Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Sharing Your Netflix Account

help.netflix.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 267 posts

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

#31

Post by andsoitis »

mouse_ wrote: post #22
tptacek wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You wouldn't even share your netflix account with your own mother? That's ice cold.

I may not want her to know what I watch. I certainly don’t want her to accidentally use my profile and mess up my recommendations.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

#32

Post by mc32 »

LamaOfRuin wrote: post #14
tptacek wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That does not follow.

Now, that is separate from the argument that because they didn't strictly enforce their ToS, that people now feel entitled to something and may drive some people away from the service.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

#33

Post by shankr »

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.

I am in a LDR and hence have a shared account. I also do spend significant amount of time away from my primary location. This is just going to be annoying.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

#34

Post by athorax »

tedivm wrote: post #17
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.

Yep, paying $20/mo specifically to be able to play on 3 devices. If they stop allowing sharing, there is little to no value in that plan for me anymore.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

#35

Post by tptacek »

malfist wrote: post #24
tptacek wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My parents don't live with me and yet they are part of my phone plan. Like netflix I pay a little extra so they can be on it as well as I can. Why is it unreasonable to share an account?

For the same reason you can't "share" your cable with your neighbors. Nobody cares that you're related. If you live in different households, you were obviously meant to get different accounts.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

#36

Post by ggrelet »

LamaOfRuin wrote: post #14
tptacek wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You seem to get downvoted but you are right: https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

#38

Post by ZeroCool2u »

My Mom lives on the West Coast while we live on the East. She's almost 70 and on a fixed income, so I pay for Netflix access for all of us and I'm happy to do so.

However, if they block her access I can't see any reason to keep my 4k plan. I can get anything we want on a Plex server and give her whatever she wants to watch that way.

I was already on the fence with the lack of content on Netflix, but this may just be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

#39

Post by mminer237 »

malfist wrote: post #3

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

There isn't a tier for sharing it outside your household. There are different screen tiers, so one person can be watching upstairs, one can be watching downstairs, and one can be watching on the bus, etc. But they're all supposed to live together.
Post reply on HN