Television Netflix is getting stupid password sharing guidelines

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The other thread is over a year old so...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...delines-for-cracking-down-on-password-sharing

Basically their plan is that you'll need to connect to your home WiFi on the viewing device at least once every 31 days otherwise they'll block your account. So if you don't use home WiFi for your device in the first place, or you're away for work for more than a month, you're fecked.

It's especially dumb because someone like me hasn't even used their Netflix account in a month because there's feck all I want to see, yet I'm still paying for it. This plan would mean they would be losing out on money from forgetful morons like me who haven't cancelled their subscription.
 

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You obviously don't care about being charged for something you hardly use, so why would you care about these changes?
 

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You obviously don't care about being charged for something you hardly use, so why would you care about these changes?
Because it has an affect on the thing I'm being charged for? What a daft question.
 
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What about people with 2 houses? Tonnes over here have a Summer house, what the feck classes as “home wifi”?
I’ll make my phone home wifi in that case, as will everyone with half a brain, the stupid cnuts.
 

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“We are increasingly focused on revenue as our primary top line metric,” Netflix wrote as it reported third quarter earnings Tuesday. “This will become particularly important heading into 2023 as we develop new revenue streams like advertising and paid sharing, where membership is just one component of our revenue growth.”

It's all about increasing revenue for Netflix now since they've seemingly cottoned on to the fact that infinite subscriber growth is impossible. Increase the revenue per user instead of increasing the number of users. One of the obvious low hanging fruits for Netflix is account sharing.

Personally I've already made the decision to cancel all my streaming services as the subscriptions expire. We had a solid few golden era years but now every service wants to charge more, while offering less and crowbarring ads in for good measure. Back to the high seas for me to "acquire" content.
 

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I pay for a premium subscription… but I will cancel when this comes in because I don’t watch that much on it now. I can easily find the same content elsewhere.

The only thing that stopped me previously was that my young niece and nephew use my account to watch whatever kids rubbish they like.
 

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I’m probably going to cancel too when they begin implementing this.
 

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“We are increasingly focused on revenue as our primary top line metric,” Netflix wrote as it reported third quarter earnings Tuesday. “This will become particularly important heading into 2023 as we develop new revenue streams like advertising and paid sharing, where membership is just one component of our revenue growth.”

It's all about increasing revenue for Netflix now since they've seemingly cottoned on to the fact that infinite subscriber growth is impossible. Increase the revenue per user instead of increasing the number of users. One of the obvious low hanging fruits for Netflix is account sharing.

Personally I've already made the decision to cancel all my streaming services as the subscriptions expire. We had a solid few golden era years but now every service wants to charge more, while offering less and crowbarring ads in for good measure. Back to the high seas for me to "acquire" content.
We've gone from multiple TV channels separately offering content at a cost, to Netflix offering all of the content for a slightly higher cost, to once again multiple channels separately offering content again but now at an even higher cost.

That'll be the next big thing; a single service than bundles all of the subscription services together. Netmix or Amazon Brine.
 

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I rely heavily on Netflix because I always need something to watch and most of my family use it. Especially my nan who needs to watch something. Fecking stupid greedy pricks. I'm leaving Netflix when it comes. Feck that.
 

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We've gone from multiple TV channels separately offering content at a cost, to Netflix offering all of the content for a slightly higher cost, to once again multiple channels separately offering content again but now at an even higher cost.

That'll be the next big thing; a single service than bundles all of the subscription services together. Netmix or Amazon Brine.
I could even see some clever company offering to bundle home wifi and perhaps even mobile phone plans with the subscription services, wouldn't that be wild.

The streaming revolution where consumers would finally be able to pay for what they wanted without having a million pieces of shit content alongside has gone about as well as every other internet based "consumer power" revolution.
 

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We've gone from multiple TV channels separately offering content at a cost, to Netflix offering all of the content for a slightly higher cost, to once again multiple channels separately offering content again but now at an even higher cost.

That'll be the next big thing; a single service than bundles all of the subscription services together. Netmix or Amazon Brine.
Never gonna happen, Netflix is ultimately going to be a niche streamer who's content is mostly their own, Disney will be the content king because they own most of the biggest movies etc ever made
 

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I rely heavily on Netflix because I always need something to watch and most of my family use it. Especially my nan who needs to watch something. Fecking stupid greedy pricks. I'm leaving Netflix when it comes. Feck that.
What will they watch then?
 

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So you can't even watch your own Netflix account on a hotel TV anymore? How do you connect that device to your home wi-fi to stop getting blocked?

And how is it determining what my home wi-fi is, compared to my mobile data?

Seems like this will punish more than password-sharers, but anyone who uses Netflix outside of their own house.
 

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Probably just going to use a raspberry pi to make a VPN to get round it to be honest
 

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It sounds daft and just yet more greed.
Netflix still isn't profitable is it? So kind of makes sense they need to resort to these measures.
Edit: nevermind they make 2 billion in profit
 
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VPN to turkey + Turkish gift card = Netflix premium for €6/ 140TL
 

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It sounds daft and just yet more greed.
Password sharing is technically fraud, they are just protecting their revenue as best they can, even more important given their capacity to grow is limited
 

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Accounts will be blocked, which gives Netflix known data on devices/accounts that are 'shared'. Then they will get a promotion about a new shared password/account plan, ad free or w/ads.
 

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Yeah, feck them. Pay for 4 screens just to get 4k and Atmos. Great if you're a family, dog shit if youre a single person. so a bit of password sharing works out to the same idea just over multiple households.

If they wanna save money, maybe stop green lighting tv shows in the same haphazard way kids use wet paper towels in the school toilets.
 

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Probably just going to use a raspberry pi to make a VPN to get round it to be honest
Got a guide/link on how to do that? What gen would you need and how would you expose the VPN? Old school Port forwarding with a custom domain?
 

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Password sharing is technically fraud, they are just protecting their revenue as best they can, even more important given their capacity to grow is limited
I have it and pay for it at my house, my partner also has it at her house, I watch it when I’m there. That’s not fraud to me.
 

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Have got 4 family members hijacking my Netflix which I hardly watch myself but luckily I get it free on some debit card. No chance I’ll continue with it if sharing isn’t allowed as not worth £15.99 for my premium package for a single household.
 

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I pay for a premium subscription… but I will cancel when this comes in because I don’t watch that much on it now. I can easily find the same content elsewhere.

The only thing that stopped me previously was that my young niece and nephew use my account to watch whatever kids rubbish they like.
My whole family uses my account. Only reason I haven't cancelled. I will cancel the second they cannot use my account. I know many others like me.
 

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I have it and pay for it at my house, my partner also has it at her house, I watch it when I’m there. That’s not fraud to me.
Maybe not in your case but let's face it, that's not the case with the majority
 

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Maybe not in your case but let's face it, that's not the case with the majority
Maybe, I don’t watch it enough at home myself so will be cancelling when this comes in anyway. Will just have to watch IPlayer and itv etc
 

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My whole family uses my account. Only reason I haven't cancelled. I will cancel the second they cannot use my account. I know many others like me.
If you're in the same house then it's OK anyway, if they live elsewhere tell 'em to pay for it themselves!