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Netflix considers crackdown on password sharing
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- Grakel 6y agoThis would be a smart move if their content library was half as interesting as it once was. But people coasting on their parents' account aren't going to pony up for what they have to offer today.
- tartoran 6y agoI feel the same. I'm also sharing with family and none of us hardly watches anything on it, just once in a while is there something interesting to watch. Thought about continuing it only to support the company but might reconsider that decision unless they do something about that poor content library. I'm using Mubi for great cinema and honestly I find a lot more interesting movies/documentaries to watch there.
- chii 6y ago> continuing it only to support the company there's no need to do that - a company would be supported if their products/services are worthy of paying for. To "support" by deliberately paying money, but not use their service is just folly. They aren't a charity, and they certainly don't think of you as highly as you would of them by doing so.
- rsj_hn 6y agoYup, I cancelled Netflix when they started pruning their cataglogue and pushing their own shows, which I didn't think were as good as the shows they had retired. They also started pushing their own commercials and made it harder and harder to avoid the annoying trailers. If they want to become a tv channel that's fine, but the value isn't there for me.
- jjeaff 6y agoI have never seen a promo for another show on netflix. Unless you are talking about the autoplay while scrolling feature? Now Amazon Prime, they are always sticking promos at the beginning and end of everything.
- kungito 6y agoThere are too many streaming services nowadays to pay for every single one. One option is sharing, the other is unsubscribing
- zeepzeep 6y ago1 friend pays for netflix, the next for amazon, the next for spotify. I mean do what you want, but if streaming gets worse than now (it's almost like pay TV again) people are just going to pirate again.
- driminicus 6y agoYeah, I pay for a few streaming services, but sometimes I find myself pirating content that is actually available on one of those streaming services, because it's just easier. That's generally not a great sign I would think.
- chris_wot 6y agoMan, I’ve done the same. There are too many streaming devices. It’s ridiculous.
- tinus_hn 6y agoThe third is rotating subscriptions, get Netflix for one month and watch the things you like on there, Hulu the next and then Amazon Prime.
- offtop5 6y agoThis is what I did with Disney Plus. I really love the first eight seasons of The Simpsons, and the original Star wars trilogy, plus the Last Jedi are pretty good movies. Nothing else in their library really appeals to me as a single guy. I tried the Hulu bundle, and I found Hulu's original content to be very much hit or miss. Monsterland was fairly interesting, and I'm glad I watched it, but I don't have any real interest in rewatching the same series over and over again.
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- egberts 6y agoSeems like Netflix is doing too much of those wokeism genre.
- StavrosK 6y agoI have an account for us, my parents and in-laws. It's barely worth it when split three ways, we're definitely not paying for three accounts for Netflix. I might as well set up a Plex installation and torrent a bunch of shows for them.
- 177tcca 6y agoWanna go halvsies on a seedbox? I'll send you an(other!) email if so, haha
- StavrosK 6y agoHmm, interesting proposal, though I think I'll pass for now because I have a NAS and a good connection at home, I think I'll use that for now. Did you already send me an email? Did I reply?
- 177tcca 6y agoNot about this topic!
- sodality2 6y agoThis works with VPN's as well: I thought about finding 5 people to split a VPN sub with, because I only would ever use one device at a time. That brings it down to ~$1.19/mo which is a great deal. problem is coordinating that with everyone lol, probably best for each person to pay $15 up front to one person to essentially prepay for a year.
- Hani1337 6y agoIf they lock me out of the account I share with my friend (i'm using his account for years, before that he used mine for years) I'm done subbing to them. There are other ways to watch content.
- selfhoster11 6y agoNetflix's selection is ever-shifting, ever-shrinking and constrained. There is no way that people will subscribe to multiple accounts within the same close friend/family group before switching to alternatives.
- parsimo2010 6y ago“Netflix is trying to crack down on ineligible users, though it is unclear how many people use the platform against their terms of service.” It’s soooo many people. Sometimes it’s pseudo-household sharing, such as my parents and my sister’s family that lives five miles away. Sometimes it’s folks that have agreed to share the cost of multiple streaming services (you pay for Hulu, I’ll pay for Netflix, Bob will pay for Disney). Sometimes it’s folks that bought an account login from a shady website. But the activity is pervasive. I’d be willing to bet that over half of Netflix accounts have given access to someone outside their household. And when you consider that sharing your account increases the number of users, I’d say that most of Netflix’s users are in violation of the ToS.
