The streaming I am stuck with are the bundles. Amazon Prime and Apple One good examples. I factor those streaming portion of bundles costs for the streaming budget. Others watch cancel. I always have a couple of streaming choices. Which gives me the options to easily cancel the others.
Netflix doesn't break out U.S. subscriber numbers by themselves anymore (not since 2016), so I don't know where you're getting this info from. Netflix has been reporting the U.S. and Canada together under UCAN since the start of 2017.
I think you ought to look at the numbers again. They're still increasing subscribers year-over-year whether that's internationally, in the U.S. and Canada (see above), or worldwide. The trajectory is still moving higher.
After years of strong growth, yes, if I were running Netflix I would be concerned with a 1.2% year over year decline. We will see what 2023 brings! Anyway, I appreciate you posting this information.
My question, is why, as a paying customer, should I be required to do *chores* and jump through hoops in order to continue to use a service that I'm paying for in good faith?
Well put. They can charge however they want and we can react accordingly. We will see whether this is a good move for them or not. I want to drop Netflix, but it is the go to streaming service for the rest of my family. Right now we use my parents’ account as does my daughter away at college. We will likely get our own account. I assume we can set my daughter up for free with the vacation home option. My parents don’t use this much, so they may drop Netflix.
Maybe they should offer a blue check mark. I hear that's a great way to generate income.
Yes. You need to have logged in to your home network once per month with the device that is travelling.. Not sure what happens if you are travelling longer than a month.
In fact, it is. Stealing is taking something without the permission of the owner. If a store used to encourage taking free straws (or anything else), for example, it IS stealing if they no longer offer that deal and you take it anyway.
Are you really comparing free straws to something that's being paid for?
Because the terms of the Netflix agreement limit sharing to one physical household. You are paying for up to 4 simultaneous users in the house. Any other use is not allowed and therefore would be "stealing." Whether Netflix previously advertised the practice or not, is not relevant, since they are not permitting it now. (And, I suspect their agreement never allowed it, even when their advertising department promoted it.)
That is called a violation of their Terms of Use (ToS), not stealing.
Technically it would be breach of a contract, a civil violation, enforceable in court, but not a crime. That is why I put stealing in quotes. But it is still a taking without permission in violation of a contract.
You felt the need to share this why?
It's not greed. They are looking at boosting their income the best way they think they can.
No but because Netflix can be run on apple devices it therefore becomes relevant to apple users.
