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BumpInTheNight [OhFark]
2023-01-26 11:39:20 PM  
Freeloading is wrong, change my mind.
 
ecl
2023-01-26 11:41:21 PM  

BumpInTheNight: Freeloading is wrong, change my mind.


I pay and watch where I want when I want.  I'll cancel first time they send me a warning.

You are a b*tch, change my mind.
 
some_beer_drinker
2023-01-26 11:42:58 PM  
in canada, we just download whatever we want. it's legal here. idiots
 
LordJiro [OhFark]
2023-01-26 11:46:29 PM  

BumpInTheNight: Freeloading is wrong, change my mind.


Sharing a product you paid for is fine. Change my mind.
 
10Speed
2023-01-26 11:48:43 PM  

LordJiro: BumpInTheNight: Freeloading is wrong, change my mind.

Sharing a product you paid for is fine. Change my mind.


If I play music within anyone's earshot, I charge them royalties and mail them back to the artists. It's the only fair thing to do. Change my mind.
 
Mister Buttons
2023-01-26 11:48:47 PM  
This should be an interesting cluster fark, if it ever materializes.  Haven't they threatened this twice a year for 5+ years now?

My computer knowledge is well over 10 years outdated, but I imagine one person on the acct using a VPN would cause some major farkups, or bypass the whole attempt at a crackdown in the first place.
 
beakerxf
2023-01-26 11:57:57 PM  
So I get Netflix for free through a cell phone family plan promotion. My family on the plan are in two separate states. No clue how Netflix plays this. Does the Netflix account go to the primary account holder? The cell phone provider doesn't give a shiat that we're in different areas, so will Netflix care?

We're barely watch Netflix though, so if it goes away it's no big deal. We're getting way more use out of the free Apple+
 
The Ocho
2023-01-27 12:02:13 AM  
I travel for work and own a vacation home. What kind of crap am I going to have to deal with when I want to watch simmering away from home? Hell, hotels now have smart tvs.

Been a long time customer. Will probably cancel if there's any hassle.
 
Caelistis
2023-01-27 12:03:27 AM  
Netflix: "We absolutely want to encourage torrent clients to get much better. Plex and Jellyfin, too."
 
beakerxf
2023-01-27 12:11:05 AM  

The Ocho: I travel for work and own a vacation home. What kind of crap am I going to have to deal with when I want to watch simmering away from home? Hell, hotels now have smart tvs.

Been a long time customer. Will probably cancel if there's any hassle.


If you approve your phone as a device, you might be able to screencast in alternate locations. Not ideal, but a workaround.
 
RogermcAllen [OhFark]
2023-01-27 12:13:36 AM  
Seems like the simple solution is to force 2 factor authentication via text message "for security".  This would stop the randos like an ex that are leeching onto your account and would at least make it annoying for people who are purposely sharing passwords.
 
Endus
2023-01-27 12:25:06 AM  

BumpInTheNight: Freeloading is wrong, change my mind.


My one issue with this is you pay for a certain number of screens already.  Remove that, and add the "no sharing" policy, so it's one account per household, and I'm okay with that.  Shouldn't matter if we've got 4 or 10 screens in that household.

But if me having an account that allows 4 screens to be used, it shouldn't matter to Netflix where those screens are.  I'm paying for a feature, here.  Especially since it's simultaneous screens; I don't need 4 screens to cover my PC, my TV, my tablet, and my phone.  I'm not gonna use 2 screens at once.  The only reason to have that is to cover multiple users.  If I'm paying for 4 simultaneous users, why does Netflix care where they live?
 
towatchoverme
2023-01-27 12:26:55 AM  
Netflix has been eclipsed in quality and selection by other steaming services. Change my mind.
 
Telephone Sanitizer Second Class
2023-01-27 12:30:43 AM  

RogermcAllen: Seems like the simple solution is to force 2 factor authentication via text message "for security".  This would stop the randos like an ex that are leeching onto your account and would at least make it annoying for people who are purposely sharing passwords.


If you don't immediately change all possible known passwords after a breakup, well, you're an idiot like me and will have to do some serious damage control later down the road.

/glad I had a linked anonymous gmail account that got updates about logins from new devices, just saying
 
Magnus Eisengrim
2023-01-27 12:32:48 AM  
If this is how they treat freeloaders, I'm going to stop freeloading!
 
Cythraul
2023-01-27 12:32:50 AM  
I'll bet this is one policy Netflix won't cancel after a single year.
 
thisispete
2023-01-27 12:33:12 AM  

BumpInTheNight: Freeloading is wrong, change my mind.


