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Sharing Your Netflix Account
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Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account
#42I'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.
That’s exactly what Hulu started doing. You have a “home location” and if someone logs in from far enough away to trigger their systems, they’ll have them set that location as your new home. You’re only allowed 4 of those changes per year without calling some support line so it seems pretty effective.
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#43Oh 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.
My mom doesn't know how sign up for Neflix, so she's been using my account on her phone for a long time. I only keep the subscription because she uses it, I would have cancelled long ago if it was up to me. I doubt I'm the only one that will just cancel if Netflix stops account sharing, and my mom won't sign up if she has to pay a subscription.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
the intent is to let you watch a movie in your room while your partner/kids/parents/roommate looks at another in a different one.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> If you live in different households, you were obviously meant to get different accounts.
I don't see why that's "obvious". Not only is that the way many other plans work (see: cell phone plans), it's literally how Netflix itself marketed the service for years.
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#46What'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.
My mother-in-law is a self-proclaimed useless person at anything technical. You don't know how many hours it took for us to explain her phone to her. I gave her a Netflix profile and signed her in to my account. It makes life so much easier. I'd happily pay more for the ability to share my account with her. At this rate we'll have to administer two accounts from our house, rather than let her use mine. Why are they just making this harder, rather than just asking us to pay more to continue doing what we're doing?
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#47Second they enforce this, I'm unsubscribing
Why’s that? FWIW, this isn’t something new, this household sharing rule/explanation has been posted for years, and Netflix has been enforcing it softly, not very strictly except for obvious and egregious offenders for a long time.
Netflix is signaling that they're going to start cracking down on it.
>Later in Q1, we expect to start rolling out paid sharing more broadly. Today’s widespread account sharing (100M+ households) undermines our long term ability to invest in and improve Netflix, as well as build our business. While our terms of use limit use of Netflix to a household, we recognize this is a change for members who share their account more broadly. So we’ve worked hard to build additional new features that improve the Netflix experience, including the ability for members to review which devices are using their account and to transfer a profile to a new account. As we roll out paid sharing, members in many countries will also have the option to pay extra if they want to share Netflix with people they don’t live with. As is the case today, all members will be able to watch while traveling, whether on a TV or mobile device.
>As we work through this transition – and as some borrowers stop watching either because they don’t convert to extra members or full paying accounts – near term engagement, as measured by third parties like Nielsen’s The Gauge, could be negatively impacted. However, we believe the pattern will be similar to what we’ve seen in Latin America, with engagement growing over time as we continue to deliver a great slate of programming and borrowers sign-up for their own accounts.
https://s22.q4cdn.com/959853165/files/doc_financials/2022/q4...
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If you're in a long distance relationship, you're in two different households, and need two different accounts. Before there was Netflix, there was cable TV; did you expect to share that with your significant other? What other services do you share cross-country that way?
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#49I have a decent television at my house. I don't need to watch Netflix on my laptop/tablet/phone at my "primary location". I only need to do that when I'm out and about.
There should be a clear exception for IPs belonging to hotels. Or if a lot of different accounts are all coming from the same IP. That should indicate a transient population and would likely mean that the account holder is the one trying to watch Netflix.
I fucking logged in. I pay for 4(?) screens at once. It's the same whether you're delivering 4 streams to one IP or 4 streams to 4 IPs.
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#50Oh 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.
You literally pay for a number of parallel streams, i.e. screens. It shouldn't matter whether those screens are where I am or on Mars if you paid for a subscription that includes them.
E2A: From their own marketing of their subscriptions:
>Watch on 4 different devices at the same time with Premium, 2 with Standard and 1 with Basic.