Let's make our content offering worse, start blocking account sharing and also increase our prices.
Decreasing the value to their customers thrice is a bold strategy.. let's see how it plays out.
Sharing Your Netflix Account
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#22Oh boy, here we go. Very curious to see how stringent they are going to be in enforcing this. This is going to disrupt a lot of multi-generational families who share an account but don't all live under the same roof.
What does "multi-generational" have to do with anything? My mom doesn't live under my roof, and also I have no business sharing my Netflix account with her.
You wouldn't even share your netflix account with your own mother? That's ice cold.
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#23Second they enforce this, I'm unsubscribing
Yeah, same. Their plans included a number of active screens/supported devices a at a time. It seems pretty ridiculous to charge for the number of screens but then put restrictions on where those screens are.
Too right. I only got the 4-person NF account for my elderly Dad. If he's out, I'm unsubscribing and going back to the high seas for their content. What a shame - four years ago was truly the golden age.
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#24Oh boy, here we go. Very curious to see how stringent they are going to be in enforcing this. This is going to disrupt a lot of multi-generational families who share an account but don't all live under the same roof.
What does "multi-generational" have to do with anything? My mom doesn't live under my roof, and also I have no business sharing my Netflix account with her.
My parents don't live with me and yet they are part of my phone plan. Like netflix I pay a little extra so they can be on it as well as I can. Why is it unreasonable to share an account?
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#25I'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 thinking I'm sharing my account within the same household. Last time they were trying this, I had to setup the kids TVs, again. Was very annoying.
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#26What's the point of having a tier for sharing an account if you can't....share your account?
From https://www.netflix.com/ChangePlan
Only people who live with you may use your account. Watch on 4 different devices at the same time with Premium, 2 with Standard and 1 with Basic.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can share your account, with other people at your same physical location. You can't share your account with people who are going to be primarily watching Netflix from a different physical location than your own. Does not seem unfair, IMO.
So you're saying if I have a non-share enabled tier, I can't invite people over to netflix and chill? If that's not what you're saying, then if I don't need sharing for use in the home, then what purpose does the share tier serve if I can't share it?
My bet would be that the satisfying condition is disjunctive: either you're watching from an IP range that Netflix trusts, or you're watching from a device that Netflix trusts because it was fingerprinted and used regularly from that IP range.
What you can't do is give your password to someone outside your household and have them watch Netflix from their house whenever they want. Which, I mean, obviously that was never really OK.
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#28I’m a DN and travel in and out of my primary location. This means I’ll need two or more Netflix accounts?
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#29Second they enforce this, I'm unsubscribing
Yeah, same. Their plans included a number of active screens/supported devices a at a time. It seems pretty ridiculous to charge for the number of screens but then put restrictions on where those screens are.
And you need to get those active screens if you want 4K. You can't subscribe to a "one screen @ 4K" plan, you need the full-blown family plan.
If you don't want people sharing their login with people, then maybe sell them a single-seat 4K plan.
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#30Second they enforce this, I'm unsubscribing
Why’s that? FWIW, this isn’t something new, this household sharing rule/explanation has been posted for years, and Netflix has been enforcing it softly, not very strictly except for obvious and egregious offenders for a long time.