I pay for two concurrent screens. What does it matter to Netflix if it's at my parent's place or my home?
 
chitownmike
2023-01-27 12:34:09 AM  

RogermcAllen: Seems like the simple solution is to force 2 factor authentication via text message "for security".  This would stop the randos like an ex that are leeching onto your account and would at least make it annoying for people who are purposely sharing passwords.


You haven't ever used Netflix have you?
 
BafflerMeal
2023-01-27 12:37:12 AM  

thisispete: BumpInTheNight: Freeloading is wrong, change my mind.

I pay for two concurrent screens. What does it matter to Netflix if it's at my parent's place or my home?


Why do s everyone think that will be the issue? There are a ridiculous number of streaming/gaming services everyone uses today that do this. They simply check for active steam count against plan. Its not rocket science and people are already used to it. Honestly i dont know why this is hot button topic for anyone.
 
chitownmike
2023-01-27 12:37:50 AM  

Cythraul: I'll bet this is one policy Netflix won't cancel after a single year.


Program, the word you were searching for is program, not policy
 
mr0x
2023-01-27 12:56:42 AM  
The FANG squeeze is on.

The ongoing narrative that they are benevolent giants is wrong.

Google raised youtube premium prices and is looking at everything to make more revenue. Your gmail, docs, maps and drive will be given a very very hard look by Google and look to monetize it somehow.

I'm fully disconnected from "FAN" but G has got me by the balls. A good squeeze and I will be hurtin'.
 
Nick el Ass
2023-01-27 1:00:20 AM  
Dumped Netflix after Castlevania and Dark Crystal and don't miss it.
 
RogermcAllen [OhFark]
2023-01-27 1:04:15 AM  

chitownmike: RogermcAllen: Seems like the simple solution is to force 2 factor authentication via text message "for security".  This would stop the randos like an ex that are leeching onto your account and would at least make it annoying for people who are purposely sharing passwords.

You haven't ever used Netflix have you?


I have a couple times, using a password written down on a piece of paper that my wife got from her parents.  I don't ever remember needing to call them for 2 factor.  On the other hand, every month or so I need to call my mom for the 2 factor code so I can use her Comcast credentials to log back into all of the TV station apps on my Roku (Peacock, AMC,etc.).
 
beakerxf
2023-01-27 1:11:46 AM  

mr0x: The FANG squeeze is on.

The ongoing narrative that they are benevolent giants is wrong.

Google raised youtube premium prices and is looking at everything to make more revenue. Your gmail, docs, maps and drive will be given a very very hard look by Google and look to monetize it somehow.

I'm fully disconnected from "FAN" but G has got me by the balls. A good squeeze and I will be hurtin'.


Maps is used by drivers for delivery and taxi apps. They likely get a cut of the delivery fee. Email and drive is a data treasure trove.
 
Smoking GNU [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 1:14:13 AM  
So online piracy to experience another huge jump in traffic, then?
 
Snarcoleptic_Hoosier
2023-01-27 1:17:42 AM  
If you're paying for X screens, it doesn't (or shouldn't) matter where those screens are. If Netflix wants one account per household, then eliminate the screen count.

I should be able to host a Netflix night with 40 people each watching something different if I want, since it's one account on one wifi network. If that's not allowed, then Netflix is trying to double dip, which is incentivizing piracy.
 
mr0x
2023-01-27 1:18:03 AM  

beakerxf: mr0x: The FANG squeeze is on.

The ongoing narrative that they are benevolent giants is wrong.

Google raised youtube premium prices and is looking at everything to make more revenue. Your gmail, docs, maps and drive will be given a very very hard look by Google and look to monetize it somehow.

I'm fully disconnected from "FAN" but G has got me by the balls. A good squeeze and I will be hurtin'.

Maps is used by drivers for delivery and taxi apps. They likely get a cut of the delivery fee. Email and drive is a data treasure trove.


Waze app is scary. Every time your car stops, they show an ad. I fear Google maps will turn into something like that.

I'm trying to get NextCloud setup at a home server. So much of my data is in Google clouds and I'm trying to migrate it all in my home cloud.
 
RogermcAllen [OhFark]
2023-01-27 1:25:46 AM  

mr0x: beakerxf: mr0x: The FANG squeeze is on.

The ongoing narrative that they are benevolent giants is wrong.

Google raised youtube premium prices and is looking at everything to make more revenue. Your gmail, docs, maps and drive will be given a very very hard look by Google and look to monetize it somehow.

I'm fully disconnected from "FAN" but G has got me by the balls. A good squeeze and I will be hurtin'.

Maps is used by drivers for delivery and taxi apps. They likely get a cut of the delivery fee. Email and drive is a data treasure trove.

Waze app is scary. Every time your car stops, they show an ad. I fear Google maps will turn into something like that.

I'm trying to get NextCloud setup at a home server. So much of my data is in Google clouds and I'm trying to migrate it all in my home cloud.


