Netflix is testing ways to curb account sharing between households

[NumberSix]

The problem is that these features were designed for accounts to be shared under a single roof, not with relatives or friends halfway across the country.

When Netflix launched in the UK it was £4.99 and they said you can have it on 50 screens at once, knock yourselves out, they made a rod for their own backs.

 

[toooooot]

There seems to be a group of executives at Netflix who firmly believe that raising prices and cracking down on account sharing will improve their revenue. They probably know better than we do how to run their own business. But I’ve cancelled. If it was £10 a month and we could account share they would have £120 a year of my money. But instead they get nothing. I’ve still got Prime and Disney+. Both of which offer discounts on yearly memberships, something Netflix does not do.

I think they will keep limiting and rasising price for as long as people keep paying. I mean if you think about someone who has a salary of 4000+, paying 20 30 bucks is practically nothing.
So yes, my prediction is they have a lon way before they start losing a lot of customers.
I did not cancel because of the price, I canceled because I started noticing same things over and over shoved in my face trying to teach me "important lessons."
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[Sausagemeat]

I think they will keep limiting and rasising price for as long as people keep paying. I mean if you think about someone who has a salary of 4000+, paying 20 30 bucks is practically nothing.
So yes, my prediction is they have a lon way before they start losing a lot of customers.
I did not cancel because of the price, I canceled because I started noticing same things over and over shoved in my face trying to teach me "important lessons."
If you guys like thoughtful youtubers who talk about movies, I highly recommend critical drinker

Hmm, I have a decent salary, doesn’t mean that I’m going to spend it on Netflix. But I see your point. If they raise the price by 20% but only lose 10% of their customers then they get a net win and they save money on bandwidth.

 

[waclark]

When Netflix launched in the UK it was £4.99 and they said you can have it on 50 screens at once, knock yourselves out, they made a rod for their own backs.

I was quoting the article with that comment, but agree that multi-use was built into the product. They just never imagined that people would use it simultaneously in different locations. I'm guessing that what is happening is people get a multi-use plan but share the password with more people than the plan allows and it sounds like they don't have a means to detect that or they may be building a way to detect that. I've never run into any issues, but then I haven't shared my password with more than the allowed number of concurrent viewers.

 

[Phatso]

I stopped my account with Netflix at the beginning of last month.Actually it was February 23rd but they still billed me for $15,99 on March 22nd.Go figure.I hadn't watched anything in over a year and a half.The last time I was on there,there was not ANYTHING worth watching.Just all foreign or liberal crap.Another reason I cancelled was they raised the rates again.