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Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown::Netflix subscriptions are up almost 6 million this quarter, suggesting we're all just too exhausted to fight this stuff

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean, it only affected our smart TV. Everything else, including the laptop, my phone, and my tablet, can still use my parent's Netflix account just fine.

So yeah, I guess I just literally rolled over to another device and used that instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only a matter of time til they find you/these edge cases and squash you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh for sure, I am positive you're right and that it will stop working soon enough.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Content was rubbish anyway. I dropped it as soon as there were talks of the password crackdown.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And what actual real alternative is there other than to not use them? Of course people accepted it, there was literally no other option. What is this bs advertising parading as ‘news’?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Stremio and Plex

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I mean if my family is any statistic to go on, 2/3 kids (me one of them) swore off Netflix since. The other, bought their own subscription as soon as the code stopped working

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They only told the people who were password sharing. I didn't get any notice of the change until I saw it in the news.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I stayed because the policy is irrelevant to me and my wife since neither of us have friends to share it with.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Shit I left a day after they made the announcement because I was already sick of all their other shit, and I don’t even password share.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If I get a single additional charge, I'm done with Netflix.

I straight up don't believe them, that must be some statistical trickery. There's no "too exhausted" that makes more money just appear on people's bank accounts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

In my family this is exactly what happened. The people I shared my password with all bought subscriptions of their own.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well yeah. What were people expecting? A boycott of non-customers? A mass cancellation of accounts that don't exist?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

OK, sure, except that Netflix is incentivized to say as much, regardless of public sentiment.

I'm sure the hit they took to subscribers is worth it in terms of their balance sheets, else we would see a retraction, but there's no real way for them to know what the subscriber base would look like in the absence of anti-consumer policies (or their increasingly unsatisfying content production policies), based solely on historical subscriber data.

Users who got sick of it left, but we can only leave once, and Netflix wasn't going to try and retain us unless the exodus was unprecedented. I'd argue the real proof of customer dissatisfaction will be the piracy numbers on their various shows. Customers who want their content, but not their costs or policy restrictions, represent actual money left on the table.

As for their labor practices, well - like Adam Conover said, strikes are more effective than boycotts, and there are several ongoing. Won't do much for the user experience, but maybe the long term consequence is fewer, better shows with actual completed stories.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fucking big tech! Break them nowww pleassseeeee

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I cancelled my subscription even before the password sharing crackdown. I was tired of the price constantly increasing. Besides that I needed to eliminate some subs since the combined costs were approaching that of cable TV.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I have a netflix subscription for "free" through my phone plan, that's the only reason I didn't cancel. I'm still sharing with everyone I know because I have a plex server and just add whatever netflix shows people want to see onto it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Real debrid + kodi. Personally never looked back

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did rolled over to reach my phone to unsubscribe. Next thing i know, i'm socializing. Best weeks in years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Dang, how much Netflix were you watching?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good to see I am not one of them, I cut off Netflix after the news and went to the competition which are cheaper and have better production.

Not exhausted at all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I canceled my sub aftear being subbed for many many years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

god damn cowards

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