Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
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
Not me. When me and hubby couldn’t watch different shows at the same time in the same house a room apart, I cancelled the account and never looked back. They’ll never get my money again.
Same. Super annoying.
Yep I cancelled mine. Not worth it. The shows they have been coming out with aren’t even very good and they lost a lot of old favorites
I thought this was the exact reason why they bundle multiple streams with almost all subscriptions. To provide multiple people in a household the option to stream their own stuff. Did you have only one single stream?
I replied earlier, but I guess it didn’t stick for some reason. Yes, we have only one single stream.
Yes, only one single stream
It’s spin. The additional subscriptions came from markets where Netflix is cheap. Not North America.
“While the company added subscribers, it said average revenue per member fell 3% from a year earlier. That was partly because many of the new sign-ups came in countries where Netflix charges lower prices.”
Voting with your wallet doesn’t work when there are so many other wallets out there that don’t care.
I mean that’s the point of voting. Sensibility got outvoted unfortunately
Sure, and I didn’t care if they died I just wanted to save more money. Now I stream and torrent everything and the ones who choose to pay can do so if they please.
Sure, but I’m saving $20 a month now so that’s nice.
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
I just made my own personal Netflix, with blackjack and hookers.
Jellyfin is the way.
I am already a Plex user but I gave Jellyfin a try. Hoping to ditch Plex and fully self host it. But unfortunately I use Chromecast on all the TVs in my house and the Jellyfin Chromecast integration is terrible :(
Nearly 2000 movies, over 200 series, over 50 anime movies and about 300 animes in mine, sharing it with 30 other friends and family. Currently looking into automations for it. This is the way.
Sonarr and Radarr are your friends for automation (TV and Movies) there is another arr for music but I don’t use that one.
My workflow is essentially:
Queue up what I want in *arr
It sends request to sabnzbd
Better qualities that I want are updated automatically, new episodes are downloaded automatically.
looking into some automation for it.
FTFY
Why are people so dumb… They treat us bad? Let’s throw more money on them.
People are dumb, but moreso they are lazy and want to be entertained rather than self improve. You can teach yourself how to create your own Netflix in a day but most people would rather endlessly scroll content that makes them feel envious or angry because that seems easier than learning something new.
Same shit as politics
At the end of the day, people are exhausted and the tv is their solace. Not a great way to live but I get it.
I closed my family shared account and started pirating Netflix shows/movies instead.
We paid for the convenience. I will happily just pirate if that’s what they want 🤷
I started pirating again when they set a price for multiple screens a few years ago. Fuck these companies, don’t let them take an inch.
Yep, I started to pirate everything again. I’ve never been happier with the quality and convenience. Not just limited to Netflix and watching movies of the highest quality from private trackers.
Funny when things come back full circle.
I’ve found sailing the high seas to be far more convenient than using Netflix nowadays. I can watch what I want to watch when I want, instead of finding out a movie I wanted to watch was removed recently
Same. I cancelled my Netflix a couple years ago and haven’t looked back. They don’t have a lot of content that I’m interested in watching anymore, and when they do it’s easy to find elsewhere. I host my own Plex server now which makes it even more of a seamless transition.
Netflix says a lot of things, some aren’t true
I don’t really get the “fighting” part. Don’t like it, don’t buy it.
They haven’t had anything interesting to watch since Squid Game. This Black Mirror season had like one good episode.
But sales are slumping
And no one will say why
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?
It’s a difficult balance. They want more subscribers but less view time, so they create lots of new series to reel in new people and cancel already established series as the only people they matter to once everyone has heard about them are the users.
If it weren’t for Trailer Park Boys I wouldn’t even have a Netflix account.
There is no way. Netflix is saying that so people are like “Well, I guess im the minority, I will just keep the subcription”
Personally, the value proposition for Netflix is really lacking compared to Amazon Prime (which also comes with prime video and Amazon music) and Apple One family (which also comes with Apple Music, extra iCloud storage, Apple TV and Apple Arcade) which I have so it was pretty easy to cancel my Netflix subscription.
If I could bundle Netflix with something else it might make it worth it but comparatively the content on Apple TV is so much better than anything Netflix have at the moment, in my opinion (really enjoying Silo atm but have loved Ted Lasso, Severance, The After Party amongst others).
Netflix is essentially the equivalent of the DVD bargain bin at Walmart… lots of stuff to choose from, but none of it is remotely watchable.
Except so much of prime video you still have to pay to watch, like specifically rent even though you’re already paying a subscription.
Yeah that’s fair enough. Tbh, I’ve only watched 1 series on Prime - Upload - but otherwise can’t really recall what else I’ve watching on there (it’s probably been a few months since I’ve even opened it). I buy heaps of stuff on Prime though so that’s my main use although I do like Music too as some of the podcasts I listen to are ad free on there (eg. Smartless, The Lowe Post).
Closed my account. Didn’t look back. Goodbye netflix. It’s sad that most people probably didn’t move.
Well that’s depressing
I haven’t because Netflix hasn’t given me a good solid reason to return to them.
I wouldn’t exactly say everyone is too tired to fight this stuff. Because, a bubble has yet to burst somewhere if it hasn’t already. Netflix just fails to see the bigger picture of this problem and once that bubble bursts, the bubble of financial strains on society, they’ll feel it tenfold.
