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Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by ZeroCool2u »

BulgarianIdiot wrote: post #65
ZeroCool2u wrote: post #38

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…

So your thesis is that piracy is cheaper. Ok thanks.

It wasn't necessarily cheaper in terms of effort until now and I prefer to support the content creators. But I already pay over $20/month and for what? I barely use it, same with my Wife. The one person that does use it the most is getting blocked, so I have a hard time seeing a reasonable alternative.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by tptacek »

taeric wrote: post #78
tptacek wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, because they do explicit vacation passes. If you literally maintain two households --- or, like my family, have a kid in a college apartment --- you're probably going to have to spring for a second account. Which, fair enough: the college apartment also requires us to spring for a second ISP bill, second utilities, second toaster; it was nice to get away with not duplicating the Netflix bill, but not reasonable t…

Probably will impact folks that travel and want to watch while away from home. Specifically, those where their family did not travel with them. That said, probably easy enough to deal with that, as I'm guessing most of them take a common device with them? Not sure. But, yeah, your example is pretty much how I view this. Was nice for a few cases where it was working. But hardly earth shattering.

I don't know anything about Netflix's system, but similar-seeming anti-fraud systems just fingerprint devices. Chances are, if you normally watch from your laptop or iPad and travel a lot, you're not going to notice any changes.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by andsoitis »

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.

You can just do the sign up for her, no?

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by lostphilosopher »

I'm ok with not allowing multi "household" sharing in principle, but I doubt this can be enforced without causing problems for even for single household users and seems like an odd way to handle this. Thinking about travel especially. Restricting the number of currently streaming devices makes way more sense to me and should support "add a screen" up charges. Rather than fighting the "sharing" use case - why not find a way to monetize it?

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by hbn »

athorax wrote: post #60
mikeyouse wrote: post #42

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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?

Or watching anywhere out of the house on mobile data. Does that not count?

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by michaelmior »

andsoitis wrote: post #19
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…

Does this not work for you: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/124844

That is for transferring a profile to a new account which is exactly my point. I have another existing account I want to transfer the profile to. I don't want to create a new account.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by nfreising »

As the person paying for a Netflix account used by my household, I don’t really care from a monetary standpoint. However I don’t like technical barriers Netflix is erecting. Tracking IPs, Device-IDs and linking them to location info. I pay for the service and I’m not okay with these extensive measures.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by andsoitis »

tssva wrote: post #67
andsoitis wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can set a passcode for your profile.

That would be very tedious if I have to enter a passcode to watch in my own home on my TV.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by michaelmior »

hbn wrote: post #73
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…

Would it really be that big of a deal to start over? I get the annoyance of starting over on something like YouTube or Spotify where you've built up libraries of people/artists you follow, videos/music, playlists, etc. But Netflix is just watch history basically. You can't even really trust stuff in "My list" to stick around because their library of content rotates so much. And it's not like their recommendation syst…

It seems it would be a big deal for me. Perhaps that's not how I would feel in practice if I bit the bullet and did it. But I really would like to keep my list.
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