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  When your content is shit and not bringing in subs so you have to squeeze and annoy your existing customers instead of actually innovating and cutting costs at your company
context: Sounds overly complicated, which means it will probably cause more problems than solve.
  It's so much simpler to just charge what they want to actually charge for number of devices playing at the same time and then not worry about account sharing. >
  
  That’s why I pay for the most streams. I’m divorced, one kid is away at college the other lives with her mom. 
  This is going to piss me off if I get charged for my kids using my account. >
  
  Between everyone sharing my family's account, we might watch something once a month. There's nothing good on there anymore and I'm sick of things I love being cancelled. If it costs more we'll probably just cancel. >
  
  People seem to say this all the time but I thought last earnings report they gained back most if not all the people they lost the previous quarter. I'm betting they have an idea of how many people will go when they change these things and the likelihood those same people sign up when say the next season of Stranger Things drops. >
  
  Quite a few people already started with rotating services. My coworkers subs for 3 month to netflix then cancels, 3 months crave,3month paramount, and 3 month dysney. He also have prime, but he has it mostly for deliveries since he buys shit tons of stuff fot work. >
  
  Hmm, time for a conglomerate to buy in and offer that service.  You could pay a fixed amount per month and be able to view shows on HBO, Nickelodeon...wait a minute, we tried this!  This is just cable! >
  
  Which is why people are leaking back into the pirating game.
  Economic changes are forcing many households to actually choose their services.  Part of this means there's a lot of payment splitting between households.  When services remove the value behind splitting or up the price to the point where you might as well get your own sub, people are going to start making more strategic choices about what they keep -- and frankly, Netflix isn't on the top of everyone's want list anymore.
  I can't say what trends are like in other countries where Netflix enforcement has already been piloted, outside of expressing that I don't think the results in the US and Canadian markets are going to be the same as, say, Argentina. >
  
  So these people are going to end up cancelling their Netflix subscriptions:
  Families where the kids spend time at more than one house.
  Families with college students.
  People who travel for work (pilots, truck drivers, sales people, etc).
  Families with deployed military spouses.
  People who want to share a movie with a friend at the friend's house.
  People with more than one house.
  Anyone who goes on vacation and wants to watch a movie.
  Anyone wanting to watch a movie on a hotspot (commuting, out to lunch, sitting in a park) >
  
  People with elderly family who aren't tech savvy. >
  
  So... Fun story about how we ended up doing this for my in-laws in their 60s. We occasionally pay for a seperate account for streaming services for them when they want to watch something. 
  They can't figure out how to sign up for it themselves, and even if they could, they don't trust using a credit card online. (We have to order stuff off of Amazon for them, too, for this reason. 🙄) And I can see them unintentionally messing up our playlists and profiles if they used our accounts.  
  So they'll give us cash and ask to have something activated, and we activate services as they want to watch them. As complicated as that sounds, it's the easiest way to deal with that whole situation. 
  Husband already set up accounts and subs on their streaming box so that they can just choose the app and watch, but he has to occasionally drop in and do tech support because someone deleted something or changed a setting. Ffs, we both used to work tech support where we walked people through this shit over the phone all day and night, and we were both fairly good at it, but his parents are just that bad. He once asked his mom to send him a link to something she wanted, walked her through it, and what he got was a picture of her laptop she took with her phone that showed the URL field at the top of the browser. >
  
  Lol. Yep. And honestly, my mother doesn't watch enough streamed services to justify her paying for them. She still has minimal cable, and loves Disney+ so stuff like Netflix is just a bonus. She wouldn't freak out and miss them if we cancelled. >
  
  Pricing and convenience are the strengths of streaming. Netflix is already pushing it with the pricing, and now they're messing with the convenience. Most of the reason I even still have Netflix is cause I share it and now you're stepping on that. Then if I travel I have to jump through hoops to use the service that I already pay a premium for? And the mandate that I have to watch something every month or risk being locked out of my own account? Are we parolees or something? Like you all were eating quite well on being the subscription that people just kinda forgot about and let run for whenever something good eventually popped up, but forcing engagement just to keep from getting blocked is going to make people think about it a lot more now. Just...none of this sounds smart. Frankly y'all don't have quality enough content to be this brash >
  
  You don’t understand, shareholders need to see a profit. The stock needs to go up. Gotta keep up the scheme. >
  
  Bless the beasts and the shareholders. It’s touching to see what tender regard companies have for them. >
  
  Not a problem at all, cancelling my subscription prevents password sharing too. >
  
  ..... yea to paraphrase what is gong happen "The more you tighten your grip, Netflix, the more watchers will slip through your fingers." >
  
  They don't get money for watchers, they get money for subscribers. >
  
  Today this household has one paying subscriber and four leeches who just watch (I’m in the latter category). Tomorrow this household will have zero subscribers. Netflix thought that they’ll squeeze the balls of the non-subscribing leeches, they just happened to squeeze their own balls and lost the one subscriber in the household that was paying them.     
  I’m not on their board of directors. I’m a consumer. Even a free-loading one, while one person in my household is a paying one. So my point isn’t about how they should or shouldn’t operate. They need to make money. I need to save money as a middle class person. We have our own agendas and when there’s no win-win scenario, one of us will fold. I fold now. Will several thousand households like mine folding dent Netflix’s plans? No idea. But this geolocation thing will cause several thousand households like mine to say “no thanks” going forward. >
  
