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syrynxx [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 11:31:35 AM  
"Here's how to cancel your subscription that you're already paying for multiple users on"
 
no1curr [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 11:37:52 AM  
Bye-bye Netflix
 
EasilyDistracted [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-07 11:56:15 AM  
Didn't they retract this last week...at least in the US?
 
Rent Party
2023-02-07 11:58:55 AM  
If my wife and kids in Europe can't watch while I'm in the states, it's cancelled.

There is no other reason to have it.
 
McRat
2023-02-07 12:08:41 PM  
This continues the Netflix trend is "pay more, get less".

I don't watch it, but two of my kids watch it a few hours a week at school - the only reason I continue to pay.  

The day I see an extra charge is the day I cancel.
 
mekkab [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 12:17:01 PM  
I'll go from the 4 screen plan to 2, and my parents will simply go without.

Net loss, Netflix.
 
DecemberNitro
2023-02-07 12:17:35 PM  
Here's how you can transfer those useless things on a terrible service.
 
mekkab [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 12:18:00 PM  

EasilyDistracted: Didn't they retract this last week...at least in the US?


I heard that too but let the media batter Netflix's share price.
 
ModernPrimitive01
2023-02-07 12:18:29 PM  
We only keep ours because we share it with the in-laws. If they can't use it, I'm cancelling the whole thing
 
buntz
2023-02-07 12:20:48 PM  
I was on the phone with them for about a half an hour last week.

My son is away at college and watched Netflix (he is listed on our account as a family member and has his own profile), they said he would need to be logged into our home Wi-Fi or home network in order to continue watching Netflix.

I said, what if I go away on vacation and want to watch Netflix and they said I would need to be logged into my Home network or Wi_Fi and I said it's MY account and the person I was on the phone with didn't really have an answer for that question!

Something about every person would need to login from their own device within 30 days, meaning if you ever want to watch Netflix somewhere else, you need to make sure that you at least login once from home?
 
Guntram Shatterhand
2023-02-07 12:20:54 PM  
This seems suicidal given how the habit is nowadays to cancel a service whenever you run out of things to watch on it.
 
SMB2811
2023-02-07 12:21:17 PM  

EasilyDistracted: Didn't they retract this last week...at least in the US?


Yet, they said they weren't going to do it in the US yet. It is coming and it is being rolled out in other parts of the world already.
 
HanShotFirst
2023-02-07 12:22:37 PM  
I'm pretty sure I can remember the only three shows I watch, thanks.
 
Trocadero
2023-02-07 12:23:45 PM  

McRat: This continues the Netflix trend is "pay more, get less".


That's not a Netflix exclusive.
 
CarnySaur [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 12:26:37 PM  

Rent Party: If my wife and kids in Europe can't watch while I'm in the states, it's cancelled.

There is no other reason to have it.


Is "wife and kids in Europe" the adult version of "Canadian girlfriend"?
 
Derek Force
2023-02-07 12:26:39 PM  
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mrparks
2023-02-07 12:37:54 PM  
I canceled my Netflix after the first season.
 
Groupon boob job
2023-02-07 12:47:55 PM  
I canceled Netflix over a year ago. Just two days ago I thought of something I wanted to watch and learned it was only available on Netflix (as opposed to the services I had.) I was disappointed, but within 5 minutes I had already forgotten about it and moved on to something else.
 
Uchiha_Cycliste [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 12:48:48 PM  
Netflix will increase their market share by booting half its users. Netflix are very smart.
 
ltdanman44
2023-02-07 12:51:30 PM  
classic business mistake.  they gave too much at the start.  once you give it all away you can't reel it back in without consumers complaining like spoiled brats.
 
jlee4677 [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 12:56:54 PM  
The Ukrainians, women in Islamic states, the Kurds, the starving in 3rd world countries and people of North Korea all think they have it bad but are thinking, "those poor Americans are going to lose their right to give other people their Netflix passwords, I will pray for them".
 
whidbey
2023-02-07 1:00:54 PM  
Or just buy a subscription, you lazy galoots.
 
snocone [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:04:32 PM  

Groupon boob job: I canceled Netflix over a year ago. Just two days ago I thought of something I wanted to watch and learned it was only available on Netflix (as opposed to the services I had.) I was disappointed, but within 5 minutes I had already forgotten about it and moved on to something else.


If you really get the urge and cannot forget about it, have pie.
Pie makes everything better.
 
Rent Party
2023-02-07 1:05:46 PM  

CarnySaur: Rent Party: If my wife and kids in Europe can't watch while I'm in the states, it's cancelled.

There is no other reason to have it.

