Netflix's password crackdown leads to subscription spike

https://mashable.com/article/netflix-password-sharing-crackdown-sign-ups-spike

by qubitcoder • 3 years ago

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thx-27182• 3 years ago

I'm curious to see if this will translate to lasting subscriptions or an increase with subscription rotating.

Such that over time they have lower subscription numbers.

themitigating• 3 years ago

Why do you think that's a possibility?

People love to say they are going to boycott this and that and I'm sure some do but since they almost never work and this is just a streaming I would think most people are just going to pay for the extra location ($7 or so?)

thx-27182• 3 years ago

Depends on if Netflix can translate the new capital to content that retains subscribers.

refurb• 3 years ago

Another great reminder that the HN audience bears no resemblance to the world at large - nearly every comment on the announcement was "super dumb" and "I'll just pirate".

That may be true, but apparently enough people wanted to keep Netflix and were willing to pay. Not surprising since a company like Netflix is going to do some research and surveying before making such a drastic move.

Hard_Space• 3 years ago

Sorry, really, as I was very willing to consider cancelling my Netflix subscription when they 'cracked down' in my country. It happened two weeks ago, but my girlfriend wants to keep Netflix, so we're keeping it.

I only retained the subscription over the last five years, as the quality and worth of the catalog dropped, because I could share it with my mid-80s father and his wife (and two friends, though my father's share was the main motivation).

Sadly this probably also applies to the Reddit crunch, which will rob me of Apollo in 20 days time, and cut my Reddit usage by about 80% - I guess no-one ever went broke relying on the stickiness of lowest-common-denominator users.

The outlier life is really starting to suck. I already de-Googled and de-Dropboxed myself last year (well, 90%) with Fastmail and Syncthing; went back to the high seas and dropped Amazon; but I'm kind of relying on some new movement or surge of enthusiasm to save Reddit's utility in some other form than the random and non-indexed chaos of Discord (since Discord is about three years away from its own enshittification, if it gets enough traction).

Netflix's password crackdown leads to subscription spike

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