Netflix's free account password sharing is about to ring a bell. After a relatively long period of testing various forms of restrictions, this streaming giant officially announced to its shareholders that in the first quarter of this year it is ready to introduce fees for sharing passwords and thus put an end to breaking the rules of the service for good, thereby losing a lot of money. So if you also share a password with someone, be prepared for fees.
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Although the introduction of password sharing fees for people outside the household may seem absurd at first glance, Netflix's numbers speak for themselves. According to its findings, out of the 222 million paying households, there are another 100 million households that watch Netflix content only because they have access to a paid account. These households do not meet Netflix's conditions and are therefore de facto watching its content illegally, which is why the company is losing a lot of money. The solution will be a password sharing fee, which will be charged based on IP addresses, device IDs and account activity. In other words, Netflix will apparently first get a picture of where the user's homeland is and what their main device is, and based on this, it will then be able to "catch" users who watch content from the user's account in bulk outside their address. The words "in bulk" are important, however, because it seems that Netflix will only go after really active viewers, at least initially. So if you share Netflix with someone and they watch it sporadically, or if you watch it primarily at home and want to watch it once in a while, for example chatIf you are watching a video dozens of kilometers from your home from a device from which you do not normally watch it, a fee will probably not be required, at least initially.
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At the moment, question marks also hang over how high the fee will actually be. When testing in Latin America, Netflix set it to around $3, but in the US it is said to cost up to $6,99. In both cases, however, this is not a downright negligible amount, although it is more or less clear that Netflix will definitely not go below the tested $3. So, will you remain loyal to him despite the introduction of a similar innovation?
So I wonder how you will deal with it here. We use my sister's Spanish account, we have 3 households, 4 internet providers (different IPs) about 10 different devices and 5 users :-)
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it's a pity that you don't get used to writing a name where there is a name and a comment where there is a comment.
I apologize, I always have the name where it should be and also the text, but now I messed it up somehow 😀
It would probably be great if the uctums that are affected by this and end up in the network of this half-assed obligation at least send an email so that the owners of these uctums adapt... however, I already watch Netflix sporadically, so the eventual departure from the platform does not bother us too much... there is still Hbo, Disney, Twitch, YT…
Hbo disappointed me with the reduced offer. Films and even their own creations (including HBO series) have disappeared.
I haven't noticed anything but marty_vole and you amourath on twitch.
Then, surprisingly, Disney knights, although I stubbornly rejected him.
Well, I wonder if our nomadic life between three households (and other trips), 4 tools and watching mostly via mobile data can handle it 🤦🏻♀️
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Well, I'll decide to go somewhere else. Being able to watch it from anywhere is the main advantage of the stream. And now they block it? I really want to see how many people leave it. A lot of people are already considering it and leaving it really only because it's shared and it's cheaper.
Anyway, I'm tired of the promotion of gays and blacks. There is not a series or a movie where it is not packed.
Practically everything they could, they end it and don't finish it. And it spoils most new things.
So maybe I'll buy Disney or Amazon. We'll see.
And about sharing? The only way they would solve it is to put one connection at 4 dollars. Join from wherever you want. And buy as many connections as you want to your account, but the price will always be the same.
I will stay. How much do I spend in the family? Instead of 2x approx. 300 CZK, 600 CZK in total, I will pay approx. 400 CZK per month for Netflix (according to the current surcharge).
And if you add to that the five-passport data for each profile in the account separately and thus 100% set separately, I take that as a plus.
So watching Netflix on the train rang a bell?
If it is meant to be 3/7$ for all accounts and keeping the existing options (sharing) then I will consider staying.
If you mean $3/7 for each shared account, (i.e. $12-28 extra) then 100% I'm leaving Netflix, honestly I have very friendly tools to access Netflix content and if they don't want the money, I won't force it on them...
:D actually it will be a bit nostalgic for 2015 when I was an internet pirate. I have to admit that before I at least consumed the content I wanted, the selection didn't take as long as scrolling on netflix and Bay is free 😇 I think that like me - leaving and pirating will solve it for a lot of people. That's how it's done when you screw up a large group of people who were used to googling "to watch online" throughout their teenage years 😅
And is it meant only for the basic tariff, which allows only one device with which I would understand it, or is it also meant for the most expensive tariff when up to 4 devices can watch netflix at the same time?
Tariff sharing means playing on multiple devices at the same time. This means that there is no point in sharing the basic tariff. .. Unless you share the basic tariff with someone and agree to watch in the morning and the next evening 🤣🤣🤣
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Well, if I buy the most expensive tariff, they might not care who watches where, that's why I pay it so that 4 people can watch at the same time on any device. And exactly as you wrote with the basic tariff, one person can watch during the day at a certain time and others at another time😉.
There is a simple solution to this. Cancel subscriptions and use uloz.to
And why do they want an extra charge for the shit they have there? 🤣 They fucked up the movie 365 Days so much that no one even watched the first part which was good and followed the book and now I'm just curious how they'll fuck up Wednesday 🤣 I think they'll take enough in a month so even if one access shared the whole block of flats they can do it maxideally keep your mouth shut and be glad that at least someone will pay them
Well, Wednesday was a great success, here I'm more interested in whether there will be an announced 2nd series and if Tim Burton will make it again. And as for the account sharing, I still don't understand how they will do it if I only have to use Netflix at home and for the rest of the extra fees, I will also strongly consider canceling the subscription.
Take what you want, I have no problem going elsewhere... Anyway, it's 98% crap there...
A cheaper plan would be enough for me, but it doesn't have 4K and when I'm already paying for 4 streams at once in the most expensive plan, it's unfair that there isn't a cheaper plan for 4 for one stream. Otherwise, they wrote somewhere that the surcharge should only apply to TV receivers, not Android and Win. Inaccurate article this? Now you can see in the account management what type of device the specific holder of the shared password has and the location according to IP... .
I'm done, I'm moving on….
I'm interested in the data. Dates when they roll it out if there will be more subscribers or if it will drop even more.