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Their subscriber rate goes up anyway, so they dont care.

Most of the people are to lazy or dont care enough to vote with their wallet unfortunately

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Yep. I used to share my account with my family before Netflix’s password sharing crackdown. When they did it, I deleted my account day 1.

My dad and my sister just resubscribed separately. Unfortunately, a net win for them. Efectively +1 user. Just one example, but I’m betting this worked for many more of their users.

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I actually went out and got Chromecasts + a VPN to my network. Now I just threw it out altogether and set up jellyfin instead.

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Yep. If you judge how Netflix is doing by Lemmy/Reddit comments alone, you’d think they’d be hemorrhaging subscriptions. But nah. They’re pulling records of money with these policy changes and price hikes. Turns out people just pay up.

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Which is good, they still produce a few good shows per year, so be glad that enough people are throwing their money away so that you can pick their fruits.

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I understand wanting them to go bankrupt (or be punished some other way) for their business practices, but they still produce a handful of good shows per year, so is it so bad that someone pays them for it? Be glad that enough people are throwing their money away so that you can pick their fruits. Maybe some day it’s too expensive for your dad and sister and then you are there to show them a better way.

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You’re not gonna like this but that is voting with your wallet! They are voting yes since they are paying for it. The truth is, we are in the minority. The majority still finds Netflix affordable.

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But is that so bad? Someone has to pay for the content they produce. Just not me.

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Nothing bad about it. I’m a big proponent of voting with ya wallet. I usually vote no :p

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I went to get a new phone plan and one of the plans I looked at has Netflix included. Am I counted as a subscriber if it comes bundled with something else I need, but never use Netflix?

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I got this same deal from T-Mobile a while back, it gave Netflix with two screens.

Eventually my Dad went and got an upgrade and they raised his price. He asked to join my plan so we split the bill.

Easy, two screens two accounts, we each had our own login through Netflix family.

I have since moved away for a job, and now he can’t use Netflix because we have different addresses. We can’t use a license we rightfully own as it was originally sold to us.

I wish they offered another video service instead. I’d rather swap to it and not even use it just to spite the hasty cash grab Netflix made.

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yes you are because the plan has some sort of arrangement with netflix whwre they probably get a reduced price, but still counts you as a subscriber

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Today they probably groan and attribute it to inflation tbh

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