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You can share your account, with other people at your same physical location. You can't share your account with people who are going to be primarily watching Ne

by brk 4y ago

You can share your account, with other people at your same physical location. You can't share your account with people who are going to be primarily watching Netflix from a different physical location than your own. Does not seem unfair, IMO.

malfist 4y ago
So you're saying if I have a non-share enabled tier, I can't invite people over to netflix and chill? If that's not what you're saying, then if I don't need sharing for use in the home, then what purpose does the share tier serve if I can't share it?
- tptacek 4y ago
  My bet would be that the satisfying condition is disjunctive: either you're watching from an IP range that Netflix trusts, or you're watching from a device that Netflix trusts because it was fingerprinted and used regularly from that IP range. What you can't do is give your password to someone outside your household and have them watch Netflix from their house whenever they want. Which, I mean, obviously that was never really OK.
- riffraff 4y ago
  the intent is to let you watch a movie in your room while your partner/kids/parents/roommate looks at another in a different one.
- dahart 4y ago
  > So you're saying if I have a non-share enabled tier, I can't invite people over to netflix and chill? Curious, how did you extract that from the above? Inviting people over to watch with you isn’t sharing your account, nor is it watching from outside your household.
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- tzs 4y ago
  Sometimes different people in the same household want to watch different things at the same time.
  - brk 4y ago
    And they still can.
shankr 4y ago
I am in a LDR and hence have a shared account. I also do spend significant amount of time away from my primary location. This is just going to be annoying.
- tptacek 4y ago
  If you're in a long distance relationship, you're in two different households, and need two different accounts. Before there was Netflix, there was cable TV; did you expect to share that with your significant other? What other services do you share cross-country that way?
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  - SpEd3Y 4y ago
    Why do people compare Netflix with cable? It's a completely different technology. There are more differences in the technology that similarities. It's similar to asking someone who's using a mobile phone to buy a 2nd mobile phone for work because "You don't expect to be able to use your land line phone at work as well, do you?"
    - tptacek 4y ago
      Because cable and Netflix literally do the exact same thing and serve the same roles in the market, and just because it happens to be the case that it's trivial to give your Netflix account to everybody, and not just to your next-door neighbors like in the sitcoms, that doesn't make it commercially reasonable to do so.
  - lalopalota 4y ago
    > What other services do you share cross-country that way? Email, phone, password manager, ... any other internet based service. Netflix is not like cable. Cable is provided by a physical wire connected to one location. Netflix is delivered over any internet connection. If I pay to have multi-device access, it should not matter where those devices are located.
dairyleia 4y ago
My mother-in-law is a self-proclaimed useless person at anything technical. You don't know how many hours it took for us to explain her phone to her. I gave her a Netflix profile and signed her in to my account. It makes life so much easier. I'd happily pay more for the ability to share my account with her. At this rate we'll have to administer two accounts from our house, rather than let her use mine. Why are they just making this harder, rather than just asking us to pay more to continue doing what we're doing?
djur 4y ago
This doesn't affect me currently, but I used to (privately) watch Netflix at work all the time. This policy would (IMO unreasonably) prevent me from doing that. They could probably get most of the effect they want by limiting this policy to TVs and leaving portable devices + computers be.
- brk 4y ago
  It actually wouldn't prevent that. They cover that basic scenario and the requirement is that you watch at least one thing from your home IP account at least once every 31 days on whatever device you are going to be using from a remote location. Worst case scenario, you open the Netflix app on your phone and let it "watch" something while you're sleeping, or on a Zoom call on your laptop, etc.
tomjen3 4y ago
Please explain, in detail, how you think this is fair for those of us who are single.

by brk 4y ago

malfist 4y ago

So you're saying if I have a non-share enabled tier, I can't invite people over to netflix and chill? If that's not what you're saying, then if I don't need sharing for use in the home, then what purpose does the share tier serve if I can't share it?

tptacek 4y ago
My bet would be that the satisfying condition is disjunctive: either you're watching from an IP range that Netflix trusts, or you're watching from a device that Netflix trusts because it was fingerprinted and used regularly from that IP range. What you can't do is give your password to someone outside your household and have them watch Netflix from their house whenever they want. Which, I mean, obviously that was never really OK.
riffraff 4y ago
the intent is to let you watch a movie in your room while your partner/kids/parents/roommate looks at another in a different one.
dahart 4y ago
> So you're saying if I have a non-share enabled tier, I can't invite people over to netflix and chill? Curious, how did you extract that from the above? Inviting people over to watch with you isn’t sharing your account, nor is it watching from outside your household.
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tzs 4y ago
Sometimes different people in the same household want to watch different things at the same time.
- brk 4y ago
  And they still can.

shankr 4y ago

I am in a LDR and hence have a shared account. I also do spend significant amount of time away from my primary location. This is just going to be annoying.

tptacek 4y ago
If you're in a long distance relationship, you're in two different households, and need two different accounts. Before there was Netflix, there was cable TV; did you expect to share that with your significant other? What other services do you share cross-country that way?
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  [deleted]
- SpEd3Y 4y ago
  Why do people compare Netflix with cable? It's a completely different technology. There are more differences in the technology that similarities. It's similar to asking someone who's using a mobile phone to buy a 2nd mobile phone for work because "You don't expect to be able to use your land line phone at work as well, do you?"
  - tptacek 4y ago
    Because cable and Netflix literally do the exact same thing and serve the same roles in the market, and just because it happens to be the case that it's trivial to give your Netflix account to everybody, and not just to your next-door neighbors like in the sitcoms, that doesn't make it commercially reasonable to do so.
- lalopalota 4y ago
  > What other services do you share cross-country that way? Email, phone, password manager, ... any other internet based service. Netflix is not like cable. Cable is provided by a physical wire connected to one location. Netflix is delivered over any internet connection. If I pay to have multi-device access, it should not matter where those devices are located.

dairyleia 4y ago

My mother-in-law is a self-proclaimed useless person at anything technical. You don't know how many hours it took for us to explain her phone to her. I gave her a Netflix profile and signed her in to my account. It makes life so much easier. I'd happily pay more for the ability to share my account with her. At this rate we'll have to administer two accounts from our house, rather than let her use mine. Why are they just making this harder, rather than just asking us to pay more to continue doing what we're doing?

djur 4y ago

This doesn't affect me currently, but I used to (privately) watch Netflix at work all the time. This policy would (IMO unreasonably) prevent me from doing that. They could probably get most of the effect they want by limiting this policy to TVs and leaving portable devices + computers be.

brk 4y ago
It actually wouldn't prevent that. They cover that basic scenario and the requirement is that you watch at least one thing from your home IP account at least once every 31 days on whatever device you are going to be using from a remote location. Worst case scenario, you open the Netflix app on your phone and let it "watch" something while you're sleeping, or on a Zoom call on your laptop, etc.

tomjen3 4y ago

Please explain, in detail, how you think this is fair for those of us who are single.