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- news@lemmy.world
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
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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Started mine a few months back
I live for pointless squabbles with the man
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🤷♂️ we canceled our Netflix account, so that’s about all we can do
I don’t really get the “fighting” part. Don’t like it, don’t buy it.
The American people are so hopelessly broken, it’s shameful.
This is the generation of adults who, when younger, were likely candidates to have been in the pic of Steam where everyone was “boycotting” mw2 but also like 80% of them were playing it anyway. They just grew up and got their own netflix accounts lol
The gaming industry has seen this sentiment of “I’m going to get you with my wallet, billion dollar corporation!” for decades now and it falls flat every. single. time. No commentary on whether that’s good or bad, just an observation I’m sure most of us have made who have been around long enough.
OK, sure, except that Netflix is incentivized to say as much, regardless of public sentiment.
I’m sure the hit they took to subscribers is worth it in terms of their balance sheets, else we would see a retraction, but there’s no real way for them to know what the subscriber base would look like in the absence of anti-consumer policies (or their increasingly unsatisfying content production policies), based solely on historical subscriber data.
Users who got sick of it left, but we can only leave once, and Netflix wasn’t going to try and retain us unless the exodus was unprecedented. I’d argue the real proof of customer dissatisfaction will be the piracy numbers on their various shows. Customers who want their content, but not their costs or policy restrictions, represent actual money left on the table.
As for their labor practices, well - like Adam Conover said, strikes are more effective than boycotts, and there are several ongoing. Won’t do much for the user experience, but maybe the long term consequence is fewer, better shows with actual completed stories.
There is no way. Netflix is saying that so people are like “Well, I guess im the minority, I will just keep the subcription”
They haven’t had anything interesting to watch since Squid Game. This Black Mirror season had like one good episode.
But sales are slumping
And no one will say why
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?If it weren’t for Trailer Park Boys I wouldn’t even have a Netflix account.
It’s a difficult balance. They want more subscribers but less view time, so they create lots of new series to reel in new people and cancel already established series as the only people they matter to once everyone has heard about them are the users.
Given how unbelievably self righteous Netflix’s users were about this, and the colossal amount of whingeing, I’m actually glad it didn’t work.
Netflix is like that kid you knew in elementary school who always told lies. Saying stuff like “Yeah, my dad is a billionaire with a rocket car and he invented toothpaste!”
Why are we believing anything that Netflix has to say? They are most likely using some obscure way to calculate that number in order to try to retain the customers they have left.
From all the social media posts, I’m pretty sure they lost a good chunk of customers. Don’t let them win with their slowly deteriorating content and rising prices. Instead, sail the high seas like the internet of old time!
“Yeah, my dad is a billionaire with a rocket car and he invented toothpaste!”
There was a girl who lived down the street from me at one point who swore to the whole neighborhood that her dad sued the local Burger King for millions of dollars because he found rat turds on his burger. No, Victoria, we all live in a trailer park in singlewides, that BK didn’t even have millions to take, come on now lol.
When I was a kid I told everyone my neighbor was Ronald Reagan. I later learned that guy’s last name was actually Segan. It was already too late, though. I’m pretty sure all the people I told were convinced that the former president lived on my culdesac.
Maybe Victoria just got her dad’s rat turd story mixed up.
Shit I left a day after they made the announcement because I was already sick of all their other shit, and I don’t even password share.
I didn’t use Netflix for like a year or so. We had a family shared account and I kinda had to check the App to confirm if the password sharing thing was true or not in Germany. I think my family members didn’t notice at all. Grade A streaming service.
The only reason I have Netflix is because I don’t pay for it. I get it free with Tmobile. I wonder how much of these are from TMO new users instead of organic subscriptions
We live quite close to my parents - close enough that somehow Netflix’s system doesn’t apparently recognize that it’s not the same household. So we’re still using their account, but if that ever stops working we’ll just sign up for the free account through Tmobile as well.
I stayed because the policy is irrelevant to me and my wife since neither of us have friends to share it with.
