Netflix Account Sharing Changes

[2Legit2Quit]

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I’m going to get flagged for this shit for sure lol. Just between my own places and devices.

Basically my opinion on this is the same as the people who pirate.

Thanks a lot for stealing you cheap assholes and ruining it for everyone.

There's the pirating but I think it's more so the fact every player in the media game has their own streaming service now and no one is sharing their content with Netflix as much as they did in the past.

Netflix is becoming the odd man out, their content for the most part lately is shitty reality or irrelevant docu-series they stretch out in a painful way, and they don't make any revenue from lack of theatrical releases for their movies.

And to make up for potential loss they pull a move like this that alienates a good chunk of their customers who have become accustomed to account sharing for a decade, that even Netflix has more or less been okay with and somewhat promoted.

I'm interested to see if we and the other few countries are the guinea pigs to see if they want to let this rip in America

[max_boost]

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Also, no need to pick one and live with that choice forever. Watch the shows you like for 6 months and quit. I've done that with disney before.

Kk yes sign up 1 month at a time.

[ercchry]

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Basically exactly what I am thinking.

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Stealing the content is always an option yes, and it’s certainly cheaper than paying for content.

I was thinking more so using plex to log into your streaming services, as they now populate in plex… but looks like it still opens the native app when you click on it

[pheoxs]

I cancelled last night. Sort of in a similar boat to Rage where I let me mom use my account and I use it at work. It’s just not practical to lug stuff around to jump through those hoops. 30+ a month just isn’t worth it so back to Plex and Newsgroups for me.

If I want to watch anything on Netflix I’ll just wait until they panic and send out free trials to try to win people back.

[mr2mike]

This will get good in the coming weeks.
Sending a message to those MBA grads.

[Yolobimmer]

First I'm hearing of this. So I have Telus at home, a 4g Modem service at the shop, and Starlink in the truck. So I'm going to have to choose one, and sign in with the stupid TV remote every time on the others?

Time to fire up the torrent browsers.

[benyl]

It’s seems they are asking every Tesla owner to pony up $7.99 a car.

[beecue]

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How can it be stealing when the used to promote sharing passwords? I'm more annoyed that I have to pay for 4 screens to get "4k with shitty bitrate". Who uses 4 screens at once. Their content is getting worse and worse. If it wasn't for Telus giving me access to Netflix, I would have cancelled a while ago.

Yeah there can't be that many people that use 4 devices at the same time. Would be nice if they made 4k standard and charged $5-8 per stream that's shareable.

[schurchill39]

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In my situation I’d have to haul my parents tv and my work Apple TV home to log in monthly. No thanks.


We’ve had a busy start to our travel year. 5 hotel logins already in 2023. All on hotel set top boxes.

Turns out you're right as it just shut us all down. My sister in law was over at our house yesterday so it works on her phone but it shut down her TV. How in the fuck is that going to work with people with two houses or travel to hotels etc to watch on anything but their phone? Brutal decision. We will be cancelling

[Buster]

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Hrm… I wonder if Plex could solve this?

Actually I don’t know why I don’t use this… I have a nerd friend that maintain a serious library… I could probably just switch to that and cancel all the things… I bet I’m up to more than cable costs with the amount of streaming services I have now

Plex is vastly more convenient than streaming. I dont have the time or interest to manage 18 different sub services and all of these shenanigans. My house is basically 90% plex. We do sub to Disney and Netflix...but if they get shut down then it's literally 2 clicks for me to get their shit using radarr/sonarr.

[ZenOps]

Just got hit with the sharing banhammer. Yes, been sharing account for quite a while now. Not that I was keen on finishing off the last season of Walking Dead anyhow.

On a side note:

Hoyoverse (Genshin) is rolling in $2 Billys per year pure profit.

Metaverse is losing $13.7 Billys per year pure expenditure.

People never said they wanted reality.

[shakalaka]

I am glad so many people are canceling or thinking of canceling. I am going to convince my wife to not sign up our own account and will try to get my dad to cancel. Fuck these assholes that first had slogans like 'caring is sharing your password' and now they get greedy and want everyone to have own accounts. As others I have other devices that gives me access to the shows if there is something I really want to watch and majority is garbage TV in the background anyway.

I would love to see them drop heavily in terms of $$ that they back paddle on this. Not that I care at that point regardless.

[suntan]

It ain’t doing shit to their numbers. They handily exceeded sub projections.

[mr2mike]

Give it time. I think stock will tumble this week due to this.

[Xtrema]

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Give it time. I think stock will tumble this week due to this.

I think sub loss will even out to sub gain so it's nothing burger.

So does this kill all the VPN tricks too?

Or if I set my primary location with VPN set to a fix location, I can go portable with it?

End of the day, there's nothing I'm attached to on that platform. But it's great for my parents to watch things that you can't find on TV. I'll probably downgrade to $10/mth plan and let my parents have my account and call it a day.

[ThePenIsMightier]

I'm right at the Salad Bar beside Mr. Mike. I think there is going to be a mass revolt against this and they will simply never recover.
And that makes my penor tingly.

[Gman.45]

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Gonna see how it goes for me

I share my login with my parents who are still in Scotland

I've logged in from 4 provinces and 8 states in the last year, as well as back in Scotland on my phone too

They might accept my PROOVE that I travel a lot and have drivers licenses for 2 different addresses but whatever

I was close to cancelling when they lost Family Guy, Friends, TBBT and HIMYM...there's also rumors that Star Trek is next...if that happens, it's gone!

That's not a rumor, ALL of the Star Trek content, tv shows/films/etc, is gonzo, and soon, as all the Trek IP is owned by "another" network that has its own streaming service now, and wants the exclusive rights to their shows once the license agreements run out.

[davidI]

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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!"

Yea. I'm all for it.

I'd rather they gain more revenue and give me more content given I'm paying for it.

[Yolobimmer]

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Yea. I'm all for it.

I'd rather they gain more revenue and give me more content given I'm paying for it.

You and the stunned cunt you quote are idiots. Netflix was always advertised as a mobile servixe. They've double rates in the years, started barging more for for devices....

In fact direct quote from Netflix twitter 2017: “Love is sharing a password,”

But many of us don't share, we are nomads. Netflix and people like you can go fuck yourselves.

[Thaco]

i'm in the camp that thinks the subs will more or less even out, however they're pissing a lot of people off in the process, so it really is going to end up being a loss in the end...