First details of Netflix Password sharing killer(UP: Netflix backtracks for now, see threadmarks)
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Yeah, this doesn't seem like something they can reverse without losing a lot of face if it doesn't work out for them, but the option is probably open for them to introduce the additional surcharge fee for multiple households.
I cancelled mine. Will just subscribe periodically from here on out. Basically wasting money for something monthly that we don't always use and they keep jacking the price. So ✌️
lol, bye Netflix!
I was a subscriber since the DVD days. Hope you enjoy squeezing your remaining customers for more money so you can cancel more shows=.
I was a subscriber since the DVD days. Hope you enjoy squeezing your remaining customers for more money so you can cancel more shows=.
I was under the assumption of using a commercial VPN. If you setup your own, you'll be fine. Again, anyone who is determined to still share will be able to do so. They're worried about the masses and not the edge cases. Someone setting up their own personal VPN is an edge case.
No. They only really lost subscribers for one quarter and then not only made up for that but grew the past two quarters.
Netflix is too anti consumer (both on how they treat their shows and their consumer) for me to bother keeping it going. It might not effect me at all but I'm just tired of them thinking they're better than everyone else. The market is too saturated to keep subscribing for a couple shows and some shows my kid loves.
The weird thing is how many people don't see this coming and then will be blindsided when it does...
Ok so instead of getting the money of one person and viewership of two via myself and my mom, you'll get the money of zero and viewership of zero. Once Stranger Things and Cobra Kai wrap up, I'll have no reason to stick around. Bye.
I have to assume that the overall plan to introduce a higher tier "shared plan" service?
I'm sure I'm no the only who would be willing to pay for it to avoid this crap.
I'm sure I'm no the only who would be willing to pay for it to avoid this crap.
So my question is when will this change happen?
Cause we keep hearing Netflix is gonna crack down. They are going to do x, y, and z. But I've yet to see them actually do anything
Cause we keep hearing Netflix is gonna crack down. They are going to do x, y, and z. But I've yet to see them actually do anything
Yeah will have to test it out. Because it would be weird to block the same IP address as what they detect at someone's home.
I believe they said it should come within the first quarter of this year at their quarterly earnings announcement.
Sharing your Netflix account
A Netflix account is meant to be shared in one household – people who live in the same location with the account owner.
help.netflix.com
I made a poor assumption that this was about commercial VPNs. I think if you set up your own personal VPN that you host, there's no way they'll know. I really think anyone who is determined to still share will be able to find ways to get around this and Netflix aren't concerned about edge cases like that.
Yeah that makes sense. Yeah no way for them to know that way.I believe they said it should come within the first quarter of this year at their quarterly earnings announcement.
Sharing your Netflix account
A Netflix account is meant to be shared in one household – people who live in the same location with the account owner.
I made a poor assumption that this was about commercial VPNs. I think if you set up your own personal VPN that you host, there's no way they'll know. I really think anyone who is determined to still share will be able to find ways to get around this and Netflix aren't concerned about edge cases like that.
Start OpenVPN sever service, generate profile for person who needs to sign in, send it to them, they sign in with openvpn client, done.
Why do you guys keep posting a 6 year old tweet like a gotcha. That's like a console generation 🤪
So if a person travels away from home for more than a month, or does lots of changes to their environment for a job, they can't even access their own service anymore?
Haha, fuck you Netflix, this is draconian, petty bullshit a boardroom came up with because they needed another yacht or some shit. I hope they get buried by all the other streaming services at this point.
Haha, fuck you Netflix, this is draconian, petty bullshit a boardroom came up with because they needed another yacht or some shit. I hope they get buried by all the other streaming services at this point.
Ya, I don't get it either. Did people forget that Sony used to endorse sharing and then cracked down on it later by reducing it from 5 to 2? Companies change direction all the time.
No, they can. They'll just need to do two factor authentication.
Yup. Netflix destroyed Blockbuster and changed the market because they offered a disruptive service in a mature industry. As gross as it is to describe a corporation this way, Netflix used to be "cool". When they still had room for tons of YOY growth in subscriptions, they kept that same mentality of wanting to be the "cool" company. Now they're just as mature and corny as Blockbuster and they're done with cute tweets and gimmicks like this. It's all about squeezing blood from the stone now.
And there are plenty of people who 2-factor becomes a huge problem for as well with like work related travel, so it's still putting unnecessary barriers on people using the service before it starts screwing with password sharing.
Yeah. This absolutely won't work for college students and active duty military.
Can you elaborate how this is a problem for people who have work related travel?
I'm not seeing how this is impacting those people before it impacts people password sharing. It'll impact them at the same time and if anything the people who are sharing first unless someone is traveling the minute it starts.
Honestly it will probably be even easier then that. The code will probably always come from the same email address and have the same subject so you can likely setup a rule to forward those emails to other email addresses.
This feels like a bad solution that is honestly more likely to punish more legitimate uses like travel or grey area ones like a college student who still shares an account with their parents, but likely isn't going to pony up for the subscription themselves because they don't have that much money. On the other hand, it actually does jack shit to stop account sharing between people who just don't live far apart because it really isn't hard to arrange with a friend for you to stop by their house once a month to log into netflix or shit like that provided you live nearby.
A lot of people use built in apps in their TV. I highly doubt they're going to be lugging their TV around. Plus, Netflix knows exactly what devices access their service and what types of devices access it per account. I'm sure they have a pretty good idea with their usage behavior that they know how this will impact people. For a company that we know is data driven, it seems weird to dismiss that they know exactly how their service is accessed and from where to make a reasonable prediction model.
Does nobody read? You can still access the service you paid for.
We have a solution to those wanting free reign in regards to changing locations, it's called DVD.