Large thinking on your part here. However, the issue is people will purchase it no matter what. Your efforts to stamp Netflix out personally are great but they are overshadowed by a company that makes millions and doesn’t need your 13 to 14 dollars a month to stay subscribed.
If we want to show companies we aren’t going to participate then we have to indefinitely convince the population not to participate. That isn’t going to happen. These companies know that they will make money and people will keep buying.
This applies to almost any industry. Take something more environmental. I haven’t eaten fish in 3 years because of how bad the fishing industry is. Mind you I am hypocrite and eat chicken and beef and those industries are just as bad but I am trying to cut back on them as well. Problem is, my one little attempt to not aid in the fishing industries endeavors are swamped by the millions that don’t care, are oblivious by choice or, just would rather exist in a world where there are no problems.
The truth is the big companies should hold a responsibility but our laws (at least in the U.S.) fine them small amounts of what they make double of. Their are no laws to truly stop massive corporations because the corporations are fined rather than the people running the company and that is by design because technically the fisherman can’t be held accountable in the companies wrong doings if the CEO was the one doing the wrong doings but the fisherman is aiding those wrong doings unknowingly so you punish the company not the people running it.
Then it boils down to if you can’t change the company then it becomes the people’s responsibility and we have one but we blame the company and or ignore our responsibility.
The truth is it’s everyone’s responsibility. The companies the people’s. The human equation just doesn’t care. People aren’t going to stop watching Netflix over money the same as they won’t stop giving fishing companies money to kill the ocean that gives Earth life. Because there is no immediate effect to their lives. It only matters to most when it’s too late.
We could divulge into a thousand topics. This isn’t meant to discourage your efforts. Don’t pay Netflix save your money but getting on Lemmy and stating, “Netflix will fall.” Can only happen when people give a damn just like you or when the companies give a damn. Companies have one incentive, money. People have incentive to buy a product if it works and brings some form of usefulness to their lives. No matter how you look at it or how much an end user wants to bitch about money. The truth is Netflix works so we are going to spend money to use it.
You could apply this to Google Search, Apple products, etc. There is no incentive to allow competition, care about your privacy, care about your well being, if the incentive or money takes precedence. Additionally, that means we have a problem but on the other hand. You know what works? Google Search, do you know what gives Google Search the edge? Your data and money. You know why iPhone is popular because it’s easier to buy an iPhone to talk to friends and the messaging just works. You know the problem with Apple products? No incentive to switch to better platforms like RCS over SMS. Apple doesn’t want to change the consumer should and we will keep buying their product.
Point being people have to truly change to change a company.
🤷♂️ we canceled our Netflix account, so that’s about all we can do
Morons. Stop paying more for less services.
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 that girl just got her dad’s rat turd story mixed up.
I rolled… Of of my inlaws Netflix account and directly into the welcoming arms of piracy. I’ve always ridden the high seas as needed, but now I raise the black flag with pride since the only streaming I pay for now is music (music piracy is just as easy as normal piracy, but it’s a lot more annoying to manage if you like to listen to a variety of stuff)
Are you me?
I still share my password with a few other households and we’ve experienced no service interruption at all.
Same here and I haven’t received any warning or blocking. As soon as I get told or blocked then I’ll cancel. That way in their metrics they see I was blocked and then cancelled. But so far it just keeps working.
As far as I can tell their “crackdown” has just been “send an email to people using from more than one IP address”.
Crackdown of what? I can still use multiple devices in different households at the same time. Maybe this measure has not been applied the same everywhere
Not for long. Netflix recently changed their rules so that regardless of the number of screens you pay for you they are going to start enforcing that you all primarily live and access netflix from the same household
I mean, it only affected our smart TV. Everything else, including the laptop, my phone, and my tablet, can still use my parent’s Netflix account just fine.
So yeah, I guess I just literally rolled over to another device and used that instead.
Only a matter of time til they find you/these edge cases and squash you.
Oh for sure, I am positive you’re right and that it will stop working soon enough.
They probably haven’t rollout yet an update for all their apps to be compatible with the new no-sharing way. At least I think it would make sense from what you’re saying.
Same here, a friend of mine i am sharing with can still use netflix on his PC where he uses it anyway. If they would shut that option off i just quit using their service all year long. I will then start just to subscribe for a month two times a year, watch some shows i want to see and quit it again. And Amazon Prime Video become much better lately content wise.
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.
When we couldn’t share a family password anymore we just didn’t sign up for our own account. Easy as that. Been watching a ton more Hulu as a result. Netflix isn’t worth more than a one-month sub/year.
I mean if my family is any statistic to go on, 2/3 kids (me one of them) swore off Netflix since. The other, bought their own subscription as soon as the code stopped working
I did rolled over to reach my phone to unsubscribe. Next thing i know, i’m socializing. Best weeks in years.
Dang, how much Netflix were you watching?
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.
krowmada@lemmy.world 1 year ago
well done everyone
nexas_XIII@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I had a feeling they would but I did leave myself. Only problem is the person I was sharing with made an account so it was a net 0 impact.
pacoboyd@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I get the feeling that the kind of person that is on Lemmy is the kind of person that ain’t gonna take no shit and drop it just to stick to the man. I myself dropped Netflix but seems to be a common theme here.
Trapping5341@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I know the feeling. I hate Netflix with a passion but my SO uses it. I have a Plex server full of stuff and constantly adding and showed her how. I cancel Netflix every month though 😂 can usually make it a day or 2 passed when it was supposed to renew before she uses it again and resubscribes.