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  “The real ones are much worse! Muhahaha”
context: The Hasbro school of making an unpopular announcement, spending time clarifying that announcement, then pretending the announcement and time spent clarifying it was all just an accident. Is this the new corporate trend? >
  
  I’m not sure why they don’t do little surveys on the website or something like “if we did this would you still love us?” Would save a lot of embarrassment and probably some stock money >
  
  I've done a shitload of A/B testing and requesting user feedback just for things like where to put a button on a webpage. It's fucking wild to me if corporations are starting to take these kinds of risks with their brands without any sort of analysis. Then they follow up with PR statements sounding like a kid caught with their hand in the cookie jar. >
  
  The weird thing is that they did the analysis. They've been flirting with this idea for years, floating test balloons and preliminary announcements every eighteen months or so. And every time they even hinted at it, the backlash was instantaneous and overwhelmingly negative. 
  But they got a new CEO two weeks ago, so of course any analysis that was done before he took over must have been flawed, and his ludicrously dumb idea was the genius move that was going to save the company billions. >
  
  Don't worry, if Netflix starts to do too badly, they'll just layoff enough of the actual working people until they are turning a profit again, then he'll leave and get millions of dollars as a reward for his genius leadership that hurt the company's value and cost people jobs, only to be hired for millions somewhere else because of the bravery, tenacity, and forward-thinking he's shown at his time at netflix! >
  
  Yeah, I doubt that. More likely they saw the backlash and went "naw JK guys! It's only a prank" >
  
  I wonder what percent of customers they estimated to lose, obviously enough for them to completely backtrack on something they seemed pretty confident about. I don't know what they expected, or who's getting paid big bucks but this wasn't exactly a head-scratcher. >
  
  I just don't understand.
  IMHO, if they wanted to curtail large # of customers from sharing, just put password retention rule of 6 mo. or something like that where password has to be changed every 6 mo.  That way, if for some reason password was given out to friend of friend, they will no longer have access and with password change every 6 mo. people close enough will just be given new password so people won't feel "fleeced".  It can be done under guise of "security measure" probably without HUGE backlash. >
  
  This seems like a reasonable way to prune some people off into their own accounts. >
  
  Also seems like a good way to lock grandma out of her account. People under a certain age can handle it but some of the older folks would have a hard time. >
  
  I mean forget grandma, I’m a fucking millennial and I have like 300 different accounts/passwords for various things (bc you have to make an account to do literally anything on the internet/on an app these days) and I have no clue what like 75% of the PWs are... 
  Half of them I’m just permanently logged in from the time I created the account, and immediately forget the pw and have to create a new one whenever I get logged out, and the other half is super not secure cuz it’s just the same pw I use for everything lol
  If we start throwing 6 month expiration dates on passwords.... god help us >
  
  You should consider a password manager, it is really useful and it will improve your security in a major way (separate password for each account, passwords generated by manager are strong etc.) >
  
  It is not insignificant how much time I’ve saved using a password manager that autofills passwords for me.
  I sometimes imagine people having to manually login entry time. And think if they did passwording right and made different passwords for everything. >
  
  This is the kind of flimsy excuse you expect to see from someone in 7th grade? Not a multinational streaming corporation. >
  
  That moment you learn that the grown ups who are supposed to be in charge, are not really grown ups at all, and there's probably no such thing and oh God, we're all doomed aren't we? >
  
  Most CEOs were the most annoying kid in class, keep that in mind too. >
  
  Well when HBO says in it's terms of service that you are allowed to share with 5 people, this seems like a really bad idea. >
  
  Oh you can believe that other streaming services will follow Netflix’s lead unless there is a huge backlash and subsequent loss in Netflix stock value as a result. >
  
  Were all the password sharing warning emails I got this week also an accident? >
  
  WOTC: Tried that mate, good luck >
  
  Netflix is about ten days out from releasing all of Stranger Things under CC-BY-4.0. >
  
  “In error” means they made a terrible business decision but don’t want to accept the fact they made a terrible business decision. >
  
  Posted in error and took how long to correct. Netflix should just make a survey on their front page if they want people's opinions. >
  
  I don't see how this is hard to solve for Netflix in any capacity.
  If I pay for one screen, then that screen is my business and makes no difference where it is or when it happens or who is watching. Seems super easy to only allow one stream at a time per customer for this "tier". This is fair for everybody involved. >
  
  I subscribe because I travel a lot and taking a roku with me allows me to watch whatever I want wherever I am. I’ll def unsub if I have to do some bs verification each time I go to a new internet connection. >
  
  My question is how many accounts were deleted before they reversed their decision? >
  
  I cancelled as soon as they announced their intention, over a year ago.
  It was the final nail in the coffin >
  
  New Coke has entered the chat. >
  
  It's the '8os all over again. >
  
  Coming Soon to Netflix: The Netflix Story >
  
  Cancelled after the first season. >
  
  Jokes on them I'm cancelling anyways. >
  
  I would too but, you know, I've been using my friends account for the last 10 years >
  
  And his friend has been using his friends account for years too. >
  
  So it all still applies, just now there is a different, less obvious, helpful page explaining it? >
  
