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Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown (www.avclub.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown::Netflix subscriptions are up almost 6 million this quarter, suggesting we're all just too exhausted to fight this stuff

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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Turns out lemmy users aren't representative of the greater public.

Of course the person using a shared password either left (saving Netflix money) or got their own subscription (giving Netflix money).

Netflix doesn't care that people who weren't paying stopped using their service.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's not really true when ads are in the mix