It’s tempting to discuss this as an edge case, but the point is that netflix has a massive customer base and people’s personal circumstances are messy and don’t

It’s tempting to discuss this as an edge case, but the point is that netflix has a massive customer base and people’s personal circumstances are messy and don’t fit into the clean model that this location crackdown demands. Alan Bennett in Dinner at Noon wrote “Every family has a secret, and the secret is that it's not like other families”[1]. This policy makes no allowances for anything but the most vanilla arrangements. Homes where the parents separate, so the kids spend time at each parent? Wow, sucks that your parents got divorced now also no netflix for you! What about people who spend long periods on contract working etc - Oh you have to be on an oil rig/cruise ship/construction site/etc for a few months? Boring as all hell to be away from home and also either you or your family have to do without netflix. Have a health problem and have to spend time in hospital? At least you have netflix to console you… just kidding, no you don’t! Etc etc etc Netflix monetized the long tail of people and now are trying to enforce a policy that only works for people who lead super-generic lives. [1] https://libquotes.com/alan-bennett/quote/lbb1f9r https://libquotes.com/alan-bennett/quote/lbb1f9r