The 59-year-old communications professional in the St. Louis area is sticking with Netflix and two other streaming services but said he’s tired of constant price increases and haggling with his cable and internet provider over escalating bills.

Learn more Streaming subscription price increases continue to roll out across several top services, and Netflix is the latest to announce a change. The streaming giant just announced a price hike, bringing the cost of its Standard ad-free plan up to $18/month in the US.

The company raised subscription prices across most plans in the U.S. and several other markets. It added 19 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of last year.

Netflix will also try to stop password sharing. Subscribers can add extra members to their accounts for a fee that is less than a new subscription. Adding someone to a standard ad-free plan will increase to $8.99, while the charge for extra members on a plan with commercials will remain the same.

Netflix is raising the price for most of its subscription levels the company announced on its most recent investor call.

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