Technology

I once refused to buy an iPhone because of Apple’s closed ecosystem and legal battles with competitors. And, well…

I mean, it only affected our smart TV. Everything else, including the laptop, my phone, and my tablet, can still use my parent's Netflix account just fine.

So yeah, I guess I just literally rolled over to another device and used that instead.

I stayed because the policy is irrelevant to me and my wife since neither of us have friends to share it with.

They only told the people who were password sharing. I didn't get any notice of the change until I saw it in the news.

Shit I left a day after they made the announcement because I was already sick of all their other shit, and I don’t even password share.

And what actual real alternative is there other than to not use them? Of course people accepted it, there was literally no other option. What is this bs advertising parading as ‘news’?

If I get a single additional charge, I'm done with Netflix.

I straight up don't believe them, that must be some statistical trickery. There's no "too exhausted" that makes more money just appear on people's bank accounts.

I did rolled over to reach my phone to unsubscribe. Next thing i know, i'm socializing. Best weeks in years.

Well yeah. What were people expecting? A boycott of non-customers? A mass cancellation of accounts that don't exist?

OK, sure, except that Netflix is incentivized to say as much, regardless of public sentiment.

I'm sure the hit they took to subscribers is worth it in terms of their balance sheets, else we would see a retraction, but there's no real way for them to know what the subscriber base would look like in the absence of anti-consumer policies (or their increasingly unsatisfying content production policies), based solely on historical subscriber data.

Users who got sick of it left, but we can only leave once, and Netflix wasn't going to try and retain us unless the exodus was unprecedented. I'd argue the real proof of customer dissatisfaction will be the piracy numbers on their various shows. Customers who want their content, but not their costs or policy restrictions, represent actual money left on the table.

As for their labor practices, well - like Adam Conover said, strikes are more effective than boycotts, and there are several ongoing. Won't do much for the user experience, but maybe the long term consequence is fewer, better shows with actual completed stories.

I cancelled my subscription even before the password sharing crackdown. I was tired of the price constantly increasing. Besides that I needed to eliminate some subs since the combined costs were approaching that of cable TV.

Fucking big tech! Break them nowww pleassseeeee

god damn cowards

In my family this is exactly what happened. The people I shared my password with all bought subscriptions of their own.

I canceled my sub aftear being subbed for many many years.

Good to see I am not one of them, I cut off Netflix after the news and went to the competition which are cheaper and have better production.

Not exhausted at all