r/memes • u/[deleted] • Feb 02 '23
The Netflix Tweet is real. Today they are cracking down on password sharing yet a few years ago they encouraged it. !Rule 1 - ALL POSTS MUST BE MEMES AND NO REACTION MEMES
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u/sgcpaulo Feb 02 '23
They were the only game in town back then.
Not so much now.
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u/DollarStoreAbraham Feb 02 '23
It's the classic one-two punch of monopolies tho.
- kill the competition with low prices, to gain more market share
- when you're the main one, increase profits
I'd say the fact that there's so much competition is the only reason they haven't become even more greedy.
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u/shay-doe Feb 02 '23
Their thought was just like any drug dealer. Here take this bump. You will be back for more but with cash. Unfortunately for them we are in a recession and their catalogue just isn't very good.
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u/MinisterCrack Nokia user Feb 02 '23
They are also punishing VPN users
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u/NickSchultz Feb 02 '23
Which is really stupid since it's not even hurting them, as far as I know. They still get the subscription money and the user has the benefit of having more selction
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u/fluxximus Feb 02 '23
It's probably the big studios who care that somebody in X is watching Y in a region that can't watch it because Netflix didn't pay the license fees for streaming in Y.
Netflix cares because they are likely to get sued for showing shows in regions they're not supposed to.
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u/K1rkl4nd Feb 02 '23
I actually paid for Hulu live for awhile, but it was bullshit jumping through hoops with my VPN. It's like, "I'm trying to give you money, quit being dicks." Back to the high seas.
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u/USAIsAUcountry Feb 02 '23
It's like companies are just saying stuff they don't really mean just to make people like them. What's next, Wendy's and McDonald's twitter rivalry is just theatrics for the masses? Who can we even trust anymore?
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u/BeggarWild Feb 02 '23
Pirate Bay noises
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u/Briffy03 Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
Piratebay and 1337x for almost anything. Skidrow for games, and ygg for the few french redditors who are going to read that. In countries with internet provider censorship (like france) you dont need a vpn, but change your dns to those from OpenDNS, and use duckduckgo to find ygg 👍
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u/K1rkl4nd Feb 02 '23
I sometimes feel like I'm the only one grabbing movies and tv shows on rarbg. And I've grabbed a ton the last few years. (Like 37,000+ Blu-ray rips and 4,000+ tv seasons)
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u/Briffy03 Feb 02 '23
Oh, ty for this one, i wasnt aware of its existence, gonna check it out 👍
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u/K1rkl4nd Feb 02 '23
Use an ad blocker (of course)
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u/Briffy03 Feb 02 '23
Is internet still usable without ?
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u/K1rkl4nd Feb 02 '23
No, the internet is still trash without ad blockers. I've tried roaming a little on my phone and it's just the worst with pop-ups and hi-jacking windows.
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u/Independent_Gap_845 Feb 02 '23
This was the first thing I thought of when they broke the news. I was like "How could you!?"
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u/SaintMaxime Feb 02 '23
Nobody's gonna talk about the fact that my man is a certified Kenobi ?
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u/fuckingshitfucj2 Feb 02 '23
I mean you can just pay for the checkmark now due to good ol’ musky having taken the wheel lol
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u/dnateo Feb 02 '23
Love is… starting a campaign to get as many users to cancel their Netflix subscription on 14 February as a protest. It’s not much of a sacrifice for us as we can all signup again, but it may send a message to Netflix that this is unpopular.
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u/Just-An-Ai-Ignore-Me GigaChad Feb 02 '23
They about to lose tbh.
Ive been password sharing my Disney plus for four months now.
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u/TeroEstero Feb 02 '23
Can someone pls explain to me what happened? I just logged in for the first time in 3 weeks and there are lots of Netflix memes, feels like I'm a caveman xd
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u/A_Horny_Pancake Feb 02 '23
Netflix is making you login at least once a month from you home wifi, or they block your access, to keep password sharing to a minimum.
In otherwords, if your away on travel, and your password timer is up, you lose access to netflix until you get home and login on your home wifi.
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u/jarrough Feb 02 '23
Dropped Netflix a few months ago when they made the announcement. Plex on the high seas holding it down from now on.
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u/K1rkl4nd Feb 02 '23
5 years is an eternity in the corporate world, and while everyone took it as "share with friends", it was aimed at sharing with family so your kids could be watching shows in their room and become future customers.
Of course there was some wink-and-nod, "for a friend across the street".. which of course people took too far and had whole apartment complexes piggy-backing on one guy's password. Keep it reasonable, people. That's why cable splitters only had 2 or 3 way splitters back in the day. Not 30, ya thieves.
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u/fuckingshitfucj2 Feb 02 '23
Why the hell are you defending Netflix? You thought Netflix never knew that people would just share their passwords to others outside their own house, until now?
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u/TigerGHG GigaChad Feb 02 '23
First of All, yes, those changes suck, but please put a minimal amount of work into photoshop
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u/fuckingshitfucj2 Feb 02 '23
I mean the main tweet is real. Couldn’t find the bottom one which is a bit sad.
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u/No_Property273 Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
If you have paid for two accounts and share with someone isn't that the same. And Netflix's has the market cornered, however they cancel every food show due to views. That's crap when it takes, 18 months or more to put out the next season. That might create low views people, forget in a month. New Amsterdam was pleasant, hope, in a world with $800 electric bills, government who supports big corps and not it citizens, it's sad. They take off most good shows
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u/Enemy50 Feb 02 '23
Orrrrr hear me out: The person who handles their Twitter encouraged it.
More that likely corporate always hated password sharing because it always cost them money. Netflix is a company. Netflix's twitter is probably one person.
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u/therealshaggie Feb 02 '23
Unsubscribe and short the company. Get the money you paid for back from them that way😀
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u/nighttimemobileuser Feb 02 '23
They were actually playing the long game. Get people comfortable and addicted and then rip the free ride from them so they pay out of desperation
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