Netflix Prices Rise Again. Corporate Greed Strikes Again

shxhshzhz on 13/08/2025 - 15:51
Last edited 13/08/2025 - 17:19

After last year's price increase, Netflix has increased prices for all plans again. PSA for those who may not be aware of this. Price hikes are highest for the 4K plan, now costing an extra $3 a month ($36 per year), while the 1080P no ads and ads plan have increased by $2.

  • Ad plan: Previously $7.99, Now $9.99
  • 1080P no ads plan: Previously $18.99, Now $20.99
  • 4K plan: Previously $25.99, Now $28.99
Before May 2024 2024 2025 % increase in 1 year % increase overall since 2024
Ad Plan $6.99 $7.99 $9.99 25 42
1080P no ads plan $16.99 $18.99 $20.99 10 19
4K plan $22.99 $25.99 $28.99 11 26

Will you cancel your Netflix AU subscription (if you have one)?

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    Yes
  • 55
    No
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  • edisonAU on 13/08/2025 - 15:58
    +47

    Real Debrid is the answer.

    • CodeXD on 13/08/2025 - 16:00
      +5

      I signed up last night with this guide, $28.64 for 6 months = ~$4.77 per month.

      Some of the unpopular netflix stuff isn't available, like Justin Willman: Magic Lover but I'm still playing around with the various add-ons.

      • start3r on 13/08/2025 - 17:37
        +4

        Definitely available. Keep searching

        • CodeXD on 13/08/2025 - 18:28
          +1

          What add-on do you have? Is it available on yours? I've only added the one from guide.

      • Danstar on 13/08/2025 - 18:18
        +7

        Everything's available on the internet

      • Preet on 14/08/2025 - 06:45
        +1

        Going up for you. Not sure how long it takes to be picked up from your side though.
        Edit: Done

    • EightImmortals on 13/08/2025 - 16:33
      +2

      This is the way.

    • OzTech74L on 13/08/2025 - 20:40
      +14

      shuushhh!

    • richyeah on 14/08/2025 - 09:55
      +3

      Yo shut up real quick.

    • Reggyscum on 14/08/2025 - 10:41
      +5

      Always gotta be a loud mouth. Pretend your in fight club

    • canihabdiscountspls on 14/08/2025 - 11:35
      -1
      • Stremio
    • TheFreaK on 14/08/2025 - 14:27

      TB

    • niknikniknik on 14/08/2025 - 17:30

      Got RD working with Plex. Struggling to get watchlist sync working.

      • winhhh on 15/08/2025 - 16:00

        Work with Plex in what way?

    • p1 ama on 15/08/2025 - 16:22

      The answer is to stop watching junk - most of what is on Netflix is just trash.

      Spend your valuable time doing meaningful things instead of consuming garbage that kills your brain cells. Spend time with family, pick up a hobby, play sports, read a book, learn a new skill, catch up with old friends, see a real movie in cinemas…etc.

  • tsunamisurfer on 13/08/2025 - 16:05
    +34

    I see Netflix as a very discretionary item, and anyone signing is making their own choice.

    I have sailed the High Seas since the 2000's.

    • Adredocto on 13/08/2025 - 17:56

      My sailing skills are stuck in the mid 2000s. PM me if you know any handy resources to update approach.

      • djkelly69 on 13/08/2025 - 18:37
        +3

        Check out the first post in this thread.

      • brendanm on 13/08/2025 - 20:02
        +2

        First post. Realdebrid or similar and streamio or similar.

        • nosey on 13/08/2025 - 21:31

          Yup after all the stremio/redebrid comments over last year i took plunge a few months ago. Fantastic way to cheaply and easily watch pretty much everything my fam wants.

    • FiveMangoTrees on 14/08/2025 - 07:58
      +15

      Used to sail the high seas until about 2014ish. Then converted to netflix, up until about a year and a half ago when eveyone started chucking ads on their paid subscription models. Add to that the fact that people who have paid certain companies (google, etc) to "buy" movies, only for it to be removed once that company loses the rights to stream the movie…

      I've taken the eye patch up again…

      • drick on 14/08/2025 - 20:24
        +1

        I've always kept the eye patch close at hand, as this day was always going to come around again.
        They can help themselves, they always end up getting too greedy and shooting themselves in the foot.

      • InsertCrow on 15/08/2025 - 05:34
        +1

        Haven't sailed for a time, but the sea is calling. What are the best ways to get back into it?

        • Alley Cat on 15/08/2025 - 14:09

          1337 still works… I'm old school.

    • nobro25 on 14/08/2025 - 14:03
      +1

      Well to be fair the only way to find One Piece is through the High seas. If you're a land sheep you won't get anywhere 😉.

      • tsunamisurfer on 14/08/2025 - 14:09

        Up to Season 8, the seasons and episode numbering is dead on.

  • BOGOF on 13/08/2025 - 16:16
    +20

    I would rather shiver my timbers, thank you.

    • Borgasm on 14/08/2025 - 12:47
      -7

      Would you rather automatically say 'shiver me timbers' every time you c*m or 'ahoy matey' every time you get an erection?

