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Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by yreg »

tptacek wrote: post #173
neogodless wrote: post #170

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Correct. Netflix is making it clear that while they created a 4K, 4-stream plan, and millions subscribed to it, they've changed the terms to add physical geography limitations to an internet content plan. 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…

Since at least 2019, Netflix has been saying they were going to crack down on password sharing. People who truly believed Netflix was offering them a four household plan for $20/mo have had over 3 years to cancel. Personally, I don't think anybody reasonably believed that was what the plan meant, but either way. Of course the new enforcement is worse for everybody who was exploiting it this way. Any enforcement would…

Do you think I should buy another Netflix plan for the Tesla, or does it live together with me in the same household?

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Post by efrafa »

dString wrote: post #252
autoexec wrote: post #231

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Depending on how often they make you do it. I'm not looking forward to having to jump through hoops to access netflix when I'm not even using all of the screens I'm paying for.

Isn't the solution to just share an email address?

Or forward all netflix emails to 4 family emails.

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Post by lotsofpulp »

brokenmachine wrote: post #255
lotsofpulp wrote: post #239

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Still just complaining about price. It is trivial to search the content you want to watch, and pay for it. A couple extra taps is not sufficient friction to claim that “service” is the problem.

It's significantly more than "a couple extra taps". There's mental overhead from having multiple services, as well as the price. At some point you just decide it's not worth the hassle.

Sure, but 20 years ago, you had to go to a physical store, rent or buy physical media, put it into a physical device, and then play it.

Or call up a cable or satellite TV company and had to have equipment installed and pay equipment rental fees, and watch whatever was on without any control.

It is, objectively, pretty easy and convenient to watch what you want, when you want (assuming you are in the right jurisdiction). The only question remains is, are you willing to pay the amount the seller asks?

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Post by joe463369 »

fbernier wrote: post #58
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?

Yes! You have a second home and it's a chalet. You can afford two Netflix subs.

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Post by andsoitis »

_Algernon_ wrote: post #189
andsoitis wrote: post #103

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230 million paying households around the world + ? Million people sharing would disagree with you.

inertia

That’s really selling people short. I don’t believe that that many households are paying even though they don’t think they’re getting value for money.

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Post by greatgib »

What is abused is that a lot of customers took the 4k plan to share with family and co and it is usually reasonable because you would not share for more than 4 persons/devices being able to watch at the same time.

What is abusive is that Netflix used that possibility as a selling argument justifying the premium of the 4k plan. And it is like they are trying now to make you pay again for the same thing by pretending that they did not expect you to share and that needs a separated option.

I understand that now that they reached the ceiling of growth in term of new users they are trying to pivot to continue the growth, but I consider this as a breach of trust for customers, bracing the promise they did before.

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Post by brokenmachine »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #263
brokenmachine wrote: post #255

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It's significantly more than "a couple extra taps". There's mental overhead from having multiple services, as well as the price. At some point you just decide it's not worth the hassle.

Sure, but 20 years ago, you had to go to a physical store, rent or buy physical media, put it into a physical device, and then play it. Or call up a cable or satellite TV company and had to have equipment installed and pay equipment rental fees, and watch whatever was on without any control. It is, objectively, pretty easy and convenient to watch what you want, when you want (assuming you are in the right jurisdictio…

>It is, objectively, pretty easy and convenient to watch what you want, when you want

Sure, between Netflix, HBO, Disney, Paramount, etc, etc, etc... all with their own "exclusives".

So to watch what you want, when you want, you would need to pay multiple monthly fees and deal with the aforementioned mental overhead of multiple subscriptions to manage.

At least in the old video store days, one only had to go to a single video store.

Now they're even differentiating by the quality of the stream. That's more consumer-hostile arbitrary garbage that the video store never had. Who in their right mind would pay for blurry SD streaming nowadays, when even phones are 4k? But of course there's no single HD stream plan available.

Piracy is unfortunately relatively easier and more convenient, and that's a failure of the entertainment industry. Not to mention the terrible quality of the average show... and the fact that shows that you've "purchased" go missing from streaming sites randomly... and now they're putting ads in there. The downward spiral is now.

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