Is "wife and kids in Europe" the adult version of "Canadian girlfriend"?


My wife is a filthy European socialist and lives in a filthy European socialist hell hole.  With healthcare.  And public transportation.  And child care.   And no one shooting up schools.   It's awful.   I'm split part time between the Glorious Freedom States and Dublin until I get the last of the lose ends tied up here in 'Murica.

I don't think they're watching much on Netflix these days, anyway, but if it becomes more difficult, we're out.
 
Bread314
2023-02-07 1:12:11 PM  
Someone must use their profile to log into the home network once every 30 days.  Just log into Jr's profile at home, watch 10 seconds of some kids show you know they'll never watch, and log out. Problem solved.
 
Rattrap007
2023-02-07 1:17:47 PM  
Just cancelled mine. When Cobra Kai comes back, I'll renew for a month or two.
 
mekkab [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 1:18:44 PM  

Bread314: Someone must use their profile to log into the home network once every 30 days.  Just log into Jr's profile at home, watch 10 seconds of some kids show you know they'll never watch, and log out. Problem solved.


It's the device, not the profile.

So the Roku TV in my weekend house would be prevented from logging in with the same profile, because it doesn't VPN into my primary house's network.

/I will, instead, have to screen cast from the iPad, which is a terrible inconvenience.

jlee4677: The Ukrainians, women in Islamic states, the Kurds, the starving in 3rd world countries and people of North Korea all think they have it bad but are thinking, "those poor Americans are going to lose their right to give other people their Netflix passwords, I will pray for them".


If they have weekend houses, they will understand.

/perhaps I can have my driver ferry the TV back and forth, once a month
 
Trocadero
2023-02-07 1:23:05 PM  

mekkab: /perhaps I can have my driver ferry the TV back and forth, once a month


I want to be so damn rich, I hire the actors to perform the episodes live in front of me. Like they did back in the Renaissance.
 
baron von doodle [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:25:30 PM  

Groupon boob job: I canceled Netflix over a year ago. Just two days ago I thought of something I wanted to watch and learned it was only available on Netflix (as opposed to the services I had.) I was disappointed, but within 5 minutes I had already forgotten about it and moved on to something else.


They have enough content for me to pay for one or two months a year. I usually have two services active at any given time, so I just cancel one for however long I want Netflix.
 
Iamos [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:26:25 PM  

Bread314: Someone must use their profile to log into the home network once every 30 days.  Just log into Jr's profile at home, watch 10 seconds of some kids show you know they'll never watch, and log out. Problem solved.


Also, with modern networking it's really not that hard to make your own VPN. I did this so I could stream football from the office when I had to go in on Sundays but my cable service insisted I can only steam broadcast on my home network.
 
greentea1985 [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 1:27:14 PM  

syrynxx: "Here's how to cancel your subscription that you're already paying for multiple users on"


yes. I'm probably going to cancel my subscription or downgrade it. I pay for multiple users in order to share it with family. No point paying that now.
 
mekkab [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 1:31:52 PM  

Trocadero: mekkab: /perhaps I can have my driver ferry the TV back and forth, once a month

I want to be so damn rich, I hire the actors to perform the episodes live in front of me. Like they did back in the Renaissance.


[hastily changes my forward solution to this]

/"Driver? be a dear and do fetch Meryl Streep for me."
 
Mikey1969 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:34:31 PM  

no1curr: Bye-bye Netflix


Exactly...

Any other company, I can sympathize, but not the company that PROMOTED password sharing. Fark them, they built this bed, and now they have to sleep in it. We already use my BIL's login, and there just isn't anything that exciting on Netflix anymore anyway...
 
natazha [BareFark]
2023-02-07 1:35:10 PM  
I don't know if my wife still has a Netflix account or if her "kids" still have access. I have her account and password around here somewhere, I think, never used it. Anyway, she'll deal with it.
 
mekkab [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 1:35:21 PM  

Iamos: Also, with modern networking it's really not that hard to make your own VPN.


citations needed.

/I spent a few hours downloading weird things on my old macbook this weekend (homebrew, python3)
 
Michael J Faux
2023-02-07 1:35:47 PM  
I came here for advice on how to jump through as many hoops as possible to save myself the cost of one lunch per month for a service I shall also claim isn't worth watching in the first place. Farklogic!
 
Mikey1969 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:36:31 PM  

whidbey: Or just buy a subscription, you lazy galoots.


I'm not paying for a subscription from a service that ENCOURAGED people to share passwords in the first place.
 