Google isn't cheap/tacky like that.  If you ever wonder how they make their money just start with a zoomed out map with no search criteria and then start zooming in.
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See how certain things start popping in?
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At each level new things that you didn't even search for show up, essentially ads within your map.
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wildcardjack
2023-01-27 1:26:52 AM  
Is Netflix still running off AWS? The reduced bill might hurt Amazon.
 
wildcardjack
2023-01-27 1:33:14 AM  

RogermcAllen: mr0x: beakerxf: mr0x: The FANG squeeze is on.

The ongoing narrative that they are benevolent giants is wrong.

Google raised youtube premium prices and is looking at everything to make more revenue. Your gmail, docs, maps and drive will be given a very very hard look by Google and look to monetize it somehow.

I'm fully disconnected from "FAN" but G has got me by the balls. A good squeeze and I will be hurtin'.

Maps is used by drivers for delivery and taxi apps. They likely get a cut of the delivery fee. Email and drive is a data treasure trove.

Waze app is scary. Every time your car stops, they show an ad. I fear Google maps will turn into something like that.

I'm trying to get NextCloud setup at a home server. So much of my data is in Google clouds and I'm trying to migrate it all in my home cloud.

Google isn't cheap/tacky like that.  If you ever wonder how they make their money just start with a zoomed out map with no search criteria and then start zooming in.
[Fark user image image 290x220]

See how certain things start popping in?
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At each level new things that you didn't even search for show up, essentially ads within your map.
[Fark user image image 850x508]


The map advertising is a use paradox. If I'm looking for something to eat in a certain cuisine but I don't know where, I can do a search and am served the locations promoted by ad spend. Various brands as well a small operators with small marketing savvy will gladly chip in a few bucks a day to getting into the first row of search results.
 
AppleOptionEsc
2023-01-27 1:47:02 AM  

towatchoverme: Netflix has been eclipsed in quality and selection by other steaming services. Change my mind.


I'm convinced people who LIKE the Hulu, Disney plus, or Crunchyroll layout are brain damaged. And Prime is farking joking by mixing it's pay-per stuff with the included stuff, tricking you into thinking you have a wide selection to watch when you only have 1/3rd.

Selection? Sure. Quality? Noooooo. No no no no. Nooooo.

When CBS/Paramount and NBC took all their IP home, every streaming service sucks equally.
 
stoli n coke
2023-01-27 2:45:29 AM  

AppleOptionEsc: towatchoverme: Netflix has been eclipsed in quality and selection by other steaming services. Change my mind.

I'm convinced people who LIKE the Hulu, Disney plus, or Crunchyroll layout are brain damaged. And Prime is farking joking by mixing it's pay-per stuff with the included stuff, tricking you into thinking you have a wide selection to watch when you only have 1/3rd.

Selection? Sure. Quality? Noooooo. No no no no. Nooooo.

When CBS/Paramount and NBC took all their IP home, every streaming service sucks equally.


Really? Those sites seem pretty easy to navigate.

FFS, my ex's 70 year old parents figured out the Fire Stick layout in about an hour.  Maybe you're the problem.
 
AppleOptionEsc
2023-01-27 2:50:11 AM  

stoli n coke: AppleOptionEsc: towatchoverme: Netflix has been eclipsed in quality and selection by other steaming services. Change my mind.

I'm convinced people who LIKE the Hulu, Disney plus, or Crunchyroll layout are brain damaged. And Prime is farking joking by mixing it's pay-per stuff with the included stuff, tricking you into thinking you have a wide selection to watch when you only have 1/3rd.

Selection? Sure. Quality? Noooooo. No no no no. Nooooo.

When CBS/Paramount and NBC took all their IP home, every streaming service sucks equally.

Really? Those sites seem pretty easy to navigate.

FFS, my ex's 70 year old parents figured out the Fire Stick layout in about an hour.  Maybe you're the problem.


It's a shiat layout. Anyone can navigate a road full of potholes. It's much nicer to drive on a flat asphalt road.
 
chucknasty [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-27 3:24:15 AM  
I don't share my Netflix because whatever anyone else watches affects the recommendations. I do share my HBO with my sister and she shares her Disney with me. those are different since we each have separate sub accounts.
 
DeathByGeekSquad
2023-01-27 3:42:34 AM  

LordJiro: BumpInTheNight: Freeloading is wrong, change my mind.

Sharing a product you paid for is fine. Change my mind.


Share your Fark login. You won't.  Change my mind.
 
BafflerMeal
2023-01-27 3:45:07 AM  

chucknasty: I don't share my Netflix because whatever anyone else watches affects the recommendations. I do share my HBO with my sister and she shares her Disney with me. those are different since we each have separate sub accounts.


