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Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by dahart »

malfist wrote: post #11
brk wrote: post #6

Earlier 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?

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

Curious, how did you extract that from the above? Inviting people over to watch with you isn’t sharing your account, nor is it watching from outside your household.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by mc32 »

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?

It's kind of up to the service provider to establish their terms and it's up to you to decide if you are willing to enter into those terms. Some services are per account per device, some are more permissive and some provide discounts when you add more users to a main account. But, it's not a birthright of any kind.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by tptacek »

dandellion wrote: post #43
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 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.

That's perfectly fine. If your household isn't using Netflix, you should cancel it.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by malfist »

tptacek wrote: post #35
malfist wrote: post #24

Earlier 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.

> you were obviously meant to get different accounts

Here's a tweet from netflix itself about how great it is to share accounts: https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by jakehansen »

I wonder how the “fingerprinting” will deal with users who access Netflix primarily through a VPN or relay service.

On Netflix’s side, they would see multiple accounts accessing the service via the same IP ranges.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by fbernier »

taeric wrote: post #25

I'm not sure I care that they are trying to get people to stop sharing accounts. At large, that feels fine and I'm always curious the lengths people will go through to not pay a small subscription fee. Especially for things they actively use the heck out of. (Notably, I seem to only know of people that do this where both sides of the share watch a ton of television.) I am not at all looking forward to it again thinki…

I can't think of a way they can enforce almost anything without annoying a bunch of people with false positives.

If someone has a secondary home like a chalet they go to from time to time, they'd have to pay for a second account?

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Post by athorax »

mikeyouse wrote: post #42
tptacek wrote: post #15

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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.

How does that work for Hotels or if you regularly travel between two locations?
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