Somewhat related, it seemed like Netflix (and many others) was carrying out a similar strategy to inflate their number of subscribers to show investors, by allo

Somewhat related, it seemed like Netflix (and many others) was carrying out a similar strategy to inflate their number of subscribers to show investors, by allowing users to sign up for endless free trials through creating new email addresses. Only recently did they announce their banning of this come January, in an earnings call, IIRC, which I'm assuming is due to investors catching on and potentially being more skeptical following the recent drops in the NASDAQ. Not to say that they don't offer a solid service of value, just that it seemed like they enabled this as a means of inflating their numbers for investors. Random side note, people used to be able to do this with Seamless to get their sign up discount with any order, using a combination of creating a new email address, adding the new email address to a single PayPal account, generating a new Google Voice number associated with the new email address, and providing a random name. It appears they've picked up on it and have taken measures to prevent people from doing this. Might've previously allowed it for inflation reasons, but likely stopped due to their gain in momentum and it being too costly to allow with little to gain