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    I'm surprised no one has talked about this over the past week with the changes finally being implemented within Canada.

    Personally I think it's pretty fucking lame and helping them dig their grave, we share the 4k package with our bro/sis in law and have continued to do so just on the basis of splitting cost/the fact someone else is also using the service.

    Years of price increases and less content has made Netflix worse for us so we're going to cancel all together, family can export their profile and sign up for a single service account if they like.

    Might try Disney+ for the sake of having a replacement but between Prime Video and sailing the open seas, Netflix has become the least used streaming/media service in our house.

    Y'all bailing or sticking with the changes?

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    We will stick to our 4k plan, but the price increases over time and other services, its just too many options, might as well stick to kodi. I am more interested on how or what technologies they are using to keep the 'primary location', especially with mobile phones and such, are they going to authenticate every time you go out with the email/text option?. I mean you could setup a VPN lol.
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    I do agree the value proposition has not improved over the years. We don't share any of our accounts outside the household, but I think we might drop Netflix and live with Prime and Disney for a while. Shaw is paying my Disney subscription these days. Last year Telus was paying for my Netflix.

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    Im kind of surprised that crave isnt more into tracking this, we dont share our netflix account at all.

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    I looked into crave yesterday as we actually watch a lot of HBO produced content and the other shows/movies they offer are good... But everything I read is that the video quality is crap, the UI sucks and it's sadly just a poor service.

    That's what was on Reddit anyway, maybe folks on here can attest otherwise.

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    I really wanna drop Netflix out of principal due to this change but my wife likely won't let us so we will set up a new account (had always just used my dad's account all around the family as he set it up when the service first started).
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    Crave seems to be at a crisp 720p lol. Better off getting hbo max with vpn.

    I'm going to drop netflix once I get that pop up. I only watch a couple of shows and movies on it a year since their original suck now.

    I'll stick to prime and the high seas on plex instead.

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    Same. The only reason I keep Netflix is because I share it with my family. If that reason disappears, I'll just add Netflix into the rotation.

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    I think it's hilarious people are getting upset over this.

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    We share with my wifes folks, and we cancelled as soon as we heard. We only were holding onto it since we split it, not due to the quality of shows.
    That being said we also have Crave/Paramount/Disney (all shared) and Prime.

    Honestly, what the hell are we missing on netflix now anyway? All they're doing is regurgitating foreign shows. Cant think of a show or movie that i'll have actively missed that is on Netflix.Maybe ill join for a month or two in the future when the final season of Saul comes out.

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    I don't pay. My friend has no problem me piggybacking on thier account. We talk about the shows, what is good, crap and what episode we are on etc.

    However, the quality of the shows have declined. There has been much of a focus towards woke culture, strong female leads and the female condition just for the sake of it. I would prefer watching a show with a good character (male/female). I just think what they have produced over the years is pure and and utter shit..
    So I don't watch. Ive not watched in a while actually. Does not bother me.
    However, if that is the demographic Netflix are targeting. Netflix needs to understand thats the demograpic that wants shit for free.
    If anything, the sharing feature was to thier benefit.

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    My sister has my password, but she doesn't really use it that much but I always kept my plan status quo in case she wants to watch anything. Now that Netflix is locking things down, I may just drop down to a lower plan or just drop it completely and get it periodically when there's something I'm interested in watching. Sometimes there are months when I don't even log into Netflix cause there's nothing that catches my eye.

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    I think it's hilarious people are getting upset over this.

    "How dare they not let me do something explicitly against the terms I agreed to!"
    This lol

    My brothers/sisters/bro in law family are going to be pissed that their free gravy train is over but whatever. I do wonder how it will work for the extra accounts for 7.99 if your sub is paid through Telus like mine is. If it can work through that I guess I’ll offer it up if they want to keep using it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tik-Tok View Post
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    I think it's hilarious people are getting upset over this.

    "How dare they not let me do something explicitly against the terms I agreed to!"
    I think you are missing the mark. I don't and never have shared my Netflix account. They said a while back when they put limits on streams and raised the price that it was because of sharing. So i got the kick to the nuts for something I never was a part of. Now they are saying, oh, that wasn't enough, now we have to cripple existing services to drive new activations instead of just, you know, making the service valuable to more users.

    I've had it. The value for the service has long since be unbalanced and this is the straw that broke the camels back. I use the service all over western canada and occasionally for longer than their requirement. I refuse to take another hit to the value proposition and am voting with my dollars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tik-Tok View Post
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    I think it's hilarious people are getting upset over this.

    "How dare they not let me do something explicitly against the terms I agreed to!"
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    My kids have it signed in at my parents house (they're there once a week) and I have it signed in at work. I don't watch much on it but the family does. If we get blocked for sharing, I'm unsubscribing on principal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rage2 View Post
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    My kids have it signed in at my parents house (they're there once a week) and I have it signed in at work. I don't watch much on it but the family does. If we get blocked for sharing, I'm unsubscribing on principal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spike98 View Post
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    They said a while back when they put limits on streams and raised the price that it was because of sharing.
    That was just their excuse, it really happened because of poor decisions and large deals. It would have happened regardless.

    Netflix is the the SiriusXM of television.
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    I havent watched any shows or movies on Netflix the past 2 years other than the latest Knives Outs and I could have torrented it easily too if I wanted to.
    Wife had a 4K netflix plan but it is now bundled through our Telus account(downgraded to 1080p), we don't share it with others either so will probably just keep it as our daughter still watches it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tik-Tok View Post
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    Netflix is the the SiriusXM of television.
    Period

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