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Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by hnburnsy »

111111101101 wrote: post #210
dpkirchner wrote: post #203

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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 connecti…

First rule of usenet! do you want it to end up like zlib?

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Post by indigodaddy »

joecot wrote: post #187
joshspankit wrote: post #116

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Your logic seems to conclude that you keep paying for Netflix, but that your mom will be the only one to use it.

The difference is that there's no reason to keep the expensive 4k account. The Premium plan is 4k streaming, and up to 4 devices. But now they want to keep those two features bundled, while limiting your ability to stream to 4 devices (because now they'll all need to be in the same house). Sharing my account was my reason to suck that up and pay 20 bucks a month for 4k streaming. Now only I can watch it, or in OP com…

It will just be cancellations. No one is going to 720p. Not sure how you could think that.

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Post by beAbU »

ZeroCool2u wrote: post #38

My 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…

Same. I share a netflix account with my parents.

Thankfully I've already introduced them to Emby (similar to plex/jellyfin), and they are already familiar with the app that I installed on their Android tv box. They've been using it more than Netflix over the past few months, as the current show they are watching

Cancelling Netflix will be a very small disruption for us.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by prng2021 »

joecot wrote: post #187
joshspankit wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your logic seems to conclude that you keep paying for Netflix, but that your mom will be the only one to use it.

The difference is that there's no reason to keep the expensive 4k account. The Premium plan is 4k streaming, and up to 4 devices. But now they want to keep those two features bundled, while limiting your ability to stream to 4 devices (because now they'll all need to be in the same house). Sharing my account was my reason to suck that up and pay 20 bucks a month for 4k streaming. Now only I can watch it, or in OP com…

There are more than just cancellations and downgrades to consider. Netflix will make money from people who pay for their own accounts and from their new revenue stream of ads. There's also a very noticeable image quality difference between 4k and 720p, so there's no reason to assume the basic plan is what everyone will downgrade to like yourself.

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Post by 8fingerlouie »

lostphilosopher wrote: post #84

I'm ok with not allowing multi "household" sharing in principle, but I doubt this can be enforced without causing problems for even for single household users and seems like an odd way to handle this. Thinking about travel especially. Restricting the number of currently streaming devices makes way more sense to me and should support "add a screen" up charges. Rather than fighting the "sharing" use case - why not find…

I can hardly wait to see how this plays out in my family.

2 adults, 2 kids, multiple devices (Phones/Tables/AppleTV/"Smart" TVs), multiple homes, one 4 stream subscription. On average i would say each user has about 3 devices capable of watching Netflix, and on any given day i would say 8-12 different IP addresses are in use, depending on commutes to/from school/work.

Add to that the summerhouse which also has AppleTV.

And while i don't mind them trying to limit password sharing, i will not spend my time defending myself over legitimate use, so the second this bothers me i'm hitting the unsubscribe button. I have enough "time robbers" to deal with, and i'm too old to deal with stuff that doesn't work by itself once setup. Keeping the internet/wifi running is work enough, i don't need the extra stress of signing in my kids devices every n days.

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Post by pixxel »

111111101101 wrote: post #210
dpkirchner wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 connecti…

Which Usenet provider are you using? I used Giganews back in the day and I see they are still operational. Thanks.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by autoexec »

mc32 wrote: post #147
nscalf wrote: post #143

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Once you go public you have no option other than to just grow at all costs. The cost of Netflix pushing growth is turning consumer sentiment against them by cracking down on account sharing and pushing ads into the service. Netflix had a gross profit of $12.44B in 2022. Why not preserve the large, successful business that consumers have a high opinion of instead of push for further profits? The truth is that Netflix…

It's not that simple. Their "greed" affords "those" investors the ability to invest those earnings in other up and comers --some of which may fail and some of which may succeed. If everyone was just happy with going an even course, at scale, the economy would stagnate.

The stagnated economy means lots of popular services that consistently pull in large profits, and are well like by consumers, and which are careful not to screw over their users at every opportunity I'd be just fine with that.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by autoexec »

tzs wrote: post #177
gary_0 wrote: post #98

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"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." - Gabe Newell, 10+ years ago Once upon a time, Netflix itself was considered the case in point! Then video streaming splintered into a dozen services and now Netflix has decided to make things even more complicated. People don't learn, I guess.

> "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." - Gabe Newell, 10+ years ago Yet nearly everyone complaining here today about Netflix is complaining about the price.

Not really, although they've been raising their prices like crazy while offering less and less while increasing the number of ads (even for ad free plans). They are degrading their service. I'm paying for access to netflix on a certain number of screens. It makes zero difference where those screens are located. I'm not located in the same place myself, but now I'm expected to be constantly inconvenienced with "verification" nags.

The price of the service isn't the problem, which is why everyone I know has a netflix account (we'll see how long that stays true) it's the cost of what they're turning the service into while charging more and more that's the problem.

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