- canadianfella 6y agoHow is two houses using same login “pseudo-household sharing”?
- brisad 6y agoGood time to reconsider if you really should continue subscribing, I'd say. Money to them means money to the copyright holders, and they are destroying our equipment with their DRM. Perhaps better to do something else with that money and time and do something productive instead of being passively fed content for consumption.
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- thomastjeffery 6y agoYou had a good point until the end. There is nothing inherently wrong about passively consuming content. There is no need for us to be productive all the time.
- brisad 6y agoFair enough. I agree, that last part wasn't really necessary. You don't need to be productive and it's okay to passively consume content. If you can control that balance, that's great. I would guess though many of us can get caught in consuming a little too much, which is nice to avoid, but that's outside the point.
- vannevar 6y agoWith the competitive landscape transformed in the past few years, user growth is going to be much harder to come by for Netflix. Monetizing existing users is going to be much more important than it was five years ago. This is a signal that the digital streaming gold rush is officially over. Next stop: advertising.
- anonymouswacker 6y agoCanceled Netflix when I read about the content of the Cuties movie. The 3 other people who used my Netflix account were a bit bummed, but nobody paid for Netflix for themselves after I canceled. Plex + Sonarr/Radarr & a VPN is the way to go.
- Copernicron 6y agoThey’re welcome to it. I cancelled recently after they notified me of yet another price increase. I was a subscriber for years and the price constantly went up while the quality went down. Disney+ is cheaper and surprisingly has more content I’m interested in watching.
- wtmt 6y agoThis is from January 2020 in India: [1] > Still, we can joke. So, apparently can Netflix. > Because when a Twitter user in India posted a clearly fake offer--a "free Netflix subscription for six months" if you'd just be one of the first 10,000 people to call a certain telephone number--Netflix (actually Netflix India) replied: "This is absolutely fake. If you want free Netflix please use someone else's account like the rest of us." [2] Netflix knows that many users share their accounts. Since Netflix is also the lone streaming service in India where the pricing is very close to the US prices (compared to Amazon, Disney and Apple whose India prices are substantially lower than the US prices), anecdotally, there is a lot of account sharing happening. It's a tough question whether Netflix would prefer account sharing or piracy, since it has many great original shows and has also increased the amount of local/regional high quality content (in India) that's talked about or shared around. Netflix has also been experimenting with mobile-only lower priced plans in India (still costlier than its competitors mentioned above). If account sharing is banned or made very inconvenient, people would get the content through other means. [1]: https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/netflix-already-has-best-tweet-of-year-and-were-just-1-week-into-2020.html https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/netflix-already-has-best-... [2]: https://twitter.com/NetflixIndia/status/1213422409576927232 https://twitter.com/NetflixIndia/status/1213422409576927232
- fairity 6y agoMany are saying how they won’t pay for a subscription themselves if Netflix does this, but this move can be worth it even if the vast majority of freeloaders don’t sign up for new accounts. It seems like an obvious win to me bc the cancellation rate of the actual paying accounts will be small and less than the accretive freeloader signups.
- jVinc 6y agoI always figured Netflix didn't crack down on this because they knew the risk they run by pursuing it and had weighted out the risk vs reward and concluded that the value of having a larger market out-weighted what they might be able to squeeze out of their current customers. I guess this might mean Netflix is looking forwards and are expecting less from a growing market as the competitive pressure from Disney, Amazon etc. and are thinking that they'd better try to claw in some profit expecting not to grow their market?
- fukmbas 6y agoI will drop netflix soooo fast. The content is terrible and I have not been happy with the last 2 price increases. Don't forget I have 5 other subscriptions I have to pay for now too. This is all ridiculous, I want cable back
- nly 6y agoWhy would do this? Each subscription already limits the number of "screens" Of course you need to pay top whack to get 4K
- FalconSensei 6y agoThe problem is: if I only need 1 screen, no downloads or anything, but 4k, I need to pay the premium package, that has 4 simultaneous screens.