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Perhaps because they've doubled their streaming service's cost, reduced their content amount and availability, and are now properly warning they are going to be
by fishtacos 6y ago
Perhaps because they've doubled their streaming service's cost, reduced their content amount and availability, and are now properly warning they are going to be cracking down on geographically distant usage by users of the same account.
At this point I'm paying 20 USD/m for Netflix, roommate for HBOMax, friend's password (via reciprocal sharing) for Disney+, and our online TV service, which my elderly disabled mother can't go without.
The post-cable/satellite TV revolution has tripled my costs from what it used to be.
- RHSeeger 6y ago> geographically distant usage by users of the same account But that's just it. A Netflix account isn't valid "for you and anyone you think it is". It's valid only for people in the same household. The thing they are cracking down on is people using the account in a way that they were never supposed to.
- fishtacos 6y agoIf your account is usable by 2 people of the same household and 1 moves out and continued paying half of of the Netflix bill... would you expect them to be booted out? So how does Netflix make a differentiation?
- Sohcahtoa82 6y agoIf that person moves out, they are no longer a part of that household.
- fishtacos 6y agoI don't split my phone family plan when people leave the "household" - why would I do so for Netflix?
- eyelidlessness 6y ago> The post-cable/satellite TV revolution has tripled my costs from what it used to be. Huh. You must have had a really great deal on that nonspecific cable/satellite. Every time I’ve looked at TV packages since before streaming services even existed, it was $50/mo before various fees and at least $70 on the bill, just for basic cable.
- fishtacos 6y agoMust've.