200,000 users abandon Netflix after crackdown backfires::Aussies have spoken, and the results are not looking good for Netflix. A new report reveals why users are turning to streaming competitors.

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    1 year ago

    Article seems to confuse cause and effect. Maybe some subscribers left but they more likely because the service is too expensive or didn’t like the content. It doesn’t necessarily follow they all left because some freeloaders lost their access to another person’s account.

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      1 year ago

      In all fairness, it’s a Forbes article, which generally implies it’s crap.

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        Netflix gained 5.9 million subscribers in the same period.

        This story is for virtue signaling morons who want to BELIEVE that the password sharing crackdown didn’t work.

        It did. And now those losers are upset they can’t mooch off paying customers anymore. Hence the headline.

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      When I cancelled my account I was sure to put that I was not going to continue to support my parents in law since I didn’t care for the service myself.

      So Netflix lost a top tier subscriber from me because of it

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        Haha, I power my Roku from the TV’s USB port, so I can just turn off the TV to kill the Roku.