      • Tater on 14/08/2025 - 13:51
        +4

        Name checks out

      • Borgasm on 14/08/2025 - 17:20
        -3

        Sorry to the 3+ virgins I offended.. what's happened to this community - JV had the right idea all along.

  • Taro Milk Tea on 13/08/2025 - 16:17
    +17

    my ship has sailed since long time ago..

    • Mikeer on 13/08/2025 - 18:44
      +2

      Yarr!

  • c64 on 13/08/2025 - 16:35
    +14

    the CEO's new mercedes and rolex isn't just going to buy itself

    • freefall101 on 13/08/2025 - 17:04
      +11

      Merc and rolex? That's peasant money. Reed is off buying mountains

      • jv on 13/08/2025 - 18:37
        +4

        He will drive there in his Merc and be on time…

        • Mikeer on 13/08/2025 - 18:45
          +7

          Well, within -4/+6 seconds of the time anyway…

          • illusion99 on 13/08/2025 - 20:17
            +6

            @Mikeer: It’s more like -2/+2 for superlative chronometer

  • wetsandwich on 13/08/2025 - 16:37
    +19

    Companies are obliged to make as much money as possible. They didn't just discover greed in the last 2 weeks.

    Either keep paying (I bet you will) or don't keep paying. If enough people don't keep paying, they might reduce prices. Or if the price stays high, it becomes viable for more streaming services to enter the market, increasing competition.

    • blitz on 13/08/2025 - 16:48
      -2

      Companies are obliged to make as much money as possible.

      Source?

      • falcine on 13/08/2025 - 18:10
        +11

        The concept of "fiduciary duty": officers of a public company have a duty to act in the best interests of its shareholders.

        I don't like what Netflix is doing, and the proper way to go about things as a consumer is to punish the company by cancelling subscriptions, rather than, say, blame the company for trying to grow Netflix profits and share price.

        • jv on 13/08/2025 - 18:38

          officers of a public company have a duty to act in the best interests of its shareholders.

          That does not necessarilly mean to make more money…

          • falcine on 13/08/2025 - 20:31
            +2

            @jv: There'll be exceptions of course, when raising prices and boosting profits is not in the best interests of shareholders. Such as instances where the loss of customers as a result ends up seeing the company making less profit over the long term. But in general, I think 'making as much money/profit as possible' is how you put into practice a duty to act in the best interests of shareholders.

          • ankti231 on 14/08/2025 - 20:33

            @jv: You think shareholders buy shares for fun? It's called shareholder wealth maximisation

            • jv on 14/08/2025 - 22:17

              @ankti231:

              You think shareholders buy shares for fun?

              Lots of companies are not public so don't sell shares.

        • smartazz104 on 14/08/2025 - 14:28

          the best interests of its shareholders

          There's the problem.

          • wetsandwich on 15/08/2025 - 14:45

            @smartazz104: I mean, that's where the money comes from for them to start up. How do you propose a company can come into existence, if nobody is allowed to contribute money to start it?

      • Ughhh on 13/08/2025 - 20:02
        +1

        Wait, Netflix is a charity???

      • Thundaja on 13/08/2025 - 23:24
        +2

        Money can be exchanged for goods and services.

  • pegaxs on 13/08/2025 - 17:18
    +11

    Will I cancel? Nope, because I cancelled years ago… Do you want more piracy, because this is how you get more piracy.

    • illusion99 on 13/08/2025 - 20:18

      Piracy doesn’t seem to hurt their share price

      • TheFreaK on 14/08/2025 - 14:28
        +4

        Then no one loses :)

  • boomramada on 13/08/2025 - 17:26
    +5

    Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  • Cluster on 13/08/2025 - 17:27
    +2

    Netflix has to pay for stinkers like The Electric State somehow.

  • JIMB0 on 13/08/2025 - 17:30

    If you're not fussed about HD, random glitches or weird advertisements, there's plenty of Chinese sites offering the same content for free.

    • illusion99 on 13/08/2025 - 20:19
      +3

      Or fussed with keyloggers

    • smartazz104 on 14/08/2025 - 14:29

      If you're not fussed about HD, random glitches or weird advertisements

      If people were concerned about that, they wouldn't have signed up with Netflix in the first place…

  • ramb9 on 13/08/2025 - 17:43
    +6

    cancelled years ago since the crackdown. Doesn't feel like i'm missing out on much unfortunately for them…

    need new poll option for cancelled long before

    • illusion99 on 13/08/2025 - 20:24
      +2

      Why unfortunate? Their share price reached an all time high last month so doesn’t seem they are struggling for subscribers or revenue

      • smartazz104 on 14/08/2025 - 14:29

        Great, so on paper, Netflix looks great.

        • illusion99 on 14/08/2025 - 16:14

          That paper makes a lot of people money. If that paper says Netflix is worth $1200 and I bought it previously when that paper said it was worth $100 then I’ve made a lot of real money.