  They’re gonna regret this move. In the past, they actively encouraged us through their own marketing to share passwords. To change directions this hard could be their downfall. >
  
  Password sharing means more views! Isn’t that what they should continue to encourage?!? This is stupid indeed >
  
  Wait, so you mean since I travel for work and can be away from home for 7-8 weeks at a time, I may not be able to watch Netflix on my iPad? If that’s true, I might be canceling, and I’ve had Netflix since it’s early days as just dvd rentals. >
  
  You can, you'll just have to report in to Big Brother Netflix whenever you're changing locations. >
  
  I hope Netflix loses billions from this then maybe they'll finally look into quality control. 90% of Netflix is hot garbage. >
  
  Look at Netflix, always finding ways to keep reminding me I haven't canceled it yet. >
  
  Exactly.
  I cancelled several months ago after reading one of their announcements. I hadn't enjoyed their library for a long time but momentum and laziness kept me subscribed.
  Them continuously talking shit finally got me motivated to say 'fuck you too, bro.' >
  
  T-mobile pays for mine. Otherwise I wouldn't have an account for 10/12 months of the year. >
  
  Same and I recently switched from T-Mobile one to magenta and my account was switched to one screen. It’s been a month and so far I’ve only been blocked once by my sil. I was going to kick my sil, mil, and oldest son off because I don’t want to pay the the extra $10 anymore anyway. I guess now I don’t have to sound cheap, cause it’s Netflix’s fault >
  
  This is so dumb.   I have had my account for like 20 years and I am mentally preparing to need to cancel it. >
  
  I opened my Netflix account back when they still sent DVDs through the mail, been subscribed ever since. This  might be the final nail in the coffin, though.
  EDIT: Just checked, been subscribed since 2012. Over a decade of Netflix - time flies. >
  
  Same here. I would’ve canceled a couple years ago after several price hikes and less content than ever if it wasn’t for my 7yr old daughter liking some shows and my step daughter watching some others (stranger things). They’re really getting ridiculous now. Put more than one show out a year that’s any good and doesn’t get canceled and I would stay. I don’t need Netflix myself, I used to ride the high seas for everything and YouTube has come a long way >
  
  Netflix doesn't think you'll actually cancel, they think you'll whine a little and then just accept it like a good little consumer. They probably have the data to back up their assumption, PROVE THEM WRONG!!!    
   Or they'll keep feeding you bowls of 💩 >
  
  I cancelled a long while ago, I hadn't used the service in like 2 months and some bag cereal version of Thor was in the header and it just tipped me over the edge so I cancelled.  I don't really like shows and their movie selection is awful. >
  
  I subscribe for couple months once a year, maybe less.  They'll get a show like Dahmer or something and I'll subscribe, watch it, and cancel.  I suspect that users like me are a bigger issue than password sharing.   At least with password sharing you might have an ongoing subscriber.  With me Netflix is only getting $20 once every year or two. >
  
  If they imagine I'm getting a separate subscription for my vacation home, they're out of their minds. >
  
  To be fair the article says you can update your address on your account when you travel. You wouldn't need a new subscription. >
  
  They also said for 7 days. What if you're travelling across Europe for a month. Seems too strict. >
  
  No, the article says you can get a temporary pass for 7 days OR you can update your permanent address in your account. >
  
  But it won't be your permanent address if you're traveling like that >
  
  You're updating your "primary location" on your account. >
  
  I presume as a "primary location" it would be strict with how often you can update it. >
  
  Why are you assuming that? >
  
  Because other systems I have interacted with have that limitation and this is designed as a limitation to try and get people to pay more >
  
  I wonder if pirate bay cares if I share my password... >
  
  Your ISP will!
  Haha private VPN go brrr >
  
  Isnt vpn just giving your browsing info to random company instead of your isp? >
  
  Most VPNs support split tunneling, which makes the VPN active only for certain applications, addresses, etc. I have mine set up to only be active for the torrent client, and the torrent client to only be active through the VPN's network connection. Less data for the VPN, no chance of torrents leaking data to the ISP. >
  
  What's a decent, inexpensive VPN? Poor college student asking. Thanks! >
  
  You may want to check out the stickied comparison table on /r/VPN. >
  
  Will do. Thanks. >
  
  R.I.P. netflix stocks >
  
  Stock is up 25% over the past month, and 65% over the past 6 months.
  According to Reddit, the Ad-Based tier was going to cause massive losses. Instead, they beat subscriber addition expectations.
  I can’t say for sure how the password sharing system will (or won’t) impact retention, but I do think that a Reddit echo chamber is not an accurate reflection of reality. >
  
  The stock is up because they released original content and started bringing in more foreign content.
  Netflix and reddit are 2 entirely different services. >
  
  Canceled my Netflix today