Without sharing its pretty hard to justify, every now and then there is a show that is a decent watch but then it's an eternity until the next season. I feeling a meta service that tracks your favorite shows and automatically subscribes/unsubscribes when they're new eps.
Update on Sharing
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#52I really dislike how every corporate communication regarding an “update” now means “here’s how we’re making things worse for you.” I know honesty has never really been the fundamental value of public relations initiatives, but it would be refreshing to occasionally see a company saying that they’re putting the squeeze on customers because they need to protect their margins or even just because they can. The formerly-…
> ... " To better serve our customers, here's how we're making things worse for you. FTFY.
To better serve some of our customers, here's how we're screwing the other ones.
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#53Honestly, I wouldn't have minded something like "buy an extra member" if it were introduced years ago. Introducing it now just seems to be a trigger to re-evaluate "is Netflix really worth that much" at a time their content selection doesn't look as amazing as it once did. I'm coming from a background of having recently cancelled my account though, and may be biased in thinking along those lines as a result. Overall…
I wish they had done this from the get go. My family has never shared a password with anybody, and I'm pretty confident that some of their price hikes reflected the reality that they had to deal with password sharers.
All I know is that with the fracturing of the streaming landscape, where everything requires a separate $8.99/$11.99/$15.99 (or whatever) monthly fee, downloading Linux ISOs starts to look more and more attractive.
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#54I really dislike how every corporate communication regarding an “update” now means “here’s how we’re making things worse for you.” I know honesty has never really been the fundamental value of public relations initiatives, but it would be refreshing to occasionally see a company saying that they’re putting the squeeze on customers because they need to protect their margins or even just because they can. The formerly-…
> ... " To better serve our customers, here's how we're making things worse for you. FTFY.
Corey Doctrow has a good term for this, or at least it’s him i heard say it: enshitification. I think it just captures the dynamics beautifully, it’s almost poetic.
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#55Glad they're actually pushing this. The fact that people think it's somehow their right to use stuff for free, that others had to put in work for, is mindblowing for me.
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#56I really hate them for this move for them being fuckin hypocrites.
In theory it would be ok to have such a rule. But for years they have used the sharing of account as a marketing trick to get new users. Imagine that they have 3 offers, with the most expensive one not far from 2x times the entry level price. The main difference was the ability to have 2 or 4 person's watching at the same time. Normally you would not have a real need for taking more than basic plans, but they pushed people to take the highest plan and share.
Now that they reached a peak in term of users, they switch their speech and pretend that they have to do a change because people are abusing of something that was not allowed to them in the first place.
So they need to get a good lesson with mass cancellation and downsizing subscriptions.
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#57Here's an update: I'm canceling my account. The amount of entertainment I and the three people I share with get out of Netflix isn't worth the 4x cost increase. Maybe the other guys will get accounts, I don't know. I'm sure for some people it's worth it.
I am only keeping my account because of cellular carrier subsidies. If my account gets subject to this notice, then I am definitely canceling. I pay for 4K streaming and simultaneous streams. Viewing should not be constricted to a single IP or address.
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#58I really dislike how every corporate communication regarding an “update” now means “here’s how we’re making things worse for you.” I know honesty has never really been the fundamental value of public relations initiatives, but it would be refreshing to occasionally see a company saying that they’re putting the squeeze on customers because they need to protect their margins or even just because they can. The formerly-…
Reading this one, though, this seems like a rare case where they're not trying to spin it as a positive for the customer.
They pretty much just state what they're doing, and even ack at the bottom that there are other options.
FWIW, I'm not (currently) a subscriber, and only subscribe seasonally as shows get released that I'm interested in (e.g. Stranger Things), which isn't often.
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#59This seems like a weirdly public rollout.
I've always had the intuition that bigcorps with relaxed anti piracy enforcement were better off because of networks effects and goodwill.
This honestly makes me want to cancel my subscription.
Why not just silently do this? What's the actual deal here?
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#60I still have a Netflix account as my family in another country use it. If get this letter I will probably close the account