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Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by michaelmior »

hbn wrote: post #106
michaelmior wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How many items are in your my list? When Google Play Music ate the dust I had to re-add all the albums in my library to Apple Music. It was a few hour project, and that's with Apple Music's slow, janky Mac interface. On Netflix I feel like you could search for + add like 10 movies/shows per minute.

~200. I'd just rather wait for Netflix to solve my problem for me. What I'm doing now is working fine.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by smugma »

andsoitis wrote: post #121
michaelmior wrote: post #87

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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.

Ha. I see. I wonder whether they’ll add that capability. It would also be super useful when people become a couple and move in together… merging your Netflix accounts.

Unlikely given their goal is to promote splitting of accounts into more paying customers, not merging into fewer.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by wereallterrrist »

To try to be generous/polite, how am I supposed to read many of these comments other than... rampantly entitled?

Regarding concurrent stream plans, I'm afraid you're going to have a very bad not great day if you get mad about every tech-y company over-selling to unsuspecting consumers...

Or are we keeping with the feigned-ignorance thing and acting like a company growth-hacking and rug-pulling customers is anything but absolutely run-of-the-mill.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by torstenvl »

andsoitis wrote: post #118
torstenvl wrote: post #113

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> that feels fine Sure. It's also fine for everyone they're betraying to cancel their subscriptions. I don't understand what your point is. Are you saying it isn't fine to be upset? Netflix specifically promoted account sharing. Paying for multiple streams, "love is sharing your password," etc. And they made millions of dollars off that marketing during the pandemic lockdowns. Now they want to pull the rug out from u…

While it isn’t unnatural to react so emotionally to this, I think the only thing to really ask yourself is: do you enjoy the shows and movies that Netflix has? Is it worth the price? If the answer is yes, then who cares how they evolve their terms?

No. The only thing to ask yourself is: do you allow antisocial behavior to go unpunished?

Your proposed heuristic is both objectively terrible from a game-theoretical perspective and completely unnatural for any primate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#The_ite...

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1220806110

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by smugma »

dandellion wrote: post #43
tptacek wrote: post #10

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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.

Millions will cancel. Their hope is more will join. If it doesn’t work, they will roll back (and apologize), as they did with Flixter/Quikster/DVDs a decade+ ago.

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Post by r2_pilot »

travisporter wrote: post #85

Can i have my parents vpn in to my home network? Or will Netflix somehow block that like it blocks commercial vpn services

The nice thing about VPN to your home network is that traffic leaving it will be indistinguishable from your own home traffic from Netflix's perspective.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by andsoitis »

torstenvl wrote: post #134
andsoitis wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While it isn’t unnatural to react so emotionally to this, I think the only thing to really ask yourself is: do you enjoy the shows and movies that Netflix has? Is it worth the price? If the answer is yes, then who cares how they evolve their terms?

No. The only thing to ask yourself is: do you allow antisocial behavior to go unpunished? Your proposed heuristic is both objectively terrible from a game-theoretical perspective and completely unnatural for any primate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#The_ite... https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1220806110

> allow antisocial behavior to go unpunished?

I don't know where people get the energy from to do this sort of thing. It must be exhausting.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by andsoitis »

ijlx wrote: post #126
andsoitis wrote: post #93

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You can choose one of the cheaper plans right? For instance Basic is $6.99 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24926

Basic with ads is $6.99. Basic is $9.99.

Yep. So $9.99 vs. $19.99. So you could spend $10 less!

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by andsoitis »

smugma wrote: post #132
andsoitis wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha. I see. I wonder whether they’ll add that capability. It would also be super useful when people become a couple and move in together… merging your Netflix accounts.

Unlikely given their goal is to promote splitting of accounts into more paying customers, not merging into fewer.

That's not their goal. Their goal is for accounts to map to households. When I marry someone or live with someone, we're the same household.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by beeb »

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.

Using Plex and downloading movies for personal use is legal in some countries like Switzerland.
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