Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown::Netflix subscriptions are up almost 6 million this quarter, suggesting we’re all just too exhausted to fight this stuff
I closed my family shared account and started pirating Netflix shows/movies instead.
We paid for the convenience. I will happily just pirate if that’s what they want 🤷
I started pirating again when they set a price for multiple screens a few years ago. Fuck these companies, don’t let them take an inch.
Yep, I started to pirate everything again. I’ve never been happier with the quality and convenience. Not just limited to Netflix and watching movies of the highest quality from private trackers.
Funny when things come back full circle.
well done everyone
I had a feeling they would but I did leave myself. Only problem is the person I was sharing with made an account so it was a net 0 impact.
I get the feeling that the kind of person that is on Lemmy is the kind of person that ain’t gonna take no shit and drop it just to stick to the man. I myself dropped Netflix but seems to be a common theme here.
The kind of person on lemmy is probably already self hosting a plex server that has all the content they care about and sharing it with their inner circle
Started mine a few months back
I dropped them shortly after 4k hit $20 a month. They don’t have shit thats worth that.
Honestly I mostly stopped using it a couple years ago. Only when I was bored and was surfing for something to watch. The main reason I had it was for my retired inlaws, so after I cancelled I ended up setting them up with their own account though at a lower rate. So I still consider it a loss for them.
I live for pointless squabbles with the man
I know the feeling. I hate Netflix with a passion but my SO uses it. I have a Plex server full of stuff and constantly adding and showed her how. I cancel Netflix every month though 😂 can usually make it a day or 2 passed when it was supposed to renew before she uses it again and resubscribes.
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Stories like this are weird. As are the reactions.
It’s a nominal cost for a lot of content. Some people lost access to it because they were sharing accounts, and millions who did decided that it was worth the $12 or whatever to get their own account.
And?
And most of those new accounts are in countries where there was no password crackdown and Netflix lost about 8% on share price so they want to spin the idea
I would counterargue it is different from a traditional price increase. Netflix basically ‘‘backstabbed’’ their consumers, by altering the contract they followed for years and even repeteadly made marketing and promises in that regard (all the ‘‘sharing netflix with family and friends is an expression of love’’ posts).
If the price had increased, it would be another reaction, but this new house limitation is really a petty move that feels a lot worse. I hope the other streamings just increase the price and let people share the same account.
I really wanted to cancel my subscription. I consider piracy to be a moral option against the aggressively repressive sonny bono copyright law. But I can’t pull the rug out from my mom’s feet back home (I live in another state). So instead of getting to cancel in protest like how I want, I still just pay for one Netflix subscription that I don’t use personally.
If you go the piracy route you can get her a lot more content for the cost of some electricity and some usenet indexers, or have a friend willing to host a Plex server
You should look into hosting a Plex server for her. My brother set one up after I cancelled our Netflix and our tech-illterate mother loves it. The only change for her was moving from clicking on the Netflix icon on her TV to clicking on the Plex icon.
This is the way to go if you really want to be a pro piracy advocate.
Most people can’t be bothered with the complexities of torrents or codecs. Luckily that’s my shit, and I put together a 4x16TB NAS setup and started hosting a Plex instance for family initially, then added some coworkers. It’s a fun little hobby, and my users are able to save on streaming services.
Also, I’ve found a majority of users really don’t care much about quality, so I’m able to serve up multiple streams on only 40Mbps upload without noticing any network slowdowns.
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When I was last home I did set up Jellyfin from my dad’s PC (which is basically always on) and downloaded a few movies for them. But some of the movies had inconsistent subtitles or needed massaging. Or Jellyfin needed to take an extra moment to transcode the subtitle format for some reason. So if I were able to ensure that stuff is all sorted out, it works great. But if I’m not there it might get weird.
Fair enough
If she’s on your account, in another state, you were not cracked down.
But that highlights the spin these companies exploit through inconsistent or partial abuse. Like every Chrome or Windows update where someone can say ‘just jump through hoops X Y and Z’ or ‘it still works on my machine.’ The impact is softened and the backlash is robbed of momentum. Six months later the problem is enforced mercilessly, but all the Google results are outdated excuses and confusion.
So are you saying I could still log in and use Netflix on my laptop? I haven’t tried out of fear of messing something up.
The American people are so hopelessly broken, it’s shameful.
