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Ok so, what if I live with you but work in another city I travel to every week, do I not live with you? What if I'm a trucker on the move? What if I'm in the ar

Ok so, what if I live with you but work in another city I travel to every week, do I not live with you? What if I'm a trucker on the move? What if I'm in the army and getting deployed?

javagram 6y ago
In those 3 examples you’d still both file your taxes at the same address and be legally eligible to vote there too. Seems easily distinguished from the case of independent adults who sleep in different homes every night and have separate addresses on all their tax forms, drivers’ license and voting registrations...
- Noted 6y ago
  So is Netflix going to require tax information on everyone in the household? How can they tell the difference from their end I think is one of the questions being presented
  - Sohcahtoa82 6y ago
    Presumably, this person that is on the move is still using the same device no matter where they go. Their login session will be the same, just coming from a different IP.
    - dragonsngoblins 6y ago
      What? No. If I travel I might be watching netflix on my laptop while on the move but on the smart TV at home
  - Mindwipe 6y ago
    Netflix doesn't seem to be cutting anyone off here. They're just forcing 2FA on accounts that meet some kind of threshold of "suspicious" behaviour. There's likely a lot of metrics being used to identify that.
  - javagram 6y ago
    Seems like they aren’t asking for anything in particular for identity verification but just creating a slight annoyance via asking to re-verify. Facebook does prompt people to upload Photo IDs sometimes but I doubt Netflix wants to get that invasive. (I had interpreted the question as related to how to interpret the T&C. Agree that ultimately, it’s impossible to enforce the existing T&Cs to the exact letter, although some combination of annoyances and mild shamings might affect user behavior and presumably this is what they are testing.)
Barrin92 6y ago
Hastings once said that someone going to college sharing their credentials with their family at home is fine by him. Let's apply some common sense, right. If you're a trucker sharing your account with your spouse at home is probably fine. Sharing your account with two dozen trucker buddies and fifteen cousins probably isn't.

Ok so, what if I live with you but work in another city I travel to every week, do I not live with you? What if I'm a trucker on the move? What if I'm in the army and getting deployed?

javagram 6y ago

In those 3 examples you’d still both file your taxes at the same address and be legally eligible to vote there too. Seems easily distinguished from the case of independent adults who sleep in different homes every night and have separate addresses on all their tax forms, drivers’ license and voting registrations...

Noted 6y ago
So is Netflix going to require tax information on everyone in the household? How can they tell the difference from their end I think is one of the questions being presented
- Sohcahtoa82 6y ago
  Presumably, this person that is on the move is still using the same device no matter where they go. Their login session will be the same, just coming from a different IP.
  - dragonsngoblins 6y ago
    What? No. If I travel I might be watching netflix on my laptop while on the move but on the smart TV at home
- Mindwipe 6y ago
  Netflix doesn't seem to be cutting anyone off here. They're just forcing 2FA on accounts that meet some kind of threshold of "suspicious" behaviour. There's likely a lot of metrics being used to identify that.
- javagram 6y ago
  Seems like they aren’t asking for anything in particular for identity verification but just creating a slight annoyance via asking to re-verify. Facebook does prompt people to upload Photo IDs sometimes but I doubt Netflix wants to get that invasive. (I had interpreted the question as related to how to interpret the T&C. Agree that ultimately, it’s impossible to enforce the existing T&Cs to the exact letter, although some combination of annoyances and mild shamings might affect user behavior and presumably this is what they are testing.)

Barrin92 6y ago

Hastings once said that someone going to college sharing their credentials with their family at home is fine by him. Let's apply some common sense, right. If you're a trucker sharing your account with your spouse at home is probably fine. Sharing your account with two dozen trucker buddies and fifteen cousins probably isn't.