FWIW, Netflix has a family plan and each profile keeps it's own recommendations, etc...  We have four profiles spread around the world.  Works well as a feature.
 
Badafuco [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-27 3:45:14 AM  
I better hurry up and binge watch all the shows on Netflix I never watch before my friend's password/account gets charged.
 
chucknasty [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-27 4:02:46 AM  

BafflerMeal: chucknasty: I don't share my Netflix because whatever anyone else watches affects the recommendations. I do share my HBO with my sister and she shares her Disney with me. those are different since we each have separate sub accounts.

FWIW, Netflix has a family plan and each profile keeps it's own recommendations, etc...  We have four profiles spread around the world.  Works well as a feature.


I was unaware of this. thank you. perhaps I will add my sister to my Netflix in exchange for Hulu... hmm.
 
drjekel_mrhyde
2023-01-27 4:03:15 AM  
The only people complaining is the ones faking like they're paying for it. The real people not going anywhere.  In fact where you gonna go?
 
drjekel_mrhyde
2023-01-27 4:18:47 AM  

wildcardjack: Is Netflix still running off AWS? The reduced bill might hurt Amazon.


No. Fire Stick sales will go up. The people who sell loaded Fire Sticks will make extra cash. People that fix virus plagued computers are going to get a bunch of business also.
 
bostonguy [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 4:59:25 AM  
It's almost like the people who produce entertainment programming want to get paid for their work.
 
phishrace
2023-01-27 5:18:10 AM  

BumpInTheNight: Freeloading is wrong, change my mind.


Changing your terms of service to a regular customer is wrong the 'Murican way.

I believe Netflix has already shut down password sharing everywhere but north America. If a fella really wanted to know how they're gonna do it here, it seems like it wouldn't be that difficult to figure out. I'm currently enjoying Ginny and Georgia. It's like Euphoria with less drugs and a crazy hot mom.
 
Tom Marvolo Bombadil
2023-01-27 5:19:39 AM  

bostonguy: It's almost like the people who produce entertainment programming want to get paid for their work.


Those filthy, no good capitalists!

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Stands With A Tiny Fist [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-27 5:37:25 AM  
I watch netflix from one device. My IP, however, changes daily and (judging by those location tracking ads) can appear to be literally anywhere* in my home province.

/  Always funny to see an ad claiming hundreds of young, horny women want me from communites with a population under twenty. The hypercars-for-auction one is just as funny.
 
baltimoreblonde
2023-01-27 6:52:02 AM  

Nick el Ass: Dumped Netflix after Castlevania and Dark Crystal and don't miss it.


I dumped it a while back but had to resub so the hubby could watch That 90s Show. Got that and Disney.
 
Ecliptic [OhFark]
2023-01-27 6:56:51 AM  

BumpInTheNight: Freeloading is wrong, change my mind.


My BIL pays extra for the Netflix account that is able to support additional concurrent logins - it's not freeloading. All of the logistics for super common situations (business travel, college kids, multiple home families, etc) this will cause people nothing but headaches for trying to use their service that has "just worked" for years. Netflix is making a grave mistake with this. People who care will figure out ways around it in days, and everyone else will just cancel their service or acquire Netflix content "through other means".

Contrast with Apple TV which literally, as part of the much cheaper fee, ENCOURAGES you to share the sub with family members.

In the history of the world, businesses that start treating their customers as the enemy, always do well.
 
untoldforce
2023-01-27 7:31:47 AM  
I have a 4 screen account to use at our two houses concurrently. If they force me to relog every time then I'm dumping them, since they'll just be a glorified cable provider at that point.

The whole idea of streaming was to avoid being pinned to one location.
 
lilistonic [BareFark]
2023-01-27 8:02:23 AM  

beakerxf: So I get Netflix for free through a cell phone family plan promotion. My family on the plan are in two separate states. No clue how Netflix plays this. Does the Netflix account go to the primary account holder? The cell phone provider doesn't give a shiat that we're in different areas, so will Netflix care?

We're barely watch Netflix though, so if it goes away it's no big deal. We're getting way more use out of the free Apple+


Same, except we do live in the same state. We started with the phone company in 2000, they were bought and then bought again. We've had Netflix since 2004, but it's been part of our phone plan for several years now. Everyone just sends me their share of the phone bill every month.
 
Ninja Lawtalker Guy
2023-01-27 8:43:50 AM  

BumpInTheNight: Freeloading is wrong, change my mind.


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Michael J Faux
2023-01-27 9:08:55 AM  
A lot of people not paying for netflix taking the brave stance of threatening to continue to not pay for netflix.

Boycotts only work if you were buying something in the first place. Christ, you idiots, am I going to spend all that money sending you to college for you to not realize that?
 
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