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Your logic seems to conclude that you keep paying for Netflix, but that your mom will be the only one to use it.
Yes, that is the last paying option left. Obviously, that's not appealing though, so I'm more likely to seek out alternatives.
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So you’re paying $20 for a service that you and your brother and your mother barely use? Why?
I signed up to Netflix prestreaming. When they switched to streaming, it was a great deal. They had loads of content and no competition. That is not the case anymore. I continued to pay because I used it enough that it was worth it. Then I kept it because my mother and brother couldn't afford it on their own and I wanted to provide some value to them. Netflix is making me re-evaluate the value they provide us. Here i…
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…
> 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…
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Yes, that is the last paying option left. Obviously, that's not appealing though, so I'm more likely to seek out alternatives.
I think the subtext is: you don't have a problem. You have a single-household Netflix account. You're the kind of account Netflix likes.
I can keep my account and downgrade my plan and then pay for a separate account for my Mom, then they would make about the same or even less money. They certainly won't be getting any ad revenue from either account.
I can cancel my account outright and get my content through alternative methods where Netflix is not compensated.
It seems to me the choice is obvious here and the calculus doesn't swing in Netflix's favor. Perhaps for the majority of the subscriber population it will, but that's a bit of a gamble when my generation and really every other generation after grew up knowing how to pirate whatever they wanted.
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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.
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Yes, that is the last paying option left. Obviously, that's not appealing though, so I'm more likely to seek out alternatives.
I think the subtext is: you don't have a problem. You have a single-household Netflix account. You're the kind of account Netflix likes.
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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…
People keep saying that Netflix explicitly promoted account sharing. Netflix has been telegraphing that they were going to clamp down on password sharing for years. Nobody can pretend they didn't see this coming. I dispute that a random social media manager joke tweet from 6 years ago is dispositive of anything, but even if it was, you've had over 2 years to cancel your account if you find this outrageous. This is on…
What if you own, for example, a lake house? No Netflix for the same family using a different house on occasion?
> Watch Netflix while traveling or from a different location? > If you are traveling or live between different places, you can continue to enjoy Netflix. > If you are away from your primary location for an extended period of time, your device may be blocked from watching Netflix. You can request a temporary access code to continue watching. Vague answer. It's ok until it's not ok. How long is an "for an extended peri…
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What does a "roof" have to do with internet content you pay for? Answer: nothing! Their 4k plan wording: "Watch on 4 supported devices at a time" OK - I pay them, we use up to 4 supported devices at a time. End of story! What's next, you can't get a 4-line cell phone plan unless all 4 lines are "under the same roof"? Makes just about the same amount of sense! The "live together" limitation is being added for "busines…
As Netflix is making clear, you're not paying for 4 households to use their service, but rather 4 devices within the household. There's a lot of gaslighting going on here: in the main, people who were sharing their Netflix accounts with their parents, siblings across town (cough), LDRs, and kids at college knew they were stretching the limits of what these services intended. If they weren't, there wouldn't be a name…
They've changed the terms, and people on the wrong end of that change are unhappy with the change, with good reason. It's not gaslighting to have situations where you pay for something under terms of a contract, and the contract changes.
Why are you all for Netflix's term change? It seems like it's worse for consumers, and I fall into the "consumer" bucket, so I dislike it. Are you suggesting consumers suck it up, keep their mouths shut, and submit to corporate overlords? Or are we allowed to complain that the terms of the agreement have been altered, and we'd like them to please not alter them further.
And I'm not saying they can't make the change. Just that it is clearly worse for me. If it's enforced, the change in value proposition will be significant enough that I will opt out of it. We're a family without kids, but with in-laws. Why should kids living at home with lots of screens be favored by Netflix over a family like mine? Either way, I pay for the number of simultaneous screens, as per the previous version of the agreement. Ah yes - they want to squeeze more money out of my particular family arrangement. I feel entitled to complain about it, and take this change in contract as an opportunity to end it.
