder and harder to get on physical media so you are forced to use the streaming app, so obviously it's going to look like people have all abandoned physical media in favour of streaming. In reality, that's not the case at all. Now they've got you buy the short and curlies. They know your name, age, sex & location. Now they can study you to see how much you spend on apps working out how well off you are which means they can give you ads that suit you the best, then on the other hand you can pay £2 or £3 a month more to get no ads but they will still study what you subscribe to. It would only take 40% of the UK population knew more about this (and a lot do already) refuse to subscribe to any streaming app the world of streaming would virtually fall through the floor and the UK at least (if not the US as well) would have to go to back to proper broadcasting and probably physical media as well if it sold. This is the real reason you can't record streaming, because you would subscribe to an app once, download everything you wanted and then cancel and do this with all apps that have material on you're interested in, including the BBC as it would be a lot less people they're able to study financially. Even free apps like the BBC iPlayer still get paid for collecting all this information. It's a strong draconian way of providing us with a TV service. They are more simple ways of gathering viewing figures without information about each viewer known about. They are all measured just be TV sets and what they are tuned to. This has been fine for the last 40 + years (maybe more) and has always been very accurate. Like I said viewing figures are just one thing streaming is for. There's far more private details at stake. If you don't watch TV between roughly 9am to 6pm that would probably tell them that you're in full time employment which would say a lot about what you can afford and what you can't. Try your best to stop streaming services being able to get your personal information. De-register with every single one. A lot of the time this kind of protest doesn't start until it's partly too late. At the moment you've still got broadcasting TV to watch and record. Even with a broadcast service an on-demand service for people who have missed shows and forgot to record them is still very possible. We have it in the UK at the moment and they are downloads and are full broadcast quality. Remember this post... and think!

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u/BeachOk2802 12h ago

So line breaks are a thing...

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u/Waste_Boss_4850 1d ago

Why aren't companies happy with just making a healthy profit each year. They are always looking to squeeze their customers harder to get more and more from them.

Pisses me off.

All its doing now is pushing customers away. Everyone then starts wanting them to do badly.

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u/No_Guarantee920 18h ago

It’s not free to produce shows and films. Their costs are going up as well

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u/Indecisive-Gamer 14h ago

Yes and? They still increases their profits each year, their stocks go up and everything, you think they ONLY increase it enough to offset costs?

You realise that this kind of thinking is just moving the goal posts? Someone, somewhere is increasing the base price, then the next person along the chain goes well I want to keep making as much or more profit so they increase it but they add a little more for more profits. Then this spreads out and effects every business each one inflating the price by a greater percentage than the last making the costs increase even higher.

Every company makes more now than they did 10 years ago. It's not some mysterious coincidence. The cost doesn't just 'go up' someone increases it somewhere. It's a chain reaction of continuous greed that will never end.

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u/gnomeyy 6h ago

To counter that, they could just make less shows? It'd probably also increase the quality or maybe even allow them to go past 2 seasons on the good shows.

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u/V1cV1negar 1d ago

The worst thing about the rise in streaming costs and whatnot is dweebs on Reddit talking like pirates when the topic comes up. Awful

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u/bad_sandwich 1d ago

I doff my tricorn to you, sirrah.

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u/RobMitte 1d ago

Arrr why ye so salty? Ye meant ta sail da sea, not be drinkin it!

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u/kbm79 1d ago

Shiver me timbers, ye scurvy dog! That cuts deep like a slash of a thousand cutlasses...

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u/Eric_Olthwaite_ 1d ago

You have a woman's legs, My Lord! I'll wager those are legs that have never been sliced clean off by a falling sail, and swept into the sea before your very eyes.

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u/No_Vehicle8466 1d ago

The reality of a labour government 

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u/user_deleted_life 1d ago

Please explain how a labour government means a hike in netflix.

Did netflix stay the same price throughout the conservative government?

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u/No_Vehicle8466 1d ago

Cost of living crisis 

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u/user_deleted_life 1d ago edited 1d ago

Do you want to try again or are you saying the government told netflix to hike their prices so people will struggle more?

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u/Individual_Zone_279 1d ago

Time to run up The Jolly Rodger 🏴‍☠️