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HarryBizzle

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I think Turkish Netflix has had at least two price rises in the last year, what with the Lira tanking. They’ve just put it up 45%. Which is now £7 a month for 4K, but I feel sorry for people paid in Lira. 
 

I’ll probably keep paying so I can keep sharing my password with family but with the Turkish account. The kids are the main users but D+’s interface is just crap for them to find things to watch in comparison to the Netflix kids profiles. 

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denisb

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Twice I’ve contacted Netflix to cancel in the last couple of years and they won’t offer any discount like now or sky etc but they actively tell me to share my account and share the cost lol 

 

I let my sister share along with now and Disney and prime  but I mainly keep it to help her if they start blocking I’ll cancel and go to the high seas and set her up 

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choddo

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No I won’t be cancelling. I loves me Netflix. I think I might have to do the “extra member” thing for the lad at Uni. Not sure.

 

I will happily pay until my grave just because they made the Dark Crystal.

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Protocol Penguin

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Seriously, is this a hollow threat that won't be really enforced or followed up upon, or are Netflix dense? The second that they make it an active hassle and expensive to watch their service in a way that suits you as a customer, that's a big huge competitive disadvantage that Netflix are placing themselves against their array of competitors.

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Minion

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So this was posted on reddit, wow, just wow!

 

https://thestreamable.com/news/confirmed-netflix-unveils-first-details-of-new-anti-password-sharing-measures#can-you-still-share-netflix-with-someone-who-doesnt-live-with-you

 

If you don't want to follow the link here is the detail:

 

Spoiler

Who Can Use a Netflix Account Now?

Netflix accounts are still shareable, but only within one household. To ensure that your devices are associated with your primary location, Netflix is now asking users to connect to the Wi-Fi at your primary location, open the Netflix app or website, and watch something at least once every 31 days.

Can You Still Share Netflix With Someone Who Doesn’t Live With You?

No, accounts are only meant to be used within one household. Netflix will prompt users who try to sign into your account elsewhere to sign up for their own account instead and block their access until they do.

Netflix will NOT begin automatically charging account holders whose information is used outside of their homes.

Can Other Users on Your Netflix Account Save Their Profiles?

Yes, Netflix offers users a profile transfer feature that will allow them to migrate their show recommendations, watch history, and more to their own account if they decide to create one. This will give password sharers the opportunity to preserve their profile if they sign up for their own Netflix accounts.

Can You Still Use Netflix While Traveling?

Signing into Netflix outside of your home may lead to the device in use being blocked from Netflix. This could prevent you from signing into new devices while traveling, but Netflix has devised a workaround.

Traveling users who want to use Netflix on a hotel smart TV, company laptop, etc. can request a temporary code from the service when signing in. This will give them access to their account for seven consecutive days.

How Can You Prevent Netflix from Blocking Your Devices?

Signing into home Wi-Fi at least once every 31 days on your devices will make them “trusted devices,” which Netflix will remember and leave unblocked.

If your device has been blocked incorrectly, you’ll need to contact Netflix in order to get it unblocked.

How Will Netflix Know if You’re Not in Your Home/Primary Location?

Netflix uses information such as IP addresses, device IDs, and account activity to determine whether a device signed into your account is connected at your primary location.

If your device is being used outside your home by someone you haven’t authorized, you can sign into your account and sign out on all other devices, then change your password.

 

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X_2_0

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Blocking devices and having to contact Netflix to unblock them doesn’t seem a great way to grow their service. I’m sure plenty of people will just cancel in frustration. 

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thesnwmn

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I guess the biggest issue is that I don't use my travelling devices for Netflix around the house. Phone, tablet and laptop never use Netflix at home but do when I'm travelling. So they won't pick up the blocked protection each month.

 

If I was going on holiday I could/would remember to log each of them on but random use outside the house for a short notice trip probably not.

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Gabe

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2 hours ago, Protocol Penguin said:

Seriously, is this a hollow threat that won't be really enforced or followed up upon, or are Netflix dense? The second that they make it an active hassle and expensive to watch their service in a way that suits you as a customer, that's a big huge competitive disadvantage that Netflix are placing themselves against their array of competitors.

It'll be interesting to see if Disney and Now follow suit down the line as I'm sure they'd also like to crack down on account sharing (whether they publicly admit to that or not.)

 

I don't imagine Amazon really care a great deal about it though, as account sharing is built into the whole Prime ecosystem, so they may be an outlier. 

 

 

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Protocol Penguin

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58 minutes ago, Minion said:

It's ridiculous, blocking a device if it isn't signed into your home location once every 31 days? Insane. I'd rather go to the high seas if they're going to be like this.

I’m wondering how quickly this will be rowed back on, because I can see this is obviously going to cause an avalanche of cancellations rather than new paying accounts being made. I can see this as going to backfire massively on Netflix, and wouldn’t be surprised if in years to come it will be considered the beginning of the end of the service as a big player in the streaming market.

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Signing into Netflix outside of your home may lead to the device in use being blocked from Netflix.


It’s pretty easy to accidentally open the app on your phone (and be auto signed in) at work or wherever. What if your home broadband goes down and you connect using mobile data?

 

I can see this happening to my wife a lot (she uses Netflix on her phone) and me having to spend time each week unblocking it.

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Stoppy2000

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9 minutes ago, RipePlums said:

I mean piracy is so convenient nowadays, that I'm basically subscribed out of courtesy.

 

Punitive measures like this will just weaken any reasons I have to keep paying.

Is piracy that easy now?! Last time I tried I was stuck trying to find a torrent site that actually worked. Maybe I'm so out of touch that I've missed some piracy advancement...

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Darwock

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Used to be that all the useful torrent sites would get shut down every other month, maybe the shift to streaming took the heat off because that hasn’t happened for a good long while. I hope it doesn’t start happening again.

 

When does all this take effect? My wife uses her sister’s account in our house, and between our kids, her and me I think it’s quite likely that the service will assume we are the primary household and try to lock my sister-in-law out of her own account. I guess I need to tell my family not to watch Netflix for a few days after the change.

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Stopharage

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I use Netflix at work occasionally in lessons so guessing that will be curtailed which is a bloody annoyance. Some of their documentary output is pretty useful but I’m not going to stump up for another account just to be able to do what I’ve always been able to. 

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Paulando

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35 minutes ago, Stopharage said:

I use Netflix at work occasionally in lessons so guessing that will be curtailed which is a bloody annoyance. Some of their documentary output is pretty useful but I’m not going to stump up for another account just to be able to do what I’ve always been able to. 


It’ll be fine for you, sounds like after a month it’ll just send you a code to input on the screen.

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choddo

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On 01/02/2023 at 02:11, Darwock said:

I think you’ll find they actually cancelled The Dark Crystal.

 

The credit for making it should go to the people who actually made it… The Jim Henson Company

 

Did the Jim Henson company pay for it to be made? I THINK NOT SIR

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choddo

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21 hours ago, Protocol Penguin said:

Seriously, is this a hollow threat that won't be really enforced or followed up upon, or are Netflix dense? The second that they make it an active hassle and expensive to watch their service in a way that suits you as a customer, that's a big huge competitive disadvantage that Netflix are placing themselves against their array of competitors.

 

No they are definitely going to do it. Competition in this market is about content as much as price and they have to fix that too as it's tepid at best. Apple are making inroads. Prime is mostly shite. Disney is ... repetitive?

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