Netflix password crackdown fuels jump in subscribers (www.bbc.com)

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yeah right BBC ,who told you that anyway ?

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[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 1 points 1 year ago

While I'm not particularly happy about the change it's not password sharing being banned that will eventually get me off Netflix. For now what keeps the sub going is their good and varied kids show selection with a lot of edutainment. Something I feel the others desperately lack. And any parent who has ever tried sailing the seas instead of paying knows how much of a pain in the ass it is to find good kids content and enough of it to guarantee you have something available when it's desperately needed to make the day work. Especially when your mother tongue isn't English. And YouTube is mind cancer for kids in my firm opinion; if you don't sit and watch with your kids which defeats the purpose of screens as a tool for when you need to cook, clean and work.

The people who shared our sub were mostly family that when we started sharing were students without the means to reasonably pay for it themselves but now they have jobs and some even kids so our family has gone from 1 sub to 3 that I know of.

[-] Ugetsu@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Same here. My children, mainly my daughter, use Netflix MUCH more than my wife and I. So the "just pirate the stuff" doesn´t really apply. If I want to see a specific movie or series, sure. But my kids don´t even watch with the intention of finishing a series or whatever. They browse and watch what catches their eye. That can´t be easily done with pirated stuff. And for me and my wife, it´s kinda similar. We don´t have the time or interrest to watch that many movies. Most of the time, we have like an hour to spare, we plop down on the couch, browse through what new cooking or duocumentaries there are and just watch something.

Now, at the moment, we still use a friends account. Seems like the "Kids" profile still works and on mobile everything still works fine. But as soon as that´s over, I can´t promise that I won´t have to get my own account...as much as it saddens me.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

People are so disappointing.

[-] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

i just want to point out that the claims in this article are from Netflix ,so take them with a grain of salt

[-] hh93@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

they are in their official quarterly report and not in some press release though aren't they?

if they lie on that it could have some bad consequences

[-] cnqr@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the people in this thread including (and specifically) the OP are worse than reddit at its worst in terms of confident ignorance.

They reported these numbers in their quarterly reports. A company that trades on a public stock exchange is required to release quarterly reports that accurately represent their business.

Yes, companies like to play around with which metrics to report on to paint it better than it actually is, but the numbers can not be made up. If they say new subscriptions, it had to be new subscriptions.

[-] Rearsays@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

When they told me I won’t be able to protect my ip address by asserting I was no longer allowed to have a vpn I quit Netflix

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago

I really don't understand that tech. If you have wireguard on your machine, it shouldn't be able to leak your IP address in theory. Do they rootkit your PC or some shit?

[-] benaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

Eh, if you put it on a router, how would they know? Was going to set up wg to route to one IP to allow multiple households - but after the witcher fiasco I thought 'fuck it' and unsubscribed.