Wonder what this will mean for watch Netflix on mobile devices and funny enough, in cars
Sharing Your Netflix Account
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
> that feels fine Sure. It's also fine for everyone they're betraying to cancel their subscriptions. I don't understand what your point is. Are you saying it isn't fine to be upset? Netflix specifically promoted account sharing. Paying for multiple streams, "love is sharing your password," etc. And they made millions of dollars off that marketing during the pandemic lockdowns. Now they want to pull the rug out from u…
People keep saying that Netflix explicitly promoted account sharing. Netflix has been telegraphing that they were going to clamp down on password sharing for years. Nobody can pretend they didn't see this coming. I dispute that a random social media manager joke tweet from 6 years ago is dispositive of anything, but even if it was, you've had over 2 years to cancel your account if you find this outrageous. This is on…
Many companies softly announce an intention to do something to guage how their users will react, then adjust course based on the response. Netflix has been doing that, and people spoke up. Now that they finally committed and have rolled this out, of course the people who spoke up (and probably many more that didn't care until it was actually rolled out) will speak out against this.
Nobody is "pretending" that this came out of the blue. That train of thought is just as disingeous as expecting people to stay silent and cancel their subscriptions over what may not end up becoming policy.
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#203My Mom lives on the West Coast while we live on the East. She's almost 70 and on a fixed income, so I pay for Netflix access for all of us and I'm happy to do so. However, if they block her access I can't see any reason to keep my 4k plan. I can get anything we want on a Plex server and give her whatever she wants to watch that way. I was already on the fence with the lack of content on Netflix, but this may just be…
I'm not you so I don't know your situation but the thought of having to manually download and share media whenever my mom calls me up sounds miserable. I'd rather just pay for her subscription.
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. The only thing to ask yourself is: do you allow antisocial behavior to go unpunished? Your proposed heuristic is both objectively terrible from a game-theoretical perspective and completely unnatural for any primate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#The_ite... https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1220806110
> allow antisocial behavior to go unpunished? I don't know where people get the energy from to do this sort of thing. It must be exhausting.
"Fuck that, I cancel" doesn't take much energy. And it puts money in your pocket.
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#205Remember when their marketing gimmick was "Love is sharing your password"
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#207My Mom lives on the West Coast while we live on the East. She's almost 70 and on a fixed income, so I pay for Netflix access for all of us and I'm happy to do so. However, if they block her access I can't see any reason to keep my 4k plan. I can get anything we want on a Plex server and give her whatever she wants to watch that way. I was already on the fence with the lack of content on Netflix, but this may just be…
I'm not you so I don't know your situation but the thought of having to manually download and share media whenever my mom calls me up sounds miserable. I'd rather just pay for her subscription.
Manually? There's out of the box ways to automate essentially everything including new requests
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it is not "fair enough". Those aren't the same situations. You need to pay a second ISP bill because that requires physical infrastructure to be laid down and maintained. Same with utilities and the toaster. Once you have the network connection you can access Netflix just fine. Unless they place an arbitrary restriction on it.
By that logic, everyone on earth can share a single account! Perhaps you didn’t know, but Netflix operates one of the biggest CDNs on the planet: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
If I pay for 7.88 billion concurrent streams, yeah I would expect to be able to have everyone access it
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#209To try to be generous/polite, how am I supposed to read many of these comments other than... rampantly entitled? Regarding concurrent stream plans, I'm afraid you're going to have a very bad not great day if you get mad about every tech-y company over-selling to unsuspecting consumers... Or are we keeping with the feigned-ignorance thing and acting like a company growth-hacking and rug-pulling customers is anything b…
I don't understand, first you describe other users "rampantly entitled" then you explain perfectly legitimate reasons for them to be annoyed with this decision?
I... i dont even think there's a way to have conversations here anymore. There are undoubtedly people here who work for countless startups that do thr exact same thing, use countless products that work the exact same way. And yet, 2 threads a day about how Netflix implementing something theyve warned about doing for literally years.
Lol! Its like this site having more pity for consumerist tech workers that pissed away hundreds of thousands a year versus rhe empathy displayed for otherwise actually poor, disenfranchised folks.
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#210My Mom lives on the West Coast while we live on the East. She's almost 70 and on a fixed income, so I pay for Netflix access for all of us and I'm happy to do so. However, if they block her access I can't see any reason to keep my 4k plan. I can get anything we want on a Plex server and give her whatever she wants to watch that way. I was already on the fence with the lack of content on Netflix, but this may just be…
I'm not you so I don't know your situation but the thought of having to manually download and share media whenever my mom calls me up sounds miserable. I'd rather just pay for her subscription.
My system is 100% automated. Sonarr + Radarr + Prowlarr + Deluge + SABnzdb FTW.
I stuck to using torrents for years but about 6 months ago I switched to Usenet and the $10 p/m for the Usenet provider and $30/year for an indexer is definitely worth the money. Now instead of having hundreds of seedless torrents in my queue, my system downloads even the most obscure media at a speed that completely saturates my connection.