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Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)

submitted 7 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We do. Because it's the only streaming app that has a very large catalogue of local shows and non western shows that is available in our country.

Also we (my family) pay because it's our choice and nothing you say will change that.

That said.

I pirate shows from Amazon, Disney, hbo, Hulu, paramount, etc. Simply because I chose Netflix to pay because they were the first to not snub our country and offered their services and I choose to not pay for other platforms, because it's expensive to do so.

[-] Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 months ago

How do you choose what you pirate and what you dont?

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

If I watch it on TV, computer, tablet or phone, I pirate it. Else, I pay.

Hell, I'm pirating Amazon even though I have Amazon Prime because of how crap the app is.

[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

this.

and anything that looks interesting that is out of the netflix line up.

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