  "We floated a trial balloon and it didn't go well like the Chinese spy balloon" -- Netflix
  Most people don't abuse this and Netflix now tracking everyone's location, fingerprinting and more more heavily is something everyone should be against.
  People signed up for concurrent streams, people only have so many friends they want to share with if they do. If an account logs dozens of locations, ok it is probably being abused, but companies always attack their own paying customers because of the fringes of use cases. It is greedy and it leads to more surveillance/tracking/data broker networks people are added into. Stop it. >
  
  Lol overwhelmed by the backlash. I saw a tiktok ranting about the change and calling for people to delete their accounts with 700k+ likes, knowing the demographics they're targeting I'm sure that kind of thing terrifies them >
  
  They didnt even say theyre not doing it.  They just didnt want us to know thebdetails yet. >
  
  Just be honest.  Goddamn.  It feels so slimy to say it was a mistake.  Just be honest and admit that the backlash was way more than anticipated and you realize it’s not a good idea…and that you’ll rebrand it and try again in 6 months >
  
  What sounds more likely is they're shocked at how many people are unsubscribing now since they started talking about limiting password sharing. My gf already deleted her account yesterday. They just didn't expect this many people to leave before its even implemented. >
  
  Too late, I already cancelled my account in solidarity and I won’t reinstate it anytime soon. >
  
  Even though it was not your intention, I imagine this about-face announcement was influenced by the thousands of cancellations already received. Well done! >
  
  This whole thing made me review my Netflix watch history on my profile and I realized just how little I’ve been watching recently.
  And in this economy? Probably not the time they want everyone thinking about that recurring expense and how much it is worth >
  
  I recently realized I don't watch it either. I just cancelled my Prime membership and now I'm looking at all the other crap I spend money on. I think Netflix might be getting the axe. >
  
  I immediately cancelled my 10 year old subscription when the announced these changes, as should everyone else. They dont have enough quality content to keep my interest anyway. >
  
  It really is unbelievable that they decided to run with an idea that would negate all of the user retention that they have built over the last 15 years. Its really impressively stupid and misguided. It's like pissing on your own good will >
  
  The company that spends millions (billions?) on creating new shows only to swiftly cancel them trying to extract even more money from the people making them all that money. Like come on >
  
  Too late. My account is gone and it ain't coming back.  (I've been thinking of cutting it anyway, and this felt like a good time). >
  
  For those who didn't read the article, this is specifically about the needing to update your home device or whatever every 30 days, they still plan on stopping people from password sharing. >
  
  I cancelled my account already. Get fucked. Boring app, less TV = better mental health anyways. >
  
  They’re about to blockbuster themself >
  
  For those who only read the headline, they arent walking back this change.
  
  According to Streamable, streaming giant Netflix has removed its new rules from the official website despite announcing the change only a few days ago. A Netflix spokesperson clarified that the new guidelines are not applicable to the United States yet.
  
  Even if they do, I wont be resubscribing. I paid for 4 screens. 1 for myself, 1 for each of my parents, and 1 for my sister. They all live together but in a different house than me. This has worked just fine for many years. Other platforms exist now that allow this with no issue, so fuck netflix
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  According to Netflix, people like us are the reason the company is losing money. Like it has nothing to do with them dropping more and more of peoples favorite shows every month, other platforms providing better service and content, their original programming being mostly shit, etc. Their solution is to make the service more of a pain to use so my family eventually says fuck it and buys their own? How incredibly sleazy and underhanded.
  I dont think its going to work out the way they envision it either. >
  
  Too bad, cancelled my account in solidarity.
  Noticed I don't really watch it much. 
  Fuck em'. 
  These corporate fucks only listen when you take action, continue to do so. >
  
  If enough people fly the flag, they'll learn. >
  
  Piracy went way down in the last 6 or so years because of the convenience of streaming services. As they try to price gouge people will go back to piracy. >
  
  Too late, shots fired. My daughter set up her own Basic plan for $6.99/month, getting her off of my account. Then, I canceled my $15.49 plan that I had been keeping open only for her. >
  
  “Yea sorry about that my friend stole my phone and posted new password sharing rules. So weird hahahaha. So anyway” >
  
  I knew they would fold. Something will happen, but they obviously hadn’t thought through the implications in a modern world. >
  
  So they let everyone talk about it for months and waited until they said “Today is the day” to finally say no we lied it was all a error >
  
  Lol I deleted my netflix account yesterday, but for unrelated reasons. Glad to see I was a part of a seemingly large number of people doing the same. >
  
  Somebody on Tik tok noted that customer service was fully prepared and able to answer questions like will my daughter in college no longer have access and other complex questions like travel periods away from home.  That means, no.. it wasn't an accident. >
  
  Ah yeah, an error, they totally wrote entirely new rules and published them by mistake. Yeah... an error >
  
  The moment I have to figure out the password I haven’t changed in 3 years is the moment I cancel my account. All the relationships we have are maintained because of a good ratio between good and bad. When the bad outweighs the good, we leave. Netflix, the amount of good you’ve given me is less than the amount of annoyance I will feel at having to recover an old password. I am sad, but I cannot tolerate your insolence. >
  
  Didn’t they do something like this about a decade ago when they announced they were going to split off the DVD business while simultaneously raising prices?  Was it to be named Qwikster or something like that?  And then the stock took a beating and they walked it back? >
  
  Yep. I cancelled my subscription then and didn't resubscribe for about five years. I just cancelled again. Screw them. >
  
  That's nice, I'm still not coming back though.