How do they know where a home is? Are they going to require Location permissions? Are they going to do silly geoIP things which are worse than useless?
Netflix Homes
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#12There are less and less reasons to renew my membership each month!
Frankly, once I saw the prices rise $10/month -> $20/month I cancelled.
Plus, seeing shows like friends and breaking bad being replaced by big mouth and other Netflix content I find just gross (and not replacing it with content I enjoy). I cancelled. I was enjoying ozarks, and the comedy specials, but not at $180-$240/year and most of the comedy specials have become increasingly less interesting (when they came out at all — thanks lockdowns).
I think at lower prices they could honestly cover more niches because people were willing to pay for their interest (maybe 5% of the content). As the price increases more people don’t think that 5% is good enough for the price. And everyone has a different percent of content they like.
Imo this makes Netflix much more prone to lose customers when rising prices.
This is even more obnoxious because a lot of people who watch Netflix are younger. They travel, they go to school, etc.
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#13Genuine question to commenters that are poopooing this: why? Price hikes are annoying, and the content quality has been decaying recently, but those are separate issues.
Why shouldn’t Netflix seek to clamp down on account sharing? This seems to strike a nice balance that makes it easy to continue sharing, and not disrupt existing profiles, etc whilst charging a small premium for the privilege.
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#14The endless pursuit of revenue to suit shareholders. Netflix can’t increase subs anymore as who would subscribe have already and luxuries are first to go in a depressed economy. So you look for the next low hanging fruit to launder.
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#15I have a friend who is a divorced father, and the only two people on his account are himself and his son, who don't live in the same household.
Divorce is fairly common, and coming on top of another recent price hike, they are going to be shedding customers.
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#16The endless pursuit of revenue to suit shareholders. Netflix can’t increase subs anymore as who would subscribe have already and luxuries are first to go in a depressed economy. So you look for the next low hanging fruit to launder.
> The endless pursuit of revenue to suit shareholders.
I don’t really understand these comments. Do you think Netflix is a charity? “Endless pursuit of revenue” is how they stay in business, employing people and yes, generating profits to shareholders.
Imagine turning this same thinking around at other groups I’d imagine you sympathize with like unionizing workers: “In their endless pursuit of revenue, workers have demanded pay increases”. Like wtf?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate please?
As I said in my own comment: Their goal is to remove non-paying customers from their platform.
Their goal is to monetize those users, even a fraction of them. Booting them from the platform doesn’t actually do them any good. They are effectively offering a large discount to account sharers.
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#18How do they know where a home is? Are they going to require Location permissions? Are they going to do silly geoIP things which are worse than useless?
It sounds like they are using a combination of device fingerprinting and ip addresses. Will be interesting to see how many people get false positives from VPN's or just having their ip addresses cycled
> Make sure that the device is not connected to a VPN, proxy, or any unblocker service.
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#19The endless pursuit of revenue to suit shareholders. Netflix can’t increase subs anymore as who would subscribe have already and luxuries are first to go in a depressed economy. So you look for the next low hanging fruit to launder.
> The endless pursuit of revenue to suit shareholders. I don’t really understand these comments. Do you think Netflix is a charity? “Endless pursuit of revenue” is how they stay in business, employing people and yes, generating profits to shareholders. Imagine turning this same thinking around at other groups I’d imagine you sympathize with like unionizing workers: “In their endless pursuit of revenue, workers have d…
I have an endless pursuit for food. Whenever I eat, I end up eating again only hours later. I've given up on fixing this greedy habit.
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#20The endless pursuit of revenue to suit shareholders. Netflix can’t increase subs anymore as who would subscribe have already and luxuries are first to go in a depressed economy. So you look for the next low hanging fruit to launder.
> The endless pursuit of revenue to suit shareholders. I don’t really understand these comments. Do you think Netflix is a charity? “Endless pursuit of revenue” is how they stay in business, employing people and yes, generating profits to shareholders. Imagine turning this same thinking around at other groups I’d imagine you sympathize with like unionizing workers: “In their endless pursuit of revenue, workers have d…
> I don’t really understand these comments. Do you think Netflix is a charity?
That next marginal dollar of revenue in the short term is often at the expense of subscriber goodwill in the long term. Rebuilding burned goodwill is very hard to do and dooms the business in the long run.