#fuck Netflix and their password sharing crackdown

[wanderinggrizzly]

My mom owns our Netflix account, but even though I’m on a different system in a different city I’ve been able to use it just fine. That is, until I got halfway through watching the live action One Piece and then Netflix decided NOW it wants to enforce the “no freeloaders sharing” policy. Honestly it feels like they intentionally waited until I was halfway through a season of something trending for them, like they want to hold the show hostage and force me to buy my own separate account (and I won’t).

[sotvtaughtmehowtofeel]

here’s what we’re gonna do.

Amazon is adding ads on jan 29

On jan 30 we all cancel prime

We can bully them out of this.

[yo-senpai]

I'm still pissy about the Netflix password sharing crackdown. The one my sister pays for was just revoked from the rest of my faculty today, and I just deleted the app off my phone and tablet. I'm not paying for this shit. They also added ads to prime yesterday, so anything you're watching now has ads *even though it didn't literally last week* now has ads regardless of the fact that it's a paid service. Now you gotta pay more if you want to have no ads. I hear Hulu is doing the exact same thing with banning password sharing, and you know what? I'm not playing these games. I wish the promised boycott actually went through instead of, apparently, around 9 million new subscribers coming on in late 2023. I know this is by far the smallest issue in the world right now, but I'm just tired of corporations trying to squeeze every last penny out of you that they possibly can. Like, are you kidding me? You're putting time and effort into making cable TV again? Fuck you, I'm just leaving. This was supposed to be more convenient, not an excuse to squeeze water out of a stone.

[rachelbethhines]

Every single one of you who still pay for this shit are the biggest god damn morons in the fucking world.

[journalofsorts2]

FUCK YOU NETFLIX FUCK YOU HOLY SHIT I JUST WANT TO LEECH OF MY MOM'S NETFLIX ACCOUNT AND I CANT EVEN DO THAT CAUSE I DON'T LIVE WITH HER. IM FINALLY FEELING THE EFFECTS OF THE PASSWORD SHARING CRACKDOWN AND I HATE IT

[joodeegemstone]

netflix locked me out of an account that i've been using since the dvd by mail days because i logged into the account to watch a movie at a vacation rental a few days ago. it's not under my email so i'm locked out at least until tomorrow night. fuck this password sharing crackdown bullshit.

[cornsword]

Hey there Netflix.

Yeah it’s me, User # 1 Billion and Eight probably.

I used to get you in the mail. You had every movie ever and a ton of new and old tv shows. I used you to go full immersion on genres and whole countries that a kid from Alabama never had a chance to explore before.

I remember after your teething troubles and your streaming library really blew up for the first time. You didn’t have everything but if it could be streamed digitally in those early days you probably had it. I got to see a ton of Hammer for the first time with you.

You decided at some point that you wanted to be a tv channel and not the home for movies. That bummed me out and I used you less and less as your movie library dwindled, seeming to fracture with every new competitor platform while you loaded up on millennial sitcoms. Hey it worked out for you right?

You even made some great shows. I loved Glow, I loved Tuca and Bertie, I really enjoyed a lot of Stranger Things, and you even brought back MST3K!

I watched 227 movies last Halloween and I think I used Netflix twice, once because I didn’t want to get up and find my dvd. All those shows are gone now, cut off at the knees, barring Stranger Things …which is ending.

Your own data tells you the bulk of your user base used you over the years as a Friends machine, or an Office machine, or a Stranger Things machine. That repetitive binge isn’t my bag but I see the appeal. But there are plenty of ways to watch those Netflix shows, and these days there’s oodles of Stranger Things content still to be had sans subscription.

All anyone needs in order to not use you is one reason. Almost any reason, any one, would do, and you’ve given people a stream of them these last few years. You’re not even a cheap date any more. And you’ve decided what’s really going to turn it around for you is to make you harder and way more expensive to use for millions of people?

That’s certainly A move. At a time when I need a reason to stay I hardly need another reason to leave. This ain’t a good bye, not now not yet, but a notice. Because when you see your numbers take a huge hit you’re going to blame it on people being too cheap or the ecoooonomy or these KIIIIDS TODAYYYY or whatever (we all know it) and the people who actually make your content are going to have to take the pipe for it. It won’t be any of that though really. It’ll be because YOU’VE been telling us to leave for a while now, and decided the way to turn around from that was to start YELLING IT.

[moku-youbi]

So netflix password sharing crackdown just seems like such an awful idea. I get they think they're going to get more subscribers out of this and try to make it look like they're experiencing growth, but I think they're vastly overestimating how many people will keep their accounts/make new ones instead of just cancelling or not bothering to sign up when they lose access through family/friends. Like, honestly, if my MIL didn't regularly use our netflix (and we her Prime), we probably would have cancelled a while back. A lot of the things we used to enjoy on the platform are now on other platforms, and I sincerely cannot think of the last time Netflix was my first, second, or even third choice when I turned on the tv to start watching something, outside of a few specific shows.

Now they've gone and cancelled The Umbrella Academy (then cut its final season tragically short), which is just following the trend of shows that I've loved and have been critically acclaimed, and netflix just tossed aside like trash while keeping actual trash going. It's fucking criminal that The Get Down and Sense8 were cancelled. I'm also super disappointed about Altered Carbon, First Blood, Dead to Me, Midnight Club (and I guess I can't entirely blame them for Jessica Jones and Punisher given Marvel shenanigans, but I am salty about it still, and sort of blame them for Luke Cage). And while I personally didn't get to watch the shows yet, I know many people who were crushed over GLOW, Santa Clarita Diet, the OA, 1899, Inside Job, etc.

They say a reason for this push is so they have more $$ for their original content--but it's not content I want to fucking watch. Why should I pay you so you can give assholes like Dave Chapelle a continued platform to spout hate, where Big Mouth and Emily in Paris and Fuller House kept getting renewed when I've never heard a single good thing about any of them and no one seems to want anymore (even if some were popular in the beginning, now everyone's wondering why they're still being made)? Where they constantly churn out expensive and poorly received shows (both by critics and audiences) that get cancelled almost immediately instead of continuing to invest in the good content? Where they have a tendency to cancel any shows with queer and or poc leads hella fast?

They only see what shows are worth as far as revenue, and I'm not naive, I get that a company has to make money and turn a profit to keep going. But the soulless way they cancel shows that are adored by critics and audiences alike because it didn't get just the right numbers in their fucked up algorithm means they're gonna lose me as a customer as soon as I've decided they're more trouble than they're worth.

[piecewiselove]

concept, go:

fuck yourselves