Always and inevitably, each of us underestimates the number of stupid individuals in the world
Comment on Netflix password crackdown has actually caused a growth in Subscriptions
anon@kbin.social 1 year ago
If Netflix’s reporting on the matter is to be believed, then it’s an ironic outcome considering the wave of strongly-opinionated comments predicting the death of Netflix following the crackdown on password sharing. I guess convenience and habits really trump principles and posturing.
LostCause@kbin.social 1 year ago
Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Just because they don’t share the same opinion as you doesn’t mean they’re stupid. Netflix is great for just sitting down and watching something random and discovering new shows and movies - especially foreign ones. It’s also priceless for kids shows for parents.
LostCause@kbin.social 1 year ago
Stupidity is in the eye of the beholder. You can judge me as stupid in return for thinking that of these new subscribers if you want and then we‘ll both go our ways. Only one of us will pay Netflix no matter how much they enshittify their service or how much they raise their prices (since it‘s "priceless") and one won‘t. C‘est la vie.
GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 1 year ago
Jesus Christ the arrogance.
anon@kbin.social 1 year ago
In the timeless wisdom words of George Carlin,
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
ForgetReddit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hated the crackdown but resisting on “principles” is bizarre to me. I left Reddit and Twitter due to principles. Netflix wanting to get paid for their service and content is reasonable. Wanting a business to serve you up free entertainment with no catch?
Also before anyone tries to claim hypocrisy - The difference between that and Twitter/Reddit is myself and the community create the content and are forcefed ads.
Sarsaparilla@kbin.social 1 year ago
Netflix wanting to get paid for their service and content is reasonable.
Sure, it's reasonable, and why I started subscribing in the first place. But if I pay for four screens, I expect to be able to use all of those four screens, no matter what address they are being viewed from.
ForgetReddit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah that’s totally fair and Netflix fucked that up
Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 year ago
You’re not paying for that though. The terms of service have never allowed giving other people your details and letting people outside your household use your account.
Also you can still use 4 devices no matter where you are - mobile devices and tablets and laptops are not IP restricted.
Maestro@kbin.social 1 year ago
Netflix started out encouraging password sharing, even promoted it on Twitter back in the days.
snooggums@kbin.social 1 year ago
Mobile devices are restricted by being forced to connect to your 'home' network regularly.
DrGunjah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You skipped the part where Netflix actually encouraged account sharing for a long time. Now they frame the account sharers as thieves. Also the other part where quality of content goes down while subscription prices go up while still not providing plans with hq streams for single people. Which all was tolerable for a few bucks a month. Without sharing netflix is simply not worth the money
ForgetReddit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can you point to where they’re calling account sharers “thieves”? I’ve just seen them say they’re now limiting screens. And agreed the content sucks which is why I unsubscribed awhile ago. No one is forcing you to use it, but at the same time no one deserves it for free.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Your a shill. Find a boot to lick
jukes@lemmy.secondpartysoftware.com 1 year ago
*You’re
ForgetReddit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t pay for Netflix and think their content mostly sucks but thinking “I deserve this service for free” is a childish perspective. Go ahead and pirate it, I couldn’t care less, but don’t act like it gives you the moral high ground lol
bh11235@infosec.pub 1 year ago
With this whole “you pay per screen, love is sharing a password” business they just dug a PR hole for themselves. If they’d had just offered price X per screen from the start, then introduced a “same household discount” or whatever, we wouldn’t have all this outrage. But execs can only see as far as next quarter and here we are.
pjhenry1216@kbin.social 1 year ago
This isn't a logical argument. It's a childish attempt at discrediting. You failed.
Hogger85b@kbin.social 1 year ago
Except netlfix sold people a license to view 3 streams then told people they couldn't decide who used those streams.
JasSmith@kbin.social 1 year ago
I think I am more annoyed by their pricing plans following this move. They are double dipping by charging more for additional screens and then preventing users from using said additional screens. They shouldn't have tiered pricing plans by number of screens if they have no intention of honouring them.
ForgetReddit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah that all sucks, which is why I unsubscribed to it. But I also understand I don’t deserve it for free.
snooggums@kbin.social 1 year ago
It isn't free, someone is paying for it.
Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 year ago
They’re not preventing you from using more screens. If you want to watch Netflix while the kids watch Netflix in another room, that’s what the multiple device plans are for.
JasSmith@kbin.social 1 year ago
Unless I want to watch from my holiday home. Or if my kids want to watch Netflix at my ex's house. Or if I travel regularly. Or I want to regularly watch Netflix with my friend or girlfriend at their house. There are numerous reports of restrictions on all of these, so they clearly are limiting the number of screens I can use.
Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 year ago
It was always going to lead to more subscribers because more people would lose access to Netflix so would subscribe themselves than would cancel their account because others couldn’t use their login.
The people that lost Netflix weren’t subscribers, and lots of them would have them subscribed. The subscribers had no reason to unsubscribe.
notapantsday@feddit.de 1 year ago
The subscribers had no reason to unsubscribe.
I was the subscriber and I unsubscribed because I alone wasn’t using it enough to justify the price. When I knew my sister and her family were watching too, it felt more like it was worth it.
Noxvento@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I unsubed. But many did not.
Dankry@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would’ve but I had already cancelled over a year ago because Netflix doesn’t have anything worth watching.
UnhappyCamper@kbin.social 1 year ago
What I'm finding and what's really annoying, is that every streaming service out there has like 1 or 2 shows and a couple of movies I want to see. Someone will bring up a show, but oh sorry, it's on Crave. Or nope, that one's on Disney Plus. That other show? It's on Prime.
Thank God I barely care to watch TV as it is.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, I have been wondering just how bad their content has gotten, or of I somehow got pigeonholed by their filtering algorithms. Somehow almost everything was rated two stars out of five and just plain bad, or in some random language that I don’t speak.
I’m really pissed off when the same movie keeps appearing in every section with different thumbnail. Yes I’ve been fooled by both the category and the different appearance but I don’t recall ever being tricked into watching something, only annoyed and frustrated
aqua@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I never gave them money to begin with, we are not the same.
Gustavo Fring meme
jasonwaterfalls@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I told my family I was going to cancel when they cracked down on our households sharing and they haven’t yet. My parents are still enjoying it at their house, and me at mine.