I struggle to see Netflix existing in its current form in 5 years. Their content is just awful, and the continuous price hikes just aren't justified. If they also start cracking down on shared accounts, I can only see it hastening their demise.
Netflix to start testing warnings for people borrowing login info
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#12What is the solution for shared custody of children? I have three kids that spend half their time at their moms. Are their Spotify and Netflix accounts (and mine) going to get shutoff? Is there some sort of appeal process?
According to the article you can just verify through a code that any devices are yours. My hunch is this is only going to cull the second layer and beyond of password sharing (people you wouldn’t feel comfortable texting and asking for the verification code).
Interesting. Why the warning tho and not just a "please relogin" screen?
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#13The Netflix I pay for is currently used by:
Me, Mom, Dad, Grandparents, GF, GFs Mom.
Other than myself and my GF, most of the people on this list watch something on Netflix every couple of months, when I or someone/something else recommend them a movie or show.
I don't want them to use my profile, because we then obviously can't watch the same things, and it'll break my recommendations. I get why Netflix wants to split up accounts. Currently, they get approximately $240 per year from me and my family. If everyone has to create their own account, that number goes up to $1200.
But that's how my family lives. Parents are separated, grandparents live in their own house, my gf at home with her mom and I alone.
My dad in turn pays Disney+ for me, Spotify is paid by my GFs mother, grandma cooks me a couple of Lasagnas every year. We just share these services.
Should my grandma pay $240 per year, to watch two movies I recommend to her (and are ONLY watchable on Netflix)?
In the end, these streaming platforms are probably right that you shouldn't be allowed to share accounts if you don't live under the same roof, but it still kinda pisses me off.
Don't really know what I should think about this to be honest...
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#14I think this is going to have the exact opposite effect of what they're going for. I know plenty of people who split the cost of an account because they can't justify the full price. The continual price hikes, and now this? I'm sure the bean counters have done the math and they'll come out ahead, but losing content + raising prices and now killing off people sharing accounts is just a bad look. This is yet another ca…
Nah... if you can't justify $10-15 a month, but you spend 10+ hours binge watching, maybe you should get a side hustle or drive uber/lyft.
Peanuts cost argument doesn't hold any water.
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#15I’m one of these people. I use my brothers account (in Canada) and I’m in the UK. Got the pop up on my smart TV just 2 days ago.
Netflix really doesn’t have much for me anymore... not really sure I’m going to use their service.
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#16This just gives piracy yet another advantage. The article clearly mentions that credentials sharing is currently used as a mitigation to the balkanization of streaming services, allowing the cost of all major subscriptions to be spread across several people, essentially bringing down the per-person cost to a reasonable, single subscription's cost. Cracking down on this doesn't mean people will start paying, they will…
or people will just create a shared email account, or set up a forwarding rule for the verification emails... I agree with another commenter. This seems targeted at people who are borrowing someone's account without their knowledge or consent.
This kind of effort (presumably the verifications will be constant - one location being verified will trigger re-verification on all other locations) will just make people realize that piracy isn't that difficult to set up either and might make them reconsider using streaming services entirely.
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#17As part of a single person household it feels weird that there is a norm that you are allowed to share logins "within your household". Effectively this means people in the same household are paying a lower price than others - so people living in single households are effectively subsidizing that usage by paying more per person.
Are you saying if you have a wife and kid you should pay 3x the price?
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#18I struggle to see Netflix existing in its current form in 5 years. Their content is just awful, and the continuous price hikes just aren't justified. If they also start cracking down on shared accounts, I can only see it hastening their demise.
Huh? Their content is far better than any of their competitors. I have no idea what you're talking about. They've been pumping out amazing original series and movies.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to the article you can just verify through a code that any devices are yours. My hunch is this is only going to cull the second layer and beyond of password sharing (people you wouldn’t feel comfortable texting and asking for the verification code).
Interesting. Why the warning tho and not just a "please relogin" screen?
Would assume on that it’s because many people probably have the password memorized or written down somewhere as opposed to having to proactively ask someone for the verification code.
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#20I think this is going to have the exact opposite effect of what they're going for. I know plenty of people who split the cost of an account because they can't justify the full price. The continual price hikes, and now this? I'm sure the bean counters have done the math and they'll come out ahead, but losing content + raising prices and now killing off people sharing accounts is just a bad look. This is yet another ca…
If you look at who their competition is I would think they have a long ways to go before being considered the bad guys