Time to cancel that Netflix sub

[Lilifer]

This is really piss poor of Netflix and pure price gouging in action imo.

www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2023/05/netflix-password-sharing-rules/

Am going to cancel and sign up to Disney plus instead.

Not really.

You can mess around with IP addresses if you know what you are doing.

You can even get a static IP address that works with a VPN.

We only pay for the cheapest £4.99 package.

I think it’s totally reasonable. I wouldn’t expect to go to the cinema and pay for one ticket for 4 different people to see it. I wouldn’t go to a restaurant and pay for one meal and expect it to feed 4 different people so I don’t see how this is any different.

But 720p is pretty dismal on any half decent telly.

If you are watching it on a tablet or phone then no problem.

It can still be used at holiday homes/hotels etc.

all it said was for me to check which devices are using it. So mom’s profile is safe haha

I am going to save money but it will be a tricky conversation - DP and DP's daughter use my account - I pay £15.99 a month so we can all stream simultaneously if we want to but these changes will prevent them using my account by the sounds of it. I don't think of it as "stealing" lol - as a PP said, it had the tacit approval of Netflix for a while and I have the most expensive plan - it just happens we don't live in the same house.

I don't know if Netflix will get more overall from us as one or more of us may just decide to cancel and then they will lose out - but if we all subscribe at £6.99 each they will get more income but at the expense of having two extra accounts to administer.

I don't really mind, had been considering cancelling anyway, certainly won't need the premium plan any more.

Fair enough but it's not an exact comparison - there is already an extra charge for more than two people watching stuff at the same time - all they are doing is saying the extra people all have to be in the same place.

I wonder how much this will affect their streaming and revenue figures.

I know a lot more people who share their accounts than don't. Many of them pay for the maximum slots so their parents or other close family/friends can use them. These aren't people who will pay for netflix independently because access was a bonus rather than a need.

The reasoning behind why Netflix are doing this is sound but I do wonder if it'll backfire. I also wonder if Amazon (who own Netflix) are using this as a test arena for Prime access.

if you are going to Disney, I highly recommend Only murders in the building I’ve not laughed so much for years

Sky Must be rubbing their hands by the way

It makes sense from a business perspective but it's a bit like borrowing your friends cds to burn. I will cancel & just float between the subscriptions as there's not enough good content.

No they don't.

Jeff bezos and the other guy have shares. They don't own it.

It's a publicly traded company.

Always between myself & sibling/friend we would each signup for say Disney or Paramount & share the platforms.

I don't think my eyes support HD.

Plus when I can recognise the difference, the supercalifragilistic definition looks uncanny to me. It's not how I see the world, so I don't want it on the telly either.

£4.99 for an extra household seems very reasonable. Can't beleive it went on for so long!

Am going to cancel and sign up to Disney plus instead.
Disney doesn’t allow this either genius.

Seriously? The kiddie porn wasn't enough for you to cancel?

https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/cancelnetflix-streaming-service-faces-new-calls-for-boycott-after-cuties-scene-sexualizing-children-goes-viral/

Every time you restart your router you get a new ip address so I’m unsure how they plan to police this? I pay for Netflix because it’s worth it when two households are sharing, but if I have to pay another fiver it’s overpriced so I will cancel.

Surely they just send you an email asking if it's you and you say yes thats all they usually do

We've always shared e.g my parents got it before I went to Uni and I used it whilst at Uni and then have used it ever since.

They could try mac address, but even mac address I think is not always fixed these days for security purposes.

The scenario I can't work out is what if I'm staying regularly at my elderly parents house and want to log into my Netflix on their TV? I can't take that device to my own home to validate it every 30 days as belonging to me. But surely I should be able to log in and watch my subscription wherever I like. Not only on a mobile (the literal meaning of mobile) device.

I can see the same scenario if you are on holiday self catering and want to log into Netflix on the smart TV for the week which must be really common.

Honestly did you never find it strange that it was allowed? Four households using the same subscription? Possibly the worst business decision ever!!

Why? I never had a Netflix subscription, but I know they had a tariff where you paid for more screens so that more than one person could watch at a time. That's allowing multiple usage. In your multi household scenario, it must have been that; they can't have been restricted to one device active at a time or it would have been havoc.

There are subscriptions you can share. If you get a newspaper or a magazine delivered, it doesn't disintegrate after you read it. You can share it with other people. There's nothing inherently questionable about multiple people sharing a subscription.