Moooooo K
2023-02-07 1:41:23 PM  
I'm subsidizing my oversea in-laws streaming services. It's the only reason I have a premium account on Nflix. I guess they'll have to go back to watching static or HBO+.
 
Iamos [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:43:07 PM  

mekkab: Iamos: Also, with modern networking it's really not that hard to make your own VPN.

citations needed.

/I spent a few hours downloading weird things on my old macbook this weekend (homebrew, python3)


VPN run off my Synology NAS, followed their FAQ and used I think open vpn to connect (clients on both iOS and Mac). Haven't had to use it in forever since I cut cable and use an Amazon recast to stream my OTA signal now. Pretty sure you can do the same with any local computer.
 
Three Crooked Squirrels [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 1:54:45 PM  
I pay for Netflix and share the password with my ex-wife. I don't watch it. She doesn't watch it. Our kid does. I consider it his account. Will this apply to me? I don't know. If it does, I'll likely drop it. While the boy watches it, he doesn't watch too much. He probably wouldn't miss it.
 
shut_it_down
2023-02-07 2:03:24 PM  
Honestly, Netflix should take up the gym membership model. Get people to sign up, don't give them grief, let them forget that you exist, and then collect that money every month. Every time they raise their prices or change their policies, they just call attention to themselves and make people consider canceling.
 
bhcompy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 2:04:09 PM  

Derek Force: [preview.redd.it image 640x328]


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And how to make your own Netflix
 
bhcompy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 2:08:17 PM  

mekkab: Iamos: Also, with modern networking it's really not that hard to make your own VPN.

citations needed.

/I spent a few hours downloading weird things on my old macbook this weekend (homebrew, python3)


I have an Unraid box, which has WireGuard built in, but you can run WireGuard as a server on a Mac, too.  A little setup from their guide and all of my devices now have the ability to VPN in, plus many routers/appliances support WireGuard natively.
 
jclaggett
2023-02-07 2:16:16 PM  

bhcompy: Derek Force: [preview.redd.it image 640x328]

[Fark user image image 359x166]

And how to make your own Netflix


Best Buy had the 14tb EasyStore on sale yesterday. Snagged another one.

I'm slacking tho, took me almost 1m18s to shuck it.

My setup is at 129tb of drives now. Spread between my original TS440 chassis and a 12 bay Supermicro disk shelf.
 
RobotSpider
2023-02-07 2:18:42 PM  

whidbey: Or just buy a subscription, you lazy galoots.


It's not even that. I don't share my account with anyone outside my house, but I travel. Under the proposed plan, I'd have to request access to use it on a particular device, and if I use it too much the device would get banned. I have a kid going to college next fall. And I use it when I go on vacation, or sitting in the doctor's waiting room, or any number of places. They are effectively punishing legit users because that activity lookslike password sharing, when it's not.
 
shabu
2023-02-07 2:21:55 PM  
How are they identifying the "home" network? Is it based on the IP address most frequently connecting?

Has anyone had any insight to the process for requesting a 7-day access code that is mentioned in the article?
 
Iamos [OhFark]
2023-02-07 2:25:38 PM  

jclaggett: bhcompy: Derek Force: [preview.redd.it image 640x328]

[Fark user image image 359x166]

And how to make your own Netflix

Best Buy had the 14tb EasyStore on sale yesterday. Snagged another one.

I'm slacking tho, took me almost 1m18s to shuck it.

My setup is at 129tb of drives now. Spread between my original TS440 chassis and a 12 bay Supermicro disk shelf.


That's a lot of porn. Like, a long weekend's worth at least.
 
Noah_Tall
2023-02-07 2:30:34 PM  
People getting outraged by this are entitled idiots.  It's like complaining that the local buffet has stopped letting one person buy a ticket to their buffet and then start passing food out to all their cheapskate friends.
 
Rent Party
2023-02-07 2:34:05 PM  

Noah_Tall: People getting outraged by this are entitled idiots.  It's like complaining that the local buffet has stopped letting one person buy a ticket to their buffet and then start passing food out to all their cheapskate friends.


When you open your restaurant and advertise it as "One price feeds everyone!" and then start kicking people out because they do, that's not entitlement.  That's "I want what I paid for."
 
entangl3d
2023-02-07 2:48:38 PM  

Noah_Tall: People getting outraged by this are entitled idiots.  It's like complaining that the local buffet has stopped letting one person buy a ticket to their buffet and then start passing food out to all their cheapskate friends.


If I buy 4 entries to the buffet, I should be allowed to bring 3 others regardless if we show up in the same car or not. I pay for 4 streams, I should get 4 streams even if they are in different locations as Netflix advertised period.
 
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