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Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by dairyleia »

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…

I'm in a similar situation with my mother-in-law. I'd happily pay a bit more each month to support her Netflix account. If they block her, we may just cancel the subscription completely.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by djur »

brk wrote: post #6
malfist wrote: post #3

What's the point of having a tier for sharing an account if you can't....share your account?

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.

This doesn't affect me currently, but I used to (privately) watch Netflix at work all the time. This policy would (IMO unreasonably) prevent me from doing that. They could probably get most of the effect they want by limiting this policy to TVs and leaving portable devices + computers be.

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Post by BulgarianIdiot »

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…

So your thesis is that piracy is cheaper. Ok thanks.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by dahart »

Hamuko wrote: post #47
dahart wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Netflix is signaling that they're going to start cracking down on it. > Later in Q1, we expect to start rolling out paid sharing more broadly. Today’s widespread account sharing (100M+ households) undermines our long term ability to invest in and improve Netflix, as well as build our business. While our terms of use limit use of Netflix to a household, we recognize this is a change for members who share their account…

While that’s true, what I said is also true: this definition of sharing has been posted for a long time. I know because I’ve linked to it before when people complained about Netflix sharing. The shareholder letter isn’t the linked article, and nothing in the linked article signals a change.

2 years ago: “Netflix to start testing warnings for people borrowing login info” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26424186

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Post by tssva »

andsoitis wrote: post #31
mouse_ wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You wouldn't even share your netflix account with your own mother? That's ice cold.

I may not want her to know what I watch. I certainly don’t want her to accidentally use my profile and mess up my recommendations.

You can set a passcode for your profile.

Re: Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Post by das_keyboard »

elektor wrote: post #7

Oh 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.

this.

I would have no problem with paying a little fee to allow a second primary location.

But I don't suspect my parents will go through the hassle to create and pay for a separate Netflix account.

Secondly, I don't know if I could justify paying for a Netflix account just for myself.

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Post by nicklevin »

vsskanth wrote: post #54

Me and my friends watch netflix only on TV and subscribe to the 4K plan, one TV each. Now, if they make us buy our own plans, they should atleast make a single-device UltraHD tier.

Totally agree. I give out my password to friends because their current tiers (4k also means you get 4 screens) make it seem like I’m paying extra to be able to do so.

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Post by tzs »

malfist wrote: post #11
brk wrote: post #6

Earlier 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?

Sometimes different people in the same household want to watch different things at the same time.
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