I rolled… Of of my inlaws Netflix account and directly into the welcoming arms of piracy. I’ve always ridden the high seas as needed, but now I raise the black flag with pride since the only streaming I pay for now is music (music piracy is just as easy as normal piracy, but it’s a lot more annoying to manage if you like to listen to a variety of stuff)
Are you me?
It’s spin. The additional subscriptions came from markets where Netflix is cheap. Not North America.
“While the company added subscribers, it said average revenue per member fell 3% from a year earlier. That was partly because many of the new sign-ups came in countries where Netflix charges lower prices.”
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Netflix just dumped one of those lower tiers you mentioned (though existing subscribers at that tier are currently grandfathered in). The same article I linked to points out that they also aren’t seeing the uptake for their ad supported tier they’d hoped for. And they’re already coaching that next quarters guidance will be down further. I expect more churn as Netflix quality continues to decline and competition and prices continue to increase.
I’m curious to see how streaming services are going to be affected by the strikes. Theoretically down the road they’ll reach a point for a while where they have very little new content to release and will be fighting each other for the rights to existing content.
Just curious, are we sure the numbers reported are “net gain” and not “number of new subscribers”? Distinction being “number of new subscribers” would be all the people that signed up, and “net gain” would be all the people that signed up & subtract those that canceled?
Earnings reports are always full of word tricks to paint the prettiest picture so I’m just curious if we know the net number?
For example, all those articles that came out a week after the change went into effect were bullshit bc they didn’t take into account people who canceled and still had days left til their end of month, instead they only captured the 3 days after the policy change and Netflix got all the media to report this awesome stat for them.
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Cheers, thank you.
Morons. Stop paying more for less services.
Not me. When me and hubby couldn’t watch different shows at the same time in the same house a room apart, I cancelled the account and never looked back. They’ll never get my money again.
Me either. I left when they rolled that rule out in South America last year to test it. Netflix forgot that we went to them because cable was extorting us. As long as the internet remains a thing, there will always be other options.
Same. Super annoying.
Yep I cancelled mine. Not worth it. The shows they have been coming out with aren’t even very good and they lost a lot of old favorites
I thought this was the exact reason why they bundle multiple streams with almost all subscriptions. To provide multiple people in a household the option to stream their own stuff. Did you have only one single stream?
I replied earlier, but I guess it didn’t stick for some reason. Yes, we have only one single stream.
Closed my account. Didn’t look back. Goodbye netflix. It’s sad that most people probably didn’t move.
Netflix says a lot of things, some aren’t true
Turns out lemmy users aren’t representative of the greater public.
Of course the person using a shared password either left (saving Netflix money) or got their own subscription (giving Netflix money).
Netflix doesn’t care that people who weren’t paying stopped using their service.
That’s not really true when ads are in the mix
And what actual real alternative is there other than to not use them? Of course people accepted it, there was literally no other option. What is this bs advertising parading as ‘news’?
Pirates of the Caribbean theme starts playing.
Stremio and Plex
They are hiding the fact most of these new accounts are in places where there is no password sharing crackdown yet and their profits are down to try and keep investors happy, at least that’s what the articles said a few days ago and now they just say how they have new subscribers and leave out all the details
And what actual real alternative is there other than to not use them?
stremio+debrid.
I just made my own personal Netflix, with blackjack and hookers.
Jellyfin is the way.
I am already a Plex user but I gave Jellyfin a try. Hoping to ditch Plex and fully self host it. But unfortunately I use Chromecast on all the TVs in my house and the Jellyfin Chromecast integration is terrible :(
Nearly 2000 movies, over 200 series, over 50 anime movies and about 300 animes in mine, sharing it with 30 other friends and family. Currently looking into automations for it. This is the way.
Sonarr and Radarr are your friends for automation (TV and Movies) there is another arr for music but I don’t use that one.
My workflow is essentially:
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Queue up what I want in *arr
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It sends request to sabnzbd
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Better qualities that I want are updated automatically, new episodes are downloaded automatically.
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Hey, where are you getting the movies from?
Would be cool to have some sort of catalogue that can be used to pick the movie that you want to torrent, and then Plex can just stream that to the clients and cache it for others to see too.
That way no automations are needed. Just watch stuff like in any streaming service.
Voting with your wallet doesn’t work when there are so many other wallets out there that don’t care.
I mean that’s the point of voting. Sensibility got outvoted unfortunately
Sure, and I didn’t care if they died I just wanted to save more money. Now I stream and torrent everything and the ones who choose to pay can do so if they please.
Sure, but I’m saving $20 a month now so that’s nice.
