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Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by malfist »

brk wrote: post #6
malfist wrote: post #3

What's the point of having a tier for sharing an account if you can't....share your account?

You can share your account, with other people at your same physical location. You can't share your account with people who are going to be primarily watching Netflix from a different physical location than your own. Does not seem unfair, IMO.

So you're saying if I have a non-share enabled tier, I can't invite people over to netflix and chill?

If that's not what you're saying, then if I don't need sharing for use in the home, then what purpose does the share tier serve if I can't share it?

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by LamaOfRuin »

tptacek wrote: post #10
elektor wrote: post #7

Oh boy, here we go. Very curious to see how stringent they are going to be in enforcing this. This is going to disrupt a lot of multi-generational families who share an account but don't all live under the same roof.

What does "multi-generational" have to do with anything? My mom doesn't live under my roof, and also I have no business sharing my Netflix account with her.

Except for how they actively encouraged it for years.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by tptacek »

theFletch wrote: post #8

I'm still unclear on how they are going to do this without significantly affecting the customer experience.

Probably by cookie-ing or fingerprinting your device, and then tying that to IP geolocation. They don't need to get close to 100% accuracy and they can do things to err on the lenient side. It doesn't seem that hard a problem compared to other anti-fraud systems I've seen. I think it'll probably work fine.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by tedivm »

sourceless wrote: post #5

Second they enforce this, I'm unsubscribing

Yeah, same. Their plans included a number of active screens/supported devices a at a time. It seems pretty ridiculous to charge for the number of screens but then put restrictions on where those screens are.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by andsoitis »

michaelmior wrote: post #4

I'm still waiting for Netflix to update their profile transfer tool to allow moving profiles to a new account. I was sharing an account and now also have my wife's account. I'd really like to be able to move my profile from the old account to my wife's account to avoid losing history, but the tool currently only allows moving to a completely new account. I really think such a feature is necessary if Netflix really wa…

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