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Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by HDThoreaun »

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…

Netflix recommendations are ass anyway, what are you really losing by just starting fresh?

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by revlolz »

Netflix is hiring roles for digital ads teams where they specifically mention wanting to push ads on the platform to subscribers.

Netflix got captured and is now in the process of killing its core user experiences paying customers enjoy. It's inevitable poor performance as a result of these unfriendly changes and the terrible content they create has enacted death by a thousand cuts we see for each one of the online platforms like Facebook.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by nscalf »

mc32 wrote: post #114
gary_0 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." - Gabe Newell, 10+ years ago Once upon a time, Netflix itself was considered the case in point! Then video streaming splintered into a dozen services and now Netflix has decided to make things even more complicated. People don't learn, I guess.

I think that's a bit unfair. Businesses go through business cycles. I never worked there, nor have insight (obviously) but you know the business climate changes, your competitors change and you have to adjust or experience consequences. Sometimes you need to grow subscriptions, sometimes you need to grow revenue, sometimes you have more flexibility, and sometimes less (Netflix has to re-enter agreements with content…

Once you go public you have no option other than to just grow at all costs. The cost of Netflix pushing growth is turning consumer sentiment against them by cracking down on account sharing and pushing ads into the service. Netflix had a gross profit of $12.44B in 2022. Why not preserve the large, successful business that consumers have a high opinion of instead of push for further profits?

The truth is that Netflix could continue profiting billions per year more or less indefinitely without risking the company by shifting focus from growth, and the only people who would be upset about it would be shareholders. And the only reason they'd be upset is because of greed. They could stop trying to grow and be a strong dividend company overnight.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by kahlonel »

I’m fine with it if they decrease the subscription fee to a quarter. Nobody I know has 4 TVs in their house. Charging for “4 screens” while enforcing this new policy is a simple cue to unsub Netflix for good.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by HDThoreaun »

elektor wrote: post #7

Oh 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.

netflix was already pretty expensive for the 4k service. Really don't see how it's worth $20 a month when I can't split it with my family anymore.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by HDThoreaun »

andsoitis wrote: post #93
athorax wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

It's $15.50 if you want actual HD, and $20 for 4k.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by mc32 »

nscalf wrote: post #143
mc32 wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's a bit unfair. Businesses go through business cycles. I never worked there, nor have insight (obviously) but you know the business climate changes, your competitors change and you have to adjust or experience consequences. Sometimes you need to grow subscriptions, sometimes you need to grow revenue, sometimes you have more flexibility, and sometimes less (Netflix has to re-enter agreements with content…

Once you go public you have no option other than to just grow at all costs. The cost of Netflix pushing growth is turning consumer sentiment against them by cracking down on account sharing and pushing ads into the service. Netflix had a gross profit of $12.44B in 2022. Why not preserve the large, successful business that consumers have a high opinion of instead of push for further profits? The truth is that Netflix…

It's not that simple. Their "greed" affords "those" investors the ability to invest those earnings in other up and comers --some of which may fail and some of which may succeed. If everyone was just happy with going an even course, at scale, the economy would stagnate.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by dylan604 »

lostphilosopher wrote: post #84

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…

The add a screen up charge seems like such an obvious move. There's an up charge for 4k, so why not this? It just seems like an easy fix. Would it eliminate 100% of the problem being addressed, no, but it would go a long long way for PR moves.

Then again, it's easy to arm chair other people's decisions.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by smugma »

If I were Netflix, I’d first block simultaneous streaming in multiple locations.

So many comments below talk about giving parents/siblings access and they barely use it (I fall in this camp). If that’s true, you’ll almost never notice the restrictions.

But if it’s Friday night and your mom is watching Emily in Paris and you want to watch Seinfeld, you’ll decide to either watch something else, pay up for another account, or decide you don’t want to pay more for something you and your mom are both wanting (at the same time).

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by tptacek »

SpEd3Y wrote: post #109
tptacek wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Why do people compare Netflix with cable? It's a completely different technology. There are more differences in the technology that similarities. It's similar to asking someone who's using a mobile phone to buy a 2nd mobile phone for work because "You don't expect to be able to use your land line phone at work as well, do you?"

Because cable and Netflix literally do the exact same thing and serve the same roles in the market, and just because it happens to be the case that it's trivial to give your Netflix account to everybody, and not just to your next-door neighbors like in the sitcoms, that doesn't make it commercially reasonable to do so.
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