          • tenpercent on 14/08/2025 - 21:09
            +1

            @illusion99: Not until you sell the paper.

            • illusion99 on 14/08/2025 - 21:10

              @tenpercent: Nothing prevents you from selling the paper except your own greed

              • tenpercent on 14/08/2025 - 21:11

                @illusion99:

                Nothing prevents you from selling the paper

                It's your paper. I didn't think you'd appreciate me selling it.

  • Benoffie on 13/08/2025 - 18:00

    If its on Netflix, it's bounty 🏴‍☠️

    Also, just use it over Xmas.

  • Lets Go Brandon on 13/08/2025 - 18:06
    +2

    With all these price increases I've yet to see any improvement in their dismal content.

    • illusion99 on 13/08/2025 - 20:20
      +1

      You mean you didn’t like Better Late Than Single??

    • ForkSnorter on 14/08/2025 - 15:07
      +1

      New quality shows/movies are definitely becoming rare on Netflix. I'm starting to think even Apple TV+ is bring out new decent content at a faster rate than Netflix. Amazon Prime is possibly even worse than Netflix nowadays.

  • plmko on 13/08/2025 - 18:23

    Corporate greed or human stupidity?

    • Alley Cat on 15/08/2025 - 14:21

      The latter would be the root, the former is the symptom. The incapacity to see and plan for the long game, due to the fact that the leadership gets replaced relatively short term, there is no incentive for them to optimise for the long run.

  • jv on 13/08/2025 - 18:27

    $9.99 divided by 10 users isn't too bad.

    • Herbs on 13/08/2025 - 19:08

      Why stop at 10?

      • jv on 13/08/2025 - 19:16
        +2

        It's easy to divide by.

  • doheedo on 13/08/2025 - 18:51

    I just cancelled. I like paying for content when the service is good but this is a bit much.

    I set up jellyfin on my NAS server and the UI isn't as slick but it's not a big deal. The 4k streams could be a bit compressed on Netflix so having proper blueray rips for well produced movies is really nice.l

    • greater mimic on 13/08/2025 - 20:40

      The Kodi Jellyfin add on is really good if you want a nice interface. Though you also then need a nice Kodi skin such as Arctic Fuse

  • samcro on 13/08/2025 - 19:11
    -1

    Personally I use Stremio etc, but the other half likes to watch Netflix. Otherwise I'd cancel. She wouldn't be able to figure out the alternatives.

    • illusion99 on 13/08/2025 - 20:21
      +2

      Can’t you teach her

      • samcro on 13/08/2025 - 21:05
        +3

        No.

        • illusion99 on 13/08/2025 - 21:23
          -1

          Why

          • Brakus on 14/08/2025 - 11:11
            +5

            @illusion99: Don't you have one? You should know how that usually plays out

            • illusion99 on 15/08/2025 - 09:33

              @Brakus: I mean to use stremio once you set it up is 1. Search for show/movie you want. 2. Click on the show. 3. Click on the first stream option to start playing.

              Netflix is the exact same process except for step 3 which is literally a button press.

  • DIVISIONX on 13/08/2025 - 19:12

    You cant download a car

    • jv on 13/08/2025 - 19:18
      +3

      Yes you can…

    • smartazz104 on 14/08/2025 - 14:30

      3D printing tech is improving by the day; I am very patient.

  • Onemoredeal on 13/08/2025 - 20:08
    +3

    The extra user outside the home charge also went up.

  • Spootage on 13/08/2025 - 20:11

    I only keep the ad version of Netflix for the kids for ease of use. I have Stremio but I haven’t figured out a way to hide all the bad stuff from the kids so they don’t use it.

    • illusion99 on 13/08/2025 - 20:22
      -3

      Kids are gonna get to the bad stuff one day regardless of what you do

      • Brakus on 14/08/2025 - 11:12

        true but the age makes a big difference.

  • LiamD on 13/08/2025 - 20:57

    It honestly does not matter is what I've learned. The people who are willing to pay for it continue to pay for it, those who don't, figure out it and end up pirating. Same thing with people who watch ads on YouTube.

    Pirating has never gone away and probably never will.

    • illusion99 on 13/08/2025 - 21:27

      True. And the pirates are deluding themselves that they are sticking it to the man and the companies are suffering losing their business. When the pirates make up such an insignificant portion of potential revenue it’s not even a rounding error on the books

  • AustriaBargain on 13/08/2025 - 20:58

    I'm going to give up Disney+ soon. For simplicity I let the person I'm sharing with claim the household, and I forward the code to them automatically. But getting it to login is a pain, it keeps asking me for a code, meaning the sharer also gets the code and they don't know if it's me or one of their kids at a friend's house or what. At a certain point it will refuse to let you even log in with a code, but if you delete and reinstall the app it lets you log in again. It's such a pain that just getting a paid IP TV service is looking more attractive. Probably easier to share too.

    • Lastchancetosee on 14/08/2025 - 09:13

      The content on Disney is quite good and we split it three ways, but they keep hiking their prices for oremium, up $50 this year.

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