i just want to point out that the claims in this article are from Netflix ,so take them with a grain of salt

When they told me I won’t be able to protect my ip address by asserting I was no longer allowed to have a vpn I quit Netflix

While I'm not particularly happy about the change it's not password sharing being banned that will eventually get me off Netflix. For now what keeps the sub going is their good and varied kids show selection with a lot of edutainment. Something I feel the others desperately lack. And any parent who has ever tried sailing the seas instead of paying knows how much of a pain in the ass it is to find good kids content and enough of it to guarantee you have something available when it's desperately needed to make the day work. Especially when your mother tongue isn't English. And YouTube is mind cancer for kids in my firm opinion; if you don't sit and watch with your kids which defeats the purpose of screens as a tool for when you need to cook, clean and work.

The people who shared our sub were mostly family that when we started sharing were students without the means to reasonably pay for it themselves but now they have jobs and some even kids so our family has gone from 1 sub to 3 that I know of.

Wonder how many cancelled?

expected, but not a sustainable growth, there is a finite number of conversions here.

Netflix is a publicly traded company, lying about something like a huge increase in subscribers would get them in legal trouble for lying to investors.

People are so disappointing.

I hate these head lines. It is too early to know if this has an actual impact of subs. Since some might still have a free trial and might cancel after or after a few months of paying.

I've cancelled but only because very few shows are interesting/ worth watching.

I have family members who are otherwise not worried about having to save money who are dropping netflix as soon as they get done binge watching their current show. Why? because they are paying for four people to use the account, and because of their new rules their parents aren't getting to use the account since they don't live in the same house.

I hate to break it to you netflix, but octagenarians who have no idea how modern technology works aren't going to understand how to setup an account, and they definitely aren't going to want to deal with having to call their children every week when they are asked for the "permission code" just to have the privelege of accessing what their children are already paying for.

On top of this, I'm sure their children don't want to have to deal with having to input this on a weekly (or however so often) schedule. It's a frustrating situation all around, and I have no idea why they thought it was a good idea.

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This is good news. Means they’ll leave us alone.

I’m not particularly surprised. I think a lot of people are using it for free because they can.

They still value Netflix, but why pay for it if you don’t have to.

For some reason I’ve not been kicked off my parents account, but if I were kicked off, I’d subscribe.

I think this report is a lie because their password / permission / multi account checking is still not properly configured. In my circle of friends all of them said they would jump the ship because they were mostly paying it for their old parents. At the moment, only one person of the group had nuisances because of password sharing, the others are continuing to use netflix as they were doing six months ago.