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Netflix hints at password sharing crackdown as subscribers fall

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Re: Netflix hints at password sharing crackdown as subscribers fall

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Post by papito »

imglorp wrote: post #60
lemoncookiechip wrote: post #24

They're losing subscribers, because of multiple reasons, most of which are their own fault: - Subscription prices keep rising, and they were already very high. - Libraries decreasing as they lose the licensing to other streaming services. - Originals are hit and miss, mostly miss, and get cancelled constantly after 1 season. - Crackdown on VPN and password sharing. - COVID lockdowns are mostly over in Europe, US and…

Add to that region locking. As a consumer, it's immensely frustrating that a global service needs to maintain geofencing to satisfy the bazillion content contracts. This is an artificial scarcity. Example: in the US, Better Call Saul season 1-5 is on NF. Season 6 is on NF in many countries, but NOT in the US -- presumably an embargo for AMC. Splitting series across platforms is such a shitty, anti-consumer maneuver.…

It's not artificial. Different regions have different licensing. You could find Big Bang Theory in other regions, for example, which is only on HBO here in the US. It's not like Netflix can just post it.

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Post by teeray »

rhino369 wrote: post #101
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #43

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It used to be that if you wanted to watch a movie, you opened up Netflix. Nowadays you can't find what you want to watch on there, so people go to the places that do; Amazon Prime allows you to watch pretty much any movie (although often at a rental fee, which is a different discussion altogether), and the Disney empire has bought up tons of movie publishers and is putting all of them onto their streaming platforms.…

>It used to be that if you wanted to watch a movie, you opened up Netflix. I don't recall Netflix ever having a good movie catalog for streaming. It's TV catalog used to be amazing though, but that was because they were essentially the only person paying for rerun rights to shows that weren't popular enough for syndication.

They used to have a “so bad it’s good” catalog. I remember watching abjectly terrible movies from Netflix in college with my roommates that were hilarious. Now the catalog is just bad.

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Post by [deleted] »

xil3 wrote: post #53
incomingpain wrote: post #21

They have more competitors than ever before. They raised prices. They planned to crackdown on their subs. They do crackdown on vpns. They haven't made the 'black ukrainian falling in love with trans russian soldier' movie yet. Netflix is going to lose a ton more subs until they make that movie.

That movie would be a hit!

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Post by iainmerrick »

tentacleuno wrote: post #117
atomicfiredoll wrote: post #69

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This is good list. I'd also call out the common complaints I see about the recommendations. Further, it seems like there are a number of people unhappy with the homepage UI, which may be tangentially associated to recommendations. When the same things keep getting recommended in multiple categories for several months, it gives the impression the library is even smaller than it actually is. Personally, in terms of UI,…

> Further, it seems like there are a number of people unhappy with the homepage UI, One thing I really dislike about the homepage UI is where it plays videos (w/ audio at full volume) when you hover over things. That autoplay thing actually sped me up on the homepage. I tried to find something to watch faster so random videos would stop screaming down my speakers. Now that I think about it, that might be the intended…

Yes! That’s really annoying. I’m pretty sure I watch Netflix less because of that “feature” -- browsing for new shows is just too stressful.

I haven’t unsubscribed yet, but if we wanted to downsize, Netflix would likely be the first to go.

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Post by HWR_14 »

WelcomeShorty wrote: post #119
HWR_14 wrote: post #91

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Region Locking isn't NF's fault. Different people own different seasons of shows, and some won't sell to NF.

What I understood, it is very often the rights to the music that makes it so fragmented.

I believe that's true of pre-2000 content. Modern produced content is better about bundling all the streaming rights into acquisition so it's less of an issue.

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Post by cupofpython »

mrguyorama wrote: post #105
cupofpython wrote: post #82

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my household is in the metaverse, we share a common chatroom

Convert to Judaism and then your "private space" can be all of manhatten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv

TIL there is a fishing line encircling all of manhatten that costs "between $125,000 and $150,000 a year to maintain"

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci...

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Post by utucuro »

cupofpython wrote: post #81
atomicfiredoll wrote: post #69

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This is good list. I'd also call out the common complaints I see about the recommendations. Further, it seems like there are a number of people unhappy with the homepage UI, which may be tangentially associated to recommendations. When the same things keep getting recommended in multiple categories for several months, it gives the impression the library is even smaller than it actually is. Personally, in terms of UI,…

The most annoying part of the UI for me, and netflix isnt alone in this, is that the last thing I was watching is not the most easily accessible content after i sign in. I have to scroll down through 2-3 categories to get to "continue watching" . . it's like something out of a comedy skit Am I crazy, or should it be expected behavior that if I click nothing but "ok / enter" after opening the app that I should end up…

You should really try Amazon Prime Video on Android TV; you'll learn to appreciate Netflix, a LOT at that... Netflix is definitely guilty of mishandling "continue watching" though, not even showing everything I've watched recently while insisting on keeping things I haven't touched for months easily accessible. The noise thing, I believe, has to do with your settings though, because the only thing I hear, other than what I'm watching, is the app opening sound with the NF logo.

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Post by utucuro »

distances wrote: post #113
voisin wrote: post #86

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How about it recommending shows/movies you’ve already watched? Or not allowing the auto-removal of items from your list after you’ve watched them?

Good point, the My List functionality is really annoying without the auto-removal. It's very cumbersome to remove items from the list on mobile so I end up with a list of mostly watched items with a sprinkling of things I may want to actually watch now. Not very useful.

There's some logic behind non-automatic removal: you get reminded about new seasons for things on your list. If you remove something and there's a new season, you will not be notified about it.

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Post by cupofpython »

utucuro wrote: post #127
cupofpython wrote: post #81

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The most annoying part of the UI for me, and netflix isnt alone in this, is that the last thing I was watching is not the most easily accessible content after i sign in. I have to scroll down through 2-3 categories to get to "continue watching" . . it's like something out of a comedy skit Am I crazy, or should it be expected behavior that if I click nothing but "ok / enter" after opening the app that I should end up…

You should really try Amazon Prime Video on Android TV; you'll learn to appreciate Netflix, a LOT at that... Netflix is definitely guilty of mishandling "continue watching" though, not even showing everything I've watched recently while insisting on keeping things I haven't touched for months easily accessible. The noise thing, I believe, has to do with your settings though, because the only thing I hear, other than…

> insisting on keeping things I haven't touched for months easily accessible

I think this highlights their entire UI goal design i think. They constantly pressure you to watch new things. They want to inflate their unique viewer counts on as many shows as possible. They want to hook you on something new before you finish what you're watching.

>The noise thing, I believe, has to do with your settings

makes sense, ill check it out. maybe there is a setting in there for continue watching priority too

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