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
I really wanted to cancel my subscription. I consider piracy to be a moral option against the aggressively repressive sonny bono copyright law. But I can’t pull the rug out from my mom’s feet back home (I live in another state). So instead of getting to cancel in protest like how I want, I still just pay for one Netflix subscription that I don’t use personally.
You should look into hosting a Plex server for her. My brother set one up after I cancelled our Netflix and our tech-illterate mother loves it. The only change for her was moving from clicking on the Netflix icon on her TV to clicking on the Plex icon.
This is the way to go if you really want to be a pro piracy advocate.
Most people can’t be bothered with the complexities of torrents or codecs. Luckily that’s my shit, and I put together a 4x16TB NAS setup and started hosting a Plex instance for family initially, then added some coworkers. It’s a fun little hobby, and my users are able to save on streaming services.
Also, I’ve found a majority of users really don’t care much about quality, so I’m able to serve up multiple streams on only 40Mbps upload without noticing any network slowdowns.
If she’s on your account, in another state, you were not cracked down.
But that highlights the spin these companies exploit through inconsistent or partial abuse. Like every Chrome or Windows update where someone can say ‘just jump through hoops X Y and Z’ or ‘it still works on my machine.’ The impact is softened and the backlash is robbed of momentum. Six months later the problem is enforced mercilessly, but all the Google results are outdated excuses and confusion.
So are you saying I could still log in and use Netflix on my laptop? I haven’t tried out of fear of messing something up.
If you go the piracy route you can get her a lot more content for the cost of some electricity and some usenet indexers, or have a friend willing to host a Plex server
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When I was last home I did set up Jellyfin from my dad’s PC (which is basically always on) and downloaded a few movies for them. But some of the movies had inconsistent subtitles or needed massaging. Or Jellyfin needed to take an extra moment to transcode the subtitle format for some reason. So if I were able to ensure that stuff is all sorted out, it works great. But if I’m not there it might get weird.
Fair enough
Netflix says a lot of things, some aren’t true
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I canceled my sub aftear being subbed for many many years.
I stayed because the policy is irrelevant to me and my wife since neither of us have friends to share it with.
The only reason I have Netflix is because I don’t pay for it. I get it free with Tmobile. I wonder how much of these are from TMO new users instead of organic subscriptions
We live quite close to my parents - close enough that somehow Netflix’s system doesn’t apparently recognize that it’s not the same household. So we’re still using their account, but if that ever stops working we’ll just sign up for the free account through Tmobile as well.
Fucking big tech! Break them nowww pleassseeeee
Given how unbelievably self righteous Netflix’s users were about this, and the colossal amount of whingeing, I’m actually glad it didn’t work.
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Netflix is like that kid you knew in elementary school who always told lies. Saying stuff like “Yeah, my dad is a billionaire with a rocket car and he invented toothpaste!”
Why are we believing anything that Netflix has to say? They are most likely using some obscure way to calculate that number in order to try to retain the customers they have left.
From all the social media posts, I’m pretty sure they lost a good chunk of customers. Don’t let them win with their slowly deteriorating content and rising prices. Instead, sail the high seas like the internet of old time!
“Yeah, my dad is a billionaire with a rocket car and he invented toothpaste!”
There was a girl who lived down the street from me at one point who swore to the whole neighborhood that her dad sued the local Burger King for millions of dollars because he found rat turds on his burger. No, Victoria, we all live in a trailer park in singlewides, that BK didn’t even have millions to take, come on now lol.
When I was a kid I told everyone my neighbor was Ronald Reagan. I later learned that guy’s last name was actually Segan. It was already too late, though. I’m pretty sure all the people I told were convinced that the former president lived on my culdesac.
Maybe Victoria just got her dad’s rat turd story mixed up.
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.
I didn’t. Of course, most people probably didn’t.
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.
Well yeah. What were people expecting? A boycott of non-customers? A mass cancellation of accounts that don’t exist?
Turns out lemmy users aren’t representative of the greater public.
Of course the person using a shared password either left (saving Netflix money) or got their own subscription (giving Netflix money).
Netflix doesn’t care that people who weren’t paying stopped using their service.
That’s not really true when ads are in the mix
