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Netflix’s password sharing crackdown is here – it costs $7.99 per month (USA)
- zem 3y agofinished watching the good place just in time!
- gnicholas 3y agoI don't think we'll turn off NFLX indefinitely, and we probably won't pause. But this might get us to consolidate with other family members. If NFLX is blessing account-sharing, then we might take them up on the offer. Going it alone is pretty expensive.
- edsimpson 3y agoWhat happens to students? If you're on your parents' plan but not physically in their "household"?
- bombcar 3y agoI suspect students are considered part of the "household" because they are for tax and healthcare purposes. But who is going to sue to establish that?
- hgsgm 3y ago1. "household" is not a general legal term. 2. Dependent is different from household.
- leros 3y agoFrom previous information I've seen, they'd have to physically go home once a month and use Netflix on their device there. Otherwise that device will get flagged.
- andsoitis 3y agoYou can add extra users to your account and who aren't living with you: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/123277#:~:text=The%20account%20owner%20will%20need,or%20third%2Dparty%20billed%20accounts https://help.netflix.com/en/node/123277#:~:text=The%20accoun....
- propogandist 3y ago> The account owner will need to purchase an extra member slot Lol, no thanks. Great time to buy puts for next earnings.
- remote_phone 3y agoAs soon as I get this email I’m going to cancel Netflix and start pirating anything I want to watch, which frankly isn’t very much on Netflix anymore.
- alyandon 3y agoYep, I'm divorced and my minor son goes back and forth between his mother's house and mine on a weekly basis. I have a NF subscription and he is signed into my NF account over there on his xbox and the moment NF tries to extort additional money from me is the moment I cancel my subscription.
- m4jor 3y agoJust throw Plex onto a spare computer, NAS, or something like an rPi4. I have 600 movies on my Plex setup and 10ish TV shows w multiple seasons. I aint ever paying for Netflix/HBO/Apple TV/etc. Come to the dark side
- magic_hamster 3y agoTime will tell if this is the right move. Personally I can't remember the last time I watched any content that came from NF. I think the last time I even considered something on their platform was when Stranger Things season 2 was released. Maybe. Something tells me this isn't going to go the way the would have hoped.
- andsoitis 3y ago> Something tells me this isn't going to go the way the would have hoped. Netflix is renowned for testing changes to the product, learning from the data, and iterating. We know that they have been testing in various markets over the last year or so. So I'd be pretty sure that they are confident in this change.
- infamouscow 3y agoThis is always said when a large public company does something that's: 1. controversial enough people begin drawing lines in the sand 2. increasing prices without any customer benefit 3. going against the headwinds of the economy as consumers tighten their belts Maybe you're right, but I can't think of a single time this hasn't backfired. The Law of Unintended Consequences is a law for a reason.
- hgsgm 3y agoIt's interesting that jumped all the way to this, instead of working down from the accounts that log in from 20 cities, 10 cities, 3 cities, 1 city, etc.
- neither_color 3y agoA tip if you travel often is to set up a wireguard tunnel to a home computer. You just need port forwarding on your router enabled. Works better than any paid VPN service for watching your local netflix and it can't be detected.
- roody15 3y agoHere is another tip: Don’t pay for a service that makes you jump through hoops to access its content.
- jjeaff 3y agoThat leaves what streaming service, then?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoI think this might be moot. "Everyone living in that household can use Netflix wherever they are — at home, on the go, on holiday ..."[0] suggests that they'll use some mechanism other than IP to determine that there is against-terms "password sharing" going on. Probably something like device sessions instead. [0] https://about.netflix.com/en/news/update-on-sharing-may-us https://about.netflix.com/en/news/update-on-sharing-may-us
- andromeduck 3y agoProbably just cooking sniffing and some sort of grace period if you're not on the same network for a while.
- fakedang 3y agoHere's anotharrrr tip matey!
- costanzaDynasty 3y agoFor many a format warrior it was an oasis. But it long since stopped being that.
- JoshGlazebrook 3y ago> Extra members cannot be added to partner packages or third-party billed accounts. Looks like anyone getting netflix via T-Mobile/etc are even more out of luck.
- harshalizee 3y agoNope. Sorry, Netflix. I paid for 4 concurrent streams and now you're reneging on your contract. I didn't care much when they constantly bumped the price either. Been a Netflix subscriber since 2012. I don't really watch as much, but my mother occasionally watches a movie or two a month. My brother in college binges a tv show once in a while. I know that neither of them will go out of their way to subscribe to Netflix.
- wilg 3y ago> I paid for 4 concurrent streams and now you're reneging on your contract. You almost certainly in fact paid for 4 concurrent streams in the same household, and you were just out of compliance on your contract the whole time.
- mikeortman 3y agoThat’s probably a fair statement, but I highly doubt there is a substantial audience of families that want to watch four separate shows at the same time in the same house for them to justify the research and marketing to implement.
- thirdsun 3y ago2 parents, 2 kids. It might not happen all the time but I think in a family of 4 it's easy enough to run into this scenario that you might be interested in 4 streams.
- harshalizee 3y agoActually, they encouraged it - -https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712 https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712
- wilg 3y agoA tweet is not a contract, but it’s very nice
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- Marsymars 3y agoThis is relatively easy to handle for e.g. family sharing for Apple - everyone uses the same billing method, so it's naturally limited to people where you feel comfortable covering the cost of all their Apple digital purchases. Netflix has no such "real-world" limit to apply that naturally covers students and other dependants, so they seem stuck with various contrived options. I feel like # of simultaneous streams really ought to have been the natural limiter. If you're allowed two streams, it doesn't make a difference in the real world whether the two streams are to the same physical house or not.
- fakedang 3y agoWe are invested in a company that does TV productions for regional markets, the content often being sold to the major streaming partners of that market. One of our partner's produced shows was a top 10 global Netflix production. Yet even they contend that Netflix's acceptance process is by far the most whimsical of them all. And with the recent shift to Americanization and wokification of content, it seems they are losing ground to Amazon Prime in regional markets. With these kinds of faux pas, I wonder if Amazon won't eat their lunch (and their daily bread) very soon.
- chaosbutters314 3y agopeople complaining about no good content need to binge kotoro, revival, and sweettooth. netflix still makes some great original content
- eggy 3y agoI think the price is fair for the amount of content, but my family has been considering leaving Netflix to cut down on screen time and save a few bucks. I picked up YT premium, which saves me a lot of time waiting to skip ads. I wish they had this when I was a kid with the 13 VHF and 52 UHF channels in Brooklyn when I was a kid. If you buy Starbucks coffee, then Netflix is just 2 or 3 lattes a month to make up the difference! I went back to Dunkin a while ago when I don't have my thermos with me ;)